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"My heart in the box. Oh God, it's the scene's gonna get cut. We don't have a song for it. And then I was driving into the editing room, and the only tape I had, like when I reached for a tape, was this tape from my wedding, just like a wedding mix. And in your eyes came on. And I'm surprised I didn't get in a car accident. I would start racing to the editing room because it was all there. I drive off in my car and about instincts and it was just like, oh my God, so I erased into the editing room. We put it on it's perfect. And so then we began to Peter Gabriel hadn't given his stuff for movies. I don't think at that time. So we began the journey to try and get in your eyes. And it's a much longer story, but he turned it down, I sent the tape, he turned it down. Right about the same time, Stevie Ray Vaughan was going to score say anything for a minute. And then that fell away and so all these things were starting to cave in musically. And then it became known that Peter Gabriel thought it was the John Belushi movie wired. That wanted in your eyes. And so Rosanna Arquette actually did a little work for us. I think they were she was his partner. They were together at the time. And she was advocated for watching the tape of say anything. Which he had gotten confused with wired. So he watched say anything, and then said, yeah, okay, let's figure out if there's a way to do this. Without knowing it's not my pride I return from the inside. In your eyes but in the meantime to over answer your question, Mark knoller had a conversation with Peter Gabriel, where he said, essentially, they really want that song. You got them over a barrel. Enormous amount. I'm telling you to this day. Money for nothing. For nothing. Or any Dire Straits thing, except Mark Doppler score for local hero. That's a good one. Yeah, you're right. So he talks, Peter Gabriel, and to asking for the world. And what happened was a long negotiation happened where we found money and the publicity budget and everything to pay for in your eyes. Which obviously was worth it and everything. But I have a little twinge every time I see a picture of Mark knopfler like you subversive masquerading as a sensitive quiet man. Right, right? But we're lawyer you. What do you mean in the last decade? You're on Broadway. Your filmography is up to like a dozen movies, you know. We either stick around long enough you have the list left. It was only that song. It was ever going to work. I'm telling you, it was it had to be that song. Yeah, I can see that. And it worked. You were right. We could talk to Cameron Crowe all freaking day. Thank you, Cameron, for taking some time for us. Congratulations on the Broadway success. You know we're Friends. Thank you, brothers. And here's a good way to end. Lester's in the arrogant, isn't he? I mean, that moment is Fallon when the whole cast came and performed for Jimmy Fallon. Almost famous. And carmella and I are sitting watching. We'd seen rob coletti and San Diego. Oh, he's not singing. And then he pops up. And he stole the whole moment, right? He's on Broadway. You cast one of the actors of the last half century, you know, as Lester. You know, there was a play that started in San Diego that went to New York that went to Chicago, you know, how to be a rock critic. It seems, and it seems to me, and I don't know why. I haven't been able to articulate it. Despite having lectured at Grossman junior college on the subject. But it seems like we need lesser now, that honesty brutal at times, but also humor, talking about our culture at this moment more than we've ever needed him. Don't you think? Yeah. Absolutely. There's a reason why he's in the conversation. It's going to happen because he was far ahead of his time. And he actually has a voice that speaks to right now. And you know it, for sure, Jim. And I just feel like it just feels right for now. You know, whether we're doing something or anybody's doing something, it's just, it's the right flag to be waving right now. His voice was powerful and true and authentic and fun. Yeah. And, you know, viva Lester. Yeah. Well, the great Cameron crow a hit on Broadway almost famous. And we look forward to whatever you bring to the screen next, whichever. My TV screen, the big screen. Next year. Old screen. Come on. I'll be back. I'll be back for a tray that sound opinions. Okay. All right. Thank you, Cameron. Cool you guys. Thanks for having me so much. That wraps up our latest chat with Cameron Crowe, and now we want to hear from you.
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"Away. Yeah, I think that the problem is, you know, Alice, you were saying earlier, something about the bio rhythm. I was saying that neural pathways are set. And that's why it's hard for people to change. That's why behavior doesn't change very often. I got one more musical question for you. I was listening to an interview with Tarantino actually this morning about music, his how he picks music for movies. And he said, there are certain songs that I have to have. For a movie, like he said, in this interview, I hadn't heard this before for reservoir dogs. That he needed to have us stuck in the middle with you by steelers wheel in that movie. He had a $30,000 music licensing budget. He had to spend the entire licensing budget for that song, but he said it's so important. I have to have it, whatever it price. And then he paid for the other songs by they got a soundtrack deal, and they said, we'll pay the artist this way. So he was able to manage it, but that song was so important that he was able to, he said, I have to blow my whole budget to get that song for this movie. Obviously, iconic scene. He knew what he was doing. Was there ever a moment for you like that when you were making a movie? Because the songs are so integral to what you're doing that you said, I have to have this song in this movie here and I'll pay whatever it takes to get it. Many, many times that's happened. And probably the best example of that was there was only one song that was ever going to work for the boombox scene in say anything. There was only one song. We tried everything. There were even songwriters that came in and tried to write an original song for that, which is your, it's your worst version of the Broadway thing. Two guys came in and they wrote this song that's like, I hold
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"Ever been lucky enough to have in one of my movies. Mister blows my mind to say one of my movies. Yeah, I'm still a rock critic for cream. That's how I really feel sometimes. So many times. Matt Damon made that scene come to life. There's another scene and we bought a zoo where he has an argument with his son about the dream of starting the zoo. And I'm super proud of that scene. I also, I also love the ending of aloha, which is I think some of Bradley Cooper's best work. So there's always things that give me a tingle and they do generally when you film them and they it survives that feeling. And that's when it's really great. I'll give you one from fast times. I love Sean Penn in the 7 11. With Brad Hamilton, you know, where the robber is going to come in and we've got to throw the coffee and it's basically the end of the movie, but the acting between judge reinhold and Sean Penn, young Sean Penn and young judge reinhold at that counter is fantastic. Yeah, they're great. And so, yeah, I geek out over this stuff. People have loots. Should not drive. Well, you know, that's a favor. You know, a lot of us learn important reasons for watching these movies. Life lessons, life lessons, not the ones my mom really wanted. But your movies would. But like I say, she wanted to be in those movies. And now you're on Broadway. So mom. It's wild. I did you justice. Just to add this, we've talked so much I have talked so much about my mom just in talking about the play and everything. I feel like, and I, when I go to the show, I talk to people, I love talking to everybody and signing playbills if they want them signed and all that stuff. I love it. You don't get to do that after you screen a movie generally. Don't mean anybody. So, but they'd be like, yeah, you know, your mom really seems like she was a special person. And I'm like, yeah, and if you really want to meet her, like if you want to see her unguarded, who she really was, put on Jerry Maguire or when Jerry Maguire is on your TV some night and it comes to the scene where Tom Cruise comes to say, you know, you complete me and all that stuff. In front of the surprise. Of divorced women. In front of the support group, he pleads for he waves the flag for love at that key moment. But before he walks in, my mom forgets that there's a camera. She's part of the divorce women's group that's in that living room when Tom Cruise comes and has his reconciliation with Renee. So my mom has now taken over this group of comedian and actors. And is now counseling them. Like she did as a college counselor and she's talking about the neural pathways of the brain and stuff and it's like, that's her. That's the unguarded Alice crow. And so I'm just you asked about things I'm proud of. I'm so proud of that because, you know, of all the stuff that's been maybe influenced by my mom, that's pure her. And it lives forever in one of Tom Cruise's best scenes. It's a great scene. Walk away, right? Walk
