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PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:26 pm 
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I watched most of a Johnny Cash doc, Johnny Cash's America last night on one of the cable networks. It was a pretty decent documentary, going through his troubled times including addiction and divorce, his collaberations with Dylan, and his religious side, among other things.

It included insight from many different people, including at least three of his kids, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, and childhood friends. However, one thing I could not get past is that there is a decent amount of camera time devoted to Al Gore (just as much as Roseanne Cash, I'd say). All the people in the doc had spent substantial time with Johnny or was in the country music industry for years, or both . . . and then there's Al Gore. He seemed to make the same statement over and over in different ways (basically that Johnny saw the downtrodden as people, just like everyone else, and it was reflected in his actions and music).

Anyone have any idea why Gore would be sought out to take part in a Johnny Cash documentary?



Note: This has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. I would have had the same reaction if someone like Tom Brady has been in the doc. I just don't see the connection, or need.

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 Post subject: Re: Johnny Cash documentary
PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 5:23 pm 
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He was probably in the studio for something else. Documentaries are, unfortunately, like anything else: celebrity sells.

Yeah, I see no connection. He's from Tennesee, I guess.


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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 8:56 am 
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The worst is Snoop - "You ain't gotta kill nobody to be a gangster. You never seen Don Corleone kill nobody, and he was The Godfather."

Right Snoop, except that in Godfather 2, he shoots Don Fanucci. Sort of a watershed in terms of the development of the character.

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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:02 am 
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Yeah, I see no connection. He's from Tennesee, I guess.


Al Gore represented the man's state in Congress for 18 years (House and Senate), digs on music and musicians and they probably championed some of the same causes (locally if not nationally). No connection at all. :?

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