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Authors and Artists for Young Adults on Michael Moore
Documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore made a splash at the 2003 Academy Awards when he was presented with his first Oscar, for the film Bowling for Columbine. Joined onstage by the other nominees for best documentary, Moore told a stunned Hollywood audience--just days after the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq--that he and his fellow artists "like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons." Many in the audience applauded, others booed; Moore, however, successfully got his radical message out across the airwaves of America and around the world. "I just hope I generated a discussion about Mr. Bush and the war," Moore later told Jack Garner in the Rochester, New York Democrat...
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