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"About we bought a zoo. Yeah. Tons. Especially during the pandemic, people really found their way to we bought it. It's amazing how much stuff got found during the pandemic. What was tougher for you first movie or first play? Oh, probably first movie. Because there was so many people there that the film had gathered. So my friend clay who's our production designer now. He was working with me as kind of an assistant at the time. Clay Griffith, I remember I was in a trailer and it was the first day of shooting and clay Griffith came in the trailer and he said, you know, you got to leave the trailer at a certain point. Like really? Really? I have to. Yeah. And so we shot the first day and then I went back to the trailer and it was just sitting there going, oh my God, what's happening? These are the rapids of all time and clay comes and goes, you know, you got to leave the trailer again and have lunch with the crew. It's really important that you let the crew know that you're one of them. And here, let me take your hand and leave you to the crew. And you know what? It was a lesson that was so learned on that day because, you know, you talk about lessons learned. The crew will save you or let you die. When you're making a movie because they are all there to make the best movie possible and their hearts are in it. And it does start at the top, whether it's the top actor or the director, it sets a tone and when the crew knows that you're with them and they're with you, man, it's movie making sings. I can understand how that's daunting though, Cameron. I can understand William knocking at the door. Please let me in. I'm here to interview Black Sabbath, right? You're on the set. Are we talking wildlife or are we talking when you said first movie? Say anything. Say anything. I would say anything. All right, so you're making, I'm not going to understand. There's grips and focus pullers and stuff who've been in this for 50 years, 40 years, right? And you're like, gotta be intimidated. I'm supposed to be their boss. You know, not to mention the actors. Yeah. Well, you know, you got to follow your heart and sometimes ultimately you know when it's wrong and you know when it's right and a lot of times things are in the gray area and you've got to hope that you got to see and write and things like that. Even Billy Wilder said he figured out how to shoot the day's work at the corner of la brea and Melrose as he drove home at the end of the day every day. You know, you're always learning like on roadies, Ron white, the comedian Ron white played the former Lynyrd Skynyrd roadie that's now kind of the patriarchal figure in that group of workers. I came out to him one day and I was trying to tell him the importance of Ronnie Van Zandt and Lynyrd Skynyrd and he was doing the speech about Lynyrd Skynyrd at the time. And I was like, you will love this guy. When you talk about him, your soul rattles. You're just like, you feel that music. When he died, part of you died. Like, do you know what I mean? And he said, no. And I go, well, do it faster, and he goes, that I understand. It changes every time, you know? It's whatever it takes to get the story told. And that's what makes it fun. Coming up next, we finish our conversation with Cameron Crowe by talking about his experience securing Peter Gabriel's in your eyes for the pivotal boombox scene
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"Song. A new kind of crowd. It feels so good to think it out loud. That reminds me of what I fell in love with about Broadway musical compositions. So we started there, we have a new song for stillwater called I come at night, which I'm very proud of. And the idea was to find that middle ground where you could play a game with the audience where they could say, well, is that an Elton John song that I'd never heard in the day? Yeah. Or is that a new song? Is that a Joni Mitchell song? No, that is a Joni Mitchell song, but the next song, huh. And so I liked having that element in the show. And it is, it's a fun game to play when you come see it. So, you know, it's kind of a living thing too. Every night's a unite, right? It can change. It's true. Are you tweaking and thinking about other iterations of how this thing will evolve? I mean, what where is it at in terms of your head? Is it finished? Or is it still ongoing the process of making this play? It's always, that's one of the fun things about it is like a movie, a movie you finish and pretty much that when they tell you like, oh, you can reshoot this or you can change this line and you can have them kiss at the end. It really never changes the movie. The movie pretty much is the movie you made. And when you first see it, that's how people see it around the world. Theater, you can change night to night. And it does change what happens in the theater. So that was a super fun thing for me as somebody that loves to change and try stuff when we're shooting and stuff. It was like every night the cast would give you a new version of something or a new speech. And that was really cool. At a certain point when it opens, it freezes. And then your next chance to mess with it is when it's having its life beyond Broadway, where is a regional presentation? Yeah, like Chicago gets a lot of stuff on both sides of that before Broadway and then afterwards. So there's some things I'd love to do for sure. I mean, I'll always be tinkering. Like Billy Wilder was still tinkering with the apartment. Like when he was 93. He had no chance to change the apartment, nor should he have. But yeah, there are things I'd love to mess around with and maybe try a new song and things like that. There was a song we cut that was Anika Larsen, who plays my mom's character, Elaine, that got cut that I think a version of it can go back in. But you know, it's always going to be the almost famous story. And so I like moving around kind of the furniture a little bit, but the story is the story. Cameron Crowe footnote also not accorded accolades. It deserved your book with Billy Wilder, right? Based on truffaut Hitchcock, two great filmmakers talking about the craft true foe taking Hitchcock theory. I love that book. Thanks, Jim. Thanks. To me, it was the film school that I never got. That I accidentally got or something. It's like he was supposed to play a part in Jerry Maguire. Forgot that he had said he wanted to play the part. Hire an actor, you are pissing on an old man's dreams. Leave me alone. Then the movie comes out and I get this call from Billy Wilder saying, I enjoyed your picture. If you would like to interview me for your column, I'm available on Wednesday. I'm like, okay, well, I have no column. But I'm going there on Wednesday, and I'm going to start interviewing him. Yeah. So we did that for a year and a half. I show my journalism as literature class. His version of the front page. Which I think is vastly underrated, right? But the way he filmed that classic of Chicago journalism. But that's string far afield. You know, I wanted to ask you about your recent films. We had the Pearl Jam dock, and we had the Crosby Doc. We had your foray into long form television, which is so exciting right now. You did it with roadies. And of course, you know, the filmography. What have you been learning and playing at these different forms? The documentary, the feature film, the series on television. Great, great question, different lessons for each one. For doing stuff for Broadway, being succinct is has been a great takeaway because I am the original not the original guy. I have one of the guys that will write a 200 page script when 100 would be better. Right. So the Broadway experience is like, you don't have all night. You're not going to go shoot a whole bunch of stuff and use what works best. You got to shoot your shot right there. So that's been really helpful. Focus on what's coming next. Yeah, just boil it down to send it a few drafts beyond what you would have. Long form television, I'd love to try again. That was, that was a really JJ Abrams who he and I were both writing movies at Jim Brooks company. Gracie films at the same time. And so Wes Anderson was there at the same time. And we all became buddies, you know? And at one point, JJ said, you know what? I'm going to take a different road. I'm going to go do some other stuff. And I'm going to be my own producer. I love what you guys are doing here with Jim Brooks, but it's not the only road. And I thought, well, that's a courageous thing. So he went off and basically started his, he did felicity and stuff and started his whole current TV and later, Tom Cruise was interested in JJ Abrams for Mission Impossible. And had asked me about him. And I raved about JJ and JJ came and met Cruz. And so I had this great relationship with JJ through the years and then one day he's like, if you do TV, let me do it with you. And so roadies was kind of like holding hands with JJ and saying like, let's learn what we can. And what happened was, you know, a lot of lessons were learned about directing my own stuff was the call on some of those episodes of roadies. And so I learned a lot about the strength of storytelling and how it happens in TV, and I feel like we were just kind of getting our rhythm when the show ended. And that cast was wonderful. Yeah. So I love the idea of the ensemble. And so I want to use some of the theater ensemble actors for our next movie because I just, I like working with a big ensemble and stuff. Yeah, I think these projects that you mentioned are all learning experiences. We bought a zoo was like, okay, what about telling a story for that kids would like. And understand, as well as adults, and that was an interesting melding. And I thought Matt Damon, super underrated in that movie. And that's another movie, Jim that got dinged a little bit when it came out, or people laughed about the title.
