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The Amazing Story Of How The Movie Blinded By The Light Got Bruce Springsteen’s Approval · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. We've all got those
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  Speaker 1: albums growing up that helped define who we become and
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  Speaker 1: maybe even changed the course of our lives. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what's at the heart of the new movie, Blinded by
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  Speaker 1: the Light. It's about a Pakistani teen growing up in
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  Speaker 1: the UK in the late eighties whose life is changed
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  Speaker 1: by the music of Bruce Springsteen. And it's based on
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  Speaker 1: a true story, a memoir called Greetings from Bury Park
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  Speaker 1: by sar fries manzoor Now, writing a book that heavily
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  Speaker 1: references the boss is. Music is one thing, but making
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  Speaker 1: a movie is another, because it won't work without the
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  Speaker 1: actual songs and a two thousand ten chants meeting. Bruce
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  Speaker 1: told Sar Fras he loved the book, but when the
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  Speaker 1: movie started to come together, he asked Bruce for permission.
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  Speaker 1: He writes in the UK's The Sun, I sat down
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  Speaker 1: and wrote the most important letter I'd ever written. It
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  Speaker 1: was nerve racking because I could feel this was one
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  Speaker 1: of those fork in the road moments. Two weeks later
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  Speaker 1: I got a call Bruce was fine with it. Blinded
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  Speaker 1: by the Light in theaters today. That's direct from Hollywood