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  <name><![CDATA[Cameron Crowe]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Cameron Bruce Crowe is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was contributing editor at &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt; 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 void of cynicism. Michael Walker in the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; called Crowe &quot;something of a cinematic spokesman for the post-baby boom generation&quot; 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, &lt;i&gt;Fast Times at Ridgemont High&lt;/i&gt;, grew out of a novel he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, USA. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, &lt;i&gt;Say Anything&lt;/i&gt;, and then &lt;i&gt;Singles&lt;/i&gt;, a story of Seattle twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering on that city's burgeoning grunge music scene. Crowe landed his biggest hit, though, with the feel-good &lt;i&gt;Jerry Maguire&lt;/i&gt;. After this, he was given a green light to go ahead with a pet project, the autobiographical effort &lt;i&gt;Almost Famous&lt;/i&gt;. Centering on a teenage music journalist on tour with an up-and-coming band, it gave insight to his life as a 15-year-old writer for &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/i&gt;. Also, in late 1999, Crowe released his second book, &lt;i&gt;Conversations with Billy Wilder&lt;/i&gt;, a question and answer session with the legendary director.
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  <title><![CDATA[Conversations with Wilder]]></title>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Almost Famous]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vanilla Sky]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Jerry Maguire]]></title>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Elizabethtown]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Joseph Szabo: Teenage]]></title>
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  <published>2003</published>  
  
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