Life in the movies

These are just a few of Crowes accomplishments:
He appeared briefly in the 1978 film American Hot Wax, but then returned to his writing.In 1979, Crowe (then 22) went undercover as a southern California high schooler to research his book on teen life,Fast Times at Ridgemont High. In 1989, Crowe made his feature film directorial debut with his original screenplay Say Anything... It featured strong performances by an ensemble cast including Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Campbell Scott and Bridget Fonda, as well as a cameo appearance by Pearl Jam. Cameron's second movie set in Seattle was 1992's romantic comedy Singles. He also wrote came up with the movie Almost Famous, it released in September 2000, and was the culmination of a ten-year journey to put Cameron's experiences working for Rolling Stone on film.

Life at Rolling Stone

At the age of 15, Crowe met the editor of Rolling Stone, Ben Fong-Torres, on a trip to Los Angeles.He then was able to join the staff of Rolling Stone as a Contributing Editor and later went on to become an Associate Editor for the magazine. During that time, Crowe profiled such influential music-world figures as Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and the members of Led Zeppelin. When the Rolling Stone magazine moved its offices from the West Coast to New York,Crowe decided to test his talents in other industries.
Here is a link to the Articles that he wrote during his time at the Rolling Stone:

The Early Years

Cameron Crowe was born on July 13, 1957 in Palm Springs, California. He skipped kindergarten and two grades in elementary school, so by the time he attended Catholic high school, he was younger than the other students. Crowe first started writing for his school newspaper and at the age of 13 he began writing music reviews for The San Diego Door.He started submitting articles to other publications like Creem and Circus.He graduated from his high school in San Diego in 1972 at the age of 15.