Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life is an autobiography by American filmmaker Michael Moore. Here Comes Trouble received mixed reviews from critics. James Sullivan of The A.V. Club stated that "[Here Comes Trouble is] a disjointed series of scenes from a life spent making a scene", and rated the book as a "B-". However, Andy Lewis of The Hollywood Reporter stated that "though occasionally uneven, the best parts of Here Comes Trouble are fabulous." Alan MacKenzie of the Winnipeg Free Press gave the book a positive review. Dwight Garner of The New York Times said "Moore's coming of age as a working-class malcontent is [...] something to behold", while also calling the book "shaggy and overfilled". Sam Leith of The Guardian questioned the authenticity of the book, stating "the overwhelming impression is that [...] these tales have been adapted or embellished". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_Trouble:_Stories_from_My_Life Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author, social critic, and political activist.[3] He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time and winner of the Palme d'Or. His films Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Sicko (2007) also placed in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries, and the former won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documented his personal quest to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth. Moore's written and cinematic works criticize globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism. Moore was born in Flint, Michigan and raised in Davison, a suburb of Flint, by parents Veronica (née Wall), a secretary, and Frank Moore, an automotive assembly-line worker.[7][8][9] At that time, the city of Flint was home to many General Motors factories, where his parents and grandfather worked. His uncle LaVerne was one of the founders of the United Automobile Workers labor union and participated in the Flint Sit-Down Strike.[10] Moore was brought up Catholic,[11] and has Irish ancestry.[12] He attended parochial St. John's Elementary School for primary school and later attended St. Paul's Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan, for a year.[7][13][14][15][16] He then attended Davison High School, where he was active in both drama and debate,[17] graduating in 1972. As a member of the Boy Scouts of America, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. At the age of 18, he was elected to the Davison school board.[7][18] At the time he was the youngest person elected to office in the U.S.[19] Moore married producer Kathleen Glynn on October 19, 1991. He filed for divorce on June 17, 2013.[20] Moore is a Catholic,[2][21] but has said he disagrees with church teaching on subjects such as abortion[22] and same-sex marriage.[23] Following the Columbine High School massacre, Moore acquired a life membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA). Moore said that he initially intended to become the NRA's president and dismantle it, but he soon dismissed the plan as too difficult.[24][25] Observers such as Dave Kopel noted that there was no chance of that happening;[26] authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke wrote about how Moore failed to discover that the NRA selects a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors.[27] In 2005 Time magazine named Moore one of the world's 100 most influential people.[28] Also in 2005, Moore founded the annual Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan. In 2009, Moore co-founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival, also held in Traverse City, where Moore helped spearhead the renovation of the historic State Theater in downtown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore Image By Brave New Films [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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