Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's

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Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth, the global-warming documentary that knocked me and everyone else for a loop when it played Sundance '06, is being released by Paramount Classics on 5.26 -- only seven and a half weeks from now -- and there's still no website for the film. There's nothing at the Paramount Classics site, and there are no links to a Truth site on the IMDB or Coming Soon. This is perhaps the most important documentary to ever receive commercial distribution -- it's essential that mainstream Americans (especially those who voted for Bush and who drive big fat SUV's) see and think about the message it contains -- and the lack of a website at this stage of the game seems kinda derelict...no? There's no such thing as getting the information out too early with a subject like this. Here, at least, is the main Gore-sponsored site that runs it all down, and here's the column page containing my review out of Sundance. (An excerpt: "I'm starting to think that Gore's entire political career, which culiminated with his run for the White House in 2000, has been about getting people to see and fully consider this absorbing slide-show lecture movie about global warming...An Inconvenient Truth is Gore's crowning achievement...the summation of his life...the reason he was put on this earth to become a politican and a stirrer-upper and influencer of public opinion.") Even the Amazon page for the Rodale book version, also called "An Inconvenient Truth" and due in book stores on 5.16, doesn't even have jacket art...amazing. Whoever is in charge of the online promotion of this film belongs in the same effectiveness category at former FEMA chief Michael Brown. He/she obviously needs to be canned, and someone more on the ball needs to be brought in pronto.