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What do residents of controversial documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore’s hometown of Flint, Mich., think of him? Not much, according to an investigative report by Louisville, Ky., NBC affiliate WAVE…"
"Moore’s first big film, “Roger and Me,” dealt with the layoff by General Motors of some 30,000 Flint-area workers after GM closed a plant there. The film is “loosely structured around Moore’s odyssey to track down” GM Chairman Roger B. Smith, says an Amazon.com review.
But according to a few of the “stars” of that film, Rhonda Britton and Fred Ross, Moore played loose and fast with the facts.
“Ross, a sheriff’s deputy, was shown throughout the movie evicting residents. Moore’s movie gave the impression the layoffs led to the evictions,” WAVE reported.
But, Ross told the TV affiliate’s reporter, Eric Flack, the evictions had “nothing to do with General Motors.”
As for Britton, she was depicted as selling rabbits for meat in the film as a means to make ends meet because of the layoffs. She told Flack that, too, was a misrepresentation.
Britton told the TV reporter her husband wasn’t working at GM because he died more than 10 years before Moore’s film was made. “He’s a fraud and a cheapskate,” Britton told WAVE, adding that when Moore later sold the movie rights to the film to Warner Bros. for $3 million, she was offered only $100 to sign a release to the film.
Said Ross, “He wanted me to sign a release, and that’s where the trouble started.” Ross would not accept $100 and wound up suing Moore for much more, though he would not disclose the amount.
Another inconvenient fact is that, in the film, Moore implies that GM left Flint completely. But that’s not true; “in fact, the company has invested $2 billion in Flint since 1998,” WAVE reported.
Moore, on the other hand, hasn’t invested any of the money he’s made there.
Maybe, says Britton, that’s because he’s not really a Flint resident. “He was born and raised in Davison! He wasn’t even raised here in Flint,” she told Flack.
Davison, for the record, is a “white collar suburb,” WAVE reports — not the kind of downtrodden, blue-collar background Moore claims to hail from…"
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"Moore’s first big film, “Roger and Me,” dealt with the layoff by General Motors of some 30,000 Flint-area workers after GM closed a plant there. The film is “loosely structured around Moore’s odyssey to track down” GM Chairman Roger B. Smith, says an Amazon.com review.
But according to a few of the “stars” of that film, Rhonda Britton and Fred Ross, Moore played loose and fast with the facts.
“Ross, a sheriff’s deputy, was shown throughout the movie evicting residents. Moore’s movie gave the impression the layoffs led to the evictions,” WAVE reported.
But, Ross told the TV affiliate’s reporter, Eric Flack, the evictions had “nothing to do with General Motors.”
As for Britton, she was depicted as selling rabbits for meat in the film as a means to make ends meet because of the layoffs. She told Flack that, too, was a misrepresentation.
Britton told the TV reporter her husband wasn’t working at GM because he died more than 10 years before Moore’s film was made. “He’s a fraud and a cheapskate,” Britton told WAVE, adding that when Moore later sold the movie rights to the film to Warner Bros. for $3 million, she was offered only $100 to sign a release to the film.
Said Ross, “He wanted me to sign a release, and that’s where the trouble started.” Ross would not accept $100 and wound up suing Moore for much more, though he would not disclose the amount.
Another inconvenient fact is that, in the film, Moore implies that GM left Flint completely. But that’s not true; “in fact, the company has invested $2 billion in Flint since 1998,” WAVE reported.
Moore, on the other hand, hasn’t invested any of the money he’s made there.
Maybe, says Britton, that’s because he’s not really a Flint resident. “He was born and raised in Davison! He wasn’t even raised here in Flint,” she told Flack.
Davison, for the record, is a “white collar suburb,” WAVE reports — not the kind of downtrodden, blue-collar background Moore claims to hail from…"
newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/10/155808.shtml