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Blah blah Pollan interview blah
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David Roberts |
31 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Dozens of emails flagged. More than 15 tabs open in Firefox. Well over 100 unread entries in the "green" folder of my RSS reader. These signs all point to one fact: I'm a bad, bad blogger. I'll try to catch up a little tomorrow. Do check out my interview with Michael Pollan. He's a smart cookie, and honestly one of the best pure prose stylists in the non-fiction world, IMO. And here's a question for you: the interview we published is 2,000 words, roug ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Memorial Day weekend movie news
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David Roberts |
30 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| What's the big movie news from Memorial Day weekend? X-Men III, opening with a record $120 million? Nope. It's this: Playing at four theaters, An Inconvenient Truth averaged a promising estimated $70,500 per site over the three-day weekend, the highest of the year and for a documentary. Former Vice President Al Gore's environmentalist tract has grossed $489,000 in five days, and distributor Paramount Classics plans to expand it throughout June, reaching its wi ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Gore! Gore! You can't make me stop!
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David Roberts |
26 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Atrios says: On Wednesday an inconvenient truth was the #11 movie in the country despite being in only 4 theaters, earning $78,994 ($19,749/theater). The #10 movie was showing at 1,265 theaters, earning 117,000, or $92/theater. Paul Krugman says that substantially reducing greenhouse-gas emissions would do little more than shave a few fractions of a point off our GDP growth, and Matt Yglesias approves. Krugman also says that Gore's re-emergence is a test of our ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (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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Gore = Goebbels?
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David Roberts |
23 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Jesus. The slime campaign against Gore is escalating even faster than I expected. ThinkProgress -- which must have 500 interns watching every news channel and reading every publication -- brings news of the latest: Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore's movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Al Gore's slideshow
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David Roberts |
19 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Climate Change Action has unearthed a video of Al Gore's complete climate-change slideshow -- the one An Inconvenient Truth is based on. It's a huge file, but if you're curious, there it is.Update [2006-5-19 10:42:12 by David Roberts]: Speaking of Gore (do we speak of anything else?), Matthew Nisbet has an interesting post discussing why Gore didn't campaign more heavily on climate change in 2000. It's based on a passage from Joe Klein's new book Politics Lost. Klein's ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, movies (all these topics) |
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An Inconvenient Truth: More reaction
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David Roberts |
18 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| More reactions are trickling in to Gore's movie. Arianna Huffington loved it, and loved Gore in it. In fact, she thinks the U.S. political class could learn a few lessons from him: ... we get a seemingly endless lineup of fear-driven candidates who, with each new election cycle, become a little more wrinkle-free, a little more foible-free, a good bit less interesting -- and considerably more idea free. They are so programmed to avoid the pitfalls of actually sta ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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RealClimate on An Inconvenient Truth
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David Roberts |
11 May 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Over at RealClimate, where actual scientists hang out, Eric Steig offers a brief review of An Inconvenient Truth, focusing mainly on the science. The verdict: Aside from a few small and largely inconsequential errors, the science is right on. The folks in the lively comment section seem woefully, nay, tragically unaware of my interview with Gore, in which he answers many of their questions. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Wake Up and Smell the Carbon
Al Gore launches new climate campaign |
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10 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Wake Up and Smell the Carbon Al Gore launches new climate campaign Launched with profits from Al Gore's new movie and book, a new group called Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend big bucks on advertising and grassroots organizing in an attempt to impart the dangers of climate chaos to the American public. Focusing particularly on conservatives and labor gro ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, news, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Al Revere
An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore |
David Roberts |
09 May 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Al Gore is on the campaign trail again, and he actually seems to be enjoying it. Like Brad Pitt, but wonkier. Photo: Eric Neitzel/WireImage. For those who remember his ponderous, consultant-driven bid for president, the idea of Gore enjoying anything about campaigning may seem far-fetched. But this time, the campaign's not about him; it's about the issue that has been his consuming intellectual passion for nea ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, interview, politics (all these topics) |
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Media Shower: Al over the place
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Chris Schults |
29 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| On Thursday, Dave attended a press screening of An Inconvenient Truth, so expect a review of it soon. And on Tuesday, May 2nd, he'll be chatting with the star of the film, Al Gore. If you have any burning questions, just let Dave know. In related news, David Remnick of the The New Yorker published a glowing review of his own, in which he writes: 'An Inconvenient Truth is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important.' Word. Al als ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, movies, TV, websites (all these topics) |
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Halloween VIV: The Inconvenient Truth
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David Roberts |
10 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| I finally got around to watching the trailer for the new Al Gore/global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Oy. DA-DUMMMMM! CRASH! BOOM! "It will shake you to your core." CRASH! "If you love your planet ... If you love your children ... You have to see this movie." KABOOOOM! "By far, the most terrifying film you will ever see." And so on. The whole thing is quite literally indistinguishable from a horror-movie trailer. ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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An Inconvenient Truth: A preview
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Chris Schults |
08 Apr 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Moviefone has a trailer ... looks good. |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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Al Gore: Coming to a theater near you
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David Roberts |
15 Feb 2006 |
Gristmill |
| An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about Al Gore's quest to raise the alarm about global warming (covered in Grist here), has been picked up by Paramount and will be distributed worldwide -- it opens in the U.S. on May 26. Gore and Powerpoint? I smell March of the Penguins numbers here people! (Amusingly, the movie poster actually features penguins -- as opposed to, you know, Al Gore.) |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, 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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ClimateCrisis.net
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Chris Schults |
22 Jan 2006 |
Gristmill |
| All films by Participant Productions are accompanied by a 'campaign' and campaign website. So too with An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary that 'weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change.' As Dave mentioned, An Inconvenient Truth is debuting at Sundance this month, where I expect viewers to be directed to ClimateCrisis.net. Here we find the ubiquitous carbon-footprin ... |
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| Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics) |
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