{"id":674,"date":"2004-05-05T12:54:29","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T19:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/temperature_rising\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T12:54:29","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T19:54:29","slug":"temperature_rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/temperature_rising.html","title":{"rendered":"TEMPERATURE RISING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I presume you&#8217;ve seen this by now, but in case you haven&#8217;t: <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/05\/05\/news\/fortune500\/disney_moore\/index.htm?cnn=yes\"><B\n><EM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Disney may block anti-Bush film.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A><br \/>\nThe film at issue is Michael Moore&#8217;s latest, <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361596\/\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Fahrenheit<br \/>\n9\/11,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> which is to have its premiere later this month at the <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.festival-cannes.com\/index.php?langue=6002\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Cannes International Film Festival<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The New York Times <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/05\/national\/05DISN.html?hp\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>quotes Moore&#8217;s agent<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> as saying that Disney<br \/>\nCEO&nbsp;Michael Eisner feared&nbsp;that distributing the documentary (produced by its<br \/>\nMiramax Films division) would endanger tax breaks Disney receives for its theme park, hotels and<br \/>\nother ventures in Florida, where the Maximum Leader&#8217;s brother, Jeb Bush, is governor. Disney<br \/>\nexecutives denied that.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Moore told the Times: &#8220;At some point the question has to be asked, &#8216;Should this be<br \/>\nhappening in a free and open society where the monied&nbsp;interests essentially call the shots<br \/>\nregarding the&nbsp; informatioin that the public&nbsp;is allowed to see?'&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The real reason for Eisner&#8217;s&nbsp;concern is that Osama bin Laden&#8217;s family and other<br \/>\npowerful Saudi clans who&#8217;ve been linked to the Bush family own vast amounts of Disney stock.<br \/>\n(Nah, just kidding.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I presume you&#8217;ve seen this by now, but in case you haven&#8217;t: &#8220;Disney may block anti-Bush film.&#8221; The film at issue is Michael Moore&#8217;s latest, &#8220;Fahrenheit 9\/11,&#8221; which is to have its premiere later this month at the Cannes International Film Festival. The New York Times quotes Moore&#8217;s agent as saying that Disney CEO&nbsp;Michael Eisner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}