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"Back into our conversation with Cameron Crowe. You know, I got to say this because, you know, you're a guy who comes from criticism. I mean, you were critiquing bands. You were covering them and you kind of had the last word on a band when you would write a profile or whatever. And then you become now there's a movie maker you're on the other side of that dynamic where people are critiquing your stuff. An artist. And Jim and I write books and it's interesting to be on the flip side of the critiquing, like your stuff is being critiqued. And you know, you've got to have a thick skin, a, but B, sometimes you can learn stuff if it's really an incisive thing, and see, I have found that I learn more about the critic than I did in my book, whatever. You know, it was like, I know what they're saying. I know where this person is coming from when they're reviewing my stuff. I learned to sort of process it that way. It's more about their feelings. Than the actual thing being critiqued and like some of these people probably had a chip on their shoulder, whatever. I don't know if you can see it from that perspective. On the other side for so long. I also, I also know that time is an important participant in all this stuff. When fast times at ridgemont high first came out, you know who was actually violently troubled by the movie, Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert thought that we were actually taking advantage of young Jennifer Jason Leigh and the review was brutal and almost scary. I mean, especially since Jennifer Jason Leigh was the major proponent of the raw stuff in the movie because she wanted to be real, man. And the fact is over time, Roger Ebert changed his opinion. And we talked about it. Similarly, vanilla sky came out and that was when a bad review would, I would carry it around for days in my heart, you know, just like, what happened? What did I do wrong? I hear about vanilla sky all the time now. The people that love that movie are powerful about their advocacy for it. And what happens is they kind of don't remember some of the early feelings, almost famous got good reviews, but it fell out of the theaters in days, because I was gonna see it. You know, I saw almost famous sitting beside roger in the screening room, you know, and we both loved it. And then went back to see it again. But people forget it came and went, right? Here you were. A bunch of Academy Award nominations for Jerry Maguire. You have put phrases in the popular lexicon show me the money, right? And then almost famous comes out, he's done. Jim, it fell off the screen in theaters. It was just like, nobody came. But they discovered it later. It's had this life. I mean, people are religious about that movie now. Well, the thing is, and I'm lucky that I've had enough of a kind of a career where I've been able to do stuff for a while, which is like way beyond the wildest first dream I ever had, which is to have a story in Rolling Stone. But what nobody can dispute is when a story is real and it's being told from the heart for all the right reasons, you're never going to lose. It will find people because it's there's a high pitched signal that goes out when something's being made from the right place for all the right reasons about the right things. And I know almost famous is that story because it's true. It happened to me. It's my family. That is the guy that I met. That is the plane flight that almost went down. I mean, it's like, you can criticize it or you can embrace it, but I gotta say it's authentic. Well, and I admire your courage, Cameron, because the movie is much beloved and people have an ownership over it, right? And it would have been okay to rely on what they call needle drop or jukebox, right? Just the songs that were in the movie. But your ambition you sat down to write songs that would accompany we hear tiny dancer, we hear fever dog, right? But other songs were added. And I was wondering what that songwriting experience was like for you. Working with a song Smith and adding these. Now you kind of like measure up. You better have new music that is going to be as strong as tiny dancer, how do I do that? Well, Tom kitt, who is the song Smith, you're talking about, was such a fun, collaborator, because we had all the same references and he's a little more on the Billy Joel side. And I'm more on the Led Zeppelin side. And where we come together, for example, on the fever dog with a new verse that closes the show is so fun. But he came in with a song called Morocco, which was a cousin of Barcelona. That song that I fell in love with of Sondheim. And that was like the first song where I thought, okay, this, this is an extension of the movie. You know, this is taking the romance of penny lane wanting to go to Morocco
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"Man, we're gonna triple down. Is everything and I looked at this kid and I'm just like, that is it. And that is unique to this situation. These people are there to put on a show. And they tripled down. And I think the reviews that were on the unkind side strengthened the fan base for the show. So people come in and they claim the show more than ever. And for a show that's all about fandom, you know, there was a line there was a line that was in that still in the show and in the movie and everything, which is when Russell Hammond goes, we play for fans, not critics. It started to get applause. I never wanted to be like the bachman Turner overdrive kind of musical where the fans are the only ones that understand because it's not like that. But I did love the thing of like, let's put on a show and let's make it better. Yeah. You know, they push back, we're gonna push back harder and that's The Rock spirit and that's what you get every night at almost famous. When we return, we continue our conversation with Cameron Crowe about critical response to art. Plus, we talk about films like fast times at ridgemont high, Jerry Maguire, and working with JJ Abrams. That's coming up on sound opinions. 92% of households that start the year with peloton are still active a year later. 92% because of a bike? Not just bikes. We also make treadmills and rowers. Oh, let me guess for a lead athlete's only, right? Nope. It doesn't
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"Always home. I'm on Google. Me too. You're doing great, you know. It's only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. Rob coletti as soon as he walked in to do the audition for us, I felt that Lester's warmth, you know? And the warmth that was surprising to me when I met him. And you know about it and stuff you're working on that warmth and that heart is very present, which is great. So I love that there's a warm kind of version of Lester who's also funny in corrosive that opens the show basically by saying it's over. But what you loved about music is open. It's the first lines of the musical. It's like, it's over. Right. What I love is it ends with William Miller saying, what do you love about music? And Russell Hammond says to begin with. Everything. So I just like the shape of it's over, it's beginning. And that's kind of the life of the music fan, you know? And the ride you take with it. So anyway, to over answer. Well, I can see that it is. That's a great way of saying it. And I think, you know, I think part of the problem with Broadway style singing is a lot of it's about exposition. You've got to explain it's almost there's so much emphasis on the words that the music sometimes gets short shrift. But I was curious, it's a daunting hell to climb as us rock lovers know. So I'm just wondering if you'd have it any examples in your catalog of stuff that this was a musical that did rock justice on Broadway or anywhere. You know, regional theater, wherever you may have seen it. Do you have any were there any inspirations like that as you were kind of formulating this? Yeah, Greg, the thing that I said in the very first meeting about this was my dream would be that there would be a high school production version of almost famous that if you're 15 or 16, you're psyched to put on. And that's my real dream, really, that it lives like that because I remember the plays that we would play at my schools and it was like guys and dolls and stuff like that. So I thought like wow wouldn't it be cool if almost famous was in a gymnasium and it was their spring show at a high school or San Diego high school or something would be amazing. So the thing is, can a Broadway audience take a show that handles music more as a concert than as a showy event? You know what I mean? Can it be a little bit of both and can people that love theater come and see the show and eventually hold hands with rock fans, music fans? And they do, by the end of the