Tag: Bruce Springsteen

The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White could play Bruce Springsteen in a new A24 biopic and that’s so fun

Jeremy Allen White would actually make a fantastic Bruce Springsteen.

Jeremy Allen White has become one of the biggest stars in television and could soon play one of the biggest stars in rock-and-roll history.

White, who received a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards for his role on FX’s The Bear, is reportedly in talks to portray Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming film.

He is considered the “top choice” for the role, according to Deadline, and “talks are underway” for the entertainment company A24 to make the movie.

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The movie is called Deliver Me from Nowhere and it is a “narrative feature” about Springsteen’s album Nebraska (1982). It is based on the recent book by Warren Zanes, which published in 2023.

According to Deadline, meanwhile, negotiations with White for this biopic have not yet begun. But it is worth noting that Springsteen and his longtime manager, Jon Landau, are both “actively involved” in the project.

Scott Cooper, the writer and director of Crazy Heart (2009) starring Jeff Bridges, will reportedly write and direct Deliver Me from Nowhere.

If it works out between all parties, White (who is from Brooklyn) would begin filming the movie in New Jersey after he wraps production on the forthcoming season of The Bear.

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Panthers S Jordan Fuller has some pretty famous family members

New Panthers S Jordan Fuller might be a Six Degrees of Separation cheat code.

Never mind football. Playing Six Degrees of Separation with Jordan Fuller is where the real fun is at.

The new Carolina Panthers safety spoke with local reporters on Wednesday, hosting his first chat since he signed his fresh one-year, $5.25 million deal. When the Zoom call ventured into the 26-year-old’s interests, Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer asked Fuller about the sound-proof panel that was set up behind him.

Fuller, who said he’s been rapping and singing, told Kaye that he has a pretty big contact in the music industry.

“I enjoy it,” he replied. “It’s a part of my family. My mom sings. She has her solo career, but also she sang background with, basically, you name it—she sang with them.  So grew up goin’ to concerts like Luther Vandross, he was Uncle Luther to us. She sang with Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys.”

Fuller’s mother, Cindy Mizelle, is a veteran vocalist who has backed many of music’s greatest artists. In addition to Uncle Luther, The Stones, Mariah and Alicia, Mizelle has also worked with Whitney Houston, Dave Matthews Band, Steely Dan and more.

As of that wasn’t cool enough, Fuller even has a tie to the movie industry. His aunt, Meredith, is married to actor and comedian David Adkins—more commonly known as Sinbad.

Yeah, Sinbad is his uncle!

So if Panthers owner David Tepper is looking to fill Bank of America Stadium with some more concerts this year, one of his newest players just might be able to help.

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The definitive ranking of the 14 greatest American-born rock bands of all time

You will probably agree with our top choice, but what about the rest?

What is the greatest American-born rock band of all time? It sounds like an easy enough question, but my goodness, it is anything but that.

Podcast host Jack Wagner recently tweeted about the thought experiment, and the post caused ripples of debate in our Slack newsroom. So we decided to make a list.

This was a deliberately hard exercise for so many reasons, though, and it’s not just because most of the great bands you’re thinking about (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, Queen, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, U2, Oasis, Sex Pistols, Joy Division) are actually not bands from the United States. There were other hurdles we needed to jump through, too.

How exactly does one define greatness? Is it your personal favorite band, or is it based on accomplishments and influence? We all had our own definitions so we had to trust our gut here.

How does one define an American band? We disqualified Fleetwood Mac because Mick Fleetwood and the late Christine McVie are British; CSNY did not make the list because Neil Young is Canadian and Graham Nash is English; The Band didn’t count because several members (including the late, great Robbie Robertson) are Canadian; The Jimi Hendrix Experience had an American frontman but the rest of the band was English. You get the idea.

How do we define a rock and roll and roll band? Not only is it hard to define rock and roll (Do funk bands like Parliament count? What about R&B groups like Earth Wind & Fire?) but it is also tough to know what even counts as a band. So many of the greatest musicians who immediately came to mind (e.g. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Prince, Joan Jett, Patti Smith) were primarily known as solo artists. This was tough to evaluate but our writers tended to favor bands with a more traditional rock and roll instrumentation.

Here was our methodology: Our staff was allowed to vote for any domestic rock band. They were asked to rank each band from No. 1 overall to No. 10 overall. Bands that got first-place votes received ten points while bands that got tenth-place votes earned one.

We calculated the results and bring them to you, the reader. This article says the results are definitive, and it is definitively our list. But really, it is actually imperfect, and mostly, this was simply the closest we could get to agreeing.

Other bands that received votes from multiple staffers include Journey, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hall and Oates, The Grateful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Strokes.

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Q&A: Bruce Springsteen filmmaker Thom Zimny goes behind the scenes of ‘No Nukes’ concert film

When you watch Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band perform “The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert”, you feel like you have secret footage.

When you watch Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band perform “The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concert”, you feel like you have access to secret footage.

Even though this was one of the most iconic performances the band ever performed, the film had been stored away … until now. That was a shame, of course, because this was the E Street Band performing at the height of their powers at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Considering that he was averse to being filmed in that era, this documentary immediately becomes the gold standard for Springsteen concert footage from the 1970s. During the show, not only do they perform their classics like “Born To Run” and “Rosalita” but the band also debuts “The River” and later performs “Stay” as an encore with Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and Rosemary Butler.

Thom Zimny, who was an editor for four seasons of HBO’s The Wire, has worked with Springsteen for more than two decades. Through his work with The Boss, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.

Zimny caught up with For The Win to discuss his role as the director of the “No Nukes” concert footage that is now, at long last, available to the public.

The footage was released globally for digital download on Nov. 16 and released in HD on physical formats on Nov. 19. It will be released for digital rental on Nov. 23.