No Moore?

Michael Moore was a no-show for a screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 in Crawford Texas. Rumor has it as consolation for the despondent crowd the movie was projected onto a screen made from one of his old t-shirts.

Meanwhile, here in Germany:

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" opens in Berlin on Wednesday. German film and movie theater executives expect it to break Moore's own record for the most-shown documentary ever in the country.

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His first Bush diatribe, "Stupid White Men," sold nearly 1.1 million copies in German -- comprising an astonishing one-third of the book’s total global sales. And more than a million Germans turned out to see his Oscar-winning indictment against US gun laws, "Bowling for Columbine".

But in Iraq (Note: Permalinks not available. Scroll to July 27 entry):

Another scene I had a problem with was one that many critics seemed to praise. When Moore presents the murders of 9/11 at the World Trade Center, and displays only a black screen with the sounds of destruction and pain all around, I couldn’t help but think he employed what has become a popular self-imposed censorship. We were not allowed as viewers to see the horror of that day, not allowed to be reminded of people jumping from buildings, bodies on the ground, destruction everywhere. We just saw a black screen, and heard some awful familiar sounds. We did however, see images of Saddam’s Iraq, peaceful and enjoyable, and of the destruction left in the wake of US soldiers. For me, it was just another example of eclipsing from our minds the images of that day, while turning the camera on the “havoc” that we have brought to the world.