Out in Jersey this week, Bruce Springsteen visited the set of Scott Cooper’s Deliver Me From Nowhere, where Jeremy Allen White is playing Springsteen. The film is based on Waren Zanes’ book of the same name about how Springsteen crafted his 1982 album Nebraska — his sixth album, and most stripped down and personal — which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band.
That movie will also star Jeremy Strong and Paul Walter Hauser. Here’s another pic.
Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) is a great director, and Jeremy Allen White is a great actor, so Deliver Me From Nowhere will probably be a great movie. But you know who probably won’t be watching it? White people in rural America. Because they don’t give a good goddamn about The Boss. All those rally appearances he made in the Rust Belt over the last couple of months meant nothing because rural white Americans prefer Kid Rock and the husked remains of Lee Greenwood, which they trot out on stage to sing “I’m Proud To Be an American,” by which they mean, “a red-blooded American man,” who must have finally figured out that “Born in the U.S.A.” is about a disillusioned Vietnam vet and not a xenophobic rallying cry.
I’d argue that maybe Harris should’ve chosen Mellencamp instead, but they’d have just called him gay for celebrating “Pink Houses” and “sucking on chili dogs” outside of Tastee Freeze. Ain’t that America?
(We’re moving onto the sarcastic anger stage now).