06/20/2004: 
That's Entertainment?
Moore Film Title Angers Author Bradbury
from the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ray Bradbury is demanding an apology from filmmaker Michael Moore for lifting the title from his classic science-fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451" without permission and wants the new documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" to be renamed.
"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he shouldn't have done it."
The 1953 novel, widely considered Bradbury's masterpiece, portrays an ugly futuristic society in which firemen burn homes and libraries in order to destroy the books inside and keep people from thinking independently.
"Fahrenheit 451" takes its title from the temperature at which books burn. Moore has called "Fahrenheit 9/11" the "temperature at which freedom burns."
If you didn't think that Michael Moore was a complete turd- burglar before, here is irrefutable proof. Perhaps the film could be renamed "Self- Righteous Jerk Tells Us Stuff About Bush, Jr. That We All Knew Anyway."
