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DiCaprio greets pope in Italian, discusses environment
NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio brushed
up his Italian to greet Pope
Francis at the Vatican
Thursday, discussed their
shared concern over the
environment and gave the
pontiff a check for his chari- tych, which DiCaprio has
table works.
“Your Holiness, thank you
for granting me this private
audience with you,” Di-
Caprio said in Italian as he
arrived in the Apostolic Pal-
ace and kissed the pope’s
ring.
Bruce Springsteen’s tour showcases new way of serving fans
DAVID BAUDER
AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce
Springsteen’s tour show-
casing his 1980 album “The
River” is more than an ex-
ercise in nostalgia. It’s a
telling example of how vet-
eran artists are adjusting
to the new realities of the
music business by super-
serving their longtime fans.
The 66-year-old superstar
is performing an album
he made when he was 30
from start to finish, a two-
hour exercise during the
tour’s third stop in New
York on Wednesday. A
musician with a long-time
aversion to regularly docu-
menting his epic concerts
now makes recordings of
them available to all his
fans, whether they were
there or not.
After opening with an
outtake from “The River,”
Springsteen explained
to fans that he wrote the
songs at a time when he
Carrie Underwood to honor military families during tour
KRISTIN M. HALL
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Country star Carrie Under-
wood is working with Car-
nival Cruise Line and Op-
eration Homefront to honor
military families throughout
her upcoming “Storyteller”
tour.
Underwood will meet with
selected military families in
10 cities, and she’ll perform
a free concert for hundreds
of military families onboard
Friday 29 January 2016

Later, in English, DiCaprio it represented a planet, economy and its demand in Davos, Switzerland, an-
offered Francis a book of the utopia we had been for greener energy sources. nouncing the foundation
works by the 15th-century given, the overpopulation, An assistant then handed was donating another $15
Dutch painter Hieronymus excesses, and the third Francis an envelope and million to environmental
Bosch, and showed him panel we see a blackened explained it was a check projects and pleading with
the reproduction of Bosch’s sky that represents so much for the pope to use for business leaders to battle
“Garden of Earthly De- to me of what’s going in in charity works “close to your global warming.
lights” that had hung over the environment,” DiCaprio heart.” Francis gave DiCaprio a
his crib as a child. The trip- told the pope. Di Caprio, nominated for leather-bound copy of
DiCaprio said he thought an Oscar for his role in “The Laudato Si and his earlier
referred to in the past, de- the painting also represent- Revenant,” is a longtime document, The Joy of the
picts Adam and Eve in the ed Francis’ environmental environmental campaign- Gospel.
first panel, a teeming land- concerns. er who in 1998 launched his DiCaprio was accompa-
scape in the center panel, Francis’ encyclical Lauda- Leonardo DiCaprio Foun- nied by his father, George
and finally a vision of hell. to Si (Praise Be) has been dation to support initiatives DiCaprio, and Milutin Gats-
“As a child I didn’t quite un- embraced by environmen- aimed at sustainability. by, global fundraising chair
derstand what it all meant, talists for its denunciation of He recently addressed the for the foundation.q
but through my child’s eyes the world’s fossil fuel-based World Economic Forum

ing steam with artists such
as Steely Dan, Lucinda
Williams, Van Morrison —
even Springsteen himself
in recent years. It’s a way
to give fans a fresh experi-
ence without new songs,
said Chris Phillips, editor of
Backstreets, a website de-
voted to Springsteen’s mu-
sic.
As Springsteen explained in
a recent interview with Phil-
lips, he’d spend years for-
matting an album’s song
order to tell a story, then
never perform it that way.
Before this tour, he’d only
fully played “The River” live
once before, in 2009.
“The accumulation of
those 20 songs together is
greater than the individual
playing of each particular
song on a given night,”
Springsteen said. “You get
a sense of time, you get a
sense of where your head
was, the issues you were
thinking about, who you
were at that moment.” q
Bruce Springsteen, center, Stevie Van Zandt, left, and Patti Scialfa perform with the E Street Band
at Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, in New York.
(Photo by Robert Altman /Invision/AP)
was looking for more adult and, of course, tears,” he performed in the album’s
connections, and wanted said. “I wanted to imag- original sequence. Spring-
to make an album with the ine and write about those steen being Springsteen,
grandeur of his live shows. things, and I figured if I he added 10 of his classics
“I wanted the record to wrote about them, I’d get at the end before finishing
contain fun, dancing, one step closer to getting it with the bar band favorite,
laughter, jokes, politics, sex, in my own life.” “Shout.”
good comradeship, love, With that, he dropped Performing albums in their
faith, family, lonely nights the needle on 20 songs entirety is a trend gain-

the Carnival Vista in New get to hear their stories.” wood said. “I feel like this is singing along.”
York on Nov. 4. Fans can purchase com- just another really cool op- She’ll have a special guest
Her tour begins Saturday in memorative dog tags portunity to say thank you.” along for most of the tour
Jacksonville, Florida. throughout the tour, with all During the tour, Under- — her 11-month-old son
The Grammy-winning sing- proceeds going to Opera- wood will be performing in Isaiah. “This will be the first
er said in a phone interview tion Homefront, a nonprofit the round for the first time, that we’ve been out for
that meeting military fami- organization that provides with the crowds surround- any length of time with
lies is a special experience. emergency and financial ing the stage. “One amaz- him,” Underwood said. “It’s
“As an entertainer I get assistance to families of ser- ing thing about having it in interesting with a baby. I
to be onstage and every- vice members and wound- the round is I just get to see am going to have to figure
body has to listen to me, ed warriors. “I feel country so many more faces,” she out this sleep thing. Being
well, hopefully they want to music has always been said. “It’s nice to have mo- on the road, hotels rooms
listen to me,” Underwood very close and very sup- ments ... and look into peo- and stuff like that. It’s not his
said. “But it’s really nice to portive of military members ple’s faces and see them space, but he’ll get used to
get to talk to people and and their families,” Under- having fun and see them that.” q