Posts Tagged ‘Michael Wilson’

Christian Toto

INTERVIEW: ‘Shooting Michael Moore’ Promoter Larry Post

by Christian Toto

Larry Post doesn’t mince words regarding Michael Moore’s body of work. Post recalls seeing Moore’s first documentary, “Roger & Me,” which blamed corporate misconduct for the decline of the auto industry his hometown of Flint, Mich. “I consider myself pretty knowledge about the subject matter, and the movie was totally distorted,” Post says of a film which failed to critique the “unions and the workers who had squeezed these companies” into oblivion.

“Every movie since ['Roger & Me'] has been a piece of crap,“ Post says.

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So when he read a story in the Wall Street Journal last October about a neophyte filmmaker’s documentary slamming Moore it caught his attention. Post, an investment adviser by trade, is renting a Los Angeles theater next week to generate fresh buzz around the film. “Shooting Michael Moore” will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Westwood Crest Theatre in L.A.

Post hopes “the trades” will take an interest in the screening or “maybe someone from Hollywood will come see it and pick it up for distribution,“ he says. (more…)

Tim Slagle

In Closing: My Response to Ben’s Response to My Response to Ben’s ‘Rap is Crap’

by Tim Slagle

My friend Jane’s church has two services every week. The Sunday service is called the Seeker Service. It’s light, and the focus is on music and the positive aspects of religion. Sometimes they even have an entertaining play as part of the service. The Wednesday service is when the fundamentalist gospel happens; the hardcore stuff that might chase away new converts still questioning their faith. The concept has been hugely successful and these churches boast millions of members nationwide.

I look at Big Hollywood as a Seeker site. We are here to attract people questioning their politics, and welcome them into the philosophy we call Conservatism. We want to be a political home for those strays: people who are uncomfortable with all the flags and Greek columns that the Left has recently embraced. We want to support the new stars of Hollywood, those who have suddenly found themselves in a tax bracket they never thought they could reach, and are suddenly questioning the injustice of a progressive tax code. We want to comfort those who have grown tired of being called a racist for simply questioning the wisdom of putting a community organizer into the most powerful office on earth. (more…)