Rick Springfield - Affair of the Heart Docu

[Memorex]

I watched this last night - free with a 30 day trial of EpixHD. It comes out on DVD later this month.

http://www.epixhd.com/an-affair-of-the-heart/

It was both cool and pretty scary. Scary isn't the right word, but close enough.

The docu is about his (mostly) female fans' obsession with him. They talk to several folks that have followed him around the country year after year and have had a little or a lot of interaction with him. It shows how much he puts himself out there for his fans.

I've been a lifelong Springfield fan and I connect with his music a great deal. But I just never got the whole thing of following people around or idolizing anyone to that degree. Many of these people live and die by him and I'm pretty sure this scenario is duplicated with most entertainers. The exception here is that Springfield cultivates and lives in it with them - as much as he can. At times, he seems as touched and affected as they do.

I felt especially at unease with one particular couple they focused on throughout - the woman being obsessed and the man being suspicious. When he talks, you could feel how deeply this affected him and his marriage and you can see the actual pain of it - of his wife going at least once a month on these trips to see Springfield while he's back with the kids. He sincerely struggles to get it and has absolutely given concessions for her to live this life, but I really felt for him and what that must be like.

Of course, you have to feel for Springfield's wife too - all that she has endured. Not sure if she was strong or stupid all those years. Maybe a mix of both. I hope for her sake all of these obsessions are now only friendships.

Another interesting point for me was a woman that talked about the SDAA album coming out just at a time that she needed to be angry. That hit home with me because I too was in a particularly angry stage at that point and that album became an anthem to me. A little dark for me now, but it was absolutely what I needed at the time.

In the end you really get a sense of him and these fans and the whole experience.

Interesting life of entertainers and their "number one fans".

[Andrew]

Been waiting for this....guess I can't get yet in Australia. Fcking Internet.

[No Surprize]

I watched it today. Thanks for posting. Rick has done more than his fair share of eating at the "Y".