Huff Post: "Al Gore, Movie Star."(links to a great article on the new doc)

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Warmer Al Gore finds a new stump
Former vice president asserts his global warming warnings in a documentary.

By Tina Daunt
Times Staff Writer
Posted January 18 2006


Al Gore, leading man?

To borrow a cliché from the Hollywood marketing playbook, the new global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" stars the former vice president as you've never seen him before.

Al Gore wheeling his own suitcase through airports, taking off his shoes and emptying his pockets at security. Al Gore firing up crowds with his one-man PowerPoint presentation show on arctic melt rates, devastating heat waves and dangerous changes in ocean currents.

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Gore was loose and funny. "I used to be the next president of the United States," he told the audience, drawing a roar of laughter.
"I don't find that to be very funny," he deadpanned. "I'm a recovering politician."
Afterward he was mobbed, like a rock star.

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Gore agreed enthusiastically, and filming started almost immediately. Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions, the production house behind such movies as "Syriana" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," signed on to fund the project and many involved agreed to work for free. The crew followed the former vice president to speeches he had scheduled around the world. Bender used connections he forged while producing "Kill Bill Vols. I and II" to set up forums in China.
The schedule was so grueling that Gore jokingly referred to it as "Kill Al Volume III."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/cl-et-gore18jan18,0,836110.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front

[Stephanie]

1. Is there any doubt Gore's the only one who can lead us out of this mess?

That's it for me. Gore's the One. Where do I sign up? We need him.

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2. more

"He continues to find ways to make an impact on the issues and causes that he cares about," said Mike Feldman, a Washington, D.C.-based communications consultant who served as traveling chief of staff when Gore was vice president. "Being out of office hasn't preventing him from doing that."

As for appearing more personable in the documentary, Feldman said: "The world of politics can really distort a person's public persona. And that is especially true in a presidential campaign. There are real limitations to how much anyone can convey through the prism of the press. Perhaps one of the things that the film will accomplish is to give people a more unfiltered glimpse of this man, and through him, some insight into a very important issue."

Global warming has been a passion of Gore's since he was a student a Harvard University, where one of his professors warned in the 1970s that carbon dioxide would have a devastating effect on the Earth's environment.

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They met Gore at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco in May to pitch the idea for a documentary.
"We were really nervous," Bender said. Burns said that if Gore rejected their request, he planned to argue that a film could help reach more people: "Either make a movie or do the presentation 450-million times."
It didn't take much convincing.

[sasha031]

3. thanks for posting/ what our real president has been up to.

There are real limitations to how much anyone can convey through the prism of the press.
Ahh yes the so called press....who would you rather have a beer with Amerika.
I don't know who I hate more *& com. or the MSM.
As brilliant as Clinton was and is, Gore has always blown him away. The courage and stamina to pursue the most important issue facing our planet. How I love that man.


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4. smart handsome funny man with a beautiful smart wife who loves him

no wonder the pukes hate him so...

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5. www.algore.org

This article is originally from the LA Times.

You can find it on the homepage: www.latimes.com

THE number 1 website for Gore supporters: www.algore.org :)