Michael Moore is almost certainly overweight

According to this dispatch from Toronto, the documentary maker has cast such a shadow over the film festival that he's darkened the city's streets.

TORONTO, Sept. 8 — American conservatives itching to go another round with Hollywood liberals may want to redirect their ire to the north this time of year.

The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened here on Thursday, has been all but overrun with films attacking President Bush or the protracted war in Iraq — in subtle ways and like sledgehammers, with vitriol and with dispassionate fly-on-the-wall observation.

However they make their points, the various critiques of American policy and its execution have been as impossible to miss here as Michael Moore, the ubiquitous documentary maker, who has been bad-mouthing the administration at every opportunity — even at the “Midnight Madness” premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”

Usually, I prefer to know if a film is entertaining, informative, whatever, not its political content (I make an exception for "documentaries" that are "factesque").

The Times' war on liberalism has now extended to its "Arts" page.