Michael Moore Recalls the Time He Was Outsmarted by Trump

Original event: circa 1998. Realization: circa 2016.

The digital presentation for this week’s Variety Inauguration Issue is star-spangled and bathed in a Democratic Hollywood twilight’s last gleaming.

At the top of the page, the cover photo of some of the participants, holding an American flag; followed by a scroll-down headline that reads “Now What? On the Eve of Trump’s Inauguration, Hollywood and the Media Raise Their Voices;” and 18 crisply laid out celebrity Q&A links (the blue-red treatment of each name is a nice touch).

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When senior film and media editor Brent Lang talked to Michael Moore, the Democratic Party’s 2016 campaign failings were part of the conversation.

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