Pitching high and tight to Michael Moore

SIMON HOUPT

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Michael Moore was getting himself into a lather, which is to say Michael Moore was starting to act like Michael Moore."It's a small example of what we, the American people, have to put up with, day in and day out, with a lazy, inadequate press that refuses to do their job and tell the whole truth," he bellowed. This was late Tuesday afternoon at the Essex House on Central Park South where, before 150 foreign journalists gathered in advance of the international release of Fahrenheit 9/11, he wanted to set the record straight and respond to the controversy over the film. I should be clear: this wasn't the controversy over whether F9/11 contained any factual inaccuracies, as some journalists have suggested. No, Moore was steamed over Ray Bradbury's complaint last month that he'd wrongly appropriated the title Fahrenheit 451.