Network lovefest surrounds Gore’s global warming movie and book, as he gets reporters to dance to his tune.

Media ♥ Al Gore
By Dan Gainor and Amy Menefee

Business & Media Institute
May 24, 2006

John Lennon once wrote that “All you need is love.” If that’s the case, former presidential candidate Al Gore is a happy man. He is in the middle of a media lovefest celebrating his work, his career – even his efforts as actor, author, dancer and comedian.

The former vice president has both a movie and a book about global warming debuting today under the title “An Inconvenient Truth.” He has gone from media darling to “the summer’s most unlikely movie star,” as NBC’s Katie Couric called him in a May 24 interview. Gore, who Couric also called “funny, vulnerable, disarming, self effacing,” isn’t just a movie star, he’s a media star. He has appeared or been mentioned on 23 news and news-related shows in just the last month (April 23-May 23) on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. Read on.

Yeh, right. He's Mr. Eccentric Electric.