Cameron reviews (and participates!) in Neil Young’s “Rust Never Sleeps” tour. You can read all about it in Crowe’s Rolling Stone story from November, 1978.
Look Like You Belong
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Cameron returns to Rolling Stone for the first time since September 2000 with a story entitled “The Backstage Pass”. The magazine is celebrating their 35th anniversary with an issue surrounding “American Icons”. The issue is at newsstands now..
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Listen To Your Mother
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Cameron contributed a nice story about his mother to Marlo Thomas’ book The Right Words at the Right Time. Muhammad Ali, Tom Brokaw, Cal Ripken Jr., Steven Spielberg, Venus Williams, Rudy Giuliani, Toni Morrison, Jack Nicholson, Mel Brooks, Billy Crystal, Tom Wolfe (and nearly 100 others) each tell a story of a crucial turning point in their lives brought about by the right words at the right time.
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Song In Prelude to a Dream
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A real popular question of late is the music in the Vanilla Sky DVD featurette “A Prelude to a Dream”. The song is listed in the DVD credits (Special Features section) and it’s called “Tracy (playing with the young team mix)” by Mogwai (remixed by Kid Loco).
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Fast Times Book – An Early Glimpse
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Most people first read about Cameron’s book, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, in the September 1981 excerpt published in Playboy magazine. I’m pleased to announce that its been added to the site. Check it out here.
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Vanilla Sky Transformation
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I found this great picture over at Death Studios. Makeup artist Don Lanning was the artist responsible who worked on Tom Cruise’s makeup with KNB for Vanilla Sky.
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What Teenagers Really Watch
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During Cameron’s research for Fast Times, he was approached by TV Guide to document how teenagers felt about TV. In this story published back in January, 1982 he interviews various “Ridgemont” graduates for their thoughts. Among the interesting observations: the popularity of Leave It to Beaver (also glimpsed in the ending sequence of Vanilla Sky), the lack of “real” television, comments from Ellen Russell (who worked at a doughnut shop and must have partially inspired Lea Thompson’s character in The Wild Life) and his Hawaii Five-O obsessed geometry teacher (Mr. Hand).
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Interview Magazine – Thom and Nicolette Mount
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Cameron sat down with independent movie producers Thom and Nicolette Mount for Interview magazine back in September 1985. Thom had supervised such films as Car Wash, Animal House and Crowe’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It’s interesting to look back now at some of their comments nearly 20 years later. Topics include the studio system, money hits vs. cultural impact and how cable television is the future. Thom’s comments about cable television and MTV are particularly insightful and even foreshadow the Internet. Thom has stayed busy working on such projects as Natural Born Killers, Bull Durham and Night Falls on Manhattan.
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