show, you know, we end with a reprise of fever dog and every night in San Diego and also in New York on Broadway, everybody's standing. So they've kind of like and they're rocking out with still water who plays live, which is really cool. So it's ambitious and when we first started putting the show on some of the people that came to see it who were interested the OG theater people, you know, they had to get tenderized for it because they're kind of not used to seeing Jeff Bebe and stillwater doing the doing the Midwestern hard rock thing, you know? But now I think it's settled in in a great way and people they know there's an ending that's about kind of there's a curtain ball that happens at the end of the show that's really exciting and all the cast appear in it. Every character gets to sing part of fever dog. And it kind of brings everything together and people now know that that's coming because when the show is over, they don't leave. They're ready for this curtain call of fever. Which is I'm maybe proudest of right after maybe end up in a high school sometime. That is a great thought. It really is. You handled that so deftly, my friend, a tenderized. They needed to be tenderized. We're all critics. We're toughened. We're all critics rural journalists. The New York theater press was pretty brutal. And yet people are loving the show and coming to the show night after night. How did that feel? I mean, you've had bad reviews for movies before. It must be must be similar, but he was listening to black Sabbath records at the critic savaged and millions of kids bought it and were influenced by it for decades later. He's telling rolling stone. I'm gonna go on the road with this guy, Peter Frampton, and they're like, oh, he's nothing. He's a teeny Bopper, right? You know, I mean, you've been down this road before, but jeez, man. I was crying. I'm the master of reality of Broadway shows right there. The fans know, no. Here's what's funny. And I love that you asked about it. Because, you know, you're always kind of asked to compare the Hollywood movie making version of putting on a show. To the Broadway version. So me having come from the world of movies like a lot of the storytelling that way. A lot of the people involved as we were putting the show together would take me aside and go, you know, there's no close ups in the theater. You got to get used to it. There's no close ups in the theater. The close ups are when they sing. And I'm like, I know. I know. I picked this up, you know? Yeah. And I loved leaning into it as, you know, because I love knowing a character backwards and forwards and, you know, you feel like you fall in love with them when you hear the story and stuff. And the songs helped me do that. But what it always was supposed to be is a show that brought everybody together, especially the ones that had never been to a Broadway theater. Anyway, the point is, in movies, also if something gets dinged early on, man, everybody looks for another job. Everybody moves on. Everybody's like picking up the phone and reading new scripts. And the wind shifts overnight. So some of the reviews that ding does on the Broadway show, it strengthened the cast. The young man, the young man who Casey likes who plays William. I'll never forget it. The first morning after some of the reviews ran, some of them, not bad, for sure, but here comes Casey, running down the street, skipping, saying like, F of all, man, we're gonna triple down. Is everything and I looked at this kid and I'm just like, that is it. And that is unique to this
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"Make friends were you concerned at all about that. And how that, you know, because like Broadway singers don't think like rock singers. Was I concerned about it? Yeah, that theater people would not get the way to put those songs across. Every minute, every hour, every day. How can I answer in the affirmative and more strongly? Yeah, I mean, I was kind of grumpy about it from time to time because people would be loving it and I would say like, well, you know, if the who or something like the who doesn't appear in terms of rock intensity in this show, I'm out, you know, I can't sit here and believe that it's the correct story and what's great is everybody dug in to understand what The Rock thing was. And it really began with casting. Because all the actors would come in and they would start with a song that was from the 70s canon, you know? So they would show their colors immediately about how rock they were. And some of them would do some of them would do like barracuda and things like that, not knowing I had personal history with heart. Yeah. Yes, good choice, you know? Maybe they did know. But we tend to winnow out the people that didn't understand or that weren't a true fan of the form. You know, which is how we cast the movie too. So it's all music lovers in the cast and the guy who plays Lester. Yeah. Who you know, rob colletti, Chicago's rob colletti, Columbia college grad, yo. He's just the greatest, I feel like he's kind of been a partner for this whole later life for almost famous because he's such a Lester follower, as you know, but he's also deeply in love with music. And is a musician himself. So when he gets up there and opens the show and talks about, you know, Van Morrison or Lou Reed or whatever. You feel it, you know, this actually reminds me quite a bit of Leicester himself, you know, who you have very vivid memories of. And I do too and Philip Seymour Hoffman caught so much of like the inner power and more of Lester. I'm glad you were, huh? I'm
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"cameron crowe" Discussed on Sound Opinions
"Say anything, and more. Let's jump in. Mister cot, today our guest is the screenwriter, director of films like almost famous, say anything, Jerry Maguire, and more, and longtime friend of sound opinions. He got his start, though, in our profession in the trenches like us. Music criticism and journalism, writing for publications like cream and Rolling Stone. His experience of following Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone magazine inspired one of our favorite movies, almost famous, which he wrote directed and won the Oscar for, best original screenplay. And most recently, he turned the film into a Broadway musical, which just ended its run in New York. We'll talk to him about his career, the musical and much more. Let's jump in. We are thrilled to welcome back to sound opinions our old buddy Cameron Crowe, not old as an old, but longtime friend, Cameron Crowe, better way to say it. Exactly. Exactly. Returning fans. Returning sound opinions fan. That's right. Last scene when we screened almost famous for a couple thousand people at millennium park, Cameron had taped something for us to welcome the crowd. That was a good night, my friend. I remember and I think my mom was in on that. Your mom was your house so she was in the video. Your mom, of course, is the principal in almost famous. Like another lesser director, Martin Scorsese, your mom made cameos in all of your films until her death sadly. It's true. She would have wanted to be in on this, you know? It's her thing. You tell her you have a new script or something. She's like, what's my part? What am I doing? Well, you know, seriously, that's a good place to start because I hadn't realized this. And you've been doing a ton of press for almost famous on Broadway. We want to talk to you about the difference between Broadway and films and the differences between the documentaries you've made and the features. But I think the place to start Cameron is with mom. She used to drag you into San Diego to see musicals. It's true because we lived across the street from the old globe theater and I wanted to stay behind and do all the clandestine stuff like listen to Black Sabbath and so forth. And she would say, you're less than a block away from Shakespeare. We can walk across the street. It's going to be great. You'll brag about this one day. So, you know, of course, that day came when years later, they said, you know, you can open your off Broadway musical and like Boston or Atlanta, or San Diego, the old globe. So I said, okay, let's go to the old globe, but immediately started to regret it because, you know, if there's a problem, you don't want it to happen in your old hometown. So it kind of upped the stakes a little bit, but she definitely was the big cheerleader for doing almost famous on stage. So we actually pulled it off for her. Well, what were your memories of theater that impacted you as a kid? I mean, did that stuff make any impact on you at all? Like, oh, you know, filtering back into what you're doing now, perhaps? The pageantry, Greg, it was kind of like, it was a version of a concert, I would find out later