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| Coming next from Michael Moore: Sicko, the film |
| 2004-12-23 |
| He doesn't do undercover. And he is not someone who easily melts into the background. But when an industry thinks it is about to become the latest target of the film maker Michael Moore, precautions have to be taken. According to the Los Angeles Times, at least six of America's largest pharmaceutical firms have issued internal notices to their workforces warning them to be on the lookout for "a scruffy guy in a baseball cap" who asks too many questions. Rotund and amiable he may seem, but this could be Moore, digging for dirt for his new movie, provisionally entitled Sicko. Having watched the Bush administration and the gun lobby come a cropper in Moore's last two works, the pharma giants are not taking any risks. "We ran a story in our online newspaper saying Moore is embarking on a documentary - and if you see a scruffy guy in a baseball cap, you'll know who it is," Stephen Lederer, a spokesman for Pfizer Global Research and Development, told the LA Times. Five other big companies have told employees that any approach by Moore should be rebuffed and referred to the company's corporate communications department. "Moore's past work has been marked by negativity, so we can only assume it won't be a fair and balanced portrayal," said Rachel Bloom, executive director of corporate communications at AstraZeneca, which is based in Delaware. "His movies resemble docudramas more than documentaries." |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Bloggers, get to work. Arm the docs and drug reps with mini-cameras, film away, and show the video footage on a hundred blogs prior to the Mikey idiot-film. Perhaps these clips can be cobbled together in an anti-documentary: Dicko |
| Posted by: lex 2004-12-23 10:42:28 PM |