AIT To Premiere On Showtime This Sunday

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http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=111210

Al Gore explores global warming on TV premiere of 'An Inconvenient Truth’

FRAZIER MOORE
Published Thursday March 8th, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) - For some, "An Inconvenient Truth" may pose an inconvenient question: What's more important, loving the planet or hating Al Gore? Fortunately, this is a non-issue for the many earthlings who already have embraced Gore's documentary for expressing so well what everyone needs to know - global warming is a looming threat to a planet we are all forced to share, even when we act as if we live in different worlds.

Opening in theatres last year, then available on DVD a few months later, "An Inconvenient Truth" makes its TV premiere in the United States on Sunday on the cable network Showtime. (In Canada it airs April 6 on Movie Central and the Movie Network.)

This is two weeks after its director, Davis Guggenheim, won the best documentary Oscar, stirring up detractors who sneer at Gore's crusade as "a convenient lie" while lumping him with crackpots, lefties and that Hollyweird crowd.

What a moment in the life of the planet, when saving Mother Earth is co-opted as a wedge issue. But viewers who have not yet seen "An Inconvenient Truth" (and are open to the prospect that the Earth isn't flat and never was) will likely find the film thought-provoking, even motivational.

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But Gore reminds his audience it's not too late to get with the program and to get the word out. "When the warnings are accurate and based on sound science," he tells an audience in Shanghai, "then we as human beings, whatever country we live in, have to find a way to make sure that the warnings are heard and responded to."

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Will people learn soon enough that the truth isn't too inconvenient? That's the film's big cliffhanger, and maybe the world's.

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1. Shoot - I was hoping HBO would get it. I don't have Showtime.