Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 9, 2004 at 3:06:00 PM CEST
Film Industry Gives Controversial Iraq Film Ovation
Director Michael Moore's controversial anti-Iraq war film "Fahrenheit 9/11" won a standing ovation on Tuesday night from an audience of film industry professionals attending its West Coast debut at Academy Award headquarters.
After an audience of more than 600 people in the theater of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cheered, whistled and laughed their way through the two-hour film, they jumped to their feet to give Moore a standing ovation as he took the stage.
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Lining up for the 7 p.m. showing were Jodie Foster, Meg Ryan, Drew Barrymore, Ellen DeGeneres, Mark Wahlberg, Marisa Tomei, Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman, David Duchovny and Téa Leoni, Josh Brolin and Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Larry David, Rob Reiner, Aaron Sorkin, Larry Gelbart, Brett Ratner, Tom Hayden and son Troy Garity, Ariana Huffington, Spike Jonze, Kelly Lynch, Camryn Manheim and Jack, Kelly and Sharon Osbourne.
Barbra Streisand couldn't escape from the set of "Meet the Fockers." But a bunch of celebs dashed over after the Lakers game for the second screening. Among them were Leo DiCaprio, Chris Rock, Matthew Perry, Billy Crystal, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Sharon Stone and Bernie Cahill, Bill Maher, Jack Black and Wes Anderson.
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