Bush named movie villain of the year

US President George Bush has been named Movie Villain of the Year for his part in Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, report agencies.

Other contenders to the title in a poll conducted by Britain's Total Film magazine included the metal tentacled Doc Oc, played by Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2; Leatherface, the cannibal in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gollum from Lord of the Rings and Elle Driver, the assassin in Kill Bill.

According to Total Film, almost 10,000 people took part in the poll for a series of 19 Readers' Awards, the results of which can be seen in the November 4

issue of the magazine.

"It is possible that people have been a little bit tongue in cheek here, but they are also saying that Bush was very scary in Fahrenheit 9/11," said the magazine's editor Matt Mueller.

"He was absolutely terrifying in that film. He looked like a man who had lost control. The famous scene where he sits there in a school, absolutely paralysed, after being told about the twin towers, is just one example.

"Fahrenheit 9/11 was a huge box office hit. Lots of people saw it and movie-goers are saying that there's no one like George Bush to strike fear into people's hearts," he said.