4 h. ago Bruce Springsteen helps director's family after LA wildfire destroys home

Bruce Springsteen's new biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, charts the career of the 76-year-old music legend, who has been dubbed 'The Boss'

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11 h. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – brooding, earnest portrait of the Boss’ crisis years

Jeremy Allen White gives a committed performance in this awkward biopic, stranded between rock mythology and pop-psych melodramaThis Boss-olatrous film only partly escapes music-movie cliches. This happens when Bruce Springsteen finally leaves his New Jersey heartland, and sees a shrink in shallow LA where he has bought a house. Otherwise, it’s all chunks of expositional dialogue (“I’m just trying to find something real in the noise!” “It’s like he’s channelling something deeply personal!”), black-and-white flashbacks to his tough upbringing, scenes in the recording studio with producers and execs looking on wonderstruck behind the glass while the magic happens. And there’s some very strange stuff about Bruce’s romantic life.Jeremy Allen White does an intelligent, committed job as Springsteen; Jeremy Strong gives of his considerable best with the thanklessly dull role of Bruce’s manager and friend Jon Landau, and Stephen Graham is Springsteen’s abusive but troubled dad Douglas with ...

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11 h. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – brooding, earnest portrait of the Boss’s crisis years

Jeremy Allen White gives a committed performance in this awkward biopic, stranded between rock mythology and pop-psych melodramaThis Boss-olatrous film only partly escapes music-movie cliches. This happens when Bruce Springsteen finally leaves his New Jersey heartland, and sees a shrink in shallow LA where he has bought a house. Otherwise, it’s all chunks of expositional dialogue (“I’m just trying to find something real in the noise!” “It’s like he’s channelling something deeply personal!”), black-and-white flashbacks to his tough upbringing, scenes in the recording studio with producers and execs looking on wonderstruck behind the glass while the magic happens. And there’s some very strange stuff about Bruce’s romantic life.Jeremy Allen White does an intelligent, committed job as Springsteen; Jeremy Strong gives of his considerable best with the thanklessly dull role of Bruce’s manager and friend Jon Landau, and Stephen Graham is Springsteen’s abusive but troubled dad Douglas with ...

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38 h. ago Bruce Springsteen reveals how he really feels about Stephen Graham’s portrayal of his father in new biopic

Bruce Springsteen has revealed how he felt about Stephen Graham playing the role of his dad in the new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, which explores the making of Springsteen's beloved 1982 "Nebraska" album.

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3 d. ago Youth: Magnum print sale including Brigitte Bardot and James Dean – in pictures

Magnum partners with Aperture for its square print sale titled Youth. Capturing the electric charge of growing up, from Dennis Stock’s portrait of James Dean, and Danny Clinch’s shot of Bruce Springsteen, to Philippe Halsman’s image of Brigitte Bardot, Martin Parr’s Friday nighters, Robert Capa’s teenagers on a film set, and Raymond Depardon’s bubble-gum blowersProceeds from the sale, in part, directly benefit the artists and support Aperture’s non-profit publishing and educational programmingOver 100 signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6x6 prints available online from $110/£110/€120 until Sunday 26 October, 11.59 pm EDT Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Jeremy Allen White says playing Bruce Springsteen in biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere was 'incredibly difficult' and made him 'unwell' as he admits: 'I feel like I'm pain for hire'

The film chronicles the life of the legendary rock star, 76, as he struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past while recording his album ' Nebraska ' in the early 1980s.

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6 d. ago Jennifer Lawrence says she was asked to do naked dance in Die My Love

The Oscar-winner, who stars with Robert Pattinson, was a guest on The Graham Norton Show.

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8 d. ago Jeremy Allen White on the ‘very helpful’ advice Bruce Springsteen gave him

The Shameless actor plays the music star in biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

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8 d. ago Bruce Springsteen larks about with leading men Jeremy Allen White and Stephen Graham at the premiere of his biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere during BFI London Film Festival

The trio appeared in high spirits as they led the stars at the event which took place during the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.

