Michael Moore, best known as the producer of the bitingly satiric documentary film "Roger and Me," and the author of the current best seller Stupid White Men, will give a talk at Cornell Wednesday, April 3, in the Statler Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Billed as "An Evening with Michael Moore: Corporations, Class and Globalization," the talk is free but tickets are required. They are available to the campus community this week at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.
Moore, who uses humor to expose what he sees as corporate greed and mismanagement, took General Motors CEO Roger Smith to task for job losses in the auto industry in "Roger and Me," relentlessly, and hilariously, pursuing him to gain an interview. The film will be shown at Willard Straight Theatre Sunday, April 7, at 5 p.m. in conjunction with Moore's visit. Moore also wrote the best seller Downsize This and produced the film "The Big One" and the television series "The Awful Truth" and "TV Nation." The latter featured such strategies as Moore posing as a U.S. manufacturer looking to replace his U.S. workforce with low-wage laborers in Mexico.
Moore's visit is sponsored by a range of campus groups, among them the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (to augment its Union Days events, April 10-12), the Student Assembly Finance Commission and the Dean of Students Office. The film showing is co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, COLA and IFMAC.
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