Tonight's guests are Bruce Springsteen on The Daily Show and Andy Cohen on The Colbert Report.
Bruce Springsteen is the Boss. :D He is not on tonight to sing, but rather to promote his illustrated book
Outlaw Pete with Frank Caruso who provided the illustrations.
When Bruce Springsteen was a little boy, he learned the story of Brave Cowboy Bill, about a pure-hearted little cowboy. It was the first of Bruce’s Western loves, which now range from John Ford movies to Mexican music to Native American art. Each of these inspirations, plus what he’s learned as a man and a rock ’n’ roller about how to combine whimsy and wisdom, were stations on the way to Outlaw Pete, a modern legend of a criminal who starts out in diapers and confronts the roughest edges of adulthood. It’s one of the most ambitious and original story songs Springsteen has written—rhapsodic and harsh, a meditation on destiny, filled with absurdities but not for one second of its eight minutes exactly a joke. It’s an elaborate musical drama, weaving into a single tapestry several styles of rock and an orchestration reminiscent of a Morricone soundtrack.
Outlaw Pete is an adult book, illustrated by Frank Caruso, who drew and painted its pages. Caruso does more than illustrate the song. His approach, immaculately detailed, simple when it needs to be, parallels Springsteen’s blend of absurdity and meditation. The questions about destiny remain unanswered, as they must be, but they’re also brought into a different kind of focus. Details that pass by almost unnoticed in the lyrics become central.
Reading and listening have rarely so superbly complemented each other. The result becomes the most intense kind of artistic collaboration, a vision shared.
Meet Frank Caruso, the Illustrator of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Outlaw Pete’
Frank Caruso has been a Bruce Springsteen fan for more than three decades, but the first time the illustrator heard “Outlaw Pete,” the eight-minute lead track on the 2009 album “Working on a Dream,” his imagination lit up in an entirely new way.
“You know what, I’ve listened to that song more times than anyone on the planet probably, and I still listen to it, and it still gives me that vibe,” Caruso told Speakeasy. “I still get that thrill, the chill, when I listen to that song
That vibe, in turn, eventually became perhaps the unlikeliest project of Springsteen’s career. “Outlaw Pete,” out today in print and electronic formats from Simon & Schuster, is now a 56-page picture book that blends Springsteen’s mythic tale of a bank-robbing baby in the Old West with Caruso’s vivid, whimsical illustrations. It looks like it’s for kids, but it features some heady themes more appropriate for adults — love, death, regret about the sins of the past, legacies of violence and destruction. Still, Caruso’s approach to giving Pete a life in pictures, however grim, could well resonate with certain young dreamers.
This sounds very interesting. Springsteen is an excellent way to start the week.
Andy Cohen is the host of
Watch What Happens Live on Bravo and an author. His latest book is
The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year
A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent words
As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed diary of one year in his life, Andy goes out on the town, drops names, hosts a ton of shows, becomes codependent with Real Housewives, makes trouble, calls his mom, drops some more names, and, while searching for love, finds it with a dog. We learn everything from which celebrity peed in her WWHL dressing room to which Housewives are causing trouble and how. Nothing is off limits – including dating. We see Andy at home and with close friends and family (including his beloved and unforgettable mom). Throughout, Andy tells us not only what goes down, but exactly what he thinks about it. Inspired by the diaries of another celebrity-obsessed Andy (Warhol), this honest, irreverent, and laugh-out-loud funny book is a one-of-a-kind account of the whos and whats of pop culture in the 21st century.
This should be a funny interview.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
Tu 11/11: Amb. Samantha Power
We 11/12: Steve Carell
Th 11/13: Maziar Bahari, Gael Garcia Bernal
THE COLBERT REPORT
Tu 11/11: Diane Von Furstenberg
We 11/12: Terence Tao
Th 11/13: Jennifer Lawrence