 Stories About: Al Gore AND An Inconvenient Truth AND climate AND green living AND movies
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Will it play in Bolivia?
A South American take on Gore's film |
Katharine Wroth |
25 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Jessica Weisberg is an American journalist currently based in South America. The following is her take on the peculiar cultural dominance of An Inconvenient Truth. ----- I liked Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Really, I did. But when I count off my reasons -- the special effects, the wet-your-pants astonishment, the drama -- I find myself applauding the film's popular appeal more than its take-home message. ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Bolivia, climate, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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Gore reaches fame of Biblical proportions
Uh, literally |
Kate Sheppard |
03 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| An Inconvenient Truth replaces the Gideon Bible in fancy new hotel. Dirt-worshiping hippies rejoice. |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, religion and spirituality, travel (all these topics) |
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Martin Who?
An Inconvenient Truth wins Oscars, Al Gore wins affection |
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26 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Martin Who? An Inconvenient Truth wins Oscars, Al Gore wins affection Rock star. Superhero. Visionary. That pre-Oscar hype paled next to last night's event, which saw Al Gore -- looking blissfully bloated in a Ralph Lauren tux -- take home an award for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. OK, technically the Goracle himself didn't win either of the statuettes for An Inconve ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news (all these topics) |
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Truth Be Told
Gore's new flick, An Inconvenient Truth, improbably succeeds |
David Roberts |
24 May 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| It's something of a miracle that An Inconvenient Truth, the chronicle of Al Gore's quest to raise alarm about "climate chaos," exists at all. A movie with a scantily clad Jessica Alba presenting a computer slideshow on climate science is implausible enough. Al Gore doing it, well ... even C-SPAN could be forgiven for having second thoughts. Albert Arnold Gore Jr. may be many things, ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies (all these topics) |
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Lights, Camera, Traction
Al Gore and electric car star in films unveiled at Sundance |
Dan Bree |
02 Feb 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| At 25 years of age, Sundance is the country's premier festival of independent film. But a lot has changed over that quarter century. Well, actually, one thing has changed: m-o-n-e-y. There's a ton of Hollywood cash spent at Sundance, and I could see it everywhere I looked last week. The "VIP" corporate parties on Main Street. The piles of free stuff for celebrities. The Moviefon ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, cars, climate, electric vehicles, green living, movies, placemaking, renewable energy, Utah (all these topics) |
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Al's Well That Pens Well
Al Gore to publish new book on global warming |
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25 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Al's Well That Pens Well Al Gore to publish new book on global warming The self-proclaimed "former next president of the United States" -- currently at the Sundance Film Festival (and, may we point out, looking quite natty) to promote his new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth -- has announced that he'll soon be coming out with a new book on th ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news, politics (all these topics) |
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