
Ditto what this post says about Obama- Not a crush exactly -- great admiration.... although I did have that one dream a couple of years ago and made the mistake of telling C about it and now everytime we're watching TV together and Senator Obama comes on, he says "there's your man" ;~)
"In the current presidential race, "there are two really good Democratic candidates for president. I admire and respect them both enough to wait and see what happens." But while he won't endorse Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama yet, he specifically praises the latter, who cited Springsteen as the person he would most like to meet in a recent interview with People. ( I KNEW IT - HE HAS GREAT TASTE!! -we have so much in common ;~)
"I always look at my work as trying to measure the distance between American promise and American reality," Springsteen says. "And I think (Obama's) inspired a lot of people with that idea: How do you make that distance shorter? How do we create a more humane society? We've lived through such ugly times that people want to have a romance with the idea of America again, and I think they need to.
"The hard realities and how things get done are important, too, but if you can effectively convince people that it's possible to make things better, they get excited."
Just as an aside... Speaking of crushes... Here's my current movie star crush ... James McAvoy. I just saw Atonement and loved it... I just wanted the whole movie to be about him. (I still love the book WAY more than the movie, even though they did a pretty good job translating it to film). That said, the Library scene was absolutely fantastic!!
I highly recommend "Last King of Scotland" -great performances and Mr. McAvoy's was outstanding- the character. I've also seen him in the "Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", but I want to see more. He's got a shoot-'em-up movie with Angelina Jolie coming out soon. I hope it doesn't ruin him for me. I'll probably see it anyway. ALso there was an article by Maureen Ryan in the Trib about a UK TV series that he was in, "State of Play" so I'm going to see if that's on Netflix.
(pic by Lee Bromfield from here)