Thursday, February 19, 2009

Michael Moore Wants Wall Street Crooks to get the Real Deal.


Workers of Wall Street: You may feel unappreciated, or even reviled, these days, but take heart — there’s a big-name movie director who wants to talk to you.

Michael Moore, the man behind “Bowling for Columbine,” and “Fahrenheit 9/11,” has put out the call for people in the banking, brokerage and insurance industries to tell him the inside story about the recent financial meltdown and what he refers to as “the biggest swindle in American history.”

“Will you help me with my next film?”, he asked in a post that appeared this week on his Web site and in a message to his e-mail list.

Mr. Moore went on to say:

I am in the middle of shooting my next movie and I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and share with me what they know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe there are a number of you who know “the real deal” about the abuses that have been happening. You have information that the American people need to hear.

All correspondence will be kept confidential, he wrote, adding that a “few good people have already come forward.”

Last May, while the Cannes Film Festival was in full swing, Mr. Moore announced that Overture Films and Paramount Vintage would be co-financing his next movie, which a press release described as a “searing and provocative follow-up” to Fahrenheit 9/11. That’s the 2004 documentary that piled harsh criticism on President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Since then, the movie has largely been shrouded in secrecy, and Mr. Moore didn’t offer much description, or even a title, in his message this week.

Whatever the film is called, it isn’t expected to shine a flattering light on the world of high finance. Just ask the health care industry how it felt about “Sicko”, or General Motors how it felt about “Roger & Me.”

“Wall Street better gird itself,” Howard Rubenstein, whose public relations firm represents many hedge funds, buyout shops and banks, told Bloomberg News, referring to Mr. Moore’s latest announcement. “The Huns are invading.”

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