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...Keith Miller...
Until 2001 Keith was a steady country hitmaker, but probably only aficionados would have known how different he was from the wholesome likes of Kenny Chesney or Tim McGraw. That changed after Sept. 11 when Courtesy tumbled out of him in a 20-minute writing binge. "I wrote it so that I had something to play for our fighting men and women," he says. In a trial run at the U.S. Naval Academy, it brought the house down. "But once people said I should release it, I knew there was going to be trouble. I'm comfortable being extreme...
Courtesy was a massive crossover hit, yet as he predicted, "it wasn't for everybody." Peter Jennings reportedly had Keith axed from ABC's July 4, 2002, special (the network denied that it was Jenning's call), while Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines minced no words: "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant." All of this played right into Keith's exaggerated sense of grievance. He notes that Jennings is Canadian born and wonders whether Dan Rather would have barred him from CBS. At his concerts last year, he briefly...
...Keith, 42, knows that during the course of his various feuds, he has become a caricature. "In trying to defend yourself all the time, you end up looking pretty simple," he says, adding, "I'm not the banger of the war drum people think." Even though his new album title is a horrible pun on "shock and awe" and he included yet another anti-Taliban song, Keith describes himself politically as "an extremely conservative Democrat," and has expressed ambivalence about the motivations for the war in Iraq. Still, he doesn't mind his more-hawkish-than-Rummy image. "Most people...
...Keith is playing up the extreme elements of his personality, he may soon get to do it for an even wider audience. The networks are after him to do a sitcom. "I'm stalking him," says former NBC president Warren Littlefield, who is currently an independent television producer and one of several executives trying to develop a Toby Keith show. "He's a personality, he's a performer, and he's funny. Last time I checked, that's what makes for great television." Keith acknowledges he's tempted. "I'd want my show to be funny but emotional...