Bradbury, who hadn't seen the movie, said he called Moore's company six months ago to protest and was promised Moore would call back.
He finally got that call last Saturday, Bradbury said, adding Moore told him he was "embarrassed."
"He suddenly realized he's let too much time go by," the author said by phone from his home in Los Angeles' Cheviot Hills section.
Ray Bradbury demands that the movie is renamed and wants an apology from Moore. Bradbury is "hoping to settle this as two gentlemen, if he'll shake hands with me and give me back my book and title." I don't think Michael Moore is called a "gentleman" very often.
To me it sounds very unlikely that Bradbury will have a lot of legal options to actually demand the title changed, but one should never underestimate how much trouble a good lawyer can make for a movie just about to be launched.
PS: Isn't this very slow? The blogosphere was all over this story 3 weeks ago when the Swedish paper had interviewed Bradbury, and the mainstream English-speaking press only gets around to ask Bradbury about it again now.
PS 2: I am not happy about WorldNetDaily ripping off my translation of the Bradbury interview without an attribution or link. But I am not going to sue them either, just say that they are assholes. Heh.
The craft is designed to carry three people, but for this initial flight carried only the pilot. In about two months, SpaceShipOne is expected to make the first of two flights within a two-week period to attempt to beat two dozen other teams to the $10 million Ansari X-Prize.
South Korea is appealing to release Kim Sun-il, the 33-year-old translator kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq, but is not backing down from its decision to send 3,000 troops to the country. The terrorists have threatened to kill him at sunset today Monday, which is about now.
The terrorists have earlier tested the resolve of the governments of Italy and Japan in the same way.
I hope we are spared from another video of a terrorist beheading, but hold little hope considering the responsible group is Jamaat al-Tawhid and Jihad, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. This was the thugs that took responsibility for beheading Nick Berg.
Amid all the heat surrounding the alleged links between al-Qaeda and Iraq, it is easy to overlook the known pre-9/11 links between al-Qaeda and two other alleged allies: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
The 9/11 commission has been very kind to these two countries in the preliminary reports so far, but now some members are outspoken in their criticism, indicating that the final report can be harsher (this, of course, will be a basis for political bargaining, making the whole report more a tool than the truth)
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia helped set the stage for the Sept. 11 attacks by cutting deals with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden that allowed his Al Qaeda terrorist network to flourish, according to several senior members of the Sept. 11 commission and U.S. counter-terrorism officials.
The financial aid to the Taliban and other assistance by two of the most important allies of the United States in its war on terrorism date at least to 1996, and appear to have shielded them from Al Qaeda attacks within their own borders until long after the 2001 strikes, those commission members and officials said in interviews.
Both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan essentially bought off the terrorists to not be targeted themselves, and this allowed the network to build its strength and finally attack the US in 2001. Once Pakistan and Saudi Arabia finally decided to crack down, they were severely attacked by the al-Qaeda network, and still suffer serious problems today trying to eradicate well-entrenched terrorist infrastructure within their borders.
As Sir Winston Churchill said, "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
