Leftist film director Michael Moore, who made a fortune on portraying corporate America as heartless, capitalism as thievery, and Castrocare as the cat's meow, has been credibly accused in a lawsuit of stiffing the little guy.  Yes, that's the same Michael Moore who makes movies loudly proclaiming he champions common people – the single mother, the assembly line worker, the common stiff in Ohio.  He is, after all, from Flint, Michigan, where he once edited an alternative media publication, and supposedly knows all the Detroit rivetheads. Film festivals are not immune to disputes and lawsuits – the Sundance Film Festival has had a few, but its disputes are generally over content and copyright issues, not about paying bills.  Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, by contrast, is all about a film fest that's falling apart, apparently from being unable to attract sufficient fat cat support – or a...(Read Full Post)