He played a detective in Training Day and a lieutenant commander in Crimson Tide, but Denzel Washington says he doesn't seek out military or law enforcement roles.

Washington believes there are just more of those kinds of films being made.

"War is the most extreme circumstances, it makes for heightened drama, maybe that has something to do with it," the actor says.

When he received the script for a remake of the 1962 drama The Manchurian Candidate, he didn't think of it as a military film. Rather, he thought it was about brainwashing.

Washington plays Capt. Ben Marco, who leads his men on a mission in Kuwait just before the Gulf War. U.S. troops are ambushed, and Marco is knocked unconscious.

Later, Marco is troubled by dreams of bloody surgical procedures. He suspects he and the others are victims of brainwashing, with mechanical implants creating false memories and controlling their actions.

Washington says he drew from his own life as a celebrity in playing a character who's paranoid.

"You have a better understanding of what it is to be watched or think you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity is that you don't know who's watching."

Filmmaker Michael Moore's Bush-basing documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has apparently upset more than Republicans.

The Bloomington Pantagraph of Illinois says it sent a letter to Moore and the film's distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., asking for an apology for using what it said was a doctored front page in his movie. The paper is seeking $1 in damages.

A scene shows newspaper headlines related to the contested 2000 presidential election. It includes a shot of the Pantagraph's Dec. 19, 2001, front page, with the prominent headline, "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election."

The newspaper says that headline never appeared that day. It said the headline appeared in a Dec. 5, 2001, edition but was not used on the front page.

Instead, it was found in smaller type above a letter to the editor, which the paper says reflects "only the opinions of the letter writer."