Cameron profiles Bachman-Turner-Overdrive and their approach to the rock & roll business in this (new to the Uncool) 1975 Rolling Stone feature. There’s some killer/scary Randy Bachman quotes here as you can see where corporate rock began to take hold…
You can check out a free outdoor screening of We Bought A Zoo this Friday, August 31st at the Waltham Commons in Waltham, MA. This looks like a great place to see a movie and it’s just outside of Boston. More details over at their official site.
Photo By Mikael Jansson
Cameron sits down for a chat with Emma Stone in the latest issue of Interview magazine. They talk about how Emma grew up on 70s and 80s comedy, heartbreak, her filmography, The Apartment and much, much more. We hope you like it.
Robert Plant by Neal Preston (1975)
To celebrate and honor Robert Plant’s birthday today, we’d like to remind you about all the various Zeppelin related Journalism that’s available for your viewing pleasure. Dive in and reacquaint yourself with all things Led Zep.
We asked Cameron to share a few words about the 30th anniversary of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It was released in theaters on August 13, 1982.
On the last day of filming Fast Times at Ridgemont High there were high-fives and happy/sad goodbyes. Amy Heckerling had powered through a tough schedule, and we’d snuck the movie through the studio system, in no small part thanks to our fiercely funny and protective producer Art Linson. Sean Penn, who’d been in character the entire filming, arrived in a brown corduroy jacket and introduced himself. “I’m Sean,” he announced. We all felt instantly nostalgic for the blonde stoner we’d known and called Jeff for the previous three months. I looked around, and saw one of the red trash cans that had followed us from location to location, from the Sherman Oaks mall to Van Nuys High. It’s been in my writing room ever since. Happy 30th Anniversary… and thanks to all the cast, crew and fine friends we still have from those bitchin’ summer days of not so long ago….
The Bootleg Cut of Almost Famous will be screening as part of a double feature with The Last Waltz. The Prince Charles Cinema in London will host the event on July 30th. More details and ticket info over at their official site.
As part of a feature in the November, 1980 issue of Pro Fun magazine, Cameron was amongst a group of rock critics that shared 10 Records (or singles /artists) that in some way affected them or changed their lives. We thought it might be fun to peek back and share those with you today.
1. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere – Neil Young
2. After the Goldrush – Neil Young
3. Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
4. Bayou Country – Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. For the Roses – Joni Mitchell
6. Something/Anything? – Todd Rundgren
7. Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
8. “The Wild One, Forever” – Tom Petty
9. Cloud Nine – The Temptations
10. James Brown
That’s right. We Bought A Zoo is out today in the UK on Blu-ray. Extras should mirror those in other countries. There’s still a few countries left (listed below), but we are just about finished with Zoo and getting ready for the next project . . .
