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And at the age of thirteen his music reviews were very popular and he eventually became a celebrity in his locality. The life of Cameron Crowe as a journalist flourished at its highest level when he started working for the Rolling Stone magazine. He got the auspicious chances to interview some of the greatest musicians of his time and the list includes the names of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and the legendary band Led Zeppelin. Cameron Crowe was himself a great fan of the 70s hard rock bands. He had interviewed some of the greatest bands like Eagles, King Crimson, Peter Frampton and many others although his works were not much success because the older people in the magazine did not like these musicians.
Cameron Crowe appeared in a Hollywood movie for the first time in the year 1978 in the film American Hot Wax. He continued freelancing for Rolling Stone but had taken interest in the film industry. In 1981 Cameron Crowe worked on the book titled as First Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story. There were six characters in the movie. It featured many social problems and sexual encounters. This book was already optioned for a film based on it and the movie was finally released in the year 1982. Sensitive topics like drug addiction and child abortion were handled very carefully in the film. Cameron Crowe had written the script for The Wild Life. In 1989 Cameron Crowe made the movie called Say Anything, the story of this film was based on an incident of a man who is pining for a beautiful girl's attention towards him.
In the year 1992, Cameron Crowe worked as a filmmaker in the movie Singles. The movie portrayed some romantic relationships between six friends and the trouble out of it. The sountrack of the film had a Nirvana track called "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Pearl Jam was also another band that performed in the movie which was astonishing enough because all these bands even had not made successful careers in the music scene so far. This shows the foreseeing power of Cameron Crowe as a filmmaker and as a lover of art. Cameron Crowe wrote as well as directed the movie Jerry Maguire. The movie was a huge hit and a feather was added to his celebrity charisma.
In the year 2000, Cameron Crowe made the movie titled as Almost Famous. This film showed the facts and incidents in the life of a teenage journalist who had music as his subject. Critics say that this film had a lot autobiographical elements in it as Cameron Crowe had himself seen the world of music while working as a freelancer in Rolling Stone magazine. Cameron Crowe remade the film Abre los ojos under the new name of Vanilla Sky. In 2005 he made Elizabethtown, another great Hollywood hit movie. At present he is busy with various film projects. Cameron Crowe is a bright name to all the new comers in the world of Filmmakers.
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