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Tales of the bizarre My aborted adventure on Fox	David Roberts	01 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I'll tell you a little secret. Late last week, for a few brief, surreal hours, I was scheduled to appear on the Fox News show Hannity & Colmes to discuss ... well, allegedly the greening of the Oscars, but as anyone who's seen the show knows, the real topic was always going to be the hypocrisy of Hollywood limousine liberals blah blah. If that's not bizarre enough, Ann Coulter was scheduled to appear opposite me. And if that's not bizarre enough, hours after I ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, movies, TV (all these topics)

Because you're tired of feeling out of the loop at cocktail parties And because it's free	Kate Sheppard	28 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Oscar winner An Inconvenient Truth now available online, in its entirety.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

More Gore Really, can you get enough?	Yolanda Crous	27 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Just can't get enough of Al-mania? For your consideration, two Gore-centric anecdotes from the Oscar backstage press room, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly: Please. S'il Vous Plait. Por Favor. Per Favore. Please. Hands shot up all over for Al Gore when he came backstage. What did the international press want to know? Maybe something about how it was to star in an Oscar-winning film? Or how they can help stop global warming? Or how can they fix the wipers on their ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, celebrity, cutesy, movies, music, politics (all these topics)

Martin Who? An Inconvenient Truth wins Oscars, Al Gore wins affection		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 ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, news (all these topics)

Gore's acceptance speech Inspirational	Sarah van Schagen	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
After the announcement that An Inconvenient Truth had won for Best Documentary, director Davis Guggenheim made his way to the stage along with Al Gore, Laurie David, and others amidst a standing ovation from the crowd.Here's what Guggenheim said:I made this movie for my children ... All of us who made this film -- Laurie, Scott, and Leslie -- we did so because we were moved to act by this man [gesturing toward Gore] ... All of us were inspired by his fight for 30 y ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

And the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature goes to ... Guess	David Roberts	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
... Davis Guggenheim, executive producer and director of An Inconvenient Truth. Congrats, messrs. Guggenheim and Gore. Well played.
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

The 2007 Global Warming Globie Award winners Did your pick win?	Chris Schults	23 Feb 2007	Gristmill
With over 20,000 people participating, the votes have been cast for the 2007 Global Warming Globie Awards. And the winners are: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (Best Performance by a State or Local Official) US-CAP (Best Performance in the Corporate World) An Inconvenient Truth (Best Film, Documentary, or Website Focusing on Global Warming) ExxonMobil (Worst Performance by a Corporation or Corporate Official) Senator James Inhofe (Most Egregious Contribution ...
Topics: business, movies, politics (all these topics)

If you don't watch your slideshow, how can you have any pudding? An Inconvenient Truth to show in U.K. schools	Kate Sheppard	06 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Despite getting a frosty reception in U.S. public schools, the (Oscar-nominated) film An Inconvenient Truth will be distributed to every secondary school in the U.K.Environment Secretary David Miliband and Education Secretary Alan Johnson made the announcement last week, citing the film's ability to illustrate the enormity of the climate crisis without leaving viewers feeling defeated.'Children are the key to changing society's long term attitudes to the environment. ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

Sundance: A Q&A with Ross Gelbspan The heat is still on	Kate Sheppard	30 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Perhaps the most rewarding moment I witnessed at Sundance last week, after watching several post-screening Q&A's with Everything's Cool directors and stars, came on my last night in Utah. They'd just finished the film's only screening in Salt Lake City, and the packed house had nearly all stayed for the rap session, armed with questions about the future and what they can do. The theater managers had to ask them to wrap up the Q&A more than once, and even when t ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, interview, James Hansen, messaging, movies (all these topics)

Sundance: Pretend I'm still in Utah Good stuff I saw, good stuff I missed	Kate Sheppard	29 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I caught two other environment-relevant films while at Sundance that should be of interest to Gristmill readers, and there are a few more I missed that you should be on the lookout for as well. First is Manufactured Landscapes, a film by Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal that follows renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky is widely known for his stark photographs of landscapes as altered by mankind -- quarries, mines, factories, vast e-waste recycling yard ...
Topics: movies (all these topics)

Sundance: Strangers in alt. fuel vehicles are so much less threatening More adventures in Utah	Kate Sheppard	27 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I first heard about Sundance's renegade biofuels enthusiasts via email. The folks from Freedom Fuels, a new documentary about biofuels, were in town for Sundance -- well, roaming town that is. They weren't actually in the festival, but they were there to screen their movie regardless, traveling around town in a biodiesel-powered school bus showing it to anyone who'd climb aboard and watch. 'We would love to have ya come on by and say howdy,' wrote Heidi, one of the fil ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, movies, Utah (all these topics)

Sundance: Climate on the big screen An interview with producer/director Daniel B. Gold	Kate Sheppard	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Everything's Cool is a 100-minute film resulting from four and a half years of work, thousands of miles traveled, and hours and hours spent following some of the country's most ardent climate change activists.Co-producers/directors Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand finished the final cut of the film just the night before the special pre-screening event at the Sundance Film Festival, and sat down to watch it from credit sequence to credit sequence for the first time alo ...
Topics: climate, grassroots activism, messaging, movies (all these topics)

Federal Way sees the light. Sort of. Lifts moratorium on Gore movie, still doesn't get it	Eric de Place	24 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Good news: the Federal Way School Board just lifted its moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth. Unfortunately, coverage in the Seattle Times, the largest paper in the region, was disappointing. It mostly treats the decision as a simple controversy without ever explaining that there is, in fact, only one right answer about the reality of human-induced climate change. To paraphrase my earlier rantings: this is not a matter of personal opinion for lay people; it's a matter o ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

