Apart from appearances on various tours and campaign trails throughout his 50-year career, Bruce Springsteen hasn’t taken up an extended residency in Wisconsin (at least, not that we’re aware of). That said, there is a bit of Badger in the Boss’s biopic, which opens in theaters today. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) and starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear), recounts the making of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska. The film is based on the 2024 book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, by Warren Zanes MA’95. Zanes is a writer and professor at New York University. Between earning his rock and roll stripes as a guitarist with the Del Fuegos in the 1980s and authoring books on music history, he earned his master’s in art history at UW–Madison — where, like Springsteen, he was drawn to the solace of a Wisconsin night. “I used to go skating on [Lake Mendota] when it froze, by myself, in the middle of the night,” Zanes told HQ. “You’re out there, and it’s a sky full of stars, … and maybe there’s some risk involved, but it was an amazing experience.” Photo by Jens Kalaene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images.