because I wasn't going to concerts yet. But I would see real fan worship in some of those performances because the old globe was patterned after Shakespeare's theater. And so real fans would show up to see these plays. And you know, they were mostly kind of boring, but when they, when they hit a dramatic moment, it was galvanizing. And that was what I took away. There's a thing that you can do in the theater. That just kind of happens in real time with real people. And I thought that was kind of explosive and translated in other ways until we came back to the same theater and miraculously, people just kept showing up and we broke all the records and for the old globe. And the thing that's both typically Alice crow, and so her is that she passed away two days before the first audience came in to see this play that she'd been championing for decades, really. So it was classic, dramatic positioning for her exit. She was like, okay, I'm gonna make sure this lands. And so the whole cast really kind of upped the Annie and they were very, it was some powerful performances that happened in San Diego, which we tried to bring to Broadway. Yeah, yeah. Well, what did you think the first time, Alice, your mom said, almost famous, the movie should be a Broadway musical. Did you think, you know, ma, what are you smoking crack? What are you doing? A little bit, a little bit, but Jim, she would, she worked the VCR. Like a Maestro. You know, she would like grab stuff off TV with the VCR and she would always be sending me or showing me a Neil Simon interview or a Steven Sondheim documentary. So she was always kind of like seeding the land or something that might happen in that direction. But and Sondheim was the one that did it for me because I loved this song Barcelona that's in company. And I thought that was as good as my favorite singer songwriter songs. Where you're going Mars.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Now as the years pass, you captured it. But in the moment, if it's what, ten, 11 months earlier, it's completely different. That would drive me crazy. I would never get over that. You're absolutely right. But the thing is, the scene that you just mentioned was kind of a joke at the time. There was no Seattle scene. There was just some bands and a great radio station called kcmu. And they were all they took jobs in coffeehouse and stuff to be able to support their bands, but there was no scene like LA, like I had come from Los Angeles, and it felt not unlike San Diego. There's no real scene. There's just some bands from here. So the whole kind of inside joke of the singles, the Seattle that we filmed when we filmed it was this was like a joke to say, you know, we're a band in the Seattle scene. The weirdest thing was that the music was so good, soundgarden in particular, Allison chains. And it did explode. And I always thought if any of those bands exploded it was going to be soundgarden because I had been to a soundgarden show that was like a Black Sabbath combined with like a psychedelic thing combined with cheap trade. Or something, or Led Zeppelin houses of the holy. And I just thought like, this is so much better than the hard rock bands in LA. That I wanted to do a movie that had that soundtrack to it, and all the bands participated. A lot of them worked on the movie as PAs or Jeff amen was in the art department and it just felt like a group effort that all of a sudden the roving spotlight of media sensation came in landed on that city after we filmed it. So it was actually the spotlight that got it filmed at Warner Brothers was just kind of pissed off that it wasn't what Harry met Sally, you know, that was what they thought a romantic comedy should be. They're like you're giving us Matt Dillon with long hair. That's not Billy Crystal, man. Well, as you're filming it, never mind comes out, becomes a comet. And then Pearl Jam caught ten comes out a few months after that. Same thing. But when you started filming it, when you did, I remember in the research you'd gotten the cast together and you went to see a show and it was like, you went to see Mookie blaylock was they were getting pro champion yet. So you're filming it in the scene hasn't even taken off. I just thought the timing of that was unbelievable. And then by the time it comes out, the scenes happened. Yeah, it's bizarre. I remember Matt Dillon came late to that show. It was Allison chains, Mookie blaylock, and I think Kristen berry opening. But Matt Dillon had shown up from pre wig, of course, from New York. And I remember him sitting there going to jazz, man. I'm just into jazz. This sounds good, but I'm in the jazz. And the cast was looking at me like, okay, so this is like this loud thing that you really love. Okay, well, go to bed early, you know, but they started to catch a buzz. What it was was a really welcoming community of musicians and they were lacked pretension in any degree. And Eddie, you know, Eddie was just the shyest guy who could barely look up from this wall
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"To Tom Cruise. And I just want anybody listening at any studio right now. The lesson is not to make a Top Gun sequel, it is to give us more people who in 30 years my grandchildren will be clamoring to see something that they never experienced before. Because it will have been replayed for them 400 times before they got to that theater. All right. Wesley Sean. I'm glad we did this. We did this every two years. Coming up Cameron Crowe, we taped this last week before almost famous musical premiered, but so that's why we mentioned how it was premiering. It's already premiered, but camera crows next. This episode of the Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by my longtime friend. My friend for football season, because football season is back. And you watch how the action play out and see how all the pre season predictions play out. See if the veteran quarterbacks trying to get that shot at one more ring or underdogs pulling off upsets in the playoffs. All the stuff that makes football great, hating your fantasy theme. It is best to consume it, to watch all of it. With friends and some cold, Miller. The official beer of my house because come to my house, which deputy Kyle does. Every senator watched the Pats with me. And he goes in the fridge. Guess what he's going to find in there? I'll give you a hint. Miller lite. It's cold, soothing goes down easy. It's been my favorite beer since I was ever allowed to drink beer. And you know how well your team will play on any given Sunday, right? No, you don't. You never know. But you always know with Miller lite. It's gonna win. It's gonna win since 1975 because that's when it's been around. It's tailgating your fridge. And for football season, anywhere, pretty
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
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Adult Beverage Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on Adult Beverage Podcast
"How did that affect your thoughts on the film on the character because that could be you know you can look at it as a bad side or it could be a good set. Well she's just trying to protect him from the world but she can't keep him from the world forever and you know he may even have escaped a little too early but man what an education again of what was happening to him during the graduation wasn't he dealing with pennies overdose Yeah what a juxtaposition of those two different things going on. It's in together yes. Yeah and it's holding in the rooms. The mock clapping when no one else. Her son like those quickly she will cut or just like you can get the whole issue. I've met like again like to everyone experienced. But like i felt like she knew he was doing what he's supposed to be doing and she was doing what she was supposed to be doing it. A mom like being her son's graduation and if everyone else didn't know how muc- her sellers she was represent. Yup i thought they could've. They could've taken both lester bangs. And for instance mcdormand the mom character in a different direction like in a lot of movies. The mom character would have been like. No you're not going. You're not doing this. you're too young. But they let her like she. She didn't necessarily agree with it but she let him go live his life and kind of experience on of course. She was calling and checking in and wanted him to check. Embassy never prevented him from doing anything really. Really well written the check ins were always great to because it added comical relief to this This is the main. i'm sorry. Always assumed she was not like choose alone. She wasn't stable. Unlike her son lucius ability and left. But like i felt. She felt good about like who she raised. She knew who he was when they get reunited at the end of the movie..