If you hadn't heard Al Gore and the Oscars	David Roberts	23 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. I'm on record predicting it will win. Should we start a betting pool?
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

This Just (W)in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth nominated for best-documentary Oscar		23 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
This Just (W)in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth nominated for best-documentary Oscar Sure, Dreamgirls may be getting all the pre-Oscar press, but a little flick we like to call Dreamy Al has picked up two nominations of its own. There's the Best Documentary Feature nod for An Inconvenient Truth, not all that surprising, and then there's ... Best Song? That means we might get to see Melissa Etheridge belt ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, green living, movies, news (all these topics)

Sundance: Robert Redford hates climate change And other adventures in touching celebrities	Kate Sheppard	19 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I thought my closest brush with fame this week would be nearly taking out James Redford with a boom mic last night. But then I accidentally touched him inappropriately, and later, cornered his father. Son Redford presented Everything's Cool at the special pre-screening last night, giving a glowing account of the film and announcing the family's plan to protect 2,000 additional acres of land in the beautiful area known as the Sundance Preserve. This is when I ac ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, interview, movies, Robert Redford (all these topics)

Climate change: Cool enough for Sundance On the road as Everything's Cool debuts in film's biggest deal	Kate Sheppard	18 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Greetings from Park City, Utah, where it's cold, but not as cold as it used to be, and where Mormons and film nuts coexist peacefully each year in the name of independent filmmaking. I'm here this week covering the premiere of Everything's Cool, the new film on global warming. I'm double-timing, reporting for Grist and helping with audio for Toxic Comedy Pictures (the film company behind Everything's Cool), so I'll be dispatching updates from the festival as frequently ...
Topics: Utah, movies (all these topics)

Follow-up on Federal Way schools and Gore's movie School board official defends the decision	David Roberts	17 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Remember the story about how the Federal Way school board put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth? David Larsen, the now-extremely-embattled vice president of the Federal Way school board, has a piece in the Seattle Times today, explaining what the school board really did and why they did it. First, I should say that despite the delight I and many others took in lampooning the decision, people in Federal Way are not idiots. Larsen's not an ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies, education, Washington (all these topics)

Movie review: Children of Men Best movie of the year, hands down	David Roberts	16 Jan 2007	Gristmill
I saw Children of Men the other night, and I can't stop thinking about it. It's easily my favorite movie of the past year. The basic plot is: a numb and disillusioned ex-activist lives in London, 18 years after a sudden, unexplained worldwide epidemic of infertility. There are no children. The rest of the world is in chaos; the U.K. is held together by a brutal, authoritarian police state that rounds up and deports illegal immigrants. Through his still-activist ex- ...
Topics: green living, movies (all these topics)

Best story of the year so far Al Gore's movie booted by wacky school board	David Roberts	11 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Congrats to Seattle P-I enviro reporters Robert McClure and Lisa Stiffler for unearthing the funniest story I've read in a good long while. Here's the nut: The school board in Federal Way, a southern exurb of Seattle, just put a "moratorium" on showings of An Inconvenient Truth, based largely on the complaints of one parent, Frosty Hardison. The glory is in the details. Right off the bat we get this: "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither doe ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies, Washington (all these topics)

Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Frosty the No Man Washington school board puts a moratorium on An Inconvenient Truth First sex, now science? What will they tell the kids about next? The parents of a high-schooler in Federal Way, Wash., have complained to the district's school board about a teacher's plan to screen Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the board has put a moratorium on the film. "Co ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, climate, education, green living, movies, news, Washington (all these topics)

Have Some Class: Week of Action Reserve a free copy of An Inconvenient Truth for your campus	Sarah van Schagen	09 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The kids over at Campus Climate Challenge and Truth on Campus are gearing up for a Week of Action January 29th through February 2nd. The five days of demonstrations will kick start the Challenge's second semester and 'put the heat on a new U.S. Congress and a returning Canadian Parliament to begin aggressive national power shifts on global warming.' As part of the Week of Action, the first 1,000 campuses to register their actions will receive a free copy of An I ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, education, movies (all these topics)

An environmental A to Z for 2006 The year, alphabetically	Kit Stolz	29 Dec 2006	Gristmill
When it comes to global warming and the environment, everything seemed to change in 2006 -- at least in terms of public awareness. Here's an A-to-Z accounting of just some of those changes: A is for An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's scientific but surprisingly human documentary on the threat of climate change, which was expected to take in at most $6-7 million at the box office but went on to gross over $45 million, the biggest documentary of the year and the thi ...
Topics: Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, biofuels, energy, green living, James Hansen, Kyoto Protocol, lists, movies, politics (all these topics)

Cut the crap: The Meatrix 2.5 Moopheus and the gang partner with 'Fast Food Nation'	Sarah van Schagen	04 Dec 2006	Gristmill
They've seen the family farm become a factory farm. They've learned the truth about industrial dairy facilities. And now they're trying to escape the perils of a meatpacking plant. They are Leo, Moopheus, and Chickity, the animated stars of a series of short films by Free Range Studios and nonprof Sustainable Table. This latest version of the Matrix spoofs is Meatrix II�, and this time, they've partnered with Fast Food Nation to promote the film and help raise awa ...
Topics: food, movies, vegetarianism and veganism, video (all these topics)

Insidious much? Al Gore out, Big Oil in for public schools	Kate Sheppard	28 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Gristmill readers have been knocking at our proverbial door to make sure we've seen Laurie David's article from Sunday's Washington Post. It details the National Science Teachers Association's (NSTA) rejection of 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth for use in science classes across the country, and it's definitely worth some Gristmill grinding.Accepting the DVDs would place 'unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporte ...
Topics: An Inconvenient Truth, movies (all these topics)

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