> Insurance scamsters who profit off the sick are battling Michael Moore's movie
> for every foot:
>
>
> http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=10031
>
> quote
>
> July 12th, 2007 7:30 pm
>
> Michael Moore fans impatient to see 'Sicko'
>
> By Jim Haug / Daytona Beach News-Journal
>
> Michael Moore fans must feel like they have been denied treatment for the
> pre-existing condition of living in Volusia and Flagler counties.
>
> "Sicko," the ball-capped muckraker's expose on health care, opened June 29 but
> has yet to come to a local theater.
>
> It won't make it here this weekend either.
>
> "I'm so irritated," said Maxine Kronick, a fan from Flalger Beach who appeared
> in Moore's first film, "Roger and Me."
>
> Kronick said she "called up the corporate office of Regal Cinema and screamed:
> 'Where's 'Sicko?' "
>
> Theater owners say they're not trying to censor a politically charged movie
> that promotes socialized medicine.
>
> Instead, Dick Westerling, a 1969 graduate of Seabreeze High School and the
> senior vice president of marketing for Regal Entertainment Group in Knoxville,
> Tenn., blamed the lack of availability on the movie's limited release.
>
> After a first weekend in New York, "Sicko" was released nationally to 441
> theaters, Westerling said. In comparison, a big Hollywood movie,
> "Transformers" opened at 4,000 theaters.
>
> Lion's Gate, the distributor of "Sicko," is adding more prints. Westerling
> said the movie will eventually make it to smaller markets like Daytona Beach,
> but he could not say when. His company owns Ormond Beach Regal Cinema 12.
>
> Daytona Beach did get Moore's previous film, "Fahrenheit 9/11" when it opened
> in 2004. The anti-George W. Bush movie sold 4,517 tickets locally on its first
> weekend, according to Bob Cunningham, general manager of N&S Cinema 6.
>
> But the independent theater has since gone out of business.
>
> Kronick said she might go to Jacksonville this weekend to see "Sicko."
>
> Kronick remembers when Moore was a journalist in Michigan in the 1980s
> mortgaging his house and taking out loans to make his first movie, "Roger &
> Me."
>
> "He asked me to be in it," said Kronick, who was the director of special
> events for the city of Flint, Mich. "I thought it was a lark."
>
> In "Roger and Me," Kronick was interviewed about city tourism, conceding to
> Moore that "you can't make Palm Beach out of the Bowery," and for her decision
> to leave Flint for Israel. The movie then made fun of her sense of timing.
>
> As Kronick recalled, "I go to Israel and the Intifada (Palestian uprising)
> starts."
>
>
>
>
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>
> Call your local theatre/cineplex...tell em' you'll boycott em' forever for
> censoring your film choices.
>
>
> ClassWarz