An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient TruthSeveral families arranged a free screening for students, of Vice President Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Maplewood Theatre in Maplewood, New Jersey this week for free and even had the luck to have the movie's director, to show up and answer questions.
Before long, an older theater- goer arrives and plunks down her $9 for "An Inconvenient Truth," the Al Gore global-warming documentary that has made box-office history by managing to stay in the Top 20 in ticket receipts.
"It's about time I saw this movie," the woman says as she hands her ticket to Rinaldi, who was also filling in as the ticket- taker.
The audience demographics are not lost on Rinaldi.
It's the old -- not the young -- who have flocked to see "An Inconvenient Truth." She said as much to Stewart Glickman, a 43-year-old who came to see the movie a few weeks ago with his wife, Sarah, and asked about the turnout.
"I said it was fabulous," she said, "but the wrong people were seeing it. ... You're going to give up your plastic silverware and big SUV?"
Afterward, Rinaldi said, she thought she had chased a customer away, but instead she fanned a fire in Glickman's heart, unlocking a string of events that will culminate tomorrow with a free screening for middle- and high school students and a visit from the film's director, Davis Guggenheim.
"It's apolitical," says Glickman, who has distributed fliers touting the 4 p.m. showing and listing "10 things to do" to curtail the carbon- dioxide emissions contributing to global warming. "Any one person can make a difference."
Shortly after the Glickmans first saw the film, they had dinner with friends Claude and Elana Szyfer. All they could talk about was the "powerful" message of the movie. So the Maplewood families -- both with children -- decided to sponsor the free screening.
That's when the celebrity connection hit.
Paramount Pictures gave its blessing for the group showing, but Glickman was looking for someone to speak at the question-and-answer session after the movie. Word found its way to the West Coast, where Guggenheim was in a big meeting about the DVD release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
"Maplewood? I know Maplewood!" Guggenheim was quoted as saying.
It turns out Guggenheim is married to Elisabeth Shue, the Academy Award nominee who be fore starring in "Leaving Las Vegas" was a student at Maplewood's Columbia High School.
I saw the movie at the Maplewood Theatre a few days ago and thought it was very honest and provoking. Yes, there were mostly all adults that evening and on child, probabnly dragged by his parents. Everyone was absorbed by the movie. While there were dozens of people in the theatre it was very quiet and nobody walked out.
I recommend all grammar, middle, and high school students see this movie, this year. Free screenings should be made available. Discussions have begun about the DVD release of "An Inconvenient Truth", but no release dates were mentioned. The movie could be used as a catalyst for age appropriate related studies for the students.
More than one hundred people died this week in America due to the heat wave. We saw long power outages due to the excessive storms. We have been having unusually powerful hurricanes during the past few years. I am no scientist, but there seems this could be a link to global warming. It seems that America should step up to face the challenge or else we will probable see more tragic events occurring within earths ecosystem.
posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 2:22 PM
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