Television review: 'The Promise'

HBO doc features Bruce Springsteen and the making of 'Darkness on the Edge of Town.'There was a time when major figures of pop and rock were willing to let people with movie cameras follow them around just to see what they might see, but the contemporary rock-doc is more likely to represent an act of managed self-promotion than of reckless self-exposure. (Reality television, which uses dirty laundry to bolster flagging careers, does not count.) You should not expect to see another "Don't Look Ba...

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