Report from Cannes: "...the hottest star in town is Al Gore." You betcha.

[understandinglife]

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In Cannes for the European premiere of his powerful global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore has been surrounded by adoring crowds and deluged with interview requests. He told me that he gave 23 back-to-back-to-back interviews on Sunday, Hollywood junket-style (all on only one hour's sleep), and had another 23 scheduled for Monday. "This is my second visit to Cannes," he said. "The first was when I was fifteen years old and came here for the summer to study the existentialists -- Sartre, Camus... We were not allowed to speak anything but French!" Which may explain his pitch-perfect French accent.

It's clear that the film, and the engaging "New Gore" on display both in the film and his public appearances promoting it, have connected with people in a big way.

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Per Arianna Huffington from Cannes in

And, while former Vice President Gore is able to share his insights in "pitch perfect French" (oh, the irony) and articulate English, ...

... war-criminal-in-chief Bu$h muttered another bunch of inanities today -- to paraphrase ... "well shucks that co2 stuff ain't doin no harm what so ever, dang it, god bless america, and let's make everyone speak English, exceptn me, kuz i'm yu'alls preznit, damit ....".

Or something like that ....


Never Forget: George W. Bush willfully violated National Security to cover-up his willful launch of a war of aggression and illegal occupation of Iraq.

[understandinglife]

1. "Here's to Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth""

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Yet much of what Gore said in his 1993 book, "Earth in the Balance," has proven prophetic. His prescriptions -- increased mileage standards, wind power, appliances rated by the energy efficiency, hybrid cars -- are more practical than anything the government has done lately and are now widely accepted, even by the industries that fought them.

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The movie has a plot. If nothing is done, Wall Street will be underwater and Greenland will barely exist. Our own Glacier National Park, which even now has only a few glaciers left, will have none. Gore shows how Hurricane Katrina was a mild storm over Florida that grew to deadly intensity by the time it hit Louisiana and Mississippi after absorbing heat over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. More deadly storms are coming.

There still could be a happy ending if people like the president would sit still long enough to grasp the evidence. Unfortunately, President George W. Bush prefers science fiction to science.

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With all the needless death from a ill-conceived war, the wasteful corruption of sweetheart contracts in Iraq and New Orleans, debt and deficits as far as the eye can see, gas prices through the roof with no energy policy in sight, and with a president who delegates to incompetents and cronies, I'm ready to give the class nerd his due and raise a glass to a serious man. Here's to you, Al and a huge box-office gross.

pro-Bu$h = Anti-America (and a dead planet)

[understandinglife]

2. St. Petersburg Times: "The United States is emerging from a “bubble of ...

... unreality" about the problem of global warming, former vice president Al Gore said Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Gore was in Cannes to promote the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which chronicles his efforts to bring the dangers of climate change to greater attention.

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http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=17681

We can only hope so ....


Peace.

[suffragette]

3. Well-deserved

Promoting knowledge and better understanding of an issue and reaching out to people. I admire Gore so. Definitely the must-see film of the summer.

[understandinglife]

4. Hack NYT op-ed Tierney discussed at E&P.

With Al Gore’s much-ballyhooed movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" — the toast of Sundance and Cannes — about to open, the New York Times’ John Tierney, who once mocked global warming horror stories, launched a critical hit in his Tuesday column.

At least E&P spares you the "Times' select" entry fee to more of Tierney's dull drivel by posting a few quotes:

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002540514

Just how many tax dollars are spent, daily, paying these neoconster stenographers is an interesting issue, though they pail in importance compared to bringing Pinch and his chief propagandist, Judith Miller, to justice for all their lies to the Nation about WMD in Iraq.


pro-Bu$h = Dirt Stupid About Anything That Matters

[understandinglife]

5. Think Progress: "Sounds like Bush is someone who could really benefit ...

... the movie. ( to the White House. Here’s )

Does war-criminal-in-chief Bu$h know how to read a map .... just asking.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

6. "Gore seems to have miraculously shed his political skin — he exudes ...

... exudes passion and inspiration. For many viewers, the contrast is inescapable. If voters had seen this gospel fervor in 2000, Gore might be president today rather than the guy from Texas who's been rolling back environmental regulations left and right."

Link:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-goldsteina23may23,0,7180600.column?coll=la-home-entertainment

Yep.


Peace.