Stephen Bannon and Michael Moore -- separated at birth?
Michigan native and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is one of the few liberals who predicted the likelihood of Donald Trump winning the presidency during the 2016 campaign.
Now he gets credit -- if that's the right word -- for inspiring White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon's intentionally rumpled style lack of style.
Itay Hod writes in The Wrap, an entertainment industry site in Los Angeles:
Steve Bannon’s ex-screenwriting partner says we have Michael Moore to thank for the right-winger’s just-rolled-out-of-bed look.
Julia Jones, who worked with Bannon for nearly two decades, told TheWrap that Bannon – who has produced 18 films and directed nine – began sporting the disheveled look at the end of 2003 when he started his own film company, American Vantage Media. That’s a year after Moore made his Oscar-wnning documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” and just before the buzzy “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
The shift was noticeable, Jones said and Bannon was a vocal fan of Moore. “He used to be a spiffy dresser. Chinos, loafers without socks, it was very classic preppy,” she said. It was only after she saw pictures of him a few years after they stopped working together that she noticed a striking resemblance to Moore. “I thought, ‘What’s going on?'” Jones said. “He looked exactly like Michael Moore – down to the body type.”
