Reuters: Gore may cap hot year with 'Inconvenient' Oscar

[PhilipShore]

February 23, 2007

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Al Gore narrowly missed becoming president of the United States, but Hollywood may anoint him “King of the Greens” Sunday with an Oscar for ”An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary about his slideshow on global warming.

The film is favored to win best documentary feature after Gore's message of impending climate crisis resounded among Hollywood celebrities and at the box office.

Gore chafes at all the Oscar hype and the praise lavished upon him, reminding all that the Academy Award would go to Guggenheim and the producers, not to him.

“I don't want to jinx that whole deal by talking about it. I just hope the best for them,” the former vice president and presidential candidate in 2000 said last week.

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