Springsteen on Broadway

[OZCUBAN]

Just heard about this will never get the chance to go but still would be I interesting 

just saying ☺️

http://brucespringsteen.net/broadway/

[Ken Gargett]

4 hours ago, OZCUBAN said:

Just heard about this will never get the chance to go but still would be I interesting 

just saying ☺️

http://brucespringsteen.net/broadway/

thanks for posting.

he did a tour like that out here back in the early 90s. 93? played a couple of nights at the lyric theatre in brizzy. small venue, just him, guitar, as he says. i prefer the big tour and full concert but these are still really good.

[Customsfan]

My favorite album of any album is "Tunnel of Love." 

[Ken Gargett]

always interesting to find out other people's fave bruce. very often surprising.

streets of philly always hits home because, many years ago, i worked for the law firm on which the film is based, which obviously had its name changed in the film. it was for the syndey office and not the one where this happened. which was not philly, i believe. a larger city not all that far away.

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, toofargone said:

I rate that movie in my top 10 of all time. Still makes me choke up whenever I watch it.

has tom hanks ever done anything that was not really worth watching? at least as far as his film career goes.

[MaxG]

The founder and namesake of that law firm ran for US Senator when his father in law retired from it. He was a foregone conclusion to get it EXCEPT the  movie came out that year. He lost. 

- MG 

 

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, MaxG said:

The founder and namesake of that law firm ran for US Senator when his father in law retired from it. He was a foregone conclusion to get it EXCEPT the  movie came out that year. He lost. 

- MG 

 

thanks. had not heard that.

[MaxG]

I lived in that state - Ohio - at the time.  

 

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, MaxG said:

I lived in that state - Ohio - at the time.  

 

okay, that is really interesting. the firm i was talking about was based in new york (though they did have branches all over the world and no doubt would have had one in ohio). but they told me it was the new york office. they may have got it wrong or i may have misunderstood, or perhaps there are a heap of guilty lawyers out there paranoid about the film and their actions. but this firm certainly talked about the event quite openly within the corridors and the action involved and the problems it caused. very curious.

my guess, though who knows at the moment given i am obviously wrong re new york, is that it must have been in the ohio branch. but then that doesn't track as it was originally a chicago firm and so i can't work out the senator bit?

[MaxG]

8 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

okay, that is really interesting. the firm i was talking about was based in new york (though they did have branches all over the world and no doubt would have had one in ohio). but they told me it was the new york office. they may have got it wrong or i may have misunderstood, or perhaps there are a heap of guilty lawyers out there paranoid about the film and their actions. but this firm certainly talked about the event quite openly within the corridors and the action involved and the problems it caused. very curious.

my guess, though who knows at the moment given i am obviously wrong re new york, is that it must have been in the ohio branch. but then that doesn't track as it was originally a chicago firm and so i can't work out the senator bit?

 

The office wasn't in Ohio, but he made his senate run there.  We apparently have somewhat loose residency requirements for political representatives.  Not long ago a senator from Kansas, who eventually made a run for president, was married to a senator from North Carolina; Bob and Elizabeth Dole. 

But, maybe we aren't talking about the same firm.  Joel Hyatt was Howard Metzenbaum's son-in-law and is the guy I'm referring to.

From Wikipedia:
In 1990, Hyatt Legal Services paid a $157,000 settlement for having illegally fired an attorney in their Philadelphia offices, Clarence B. Cain, in reference to his AIDS diagnosis.^[2] Some attribute to this case the premise for the 1993 film Philadelphia, alongside the more renowned Geoffrey Bowers case three-years prior. Hyatt is known to have expressed his disappointment in his own firm's handling of the case, and of its treatment of Mr. Cain.

 

Perhaps there is some question if this was THE "Philadelphia" case, but I remember at the time it was presented that way.  

- MG