Bruce Springsteen's Longest Season
The big news the week of October 20,1975 was a rock star and a kid who ran into President Ford’s limo in Hartford. Quick. What were their names? "Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes," Andy Warhol once said. I don’t think James Falamites would argue with that.
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Bruce Springsteen's Longest Season
by
Robert Duncan
The big news the week of October 20,1975 was a rock star and a kid who ran into President Ford’s limo in Hartford.
Quick. What were their names? “Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” Andy Warhol once said. I don’t think James Falamites would argue with that.
Through a misjudgment on the part of Hartford police and the Secret Service, Falamites was cleared to pass through a Hartford intersection and when he struck the President’s parsing limo, he gained his fifteen minutes of fame. Newspapers, magazines and news shows across the country ran this teenager’s story and later in the month, he was introduced on Howard Cosell’s ill-fated Saturday Night Live show (not to be confused with NBC’s Saturday Night).