SPRINGSTEEN, THE UNCOMPROMISING ARTIST AND WORKING CLASS HERO
I joined a couple of friends, one of whom has a late October birthday we were still celebrating, to see Deliver Me From Nowhere , the Springsteen biopic starring the unforgettable Jeremy Allen White (of THE BEAR series , and before that, SHAMELESS series). To be honest, my expectations were not that high, as biopics often turn out to be slathering portraits mainly composed of colorful heaps of praise and lacking an equanimous lens, neither of which turns out to be true here. In retrospect, low expectations is probably the best way to go see a film. White's performance as Springsteen and acting in general I cannot say enough about. Both he and Springsteen have that same grounded, gritty vitality and ooze a similar kind of unvarnished, sexy masculinity. White is 32 and plays Springsteen when he was the same age, working on his sixth album, Nebraska (which came out in 1982), a time when he was plagued by past demons and a nagging depression. Deliver Me From Nowhere is a beautiful...