Music
Bruce
Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born September
23, 1949, nicknamed "The Boss",
is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E
Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock,
poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's
recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more
somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the
U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in
the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums
in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned
numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and
an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential
songwriters of the 20th century.
Film
The Deer
Hunter is a
1978 drama film directed and co-written by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian
American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War.
The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl
Streep and George Dzundza. The story takes place in Clairton, a small working
class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh and then in Vietnam,
somewhere in the woodland and in Saigon, during the Vietnam War.
The film was
based in part on an unproduced screenplay called The Man Who Came to Play
by Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker about Las Vegas and Russian Roulette.
Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired writer/director Michael
Cimino who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian
Roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War. The film went over-budget
and over-schedule and ended up costing $15 million. The scenes of Russian
roulette were highly controversial on release.
Politics
During 1973 there was an oil embargo. The Arabs at
this time were fighting a war with the Israelis. The Arabs would soon lose this
war due to the intervention of the west in aiding the Israelis to victory. In
outrage the Arabs would put an oil embargo on the western hemisphere. This was
a tragic event as the negotiators of the US would frantically try to negotiate
with the Arabs. Due to this inflation rose and this would lead to a political
debate over the economy. This event was a huge impact to the west. This showed
that the west is so dependent on the Arabs that if they mess up politically
with their relations, they will be hurt if the Arabs refuse to give them oil.
This was a huge political event because it was an issue in the elections and
the economy would be at the top in political discussions.
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