Michael Moore

Movie maker Michael Moore was born on April 23, 1954, in Flint, Michigan. While he was a student at Davison High School, Moore became interested in student politics, as well as uncovering hot-button topics – he received an Eagle Scout merit badge for his project on environmentally unsound businesses in Flint. At age eighteen, Moore became one of the youngest people in the United States to win an election for public office, after securing a spot on the Flint school board.

Moore attended the University of Michigan-Flint for a brief period, before dropping out to report for the local alternative weekly paper, Flint Voice. Moore eventually became the editor, and transformed the paper into alternative political publication, the Michigan Voice. From there, Moore moved on to lefty political journal, Mother Jones magazine, where he also became editor before being fired after less than a year – reportedly for refusing to run an article that he believed to be inaccurate.

With the settlement he received from Mother Jones, Moore funded his next project: a 1989 documentary called Roger & Me, which chronicles the economic damage done to his hometown of Flint following the closing of General Motors' plants. The critically-acclaimed documentary would become one of the most financially successful documentary features ever made. Moore followed up with the documentary Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint, as well as his first feature film, the "Canadian Cold War" satire, Canadian Bacon (1995), featuring funny man, John Candy in his final film performance.

In 1994, Moore took a crack at the small-screen with his NBC news satire, TV Nation, which switched to FOX in its second season before being cancelled. Two years later, Moore put pen to paper to create his best-selling political commentary, Downsize This!: Random Threats From an Unarmed American.

In 1999, Moore tried a second time at small-screen satire with The Awful Truth, which also lasted two seasons. He returned to writing in 2001 with his book, Stupid White Men, which was postponed following the terrorist attacks of September 11, as Random House felt that its criticism of George W. Bush was inappropriate.

In 2002, Moore released the documentary Bowling for Columbine, also produced by Salter Street Film's Charles Bishop and Michael Donovan. The film, which examines the culture of guns and violence in America, received a Best Documentary Award at the 2003 Oscars, which Moore accepted at the podium while taking the opportunity to voice criticism of the war in Iraq.

One year after Bowling for Columbine, Moore released his documentary critique of the Bush Administration, Fahrenheit 9/11. The film received top honors at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, as well as a twenty-minute standing ovation. The movie went on to make close to $22 million during its first weekend.

Moore’s project, the documentary Sicko, was released in 2007. An expose of America’s healthcare system, Moore describes the documentary as "a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on Earth."

On June 29th 2007 Moore faced Larry King in a live interview when Moore took phone calls and answered emails from the viewing public. The newly shaven and 'scrubbed up' Moore was scathing but informative about the state of health care in the USA.

YUDDY