Documentary on the Madison Square Garden fundraiser sponsored by MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy), with a postscript on the Battery Park freebie that followed. Interspersed throughout the concert footage are snippets of backstage informalities, brainstorming sessions, interviews, polemics, and a wonderful Army propaganda film from the Fifties. None of this, perhaps out of fear of alienating anybody who came just to hear the music, is gone into in much more depth than anything on the six o'clock news. The one tactical inspiration of the film was to keep Bruce Springsteen under tight wraps, like a secret weapon, for an hour and a quarter, and then let him loose for a good fifteen or twenty minutes -- an eruption of showmanship capable of bringing any movie and any audience back from the dead. With Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Graham Nash, and the Doobie Brothers; directed by Julian Schlossberg, Danny Goldberg, and Anthony Potenza. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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