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June 19, 2004
Ray Bradbury makes me mad Ray Bradbury is making me mad. He's pissy with Michael Moore for calling his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 -- meaning to compare the Bush administration to the authoritarians of Bradbury's class novel Fahrenheit 451.
"He didn't ask my permission," Bradbury, 83, told The Associated Press on Friday. "That's not his novel, that's not his title, so he shouldn't have done it."
Does this cranky old dude think that he has the special right that no one should be able to invoke even a sideways reference to his special precious contribution?
What, does Bradbury think he owns the word "fahrenheit"? Are we supposed to pay Bradbury a fee every time we buy a frickin' frozen pizza with cooking instructions printed on the back? "Set oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit." Ding! Another penny for Bradbury.
Whatever the merits of this particular argument that Moore is making, the basic comparison offered in the title is utterly legitimate, mainstream literary technique. The premise takes off from saying that the Bush administration is destroying our freedom like the firemen burning the books in the Bradbury novel.
Anyway, this really cheeses ME off with Bradbury, for it puts me in the position of having to defend Michael Moore, whom I loathe. How wrong do you have to be for Al Barger to be taking MICHAEL MOORE'S side against you? Yet, in this case, Michael Moore is 100% in the right.
Ouch! Stop it. I'm hurting me. For some reason, I have an uncontrollable urge to kick my own ass for uttering the phrase, "Michael Moore is 100% in the right."
Ouch! I said it again.
File this under "More reasons to be skeptical of copyright law."
