The New York Times > Movies > Friends and Foes of 'Fahrenheit' Lobby Everyone: "Liberals were not alone in celebrating favorite films on Monday. In Sacramento the conservative group Move America Forward, whose Web site criticizes 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' organized an advance screening of the Disney documentary 'America's Heart and Soul,' due in theaters on July 2. That film, directed by Louis Schwartzberg, celebrates ordinary Americans and, Disney says, their extraordinary stories. 'Disney brought the movie, rented the theater and even paid for the popcorn,' Howard Kaloogian, the chairman of Move America Forward, said. 'It's a very patriotic film,' he continued. 'It's in the finest tradition of inspiring Disney movies.'
Mr. Kaloogian said that 'about 100' people attended.
Dennis Rice, the head of publicity for Walt Disney Studios, said that Disney had no connection to Move America Forward. 'We've screened this movie close to 100 times,' he said. 'Where were the media calls when we showed it to the Sierra Club or the AARP?'
Mary Lee Pennington of Sacramento said she heard about the Disney film on a conservative talk show on a Sacramento station and took her granddaughter, Paige Siri, to the screening. She said that the Disney film 'makes you feel how lucky we are to live in a country that has the opportunity for freedom.'"
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