Re: UPI reports: 'Fahrenheit' ready for market -- Republicans poop pants

From: Roger (rogerfx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:15:13 GMT

UPI = Moonie Bull***

"Psalm 110" <Melchizedek@USA.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040622-055243-4213r
>
> Analysis: 'Fahrenheit' ready for market
>
> By Pat Nason
> UPI Hollywood Reporter
> Published 6/22/2004 6:38 PM
>
> LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) -- When Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit
> 9/11" arrives in theaters this week, movie consumers will provide a
> key measure of the project's market value right away -- but it will
> take longer to tell whether the movie delivers on Moore's highest hope
> for the project, that it might help turn President George W. Bush out
> of office in November.
>
> After his film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore
> told reporters his main wish was that it would motivate people to vote
> in the Nov. 2 presidential election. However, he recently told the New
> York Times he hoped the picture would be known as the first
> big-audience, election-year film that helped unseat a president.
>
> Moore said that focus-group testing of "Fahrenheit 9/11" in Michigan
> in April showed that viewers who went into the screening undecided
> about the election came out ready to vote Bush out.
>
> "We found that if you entered the theater on the fence, you fell off
> it somewhere during those two hours," he said.