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...days 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...
...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...
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...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...
...Party control over religion might be relaxing. But given the party's history of infiltrating seemingly safe social networks, it is likely that those house churches are no more beyond government control than are Internet search engines or chat rooms. In a country where politically incorrect websites are routinely shut down, and the government uses text messages as warnings against public demonstrations and has a history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam...