links to:
Warmer Al Gore finds a new stump
Former vice president asserts his global warming warnings in a documentary.By Tina Daunt
Times Staff Writer
Posted January 18 2006
Al Gore, leading man?
To borrow a cliché from the Hollywood marketing playbook, the new global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" stars the former vice president as you've never seen him before.
Al Gore wheeling his own suitcase through airports, taking off his shoes and emptying his pockets at security. Al Gore firing up crowds with his one-man PowerPoint presentation show on arctic melt rates, devastating heat waves and dangerous changes in ocean currents.
-snip-
Gore was loose and funny.
"I used to be the next president of the United States," he told the audience, drawing a roar of laughter.
"I don't find that to be very funny," he deadpanned. "I'm a recovering politician."
Afterward he was mobbed, like a rock star.-snip-
Gore agreed enthusiastically, and filming started almost immediately. Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions, the production house behind such movies as "Syriana" and "Good Night, and Good Luck," signed on to fund the project and many involved agreed to work for free. The crew followed the former vice president to speeches he had scheduled around the world. Bender used connections he forged while producing "Kill Bill Vols. I and II" to set up forums in China.
The schedule was so grueling that Gore jokingly referred to it as "Kill Al Volume III."http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/cl-et-gore18jan18,0,836110.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front