I have a few thousand complaints against the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth and yet, there's no denying it was the right movie at the right time. And if the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize is to have "made a difference," then he is solidly deserving. The announcement comes on Friday. Here's to hoping he gets to add it to his trophy shelf.
And after watching a very vacuous environmental movie recently, I walked out with three times more respect for Al for his having had the guts to put real data in a movie. He showed, once again, there are no rules when it comes to making movies, contrary to what the people who run Hollywood like to believe (yet consistent with what Oscar winning screenwriter William Goldman always said).
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