Harvey Weinstein, Shut Up & Sing, PFAW Foundation

People For the American Way Foundation
www.pfaw.org

Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein Co chairman, and co-founder of Miramax Films, introduces the documentary, Shut Up & Sing at the New York City premiere on Tuesday, October 24th. "To hang out with the Dixie Chicks is to remind us about integrity in this country and also something sorely lacking—courage," Weinstein said.


On Tuesday October 24th, the all-female Texas trio of Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson—otherwise known as the Dixie Chicks—flew into New York for the star-studded premiere of Shut Up & Sing, which was co-sponsored by People For the American Way Foundation and Young People For!

The documentary, directed by Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple, chronicles the aftermath of Maines' comments during a performance on March 10, 2003 in London: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."

Those 15 words, on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, sparked an uproar. (It should be noted that two months earlier, President Bush spoke 16 words in this State of the Union that would spark a future controversy of an entirely different magnitude: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.")

Interviewed on the red carpet, the Dixie Chicks stood strongly behind Maines' remarks from three years ago and her First Amendment rights. "I was right to have free speech and to use free speech," Maines told "Access Hollywood."

Shut Up & Sing opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 27 and nationwide.

The film travels with the Dixie Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now famous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the country singers' lives and careers through the writing and recording of their first album since "the incident" and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians.



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[lafontaine13]

Weinstein is an arrogant pig.

[ggalen]

Not in his lifetime. More importantly (and I'm posting here so you will think I'm a genius), one or more that are now bailing from his company will write a book or spill all on how Harvey bragged about what he was doing regarding grammys for the Dixie Chicks, and how he bought movies that could threaten his sensationalist fims in the USA and shelved them to get rid of comptetition.

[Jellybaby50]

Is he ever going to have a film that wins Oscars again?

[Jellybaby50]

Shame his days are over. He made some great movies in his time...

[aoibhgreine]

-Gerald Levin, CEO and Director of AOL Time Warner

-Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company

-Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Chairman of Seagram Company Ltd

-Edgar Bronfman, Jr, President and CEO of Seagram Company Ltd and head of Universal Studios

-Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom, Inc

-Dennis Dammerman, Vice Chairman of General Electric --Peter Chernin, President and Co-COO of News Corporation Limited

[aoibhgreine]

rense[dot]com/general44/sevenj­ewishamericans[dot]htm

"Today, seven Jewish Americans run the vast majority of US television networks, the printed press, the Hollywood movie industry, the book publishing industry, and the recording industry. Most of these industries are bundled into huge media conglomerates run by the following seven individuals:

[aoibhgreine]

youtube[dot]com/watch?v=7--FG8­o57WI Hollywood Origins

youtube[dot]com/watch?v=_lVAxK­I7H0Y 'Hollywoodism': Zionists redefined the values of the USA and called it 'Americanism'.

[aoibhgreine]

Mr. Weinstein is one of the most powerful zionists in zionist controlled Hollywood. The Zionists AS A WHOLE pushed the war in Iraq, not some conglomeration of local radiostations as the Dixiechicks film claims.

Bush, the republicans and the democrats are all under Zionist control. The proof: video[dot]google[dot]com/video­play?docid=7999343597466477342 (banned number one 'movers&shakers')

[JoanneChristie]

No HE IS IN ONE OF THOSE SECRET SOCIETYS AND THAT IS HOW HE GOT ALL HIS MONEY! THIS SHIT THAT THEY CALL DEMOCRACY AND FREE PRESS IS A LIE! ITS A THEY! AND HE IS A BIG THEY! ALL THE MEDIA OUTLETS ARE THEY! JEWS!

[roxyboo4321]

if it's okay for you to speak your mind, why can't anyone else? duh!