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...Easy Money. The show will have a pre-Broadway run in Chicago, then begin previews in New York in September. New Jersey natives need not feel left out: Drive All Night, a musical that grafts a story line about a working-class hero onto the songs of Bruce Springsteen, is also in the works...
...DIED. TED DEMME, 37, director of last year's Blow, starring Johnny Depp; in Los Angeles. Demme, who collaborated with his uncle, Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, to make the 1994 video for Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia, won an Emmy in 1999 for co-producing A Lesson Before Dying. Demme collapsed after playing in a celebrity basketball game. DIED. CYRUS VANCE, 84, veteran public servant and former Secretary of State for Jimmy Carter; in New York City. Vance also worked in the Johnson Administration, and was credited for warding off a war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus...
...Winners BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Boss gives poor New Jerseyans $1 million. But no matter how much he does, he can't change the fact that they're still stuck in Jersey EUAN BLAIR PM's son gets homework help from Defense Ministry. If our dad was PM, we'd get way better perks?like "borrowing" MI6's hover Porsche MARK SHUTTLEWORTH South African mogul set to be second space tourist. He'll boldly go where no man with a net worth of less than $1 billion has gone before Losers DEAN KAMEN Inventor's top-secret scooter "Ginger" elicits yawns...
...hungry, when it comes to songwriting. If Sting (who has an apartment in New York) could get a song out of the Cold War ("Russians"), surely today?s other New York-area performers will find meaning and inspiration in the city?s recent history. Already, New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen has written a song that deals with the recent attacks that Latin pop crooner Marc Anthony, a native New Yorker, may record for his new album. In 1994, on his song "NY State of Mind," the rapper Nas rapped "nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind...
...Doors mournful song ?The End? and not think about the explosive, nightmarish opening images of Francis Ford Coppola's ?Apocalypse Now?. That war, and its aftermath, helped spawn a number of songs, from Marvin Gaye?s ?What?s Going On,? a plea for peace and understanding, to Bruce Springsteen?s ?Born in the U.S.A.,? which explored the pain and confusion of a returning war veteran: ?Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man.? ?Born in the U.S.A.? was famously misinterpreted...