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Vin 06:11 pm UTC 01/21/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Born to Run - bellminer 04:51 pm UTC 01/21/09 |
| Hanging my head in shame here. Feel as though I need to surrender my Jim Steinman Fan Club membership card and decoder ring. Oh well, thanks for the info. I've got to go re-evaluate my existence now. > > Speaking of Jim and his penchant for staying away from > > specifics, I've always been taken a little sideways by the > > reference to "chilly California sand" in FCOL, which just > > jumps out as being very atypical for Jim. Does Jim even > > have any connection to the West Coast? Why didn't he go > > with "chilly Jersey Shore sand?" > > Jim Steinman was born in New York but spent a lot of > his early life in Claremont, California, near Los Angeles. > An avid, though not very accomplished surfer, he remembers > dying his hair blond one summer, "It was some product > Clairol put out once, designed for men. My hair turned a > bizarre yellow-orange. It looked a little like W.C. > Fields' liver." He moved to New York right before entering > high school, and then enrolled in Amherst College in > Massachussetts. > > | |
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