Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Goodbye. The Big Question these days among movie-people is who Altman is going to cast in Ragtime. Jagger, springsteen and Dylan all want to play the anarchist younger brother and The Village Voice ran a contest in the midst of last summer's doldrums asking readers to suggest casting. In the meantime, Altman's movies are showing everywhere. The Long Goodbye is his funniest and most coherent. Elliot Gould simply deteriorated after his performance here as Philip Marlowe--by California Split he was in love with himself, utterly enchanted by his own idiosyncracies. Such narcissism shall not pass...
...MUSIC HALL last Wednesday Bruce Springsteen also proved he knows how to put on a show--playing his music and acting it out well. Springsteen's performances are an extension of his songs, and as he sings he is totally immersed in that world. On stage he is a teenage hood, but a likable one, a would-be hard guy who doesn't take himself all that seriously. Much of his act is calculated to produce this image. In his neo-greaser outfit--baggy pants, a workshirt with cut-off sleeves, a leather jacket, and a floppy, oversized woolen...
During the show Springsteen was in almost perpetual motion. He danced a lot, doing a kind of loose-legged boogy (he called it the "Jersey Hustle") that was half funky and half funny, a far cry from the macho movements of Elvis Presley or the pretentious saunterings of Mick Jagger. When he wasn't dancing, he ran or shuffled around the stage, twitched spastically (like a less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black...
...boys on his block used to watch walk down the street every day. They watched her pass by every day for two years, all wanting to ask her name, or ask her out, but none of them ever got up the nerve. Then she moved away. For an encore, Springsteen did a medley of old rock and roll tunes, including "Devil with the blue dress on", and, in keeping with the season, a cutesy Fifties rock version of "Santa Claus is coming to town." Also as an encore, Springsteen played a romantic, lyrical version of "For You," from his first...
...MONTHS AGO, the hype machine started to go to work on Bruce Springsteen, putting his pictures on the covers of Time and Newsweek, marketing "Born to Run" novelties and spinning his records on the turntables of AM stations everywhere. From all observations, the damage has been negligible: he played the Music Hall almost exactly a year ago, and neither his image nor music have changed appreciably since then. How long he can last is another story. While Springsteen is threatened with destruction by publicity, there is also another problem: the question of how long he can keep singing about...