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...been less than a decade since Columbus's first feature film--Reckless, which he wrote in college. Inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the movie "celebrated escape," Columbus says. It was a dismal failure: the film company "took the script away from me and added 20 minutes of sex. The film was originally rated X. It was just a mess...
...Bruce Springsteen music was blaring over the public address system and a man kept interrupting the tunes to make announcements in English, French, and Spanish...
What else can a year of service do for you? It can make you less ignorant. These days, Ivy Leaguers think that being a Springsteen fan means you are "in touch" with America. Well, there's a lot more to being "in touch" than playing records, and only the few of us that led unusual childhoods can say they truly know America. Growing up in suburbia, I only know about upper-middle class, mostly white Americans. When urban riots or farm failures are mentioned to me, my first and only image comes from the television set. A lot of this...
They looked like kids on a high school field trip, clad in Levi's and Springsteen sweatshirts, lining up by the hundreds at the entrance to a tepee. These students, though, were Indians, and the healing ritual to which they were invited was solemnly dedicated to saving their lives...
...bleach-brained "Freeway of Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...