World Premiere Runnin' Down A Dream Pictures

[BTFLCHLD]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

This one:


That is you, isn't it??

[gldstwmn]

Man, TeeDee's looking good.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

This one:


That is you, isn't it??

oh, I thought you meant a shoulder pic of Stevie. lol.

yep, that's me.

thanks.

[StreetAngel86]

enough with the glasses
Stevie needs to show some leeeeeeeeeg
maybe a lotta leg


but other wise she looks 10/10
4/10 for the clothing

[michaelD]

Shes looks OK... Showing her age, but who isn't these days...

More "leather" than "lace" for sure...

[wheart]

those glasses have to go

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by danax6

Thanks to Sanne over on 7W.















I hate those glasses.

I hate those glasses too. But only because they really don't fit her face. She needs a different shape and not in that hideous gold for the frame. Ack. If she was wearing a high boot instead of the flats it would make her legs less keggy in those pants/leggings. I love her, but this outfit doesn't work

[Betsy]

My first impression of the photos (and thanks for posting them) was the Stevie is really resembling her mother. It isn't a negative comment, it's genetics.

BTW....Isn't she 59? (May 26, 1948)

[Janis_no1]

Those glasses look the same as she wore to the Melbourne Cup in Australia in November 05...... I am POSITIVE she can certainly afford to buy some new ones... and a wardrobe other than what she wears on stage!

[michelej1]

http://gainesvillesun.com/article/20...0324/1006/NEWS

Tom Petty may forever be remembered as the ultimate Gainesville pop-rocker done good, a musician of integrity who never backed down, and a singer/songwriter who could sell 50 million albums and collaborate with artists as varied as Bob Dylan, George Harrison and Roy Orbison (The Traveling Wilburys), Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash and Roger McGuinn.

But his complete story has never before been told in a single, for-the-record volume that combines music with film footage to put his entire career and impact on rock 'n' roll and popular music into context - until now.

Today, the Peter Bogdanovich-directed documentary on Petty's life, "Runnin' Down a Dream," receives its first public screening at the New York Film Festival. On Monday, the four-hour-long film will be screened in 27 cities for one night only - except in Gainesville, where it will be shown for two sold-out nights starting Monday.

Trimmed from an original five hours by director Bogdanovich, the film traces Petty's journey from his early years with the Gainesville band Mudcrutch into becoming a marquee-name rock star who could sell out tours around the world and even start a band with a former Beatle.

"It's a long story but certainly not a dull one - so much happens," Petty said in comments to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Vice President Warren Zanes, released only on Petty's Web site (tompetty.com).

On Tuesday, the entire documentary will be released in a box set that also includes a DVD of Petty's 2006 homecoming concert in Gainesville (see Daybreak, Page 1D), and will be followed soon by the release of a companion, 240-page, coffee-table book, also named "Runnin' Down a Dream."

Bogdanovich, the acclaimed feature-film writer and director known for such films as "The Last Picture Show," "Paper Moon" and "Mask," calls the Gainesville native's full story nearly unique among American popular music.

"He's like nobody else," Bogdanovich told The Sun in a phone interview. "The main thing that I've noticed about his work is that it doesn't date. You hear the early albums and the later albums and they all sound like Tom Petty.

"He didn't follow any trends. He was always his own guy."

Roger McGuinn, who fronted the folk-rock group The Byrds in the 1960s and appears in the film, compares Petty's accomplishment of combining seminal influences into his own sound in the 1970s to that of the Beatles in the '60s.

"I see him as really kind of pulling together all the best influences of the '60s; the Stones, Dylan and some of the Byrds, Bo Diddley," McGuinn told The Sun.

"It's kind of like what the Beatles did when they put Chuck Berry, calypso and bossa nova and all these different things into a stew pot, cooked them up and came up with their own recipe. And Tom has done that," McGuinn said. "He's made his own thing out of the best parts out of the '60s music and turned it into something that really was a shining light in the '70s music."

From Petty's first album, 1976's "Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers," through his most recent 2006's "Highway Companion," his sound has segued from scrappy garage rock to mellower, acoustic-pop and back again, with enough elasticity to be considered a "new wave" artist in the '70s as well as a troubadour of Southern-bred songs like "American Girl," "The Waiting" and "Listen to Her Heart" at virtually the same time.

