From the AP story on the NYT:

''Manufacturing Dissent,'' a film that accuses Moore of dishonesty in the making of his politically charged documentaries, alleges that he interviewed then-General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger Smith, the elusive subject of Moore's 1989 debut ''Roger & Me,'' but left the footage on the cutting room floor.

''Anybody who says that is a (expletive) liar,'' Moore told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday after a showing of ''Sicko,'' his take on U.S. medicine, in the northern Michigan village of Bellaire.

Moore, who said he hadn't seen ''Manufacturing Dissent,'' acknowledged having had ''a good five minutes of back-and forth'' with Smith about a company tax abatement at a 1987 shareholders' meeting, as reported by Premiere magazine in 1990. But that was before he began working on ''Roger & Me'' and had nothing to do with the film, Moore said.

A clip of the meeting appears in ''Manufacturing Dissent,'' released in March. Filmmakers Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk also interviewed an activist who said he saw Moore interview Smith in 1988 in New York.

Caine and Melnyk say that undercuts the central theme of ''Roger & Me'' -- Moore's fruitless effort to interview Smith about the effects of GM plant closings in Flint, Moore's hometown. Moore, however, said the film wasn't primarily about interviewing Smith, but getting him to observe the economic devastation in Flint.

''If I'd gotten an interview with him, why wouldn't I put it in the film?'' Moore said. ''Any exchange with Roger Smith would have been valuable.'' And GM surely would have publicized any interview in response to the movie, he said.