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...second thing is the scene in “The Big Lebowski” when the Dude is taken to the garden party of porn king Jackie Treehorn. In this case, we are the Dude, the Clipse are those two Treehorn enforcers who pissed on our rug and boss us around, Slim Thug is the totally out-of-place naked woman on the trampoline, and “Skateboard P” is Treehorn himself. Like Treehorn’s party, the video has that unmistakable “weird cult” subtext going on—I highly...
...result is just hypocritical enough to turn the stomachs of fans of the Boss. The album, which takes its name from a hotel-casino in Vegas, offers about as much authentic Americana as neighboring Paris Las Vegas Hotel offers of “la vie Parisienne.” Catchy as the title track may be, Flowers may need a reminder that it takes more than singing “my brother he was born on the fourth of July” to live up to the Boss’s legacy...
...This Land” on tour, prefacing his performances with the song’s full backstory, making it clear that his own anthem “Born in the U.S.A.” falls in the same camp as Guthrie’s protest song. The Boss wasn’t wrapping himself in the flag in this song, but calling out a nation for their callous treatment of Vietnam vets. Like Guthrie’s work, the song was misunderstood and appropriated by politicians, this time within a matter of months...
...spoke about “America’s future,” a future that “rests in the message of hop in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.” The Gipper shouting out to the Boss...
...follow this: the secretary of defense is killed in a mysterious anthrax attack. Former maverick senator and Vietnam POW Michael Santini is called back to Washington to take his place and play the hero (unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the book a glowing endorsement). A Russian Mafia boss kills his president and sets his sights on the throne. He colludes with a brainy German gangster and a rogue Chinese general who’s planning a coup and may have tortured Santini in Vietnam. And did I mention the inhumanly beautiful Israeli assassin with whom Santini is romantically...