Adult Beverage Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on Adult Beverage Podcast
"Brought to you by why clo- looking for wait for the sponsor. I feel that. I actually don't use their name at all anymore. Cease trying to kill me me free to drink some willett. What are you drinking. Squeaker whiskies angels envy regret and envy so far. Actually what are you drinking laura. I am drinking vodka. And the spiciest gender ale i could find. What kind of vodka a believe. It's the amsterdam. Oh i was waiting for his hop off of others is a gallon jug of risk. Types of high school with your. It came with a free shirt. Also i think i know can't can't get a win the award for funniest name drinking. I'm drinking a little whistle pig arm. Stock take linda's rare whiskies to definitely put together. You gotta drink whiskey if you're talking about rock and roll man. That's the only way to do it right. And if you're whistling for pigs deal whistle pigs. don't you see sue. Does that way to naturally day. Actually money if you want to talk to go over to catch house now is just coming back to you there. Patrick you talk out pretty mouth care. What kind of waters. this is. My usual alkaloid filtered water delicious. It's from a company called a pitcher. You maybe one of the. We need to do an irish movie. So i could drink some guinness. Because that's the only thing i will drink usually is a location. We haven't done an irish movie since sink. Street was the last one we did can make sure you go out and listen to. That's a good episode to yes and whiplash episode number two. Yes we're squeaker. Got his name so squeaker. Speaking of squeakers. Let's be some too. Because i feel like i kind of got the short end of the stick where i wish this was the first appeared on because then i can had a cool name like fever. Dog hey squeak or what do you think you hate fever dog. What do you think that would that we would have never saw from. I could name from one of those beach. Movies with a debt for the cello and the guy frankie avalon creates family or something.
Adult Beverage Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on Adult Beverage Podcast
"However you say his name forgot really good for that that age and it was great but he was really great but the soundtracks what steals the whole movie. It's just like watching. I don't know if you guys are old enough to remember. There used to be channel that used to show music videos called like music. Television felt like watching an extent. I do. I look it up. Who friday night videos. But it had that montage feel to it because the music was so on top of everything. And i just looked at. The budget was crazy for the music. Compared to a normal norway's like three point five million but it's great and you feel good at the end. It's a happy movie. You wanna bender it and throw your arm in the year. Yeah i didn't see it would never came out. I'm sure i watched it able on my couch. And i watched it again this week and for me like i think if the love letter to music like i think the soundtrack so amazing and you feel like you were there and i think like the first time i watched the it and i've seen it a few times since it's one of those movies like catalogue with on the shortlist of things that like maybe aren't like the most meaningful things. I could probably watch over and over again. Putting a regular rotation. I was a lovely music the soundtrack me really i think. Resonated with dreamers and people are hopeful everywhere. And and i loved it. Yeah i agree with a lot of which had to say Squeaker what's your thoughts on this because This was squeaker actually brought the services. I bohm the to be brought up on the big adult. Where do you know. I lowered more before you getting back on here. But it's great that you get one. I'll be looking forward to when i get to choose again. I love it. I think it's in like my top two or three movies ever and then once i watch it. It's my favorite movie ever one of those. Where as soon as i see it. I'm like yeah this is. This is probably my favorite movie. Wh what makes it stand out so much for you bubis. Many i was just watching movies up to these floating around there. Yeah just disembodied bloating around stranger so strict like the end they were shooting lasers. I mentioned i'm on a prescription drug which line. Because i want some. It's called nanya your business. So i come to from the from. The point of view played music my whole life and that's always been just like lifestyle has always been one that i've been interested in it. I could say that the ban doesn't come across that well and a lot of the movie. That was still like the part that i romanticized as when i first saw twenty years ago and then even now when i watch like the music purchase really really knocked patrick soundtracks amazing. A definitely the best character in the movies music really. It really is a character in this film..
Adult Beverage Podcast
"cameron crowe" Discussed on Adult Beverage Podcast
"Directed by cameron crowe and it stars. Billy credit francis mcdormand. Kate hudson and patrick forgot. The film is based on crowe's experiences toying with rock bands such as poco. The allman brothers band led zeppelin the eagles and leonard skinner. Let's roll down memory lane with a tribute to rock and roll slow. Welcome to this week's episode of dope average film. Podcast listen to our hosts talk about your favorite movies. You never know what you're going to get and discuss new films with our mystery guests from all over the world. Our guests speak freely about their experiences as directors at wrap everybody writers producers actors or whatever contribution they have in the film industry deceased beverage film. Podcasts well.
AP News Radio
Nun-and-done: Loyola Chicago stuns top-seeded Illinois 71-58
"Loyola Chicago became the first team to knock out a number one in this tourney as Cameron Crowe we had nineteen points and twelve rebounds in the seventy one fifty eight victory over Illinois you want to be the best you gotta beat the best and you know they're they're really really good team and and we came out we we we just executed and played our game and and kind of controlled the game from the start and it we just we just took the game plan really Lucas Williamson chipped in fourteen points and helped the Ramblers build a fourteen point lead late in the first half Kofi Cochran had team highs of twenty one point two nine rebounds for the Illini but I would assume it was held to nine points and Trent Frazier added just to one one of ten shooting I'm Dave Ferrie
Rock N Roll Archaeology
Ding Dongs in the Way
"Book back to almost famous minute. Where we're discussing. The two thousand Cameron Crowe Film almost famous. One Minute at a time. I'm Eric Nash. From feels like weezer foresight from. Let's say edge of tomorrow minute. Mcc pleasant From the World. I'm a comedy writer and Just elated welcome. Suzy glad to have you on my. I think I became most aware of you at least kind of recently from a star wars minute and and then then even recently. You're on bull. Durham in it. I got I am tearing up the minute scene. Yeah it's pretty great. You're knocking out a wide range of genres to hear from. Yeah yeah to the sports to the Rock Rock Music Rock Music David. This is your first time with us too. I shouldn't they certainly shouldn't forget you but you're kind of our our unofficial co host happening. He's cuppers minutes that we're going to have you. Yeah good good to be here Big Fan of this movie some. I'm happy to do as much. Co host duties. You need me for saying yeah thank you. Yeah we always have. We always have either of you back For other minutes but this man is meant forty six week and it starts with Russell getting electrocuted and ends with Marc Maron yelling at the band in the electrocution scene man. That's pretty grisly. I think Russell does a pretty good job of well not Russell. But you know that actor's name thank you. Yeah it seems to try and say it disappears from Ed. Bill does a good job of making me feel like he is a real lump of meat that just got cooked on a state of man. It's it's disturbing Yanni really keeps it up to. I mean it's there's there's parts during the sped next to especially Where he just he just really continues to be really out of it really well that they didn't know one called it an ambulance. That's buried the seventy lake. We're like mine. You're just got electrocuted a little bit. Because because I've got a little bit of a morbid streak I had to look up other famous onstage electrocutions. Ooh Yeah so Turns George Harrison was electrocuted in the let it be documentary so you can actually watch him put his lips to the megaphone and get like a little shaky doesn't collapse or anything like that but he does sort of back off shows a little bit of visible pain and you can find that clip on YouTube Keith Richards I was thinking I was going to have to wait until Peter Jackson's done here with Dr. Welby reassembling of Lee keeping it in keeping that part. Maybe that'll be the focus of it. Now lose be like the movie where George gets electrocuted Keith. Richards was also electrocuted. But it was much more like what happens on stage here In nineteen sixty five in Sacramento. His