EDITOR’S PICKS
August 2012
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
By Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Explores what led Lee Harvey Oswald to kill John F. Kennedy.
Release date: Oct. 16, 2012 (Holt, Henry & Co., $28)
The Hunger Games Starring: Jennifer Lawrence
In a dystopian future, Katniss Everdeen competes in a competition to the death.
Release date: Aug. 18, 2012 (Lionsgate, $30.98)
empty myself and let the words and music speak my heart,” Murray says. “It’s important for everyone to engage. Period. Whatever God put us here to do, now is the time to step to the plate and do it . . . conservatism is about to become the new hip!” In his song, “The Ballad of John
Hall,” he sings, “I will not turn the other cheek; I will not walk away. To live and die for liberty, she’ll rise again one day.”
CHRIS ROSS
LISA MEI NORTON BigDawgMusicMafi
a.com
A co-founder of the Big Dawg
Music Mafi a website and a retired U.S. Air Force senior master sergeant, Nor- ton has appeared at The Free Repub- lic National Convention, the National Tea Party Convention, and other con- servative gatherings. “Subtle only works if you are slowly
trying to indoctrinate folks — like the left has done rather successfully,” says Norton, whose mellow songs bridge the country and folk music genres. Example: Her song “Enemy Num-
ber One” begins: “They’re calling us right-wing extremists, and they mock us on TV cause we’re united to defend our Constitution and fi ght against tyranny. We are proud, God-fearing Americans who cling to our faith and our guns, so now they have the Feds all watching us like we’re enemy number one.”
NATE SMOOVE
NateSmoove.com
In his song “Black Republican,” Smoove raps how he “was born a Democrat” but took a right turn after starting a business in 1989 then listening “to a cat named Rush Limbaugh.” “The left are masters of using music
CHRIS ROSS
ChrisRossMusic.com
Ross is fairly new to NATE SMOOVE
music, cutting his fi rst CD in 2003, but his sound is reminiscent of Harry Chapin and other singers-songwriters of
to sway people to their way of thinking . . . we have to use the same tools,” says Smoove. “My lyrics are laser-beamed on the issues. No one can hear me when I’m subtle!” His song “Thug Politics” begins
with: “Wake up America. Open your eyes. This is one of them songs that the libs in the drive-by media doesn’t want you to hear. They don’t want you hip to their game, because if you really understood what their agenda was, you would immediately recognize that they are all insane.”
the 1970s. He started on his fi rst con- servative song, “Freedom,” in 2007. Since then, Glenn Beck and other talk- radio hosts have played it on the air. Before the end of the year, he’ll
have two new albums: I Believe and The Story of Freedom. “The time to worry about being politically correct is over,” Ross says. “I want to reach all people in singing about the same radical ideas of indi- vidual liberty and freedom that our forefathers founded this country on.” In his song, “Restoring Honor,” he
says: “My dear America, you just fi nd your spirit. Restore your soul, I know you can hear it.”
GREEN LANTERN COMES OUT DC Comics has re-launched the
Green Lantern, first introduced in 1940. But now, instead of a married father of two, he is a young man with a boyfriend. “He’s still the pinnacle of bravery and idealism; he’s also gay,” writer James Robinson told the New York Post. The move to make comic books more “inclusive” follows gay weddings in Archie Comics and in a Marvel X-Men book.
JANET JACKSON’S ‘TRUTH’
Janet Jackson, the
sister of deceased pop star Michael Jackson, will executive produce and appear in Truth, a documentary about transgender people in various parts of the world. The movie, from Brainchild Films, will be directed by Robert Jason, who already made a TV documentary about transgender New Yorkers.
MEL GIBSON’S FATHER SEEKS DIVORCE Mel Gibson’s 93-year-old father,
Hutton, has filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, Teddy Joye, claiming the 78-year-old woman is physically abusing him. Reportedly, Hutton is asking Joye for spousal support. According to TMZ, Joye is upset that the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ has been prolonging his dad’s life through medication.
THE NEW NORMAL? NBC is looking to cash in on the
success of ABC’s Modern Family, a sitcom focusing on dysfunctional families, with The New Normal. The show features a gay couple’s travails as they start a family via surrogate. The show is slated for this fall.
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