SHUT UP AND SING - The Dixie Chicks documentary

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Circle Cinema presents SHUT UP AND SING, the new documentary movie from two time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple that chronicles the lives of the Dixie Chicks from 2003 to the start of their 2006 tour.

Travel with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. All the highs, lows and mayhem that occurred just before and for the three years following "the incident" are all here. The personal attacks, personal growth, a changing world, making music, having babies, receiving death threats, and even a fair amount of laughter.

SHUT UP AND SING will open at the Circle on Friday, January 12th.  For more information, visit www.circlecinema.com or call 592-FILM, that's 592-3456.

[mr.jaynes]

Wasn't that the name of a book by Laura "Petulant and Clueless" Ingraham?

[sgrizzle]

What I like is they make a movie about the phrase instead of just doing it.

Actors get away with having opinions but the effect of the general public is much more immediate and direct with musicians so they aren't allowed opinions.

[rwarn17588]

I saw the movie at the Circle. It was worth it for the music alone.

[RecycleMichael]

I own the DVD.

The Dixie Chicks make great music. I wish musical artists would not get involved in politics, but they probably wish that crazies like me didn't either.

I want to start a band of three guys called the Chicksie Dicks.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

What I like is they make a movie about the phrase instead of just doing it.

Actors get away with having opinions but the effect of the general public is much more immediate and direct with musicians so they aren't allowed opinions.

I figure as long as someone knows what they're talking about, and does their homework on a given topic, it doesn't matter the opinion or who it's from. What I can't stand are people who sound off on things without being fully educated on the facts-people who do not have opinions, but rather adopt a fashionable attitude about the topics or simply go along with a prevailing or counter-prevailing view.

[iplaw]

quote:I figure as long as someone knows what they're talking about

You could have just stopped there.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:I figure as long as someone knows what they're talking about

You could have just stopped there.

Yes, however, so many tend to echo what they have heard from someone on talk radio (conservative or liberal), rather than researching the matter for themselves from a variety of sources and coming up with their own opinions. Same goes for Hollyweird. Regardless where one stands on the issues in that crazy crazy town, I want to be sure they know exactly what they are talking about. Fortunately, there are indeed some in Hollweird who are highly intelligent and educate themselves on the issues, just as as there are in the news media.

[iplaw]

I've yet to find any.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I've yet to find any.

But-in all due respect-have you actually looked?

[iplaw]

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I've yet to find any.

But-in all due respect-have you actually looked?

Yes.  It's fairly easy to IMBD and google people.  Sometimes their actions speak for themselves.

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

quote:Originally posted by mr.jaynes

quote:Originally posted by iplaw

I've yet to find any.

But-in all due respect-have you actually looked?

Yes.  It's fairly easy to IMBD and google people.  Sometimes their actions speak for themselves.

You probably will not agree, but I find Hollywood's Janeane Garofalo highly intelligent. I may not see eye-to-eye with her
on many things, but I've got the impression that she does her homework on the topics on which she holds forth. I can still remmeber an interview she did on Fox News (I think it was on "Fox and Friends" in the morning). While Brian Kilmeade, by all appearances, was basing his arguments on emotion with not much in the way of rational thought and analysis (and it did seem that he didn't do his homework on the matters discussed), Garofalo stuck to her guns.

Speaking of Kilmeade, I can't believe they gave him a radio show, much less a morning show. He should stick to sports.

[rwarn17588]

Kilmeade is an impulsive lizard brain, but his sidekick, Judge Napolitano, keeps him in check pretty well because he, um, actually knows things and dutifully corrects him.

Those two create an strange dynamic, but it makes for good radio. I listen to that show quite often. It's one of the better ones.

As for the Dixie Chicks, I never thought of them as Hollywood types. They're native Texans, and spend most of their time either in the Lone Star State or Nashville -- both of which aren't exactly bastions of liberalism.

They spoke out, and paid a brief price. Now, as the movie displays, their stock is rising while Bush's keeps falling.

[mr.jaynes]

I have heard it only on the Internet, as the radio show does not seem to be broadcasted down here in the greater Biloxi area-and thank God for that. But from what I'd gotten from the official Fox Radio website and having listened to the show from there, I got that the Judge was a very erudite and knowledgable man of many subjects. Unfortunately, he is unlucky to be partnered with this third-rate ex-sportscaster with apparently less intellectual brilliance and refined social skills than a gnat, who has obvious delusions of Punditry.

As for Big Brian's colleagues on Fox and Friends, I'm a little fuzzy on what makes them such mavens on the political scene anyway. Steve Doocy's credentials in the Journalism field show me that some people are just not ready for big-time network success, while Gretchen Carlson? Beautiful to look at, but let's face it, you need more than a pretty face to report and analyze the news of the day. I think the best way to describe that show is simply a dose of propoganda to start the day out.

[iplaw]

quote:You probably will not agree, but I find Hollywood's Janeane Garofalo highly intelligent.

Yeah.  Not so much.  

She's a 9/11 Troofer for starters, so there goes about 95% of her credibility, and she surrendered the rest when she participated in political events with Jello Biafra...