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8 d. ago Jeremy Allen White: The pressure of playing Bruce Springsteen was paralysing

Jeremy Allen White said he initially felt the pressure of playing Bruce Springsteen was "daunting" and even "paralysing" at times.

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8 d. ago Why Bruce Springsteen finally said yes to letting Hollywood tell his story

Bruce Springsteen has revealed why he permitted the story of how he recorded Nebraska to be played out on the silver screen in a new film starring Jeremy Allen White as the legendary musician in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.

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1 week ago Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition review – fabled album falls short of expectations

(Sony Music)Rumours of the existence of E Street versions of Springsteen’s masterpiece have swirled for decades, but the reality doesn’t live up to the hypeFor the last 40-plus years, the holy grail for diehard Bruce Springsteen fans was something referred to as Electric Nebraska. The rumour circulated that there were full E Street Band versions of the songs from Springsteen’s 1982 solo acoustic release that were recorded, but remained unreleased and never leaked.Nebraska’s origin story had already made the album mythical: demos recorded in Springsteen’s bedroom got turned into a album. After spending literal years in the studio for his previous records, this time he walked in with finished songs. The cassette tape that he had carried around in his pocket got turned into a classic, five-star record of desolate modern folk songs about the dark side of the American dream. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Huge Hollywood star unrecognisable as he transforms into Bruce Springsteen

A Hollywood leading man spent months learning The Boss's distinctive vocals in a new biopic

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2 w. ago Bruce Springsteen explains why the one time he sang karaoke was ‘disappointing’

The singer said he tried karaoke once at a bar in London

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2 w. ago Donald Trump's FBI director launches unhinged and sweary rant at TV news network

Kash Patel, the former podcaster who now runs the FBI for Trump, took issue with a story on MSNBC about an agent being fired for refusing to help arrange a "perp walk" of former director James Comey

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2 w. ago Bruce Springsteen's embarrassing karaoke set as punters didn't realise it was him

Bruce Springsteen - AKA The Boss - told Jimmy Kimmel how he had been put off karaoke for life after an embarrassing incident at a London bar for a cringeing crowd

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2 w. ago Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon

Springsteen’s 1982 lo-fi album Nebraska was recorded when the singer was battling with depression – but about to become a superstar. Now that pivotal period has been brought to the screen – with The Boss’s approvalTwo years ago, film director Scott Cooper and writer Warren Zanes were summoned to Bruce Springsteen’s house in New Jersey. In a sense, the meeting was a surprise: as Cooper notes, Springsteen was known for “saying no to every overture about making a film of his life since 1986”. But something about the screenplay Cooper had written had clearly piqued his interest. It was based on Zanes’ book Deliver Me from Nowhere, not a traditional career-spanning biography, but a forensically researched history of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, which Zanes calls “the greatest left-turn performed by someone who is operating at the top of the charts in musical history”.Released between Springsteen’s first US No 1 album, 1980’s The River, and the world-conquering Born in the USA in 19...

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3 w. ago Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review – solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche

New York film festival: Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music historyThe genre of the musical biopic is one that, as Timothée Chalamet acknowledged while accepting a Sag award for playing Bob Dylan earlier this year, “could be perhaps tired”. The beats of the genre – the initial obstacles, the double-edged sword of success, the actors’ pursuit of industry awards for spirited impersonation – are by now so familiar that you’re almost expected to enter with more than a bit of skepticism, even when the artist at hand is one as widely beloved as Bruce Springsteen.Like A Complete Unknown, in which Chalamet portrayed Dylan from 1961 until his pivot to electric in 1965, Deliver Me from Nowhere, Springsteen’s authorized biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, tries to thread a difficult needle between offering the standard treats and subverting expectations, between narrativizing genius and resisting hagi...

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3 w. ago Bruce Springsteen says Trump should be 'consigned to the trash heap of history'

Bruce Springsteen has blasted Donald Trump as the “living personification” of impeachment, urging Congress to show guts and consign him to the "trash heap of history."

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4 w. ago Bruce Springsteen says Donald Trump should be ‘consigned to the trash heap of history’

The President described the rock legend as ‘highly overrated’ earlier this year

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