Did you know that Joni Mitchell’s new album Dreamland (a career spanning greatest hits hand picked by Joni) includes liner notes by Cameron? Check em out here.
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Cameron’s Journal for Elizabethtown
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Here’s the first entry for Cameron’s Elizabethtown Journal.
December, 2003
Elizabethtown finally has its lead actors. Orlando Bloom (as Drew Baylor) and Kirsten Dunst (as Claire Colburn). Dunst had come very close to being cast in Almost Famous and Bloom had been the lead (with Kate Beckinsale) in my one and only commercial, a black and white ad for the Gap. We’d made a pact to work together in the future. Now’s the time. Only one problem. He’s not available for close to six months. Dunst will have time to make another movie, “Wimbledon,” in England, and I will have time to storyboard and prepare the movie to a fine degree. And the movie, which is set in summer, will be able to be shot in summer. That had always been a problem how were we going to do a movie about summer, in all its glorious humidity, with January snow on the ground? It feels right to wait. Vinyl Films will go into a long pre-production hibernation_ we make all kinds of plans on how to spend the down time. We’ll work on future projects, plot visual style on “E-town,” plan music for the movie and we’ll put out the vinyl on our fave artists Low and Mark Kozelek, and wait out the long months.
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Dec 8, 2003
Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums
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Cameron was among the 273 voters for Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time (this special issue is on newsstands now!). Crowe’s #1 selection was the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. He wrote this about that seminal album. I’m trying to get all 50 of Cameron’s picks, so stay tuned….
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Dec 1, 2003
Mojo Risin’
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David Bowie. Photo courtesy of Neal Preston.
Cameron talks with Chris Marlowe of the wonderful UK music magazine, Mojo. This interview is from the August, 1995 issue. I’m not sure what Cameron was doing in the UK at that time (since this was between the release of Singles and Jerry Maguire). He talks about the early days, Fast Times, Singles and his love of music. It’s the only Crowe interview I’ve located for 1995.
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Nov 18, 2003
The Great Bill Zehme
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Cameron proudly introduces Bill Zehme’s book Intimate Strangers (which was published this past December). CC talks about his killer first sentence, his skills as a writer and interviews and (of course) Bill’s famous sit down with Warren Beatty.
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Jun 13, 2003
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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Apr 28, 2003
Frances McDormand – Interview Magazine
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Cameron talks with Frances McDormand for Interview magazine in a funny piece from October 2000. Topics include Fargo, Cameron vs. Coen Brothers and her fat ass. Trust me, it’s hilarious!
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Jan 13, 2003
Deep Purple & A Steak Dinner
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Cameron sits down for a steak dinner with Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore in a Rolling Stone interview from April 10, 1975. Ritchie is never at a loss for words, so it’s a good read.
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Jan 7, 2003
