An Inconvenient Truth is favored to win an Oscar for Best Documentary, and it's in the running for Best Original Song with Melissa Ethridge's I Need to Wake Up. [Music video here.]
This year's Oscars will be green and the Award Ceremony is expected to wow everyone with its eco-friendliness, reports the Washington Times.
Global celebrity Al Gore will be at the ceremony tonight. Gore gets mobbed everywhere he goes; I wonder if they'll mob him in Hollywood?
Take the Cannes Film Festival: Al Gore was mobbed. By French people. He was a presenter at the Grammy Awards, alongside Queen Latifah, where he got one of the biggest welcomes of the night. "Wow. . . . I think they love you, man. You hear that?" the current Queen asked the former veep. Earlier this month, the ticket Web site at the University of Toronto crashed when 23,000 people signed on in three minutes to get a seat to hear Gore do his thing on the oceanic carbon cycle. At Boise State, Gore and his slide show sold out 10,000 seats at the Taco Bell Arena, reportedly "faster than Elton John.""The Goracle" -- "Totally carbon neutral" -- and "geek-chic cool" are some of the things people call Al Gore these days. And, of course -- "Rock Star."
"An Inconvenient Truth," the 100-minute movie that is essentially Gore giving a slide show about global warming, is the third-highest-grossing documentary ever, with a worldwide box office of $45 million, right behind blockbusters "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "March of the Penguins."
In countries like Spain, Scotland and Norway, Gore's film is shown in public schools. We know that couldn't happen here.
The Tennessean will have a story about Al Gore in the Sunday paper. I wonder how it will compare with the Al Gore, Rock Star story in the Washington Post.
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