Toronto To Premiere Bruce Springsteen Documentary

TORONTO (AP/CBS) New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen will discuss - and take questions about - the making of "Darkness at th e Edg of Town" this evening at the Toronto Film festival.

The session with the Boss will precede the premiere of "The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town," a documentary about making the album 32 years ago.

Pictures: Bruce Springsteen
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The film, which played Monday for press, features contemporary interviews with Springsteen and his band along with rehearsal and studio footage as they made the 1978 record, which he calls a "reckoning with the adult world" after the phenomenal success of his "Born to Run" album three years earlier.

Before the premiere, Springsteen will discuss his music in a public chat with actor Edward Norton, who became friends with the rocker after they met at a concert about 10 years ago.

"That record, there's no way to overstate how much that record was a part of my life," Norton said in an interview. "I've seen the film, and it's amazing to see him at that age going through the creative process on it. Any artist, I think, will appreciate the chance to see someone who is as great as he is at that age struggling and struggling and struggling to get things to where he hears them in his head."

Directed by Thom Zimny, who made a similar making-of documentary about "Born to Run," the movie shows how Springsteen aproached the album after a self-imposed exile from the studio because of a lawsuit with a former manager.

After its Toronto premiere, "The Promise" will air Oct. 7 on HBO, then will be included in a CD and DVD boxed set release of "Darkness on the Edge of Town" due in stores Nov. 16.