Moore recently walked away from Cannes with the Palme d’Or for his anti-Bush film Fahrenheit 9/11. Is Bradbury, now 84, flattered by the reference? Well, not quite: “Michael Moore is a stupid son of a bitch. He stole my title and changed the numbers and never asked for my permission.”
Bradbury explains that he tried to get in contact with the director. Moore was “busy” and promised to get back to him that same afternoon…but he never did.
“He is a dreadful man. A dreadful man.”
Bradbury sees Moore’s appropriation of Fahrenheit as a simple case of theft: “I could write a novel tomorrow called Gone with the Wind, couldn’t I? But I’m not going to do it because that would be dishonest. Let’s just say that Michael Moore is dishonest and that I want to have nothing to do with him. That pretty well does it.” http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=272062&previousRenderType=6Not to add too much fuel to the fire but I personally know someone whose stuff was literally, verbatim, stolen from Moore so Moore won't be anywhere on my good list until that case gets resolved and he gives that person credit & compensation.
In this case, I don't agree with Bradbury because IMO anyone is allowed to make a play on words but Moore should have had the common, artistic courtesy to discuss it with him
especially after being asked to.
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