newspapers and TV networks to read and regurgitate U.K. Radio-station boycotts fueled CD burnings. The chorus of boos swelled into a torrent of threats. Besides, they told Kopple and Peck, "We're not worth a documentary."įifteen little words changed all that. They had their own crew with them to shoot footage for the Chicks' Web site on which they'd post the occasional performance video or backstage moment. Initially, the band refused the filmmakers' advances. and 1991's American Dream, especially was interested in making a movie about the former sweethearts of the rodeo-Maines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire-before Maines' off-hand comment disrupted their careers and, in at least one instance, threatened their lives. ![]() ![]() Kopple, an Oscar-winning maker of important and illuminating documentaries such as 1976's Harlan County, U.S.A. ![]() Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck were not in London in March 2003, when Dixie Chick Natalie Maines told a Shepherd's Bush Empire audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The filmmakers wanted to be there-they had begged to be there, in fact, having approached the Dixie Chicks about doing a documentary long before the Top of the World tour.
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