Moore's rant

This story is just great. A nice antidote to all the war news, even though it is related to war news.

Jerry Lewis 'irate' over DJ impersonation

Jerry Lewis is considering legal action against a radio station whose disc jockey impersonated the comedian in a conversation with French President Jacques Chirac, his attorney said.

A disc jockey for KROQ 106.7's "Kevin and Bean Show" called Chirac last week posing as Lewis and held a five-minute phone conversation with the French president in which the pair discussed the war in Iraq.

As everyone knows by now, bomb-throwing documentarist Michael Moore went off big-time in his Oscar aqcceptance speech last night. Even more priceless were the slack-jawed expressions on the faces of the movie stars sitting in the front rows. They didn't know whether to laugh or cry. No one has posted the full text of Moore's rant, that I can find.

I'm of two minds about Moore's ejeculation. The middle-class well-behaved part of me is embarrassed for him, not least because he should have had something a little more articulate to say in his fifteen seconds of worldwide attention. The rebel in me is secretly pleased, though. I hate juvenile tactics, but I sympathise with them.