Al Gore's An Inconventient Truth has made it onto the front cover of Entertainment Weekly, now that his documentary has surpassed the $15 million mark in the US.

Laurie David, wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm creator, Larry David, saw an abridged version of Al Gore's slide presentation on Global Warming back in May 2004. At that time, she was convinced it should be a movie. She says:

Right away I knew this should be a movie - I just knew it in my gut. So I asked Gore to come to Los Angeles and do the show for some of my friends. I booked a hall at the Beverly Hilton, hired caterers, and called everyone I knew.'

The timing was right, and there was enough talk about global warming that many people contributed services for free. The final production cost just over $1 million to make.

If you haven't seen the documentary, the vast majority of it is Al Gore giving his slide presentation with plenty of pictures and statistics. Interspliced between the scientific points are blurbs about Al Gore's life, motivations, and failed political campaign. The presentation is extremely convincing - even for those not following global warming in the scientific community, it's difficult not to walk away from the film with food-for-thought if not enthusiasm to curb global warming.

Even my dad, who is strongly anti-Gore, is coming around. After I saw the movie, I convinced him to buy the book (the movie still isn't playing there) and read it. Today, he mentioned that it was actually pretty good - aside from the random blurbs about Al Gore's life, which seem strangely placed for a scientific book. He also took the time to look up some of the scientists mentioned and found them to be credible and highly respected.

It seems that Hollywood may just be a good match for Gore now that he claims he's out of politics.

"Hollywood isn't very different from Washington, D.C., at least on the surface," Gore says. "Human nature is the same in every line of work and in every geographic location. But Hollywood and Washington, they do seem to have a lot of outsized personalities. Maybe that's why I'm attracted to both."