Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Wikipedia  Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe, adapted from his 1981 book of the same name. Crowe went undercover at Clairemont High School in San Diego, and wrote ... Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) is a surfer and habitual marijuana user who runs afoul of a...
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BIOGRAPHY: Cameron Crowe Lifetime  After leaving to return to high school and research a book on adolescent life, ... He later adapted it into a screenplay, the film of which emerged in 1982. The film featured such emergent talent as Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sean Penn. ... Crowe's work matured and, thanks to the presence of Tom Cruise, became a massive hit.
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... SEAN PENN $1600: Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, all I need are some ... BOOKS INTO MOVIES $800: Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film
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Cameron Crowe - Wikipedia  Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at ... Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, Say Anything, and then .... became culturally ubiquitous for a time.
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Elizabethtown  Film Monthly  The Uncool - The Official Site for ...  Born in Palm Springs, but raised in San Diego, Crowe became a journalist at the age of 15, ... At age the age of 22, he returned to high school to research a book on ... the best-selling result into the script for Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). ... of Hollywood's brightest stars, notably Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - IMDb  Comedy  A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important ... Directed by Amy Heckerling. ... Join us for a live Twitter Q&A with Captain Fantastic director Matt Ross on Tuesday, Oct. 25, ... Sean Penn, Ray Walston Film Set Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) 0083929 Jennifer Jason...
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Almost Famous (2000) - IMDb  Adventure  A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine ... Directed by Cameron Crowe. With Billy ... High Fidelity (2000).
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... SEAN PENN $1600: Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, all I need are some tasty ... ONLY SMALL ACTORS $800: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film
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Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Paper Chase  By the end of the film Hart is more alone than he was at the beginning. ... The dated hairstyles and dreadful 70's clothes look silly and as a child of the 70's it's awful to ... The film focuses on the Socratic Professor Kingsfield played by John ... an Oscar winning role and his shaping the minds of his callow students from "skulls...
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Amazon.com  The only music in the whole film resides at the beginning (as the credits roll). ... thought that this film should have not only been nominated for Best Picture of 1979, ... correlation between the real-life Pennsylvania accident and the fictional film ... New interviews with Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda (and some others) fill up...
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Cameron Crowe - Wikipedia  Crowe appeared in the 1978 film American Hot Wax, but then returned to his writing. Though he would continue to freelance for Rolling Stone on and off over the...
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... SEAN PENN $1600: Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, all ... Mariel Hemingway was a pentathlete who had a lesbian affair in this...
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Phillips Exeter Academy - in Popular Culture - LiquiSearch  The book was later adapted for the movie Simon Birch, although Exeter is not addressed in the film. The World According to Garp: In this novel by John Irving, the ... Young Garp grows up in Steering's infirmary, eventually attending the school...
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... SEAN PENN $1600: Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, all I need are some tasty ... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER $800: Arnold's film career took off after he played this sword-wielding comic book hero in 1982
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Chariots of Fire: 1981 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 3, 2014 ... 4-LETTER FILMS $1000: Sean Penn made his feature film debut as a military cadet in this 1981 film. EGYPTIAN FILM FESTIVAL $800: In a...
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) | From The Abyss to Zoolander  Jun 14, 2014 ... If it weren't for Sean Penn's performance as Jeff Spicoli and Pheobe Cates taking her top off I feel like this movie would hardly be ... Spicoli. He is definitely the highlight of the film for me, his laid back stoner dude is very funny.
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jeopardy/2139_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 12. CLASSIC TEEN CINEMA | Honoring a rock idol of 1959, it's the school John Travolta attends in "Grease" | Rydell High. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper.
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Tom Clancy - Hunt for Red October - First Edition - Signed | Bauman ...  Annapolis: Naval Institute, (1984). ... Naval Institute Press, The Hunt for Red October became a surprise best-seller and one of President Reagan's ... Made into the 1990 film starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. First edition, published by the Naval Institute Press and printed in Annapolis, with neither statement of edition...
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Almost Famous  Montreal Film Journal  Jan 3, 2014 ... Yes, Cameron Crowe's follow-up to the wildly successful Jerry ... I'm a huge fan of Crowe and his debut, 1989's Say Anything, is one of my ... with Led Zeppelin and other '70s super-bands and writing stories about them. ... She doesn't want her kids anywhere near the sex, drugs and rock & roll of the era.
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Jeopary Questions page 1427 - OLD HICKORY - TriviaBistro.com  MOVIE REVIEWS: The Sacramento Bee said this film, