Julie Delpy to Direct Joe Strummer Biopic

Julie Delphy arrives at the AFI FEST

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French actress and director Julie Delpy has signed on to helm The Right Profile, a biopic of the late Clash frontman Joe Strummer. Not many details about the film have emerged, but the project is said to focus on the singer's life from the time he planned to disappear from the spotlight in 1982 up through his death in 2002.

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Delpy, who has directed a handful of films including 2 Days in Paris and The Countess, is likely to appear in The Right Profile in some capacity as an actress. She is also in the process of writing a third film in the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset series with Ethan Hawke and director Richard Linklater.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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