The Observer (London): "Al Gore: the second coming"

[Apollo11]

An interesting article in Great Britain's oldest and most influential liberal-leaning quality Sunday newspaper "The Observer" (same ownership as "The Guardian"). This article is the cover story and main feature of the Review section. There is also a link and photo of Al on the Guardian homepage: http://www.guardian.co.uk

Al Gore: the second coming
Geraldine Bell
Sunday February 5, 2006
The Observer

Celebrity took an unusually nerdy form at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The man everyone wanted to meet, talk to and be seen with wasn't a film star or daring new director. It was a politician, who is in his sixth year of retirement and more famous for what he didn't achieve than for what he did.

Al Gore has been to Sundance before, but never as a leading man. This year he was appearing in An Inconvenient Truth, a 90-minute star-vehicle documentary. If 'former vice-president turns movie star at the age of 57' sounds improbable, remember that this is also Al Gore: famously wooden, inauthentic in front of a crowd, closed down in the face of a television camera. Al Gore, who ran a plodding campaign for the presidency and whose main response to accusations that he came across as pedantic and patronising was to wear more earth tones.

Yet An Inconvenient Truth sold out at Sundance and received standing ovations. The Q&As with Gore following the screenings were packed. 'The reception he got was extraordinary,' says the film's producer, Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Kill Bill). 'He was a phenomenon at Sundance. He seemed larger than life.' ...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1702168,00.html

In Gore We Trust
www.algore.org :)

[tocqueville]

1. will it be a rapture of liberals too ? n/t

[conning]

2. Gore is right

that the most important thing to be doing is raising consciousness on the critical issue of global warming. The only other issue as critical is peak oil, and the two are related, intimately.

[NMDemDist2]

5. welcome to DU conning!

:hi:

[tocqueville]

9. I agree with Gore, just thought that the headline was funny nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. I'd get naked

but then everyone would leave

[Poppyseedman]

3. Movie review

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/

[democrat in Tallahassee]

4. She got in all the right wing talking points about Al, didn't she?

That crap the GOP peddles is super glue; it never goes away. And by the way, he got more votes than dumbass.

[springhill]

8. Yes.........

That comment about "earth tones". Why oh why does that shit have to be peddled again and again, like it's really important.

[Synnical]

12. That was my first thought, too n/t

[patricia92243]

7. I had to read the whole article to see that they were not critisizing him.

Oh to have brains back in the White House. sigh!

[Uncle Joe]

10. With a couple of minor quibbles, I thought it was an excellent column.

Al Gore has not changed so much as the nation has changed, he is being vindicated for his vision.

[Martin Eden]

11. I weep.

This man should be serving his second term as president right now.