p2pnet news | Movies:- Michael Moore reckons Fidel Castro, who’s just announced his retirement, would be a "ratings grabber" at Sunday night’s Academy Awards show.

Moore’s Oscar-nominated Sicko, which shreds America’s health-care industry, winds up with a trip to Cuba where he looks for, and gets, help for firemen and others who became ill after responding to the 9/11 disaster.

They’re, "greeted with open arms at a Havana hospital and given what appears to be top-notch care that they could not get in the United States," says Associated Press.

"I got some great news today because I was trying to figure out how I was going to get Castro into the Oscars and for me he resigns today so he can come to L.A. and go as my guest and perhaps give the acceptance speech," Moore told AP Television on Tuesday night.

"As long as he keeps it under five hours. I’m telling you, that’s got to be a ratings grabber. Can you imagine him? Showing up?

"If I could talk to (Oscar producer) Gil Cates and maybe get Castro in a dance number at the beginning of the show? Great."

[The pic is from Michael Moore's site.]

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Also See:
announced his retirement – Fidel Castro quits as president, February 19, 2008
Associated Press – Michael Moore: Bring Fidel to the Oscars, February 20, 2008

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