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...before the Iraq invasion, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks stepped up to the mic on stage at the Shepherd?s Bush Empire Theatre in London and said, "We?re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." In the vivacious new documentary Shut Up & Sing: Dixie Chicks, Maines is seen watching TV later in 2003 as George Bush opines on the Dixie Chicks boycott that sprang up in opposition to her comment. When he tells Tom Brokaw, "They shouldn?t have their feelings hurt just because some people don?t buy their records when they...
...Standing up for what you believe in, and being prepared to pay the price, is the theme of two fine new non-fiction films. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck?s Shut Up & Sing had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, with the Chicks in attendance. Patricia Foulkrod?s The Ground Truth, which opened Friday in New York and eight other cities, and is available on DVD Sept. 26, details the harrowing experiences of soldiers in Iraq and after they returned home...
...game into young brains. Teach them to treat the enemy as you would a sniper in Grand Theft Auto. Instill the reflex to fire at a moving target. Foster team spirit with marching songs. Instead of the golden oldie "I don?t know but I been told...," have them sing along with...
...very least a dangerous career move. (As their media adviser says of Bush in early April 2003, "He?s got a very high approval rating. The war couldn?t be going better.") The comment surely sounded like treason to many of her country music fans. In Shut Up & Sing we see a protester outside one of their concerts shouting, "Be proud of your country. Be ashamed of the Dixie Chicks." Another said of Natalie: "They should send her over to Iraq, strap her to a bomb and drop her over Baghdad." One patriot summed up the anti-Chicks sentiment: "Freedom...
...Shut Up & Sing ricochets from the 2003 fracas to the 2005 recording of their new CD and up to this summer. It reveals the pressure on the group not only to keep their families together during the controversy but to come up with an album that will appeal to fans beyond their depleted core of country fans. The album did go to Number 1, the Chicks did make the cover of TIME , and instead of making the rounds of the Southern stations that wouldn?t play their stuff, they appeared on satellite radio with a clearly smitten Howard Stern...