Guitar bumped into an ungrounded MIC stand. Apparently sparks flew in. There was a loud bang and the manager actually thought that Keith had been assassinated. They did rush him to the hospital unconscious and heap. He did not wake up until I think it was later that day in the hospital and he woke up and said man that was good. Probably Rush. I think I'll do that. I thought of. I haven't seen a movie since it came out in theaters And so I forgot. I forgot everything because I know a larger memory and yeah so when I watched the minute before I went back in like watch the rest of the movie And I was like Oh if he on drugs flake I was like are they pretending to be elected because he's on drugs like I couldn't remember if there was like a drug thing so anyway but but it makes sense that he gets electrocuted. I guess it's just like because you don't think about rockstars. Getting electrocuted probably happens a lot less than it did in the seventy S or sixty S. Or whatever when you know now that technology is pretty good like but I wonder if anybody has recently only guess you looked it up like actually. Isn't that famous? Still have you for sure there? I mean there's a long string of them from the seventy so it was definitely like a you know we quit and quite figured out how to ground these things yet. like As freely was electrocuted from kiss and he actually wrote a song about it called shock me later on and then but there are actually people who died from electrocution In the seventies. Yeah Yeah let's Harvey from stone. The crows which was sort of a pub rock band in the early Seventies. He died in in Wales from poorly grounded. Mike Electrocution and Keith Ralph. From the yardbirds died in his basement recording studio from an improperly grounded guitar apparently but yet there's actually a kind of a grisly video. You can find of the band. Hot Hot heat Playing an outdoor festival in Ohio. Somewhere in I don't remember exactly what year it was like. Fairly like the twenty tens. I think where the one of the guitar players get electrocuted and collapses and it's very similar to this like no one really realizes what's happened until he's been laying on the ground for a couple of seconds and then you know the music kind of slowly fades out and everyone in the crowd was like what's going on and it so it's it's still sort of a modern problem. I think trying to put on an outdoor show with you know. Weather conditions in long runs of cable across a field and things like that makes it more dangerous. But Yeah Yeah. I didn't realize how dangerous rock and roll lists the threat and there's other I think really good acting and decides besides just Russell Billy's You know I mean there's there's all this confusion is going on you know and then that's that's actually what jeff bb says. Hey what's going on we here? We also hear like this. Maybe I got it from somewhere or some Transcript site whatever but stinking stinking roads you know so. A roads roads fender bass wise at coming roads. Some some kind of Either Anchor Guitar. Some sort is the root. It's like a brand name erodes Oregon too but I didn't see any of that hanging out instead. Yeah and noticed that both Jeff and Russell. Have like to have two microphones on their MIC stand Sort of tied together which was kind of a weird seventies thing that they did do. That was Sometimes if they rip especially if they were recording the show. You'd have one Mike that fed the PA in one that went to the recording stuff But apparently the grateful dead also did this sort of a weird early form of noise canceling because they would they would put their speakers. Grateful dead put their speakers behind them and did a lot of like weird separation so like the base when we came out of this portion and the guitar came out of his portion to train gift. Things a little more dynamic separation but apparently if you put too close together and you do one in positive polarity in one in negative polarity sort of does some fancy noise cancelling thing on really know but apparently is common in the seventy s until we figured out you know plug ins and laptops and things so very cool. I'm writing so much I do have been baby myself. I was GonNa say you wonder if he's ever seen that before but yeah well the the big thing I've seen is that You know it looks. It seems like there's there's a there's a fair amount of duct tape that I think has happened there at at at Russell's microphone and I've seen lead singer do that before I've done sound work with a few bands quite a few years ago. There was one that Kevin just started going crazy with taping like okay. If you want to do that you're that that's interesting. I wouldn't at seems unsafe. Well I don't know. Duct tape is Great. I guess no don't don't don't know absolutely. I never thought I came from the south. Everything's held together with duct tape. I'm the other thing that that that's at. The very beginning of it is the that the plumbing song is ending. I mean it's not really ending. That's not supposed to end but it's ends because of everyone leaving their instruments in running towards wrestling then than certainly away getting off the stage but You know in the draw. I think in a normal fashion. I think the drums are kind of the one that kind of goes along. The drummer can just be on his own groove and I mean he's sexy Griffin centrally and. Yeah he and he can't maybe can't see what's happening sunders obstruction. Yeah Ding dongs. Away can't Ding dongs meaning drums. Let's that's what I'm gonNA call them now. You know what I'm talking about the hidden things drummers love it when you call me being Donner's I think too so. Oh Yeah Yeah. They totally loved that. Because it's very cool in rock and roll.
Popcorn with Peter Travers
David Crosby, Laurel Canyon And Cameron Crowe discussed on Popcorn with Peter Travers
"This popcorn where I tell you what's happening at the movies and there's a movie now called David Crosby remember. My name like that was ever an issue really only for me that I don't think that is the whole power behind. This movie is my friend Cameron Crowe here who basically isn't the director but he is the producer and he did you see the back of his head in this movie a lot. You know asking this guy questions and I want to really find out the abuse that you were handed by him to really happen. We see a little of it but really there had been born and himself. David the crisis was thrilled to have you here. Things like this is really great leaving. We're both honored to be here. We wanted all that honor has now disappear. Don't does the biggest pain in the ass in the making not me I am probably I have a p._H._d.. In pain in the ass I think you certainly give yourself one. I did give them some tough. You know because that's kind of my nature. I'm a little feisty you know but I don't think anybody really was a pain in the ass and making the film A._J.. was persistent. He's really determined guy and he really will get it done. He's very determined to get it done. That's one of the things we like most about him. We'll see when we say that he's going to get done what's happening. You're you're there. You're not giving him him what they want. Oh no I've given him everything the whole time. I'm seeing the qualities that made it actually happened. He's known me since he's fifteen. He knows where he sold for Cameron. He was there. He's already been in the business for for five years. So he knew upfront he what he brought to this is a he's a consummate foam maker and be he knew me left right and center. He knows where all the bones are buried. He was in the WHO's in the dressing room. When we had that argument whatever went on he was then okay so the two of them and I had what you call a unity of purpose we we completely agreed about the level that we wanted to approach the thing which is rare in any project music or yeah? We did agree completely. We wanted to not do shine job. We didn't want to just say oh he kit because it's I'm not I'm not cute. I'm there are some people that might go in innocently to this movie thinking that you are well. God blessed to that when we didn't WANNA do it. We wanted to show you the truth about a human being as closely as we possibly could without any reservations association's on it at all no no. We'll just cover that we we all felt like that yeah union unit unanimity just complete. We all agreed to level because we didn't want to do the kind kind of shine job that most of the documentaries are well even within if you did even if it was just you going over the highlights of your career. That would still be some movie. The fact is there's no. <music> buttering anybody jokes at all thinking if this was me and it was remember my name I think we have to have that moment you notice. He used my phrase butter. He's in the I've heard to use that was you that was me I thought issue turn on the candidate. I have no right to do that. I really thrilled not here. You use my phrase because I think that's a great way to see didn't didn't tell me what he thought. I wanted to hear. He wasn't you know polishing. My apple makes him angrier. If somebody is trying to do that that would if they were saying. Maybe maybe don't don't generally like it. I like it. If you