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Michael Moore showed his patriotism by marching down the Avenue of the Americas with a drum and fife corps after making his Broadway debut.
“I say this to the people who disagree with me, we’re all Americans. We’re all in the same boat, and we’re going to sink or swim together. I prefer not to sink.
So let’s find a way, if we can, to work together to save this country,” Moore said Thursday night. The Oscar-winning filmmaker starred in the one-man show The Terms of My Surrender and then walked arm-in-arm to a party afterward with a variety of celebrities, including Christie Brinkley, Rosie O’Donnell, and Gloria Steinem. The 63-year-old commentator and liberal activist made it clear that his show is aimed at his supporters and is not an attempt to open a dialogue with Donald Trump supporters. “I’m here to preach to the choir because the choir needs a song to sing. The choir has been severely depressed since November, and it’s time to rise up and get out of it. Snap out of it. We’re the majority. This is our country. We hold the reins, now we want the power back,” Moore said. While Moore’s nightly 90-minute tirade puts his disdain for the president front and center, he also tackles other hot-button topics such as the Flint, Mich., water crisis, race relations and airport security lines.
Atlanta rapper Big Boi has given a puppy to a little girl who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while playing in a bounce house near the city earlier this year. WSB-TV reported that Big Boi, who’s one-half of the rap duo OutKast, presented Abriya Ellison on Thursday with the pup bred from his kennel business. Video shows Abriya cradling the dog, which she named King. Big Boi, whose real name is Antwan Patton, told the station that the dog is “something therapeutic” for Abriya. He says the girl is “definitely inspiring” and her story touched his heart. Patton also has agreed to pay off Abriya’s medical bills and renovate her bathroom to make it handicap accessible. Abriya was 5 when she was shot outside Atlanta in April.
Director James Cameron has taken time out from crafting the upcoming four Avatar sequels to return to one of his old films, one he says is as up-to-the-minute as ever — Terminator
2: Judgment Day. Cameron converted the 26-year-old film — in which one robot with artificial intelligence battles another to stop nuclear annihilation — into a
3D format that hits movie theaters Aug.
25. It arrives just as escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are in the headlines. Says Cameron:
“I think the film is as timely as it ever was.” The 1991 release — a sequel to the 1984 original — starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick.