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An Inconvenient Truth on the Hit Parade

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In only 404 theaters (as compared to 3,988 for the #1 movie), An Inconvenient Truth’s weekend gross went up 16.3% — although it dropped one place to #12 from #11 due to the release of a few high-profile commercial flicks (Nacho Libre, Garfield, etc.).

Christina notes that this puts Al ahead of Tom Cruise. Al always did have trouble with the fatcats, though …

Al Gore Has A Posse

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  1. Yes, “An Inconvenient Truth,” broke the record as the most successful per screen documentary film opening in history. (Move Over Michael Moore) I predict that the film will win at least one, maybe two Oscars.

    I just saw it again yesterday (for the second time–if you haven’t–just do it!) The applause at the end was more spirited than the first time!~

    And then come to our Summer Solstice (June 21) “Draft Al Gore 2008” Meetup (see events calendar)

    LSPinti

  2. in the 6/12 issue:

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    The science is detailed, deep-layered, vivid, and terrifying.  Every school, college, and church group, and everyone else beyond the sway of General Motors, ExxonMobil, and the White House should see this movie, and, with luck, they will…. In the movie [Gore] is merely excellent.  But in person – he is on a speaking tour to promote the movie – he presents a combination of intellectual force, emotional vibrancy, and moral urgency that has hardly been seen in American public life in recent years.

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    Guess I’d better see this thing!

  3. That’s it–the reviewer has it right–“intellectual force, emotional vibrancy, and moral urgency that has hardly been seen in American public life in recent years”

    Something really big is happening here. Gore is asking us, in the face of a global crisis, to come together in shared moral purpose and sacrifice, to save the world.

    Does FDR come to mind? Maybe JFK, but this is sooooo much bigger.

    Gore busting through the vapid vacuity of the Bush rhetoric,
    appealing to the highest and best in all of us, he asks that we muster the political will to change and grow.

    Aren’t we hungering for this kind of leadership?

    LSPinti

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