Word: ridgemont
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...Well, I remember after Fast Times at Ridgemont High, I felt strongest writing guy characters. But I was just getting together with my wife, and she has a big family of women—I have a lot of women in my family, but I hadn’t studied them as much as I did after I met Nancy. So I started to study how great women characters had been written, and what I found that it came down to was letting every character—not just the women characters—have their private moments, where...
Settle down. First of all, Crowe's movies tend to be quite entertaining. He wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and served as writer-director on Say Anything...(1989), Singles (1992) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Also, Crowe's adolescence truly was unique. Before his 16th birthday, he had hit the road, covering 1970s rock bands for Rolling Stone. That experience "was always the best story I had," says Crowe, 43, who started pounding out the screenplay for Almost Famous nearly 15 years ago and honed it between other projects. "It was the sweetheart that I ran back to every...
Although Crowe never earned a college degree, he did go to high school twice. At age 22, he went undercover, spending two semesters passing as a student to research his novel, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which he later adapted for the screen. Crowe has been educating himself as a filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says...