Now Starring in Capitalism: A Love Story: Me!
By Barry Ritholtz - September 24th, 2009, 10:00AM
Reader Mike writes in about my big screen debut:
I caught an advanced screening of Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story. I was surprised to see your face on the screen during one segment, so I thought I’d let you know. He uses a clip of Larry Kudlow’s show where you are on the screen in a different window while Kudlow is speaking. Unfortunately, the clip doesn’t go on long enough so that you actually speak in the movie.
I guess this means I have to go see the thing . . . !
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September 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am
you were already a star in our eyes, barry!
September 24th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Woooo Hooooo Can we say Oscar?
September 24th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Don’t forget to get a SAG card – unless you never want to work in Hollywood again!
September 24th, 2009 at 10:42 am
a glorified cardboard cutout……
:c)
September 24th, 2009 at 10:45 am
But please, buy a ticket for another movie and sneak into the theater so you don’t pad Moore’s coffers more.
(Because I’m guessing this is what a true capitalist, in the Michael Moore’s sense, would do.)
September 24th, 2009 at 10:50 am
There’s no stopping you now, man.
I can see “dancing with the stars” in the near future.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:58 am
It’s a stretch to think Barry or anyone could get a word in edgewise with the grandmaster of bloviation anywhere near the set.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
BR
Aren’t you going to be in the Steve Bannon documentary about the financial crisis?
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BR: I did the Wal-Mart documentary about 4 years ago, the Covel docu called Broke, and Bannon’s was called Generation Zero.
Today, I shoot segment for a documentary on the Federal Reserve — should be interesting
September 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Who? Moore or Kudlow ; O
September 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@beaufou: LOL! That would be hysterical. C’mon, Barry. Get in the mix on “Dancing with the Stars”. I don’t know how any of those guys can even concentrate on learning how to dance, if you know what I mean.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Barry,
The trailer for Capitalism, A Love Story, and a couple of teasers (not so great teasers), are on U Tube, links below. This should be a fun movie.
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhydyxRjujU
Teaser – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/michael-moores-capitalism_n_289868.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/barack-obama-must-see-mic_b_293407.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/michael-moore-says-capita_n_296090.html
September 24th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@Mannwich — you got that right re DWTS. Of course, they have to cast dancers like that so all the husbands watching the show under the direction of their wives can tolerate it….
I like Edyta myself ;-)
September 24th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
It is clear as day light. How long it is going to continue like this. What are we waiting for.
September 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I’ll torrent it.. I mean, wouldn’t seeking a free-market profit on a film that slams the free market be… Hypocritical?
(If Moore differentiated between ‘Crony Capitalism’ and ‘Free-Market Capitalism’ perhaps I would be more interested, but to him that’s either a distinction without a difference or he doesn’t even give it enough thought to find a difference worth attempting to distinguish.)
ps: MM the “documentarian” has been known to lie for dramatic effect:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/arts/23iht-moore.html
In part the “stuff” amounts to a catalogue of alleged errors — both of omission and commission — in Moore’s films, beginning with his 1989 debut, “Roger & Me.” That film largely revolved around Moore’s fruitless attempts to interview Roger Smith, then the chairman of General Motors, after his company closed plants in Moore’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan: an interview that occurred, Melnyk and Caine said, although Moore left it on the cutting-room floor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6228221/
They reserve their harshest treatment, however, for “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker Michael Moore — but their disdain is as much personal as political.
Stone, who is from Littleton, Colo., agreed to talk about his hometown and the infamous high-school shooting there for Moore’s anti-gun documentary “Bowling for Columbine.”
“We have a very specific beef with Michael Moore,” Stone said. “I did an interview, and he didn’t mischaracterize me or anything I said in the movie. But what he did do was put this cartoon right after me that made it look like we did that cartoon.”
Parker and Stone still harbor hard feelings about that sassy, anti-gun cartoon because they feel it was done in “South Park” style. They believe the proximity to Stone’s interview misled some fans into thinking they had done the cartoon, even though Moore never said they did.