Doc. Maker, Moore Collaborator, Shopping Film on Bush's Murky Military Service

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Doc Maker, Moore Collaborator, Shopping Film on Bush's Murky Military Service

By Felix Gillette
November 23, 2009 | 7:31 p.m


Documentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O’Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has learned.

Ms. O’Hara, who field-produced Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, is in the early stages of getting the project off the ground. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Ms. O’Hara’s New York–based production company, HonestEngineTV, does not yet have a venue for the documentary and is still seeking funding.

The veteran producer (who has a long list of screen credits, including directing a 1998 HBO-Cinemax documentary, Roe vs. Roe: Baptism by Fire and producing Mr. Moore’s Sicko) has already shot enough preliminary footage to complete work on a trailer for the film. HonestEngineTV, we’re told, is currently shopping it to potential partners, including HBO and the Weinstein Company.

The former president was originally admitted into the Texas Air National Guard more than 40 years ago, in 1968, with the American military already deeply engaged in the war in Vietnam. In 1973, Mr. Bush officially departed the Guard, without having seen any combat, to attend Harvard Business School. What, exactly, transpired in between has since become the subject of much heated debate.

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http://www.observer.com/2009/media/doc-maker-moore-collaborator-shopping-film-bushs-murky-military-service

[GMA]

1. Yawn.

n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Now, if she'd just take on the circumstances of his "volunteer" work…

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Several years too late

but I'd still enjoy watching it.

[pundaint]

4. Ooh ooh, do Reagan next