"I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was notuncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of thecountry were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain togrow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something wedidn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad." Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, thenation's unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time takingon an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forest Gump. Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-fourfar-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes fromhis own early life. One moment he's an eleven-year-old boy lost inthe Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's insidethe Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan.Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world by uttering the words"We live in fictitious times . . . with a fictitious president" inplace of the expected "I'd like to thank the Academy."
