Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13,
1957)[1] is an
American film director, producer and screenwriter
. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at
Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.
Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and devoid of cynicism.
Michael Walker in
The New York Times called Crowe "something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation"[2] because his first few films focused on that specific age group, first as high schoolers and then as young adults making their way in the world.
Crowe's debut screenwriting effort,
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at
Clairemont High School in
San Diego, California, where he met
Geraldine Edwards, who was a student there while he was visiting mutual friends in
1975
Cameron Crowe was born in
Palm Springs, California. His father owned a real estate and phone service business, and his mother,
Alice Marie, "was a teacher, activist, and all-around live wire who did skits around the house and would wear a clown suit to school on special occasions." She worked as a psychology professor and family therapist and often participated in
peace demonstrations and causes relating to the rights of farm workers. Crowe had two older sisters, but one died when he was young. The family moved around often but spent a lot of time in the desert town of
Indio. Crowe commented that Indio was where "people owned tortoises, not dogs".His family finally settled in
San Diego.
Recognizing that Crowe was gifted, his mother pushed him to excel. He skipped kindergarten and two grades in elementary] and by the time he attended
Catholic high school, he was quite obviously younger than the other students. To add to his alienation, he was often ill because he suffered from nephritis. This made him something of an outcast in the tanned surfer culture of
Southern California.
To compensate for his lack of social contacts, Crowe began writing for the school newspaper and by age 13 was contributing music reviews for an underground publication,
The San Diego Door. He then began corresponding with
Lester Bangs, who had left the
Door to become editor at the national rock magazine Creem, and soon he was also submitting articles to Creem as well as
Circus. Crowe graduated from the
University of San Diego High School in
1973 at age 16, and then attended
City College of San Diego and the University of San Diego studying journalism to hone his craft. On a trip to
Los Angeles, he met
Ben Fong-Torres, the editor of
Rolling Stone, who hired him to write for the magazine. He also joined the Rolling Stone staff as a Contributing Editor and then became the
Associate Editor. During this time Crowe interviewed
Bob Dylan,
David Bowie,
Neil Young,
Eric Clapton,
Carlos Santana, and the members of
Led Zeppelin] Crowe was Rolling Stone's youngest-ever contributor.
Song is "
In Your Eyes" by
Peter Gabriel
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