In many ways, Petty's life story became that of the great American rock 'n' roll star: combining elements of fairy tale success and record company defiance, along with drugs and personal loss and, finally, redemption.

And there's the prolific quality of releasing 15 albums with a combined sales of 50 million-plus - and releasing an astounding 42 singles that have tracked on Billboard's various singles charts over a 25-year period. (In comparison, Bruce Springsteen has released 47 songs on Billboard's charts, while Fleetwood Mac has tracked 35 Billboard singles).

But while much of Petty's life is well-known, it's the background and subplots of his story that reverberate in "Runnin' Down a Dream" - and in ways that may surprise even longtime fans.

* There's the Heartbreakers' interaction with Stevie Nicks, in which the Fleetwood Mac singer says on camera that she almost preferred the music of Petty's group to that of her own band - and would have even joined the Heartbreakers if she could have.

* There's the story of a 20-something Petty embroiled in a lawsuit with his record company and staring down company attorneys while picking his fingers with a penknife. As Petty recounts in the film: "The big (lawyer) comes in and says 'Let me tell you something kid, you're gonna forget about this, go make your records and shut up.' And I said, 'I'll sell ------ peanuts before I'll give in to you. You can break me, but you can't make records.' "

* There's the story of Petty intervening on McGuinn's behalf when officials with the latter's record company attempt to have McGuinn record a song that Petty finds inferior. In the rare archival footage, Petty reads the song's lyrics ("Gonna love you, gonna need you, this time I've got both feet on the ground") and says: "I could smoke a joint and come up with three better lines than that."

* And there's the story of young Tom's verbal and physical abuse at the hands of his father in Gainesville, as seen through the eyes of Tom and his younger brother, Bruce. "It was a hard time," Bruce Petty told The Sun.

"Any time there was an episode, an outburst or confrontation between my brother and my father, my mother was always the one coming around afterwards telling everybody it was OK and trying to get everybody back together. She was the peacemaker in the family."

In making the film, Bogdanovich spent more than two years compiling and sifting through 400 hours of archival footage and he shot 100 hours of new footage (including scenes from the 2006 Gainesville concert) that appear in the documentary.

Bogdanovich also conducted all new interviews for the film himself and came to Gainesville to interview Bruce Petty (who lives in Tallahassee today) and Mudcrutch drummer Randall Marsh, who lives in Bushnell.

During his audition to join Mudcrutch in Gainesville, Marsh introduced Petty to future Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell.

And he journeyed from Gainesville to Los Angeles with the group, leaving Florida on April Fool's Day 1974 - only to see two vehicles in the group's caravan break down after leaving town.

In the early '70s, Marsh and others including photographer Red Slater also lived on the famous "Mudcrutch farm" outside Gainesville, where the band threw a couple of rock festivals that drew hundreds of listeners from around Florida and even out of state.

"Red was our live-in photographer," Marsh told The Sun. "And he took some film of the farm festival at the time." Along with many photos of Petty and the other musicians, Slater's footage is seen in Bogdanovich's documentary. "It was unbelievable; all those people showing up," Slater told The Sun. "We just had no idea that was gonna happen."

After Bogdanovich interviewed Bruce Petty and Marsh (in a room at the Paramount Plaza Hotel on SW 13th Street), the three got in a car and drove around Gainesville to show the director some of the locations that figured in the early days of Petty and his band, including the Lipham Music store, though it's in a different location today than back then.

Marsh, who saw "Runnin' Down a Dream" at Tom Petty's home in Los Angeles during a recent visit, gave his Mudcrutch band a solid thumbs-up after seeing the film.

"I told him I thought it was not only a wonderful story about the Heartbreakers, but a generic, really well-done movie about an American rock band," Marsh said. "It can stand on both levels."

Bogdanovich attributes much of that to the presence, character and integrity of Tom Petty himself. "I thought Tom would be good on camera and he is," Bogdanovich said. "He's very charming, very much himself and very honest.

"He's just really a natural artist. He was born with it and figured out what to do with it at an early age," he said.

"I mean, there's not another Tom Petty, you know?"

[THINKABOUTIT]

you guys are so funny..as usual

You all say you want her to show leg and we barely know what they look like...at least since the Dance came out....anyone got anything? I think I have one shot LOL