talk to me. Straight yeah which is one of the things that we have is he like I said he was there. He knows and when he doesn't pull his punches at all neither this A._J.. And that that was that degree of honesty made me fully confident about do the two of you get together on this particular project because he do in two A._J.. Eaten and David and just went into them as you will. It was J.J Abrams office because we were doing our hit showtime series roadies and we ran into to Iran's David in in our friendship and and H._a.. And they were talking about doing a documentary and immediately you know they were like Oh. Come on board with us the my again. We're doing this thing and everything but and I saw David's is that he was ready talk like he wanted to go there in this film and I said first of all as a fan when I watched this thing. I don't want to see a lot of talking heads. Forgive me but like you don't need a lot of people just put the him and you get them. Mike Him Warmly have him look like pretty much into the camera and cut out all middlemen <hes> David tells you about his life the way he would if you knew him for a while and it was a late night and you just ask them all the questions he wanted to ask him and so I said well I'll just do the first interview and have it enjoy it. You know he's the best interview ever and and I just kept interviewing him until I had to be in the show with them and that was a great day but when was the first time that you interviewed him it it had to be seventy four. I got an assignment from craw Daddy magazine to write about crosby stills Nash and young and they were opening their big tour and I've been dreaming of interviewing David as a young journalist and I interviewed him at our friend Joe Bernstein's house which was also Graham Nash next door and he just was so gracious and I had so many questions and he sat for every one of them. I'm like fifteen and he's he's saying. What else do you want to know? What else do you WanNa know he was? I was grieving over. My girlfriend's death like I'm fifteen going. David Crosby is telling me the most intensely personal trust me and I just always interviewed reviewed him every possible chance since and up until now that's all he asked of me was that I'd be honest but all taking him to Laurel Canyon he didn't want to go come on. We're not we're GONNA do that. Are you and wound up really well. Meanwhile everybody's talking about Laurel Canyon like we had to go to Laurel Canyon. He's like Oh. You're not GonNa make me stand on the steps of the country store. Thank Linda fries started. Started the eagles my God you have to Oh plea and this is what we put in the film when he those moments where he says things like there's no cinematic value in this whatsoever and he turns his back on the camera to save certainly yes he came in grump and he got me totally caught me being a grump absolutely then we get him to go in the Laurel Canyon country store which is really the citadel of that whole period as it exists Nessie. I see this is what you get so he walks in and he's looking kind of poetic and I go cross you know what did this place represent to you and he goes. You should see in the movie he goes. What did it represents the place where we came to get the grocery walks off camera and deal harasses the per poor person behind the counter but then he turns and he starts seeing these pictures including the doors which he has a little thing to say about the doors but Peter he goes outside and sits at the table and says the most intimate stuff of the entire interview series but that's because you asked me those question you you're just proud of it because you managed to produce at the store that's right 'cause he could've asked it? Somewhere wouldn't have been picture wouldn't have been a good shot at all so it had to get asked in the right place. I guess so for you to respond to tell me he knows what he's doing. I I am saying that it can learn the hard way because see he has kind of a baby face and you kind of trust and that could really read you up the wrong road but no it didn't because well can we show a little cook. There's there's a clip of you because what I love when you get into what you're doing whether you're excited by somebody or not excited that is there's something in you that gets kind of possessed by what it is in here in this clip slipped we have you're talking about culture fantastic. I looked pretty silly but it's funny. the the You look excited by what what you're talking about the movie we didn't know how to start the movie and we just decided decided one day that we were going to start at ninety miles an hour the story right all right well. Let's take a little peek at this and then inducted in men's room. I got my head against his Pew Green Tile. I can still remember the color of the tile okay. It's going to be right now to get it together. Now going to be okay. Somebody kicks the door Bam. It's train. He's kicked the door open because he's in playing at the most intense level you could ever imagine in your life. He never stopped soloing he still soloing and he's hitting the thousand mark. You know he's like burning. I never heard anybody it'd be more intense would be than in my life in that little bathroom tile I
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The Internet Responds to the New Trailer for 'Cats'
"The trailer for the movie cats uh-huh so curveball if we could create a vast distance between quality as vast distances possible from the South Pole to the North Pole and back again that's cats to once upon a time in Hollywood in my mind Chris. I Really WanNa know what you thought of the cats trailer. I'm starting to lose the La- grip on the road pure man like I don't know. I don't really know what my purpose and role is in this culture if this is what we're doing wow if brought you to your knees. I'm a fake animal that sings. I don't need me. You'll need my takes like you know what I'm saying like retiring. I'm I'm just saying that like I have nothing to offer. Cats culture cats culture yeah. What's what is it? What are your dog guy? You know wish that Milton in could sing no did I need to see James Corden as a cat various other people as cats. I I don't know who this movie is for other than intense fans of the extremely long running winning Broadway musical cats which is utterly mediocre musical by all accounts not really in the in the Pantheon of the great examples of all time memories. JAMMIES is okay but you know what what else. I don't know they've assemble levels <unk>. Dave assembled a lot of talent. This has like all time stinker at non it. I think it has all time film twitter meam Lord written all over and we find out that film twitter is not the real world. I think three hundred dollars yes. That's the big question is is the trailer hit on Thursday. Everybody acted as if they got a star is born but in reverse yeah they could that they were they thought was going to be bad and it was actually worse than they thought it was going to be and they they left at the chance like a cat right to make fun of it can can I just read some of the names of of the characters lease due. Taylor swift is playing a cat named bumble Arena Scher eagerly anticipating that performance Gordon is playing a cat named Busta for Jones Yeah Yeah of course as the call me that Jennifer Hudson Grizz Abella Yup the crucible is the singer of memories rebel Wilson Jenny any dots yeah cool cat names racism creative writing Cinderella tighter. Yeah I know about that guy little known facts about cat. Isn't there something Jelica yes little known. Fact about cats is Andrew. Lloyd Webber was nine years old when he wrote it surprising that we're not but <hes> so you guys are. I'm not anticipating this movie not that much snow. Would you say you're anticipating it less than Topgun Maverick. Yeah I mean I think that if if you could if I could get in a time machine and they were like do you WanNa go back and kill Hitler right or you know Bassy Alexander the Great Cross the Russian steps I would like can I just go ahead fifteen months to see top gun to in the span of five minutes you have retired fulltime cultural commentary and you have stated that rather than kill Hitler. You would like like to go forward nine months. The high stakes here. I can't imagine listen people's choices of their own choices it I could not. I can't imagine sitting through this movie. Here's the here's the issue with the realistic take on cats. What's the genitals where are they? What's going on with them? You see I'm watching trailing arm like I'm expecting to see a para harakat nuts. Are you not you are because it's a realistic moved in this. Why are we doing it? Can they wear pants. Why are they not wearing pants? WHO's Coordi- character Busta for bus drivers got like a little petticoat yeah? He's starting it some wearing pants summer. Not What is the deal. What does the deal is this exactly what you hoped or hoping the Jason would imitate Jerry Seinfeld seeing the trailer for cats so yes? This is exactly what imagining
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Cameron Crowe Is Turning His Hit Film 'Almost Famous' Into a Stage Musical
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