Dear friends, Thanksgiving is a couple of days away, and I hope most of you are able to enjoy the day off to be with family and friends. I've always liked this holiday. I can't quite put it into words, but it does bring back a lot of memories from ...
Articles tagged with: “Michael Moore”
Dear friends, Anticipating that "The Awful Truth" will be renewed for a second season in the coming week, we are beginning our search for a few good people to work with us on the show. Positions that are open (in our New York City office) include researchers, field producers, editors, ...
Dear friends, Ten years ago today, I stood on the lawn of the Genesee County Jail in Flint and sold my film to Warner Bros. The executives at Warner's were a little bewildered by my choice of location for a "signing ceremony," but after weeks of negotiating with me (and ...
Dear friends, After paying a visit earlier this year to Humana HMO headquarters with a man who had been denied treatment and was dying, we at "The Awful Truth" have received a ton of mail from people who told us of their own encounters with our incredibly cruel health care ...
Dear friends, Earlier today, the 6 billionth human on the planet was born. I thought this happened three months ago but, what with all the earthquakes, hurricanes, and West Nile-like mosquitoes loose in Queens, I guess someone had to revise downward. According to the U.N., the blessed event finally took ...
Dear friends, Let us pause for a moment to recover from the sad news this week that Dan Quayle will not be running for President next year. Potatoe lovers all over America are feeling a sense of loss and I can only say that with Quayle out of the running, ...
Dear friends Last Wednesday, all the national Prime Time Emmy nominees who are based in the New York area were invited by Mayor Giuliani to a ceremony at city hall to receive an "official Emmy certificate" from the Mayor. As you may recall, the Mayor's Office for Film and Television ...
Dear Friends, First off, the "TV Nation" segment from 1995 featuring Buford Furrow, the white supremacist who shot the Jewsih kids in L.A., is now up on our website and can be downloaded and viewed in its entirety (remembering, of course, that this is only 1999 and some of this ...
The Awful Truth nominated for an Emmy
I'm happy to report to you that our television show, "The Awful Truth," has just been nominated for a Prime Time Emmy Award as "Outstanding Non Fiction Series." This is our 3rd Emmy nomination in as many seasons as we've been allowed on TV. The first two were for "TV ...
The "dog days of summer" takes on a whole new meaning when you're stuck inside a Northwest jet on the runway a La Guardia (as I am right now) in 90 degree plus heat for an hour and half, the air circulation system broke, the temperature inside a suffocating 100 ...
The final installment of this season's "The Awful Truth" will air this Sunday evening on Bravo. I say "this season" because it appears we are going to be renewed! Hey, there's a word we've never heard! What did we do wrong? This has been an incredible 12 weeks. Although we ...
Dear friends, This week our daughter graduated from high school. I have to say, this has been one of the most wonderful weeks of my life. In the days leading up to the graduation, we got out all those old photos and finally started to paste them down in the ...
Dear friends, Many of you have e-mailed me today asking about a rumor that you read on the internet this morning regarding this Sunday's episode of "The Awful Truth." I would like to inform everyone of the details surrounding what is happening. After a number of discussions with the Bravo ...
Dear Friends, The threatened legal action by Lucianne Goldberg to obtain a restraining order against the airing of tonight's "The Awful Truth" did not materialize and thus the show will air in its entirety as planned on Bravo at 9pm and 1am EASTERN and 6pm and 10pm PACIFIC. We will ...
Bombing the Baby with the Bathwater
Dear Friends, Don't forget to watch "The Awful Truth" this Sunday at 9pm &1am ET, 6pm & 10pm PT on BRAVO. This week we give our "Man of the Year" award to the #1 toxic air polluter in the country. He is also building the largest home in the country ...
Welcoming the National Rifle Association to Denver
Dear friends: Thanks for all the ideas on what we should all do to greet the National Rifle Association at their annual convention in Denver tomorrow (Saturday) morning. They ranged from all of us going there dressed as Moses proclaiming with our staffs raised in the air: "IT'S NOT THE ...
To Be dead in Denver and Downtown Pristina
Dear friends, There he was, The Great Consoler, standing at the podium, biting his lip, and speaking to a nation in shock. "We must teach our children to settle their differences through words and not weapons." Meanwhile, this same President, continues a daily slaughter of human beings. He says it's ...
Dear friends, As we file our taxes today (procrastinators, all of us), and we sign our names on the bottom line of our 1040 tax forms, perhaps we should ask ourselves if what we are doing is signing a death warrant for people we don't even know. Because each night, ...
Dear friends, Please don't forget to tune in Sunday night to our new show, "The Awful Truth." We have spent the last year working on this series and, in a way, we can't believe we are actually going to get this stuff on the air. You don't know how many ...
Dear Friends, Sunday night, April 11, at 9pm (10pm on the west coast), we return to the land of television with our new series, "The Awful Truth." We will be on every Sunday night for 12 weeks (with repeat showings every Friday night at 10pm) and I can't wait for ...
Dear Friends, I know I owe you a letter about where I think we should go from here as teed-off citizens in a waning democracy, but I've been so damn busy working on my new TV show, I haven't had a chance to write it yet. I hope you'll forgive ...
Dear Friends: Just a quick note from back home in Buick City (a.k.a. Flint) to thank all of you for the past year. Without your interest in my work I wouldn't be able to keep making my films and writing my books. It means a great deal to me and, ...
Mike's Dinner at the White House
Dear Friends, I met Bill Clinton outside a Port-O-John last night and told him what he needed to do. Earlier in the week, I had received a call from the network chief at Britain's Channel Four Television (the producer of our upcoming show, "The Awful Truth") asking me what my ...
Good News, Bad News, Really Bad News
Dear Friends, It's been one of those weeks. First the good news, then the bad news, then the really bad news… GOOD NEWS: We beat the mayor! After some fast work by our legal team and a public outcry from many of you, New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani rescinded ...
The Mayor, The Starr, and Michael Moore
It's been a bizarre two weeks here on the set of "The Awful Truth," our new television show in the spirit of "TV Nation" that will debut on BRAVO on April 14. While I had intended to write to you by now with ideas on how we can prevent "The ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
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March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
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February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
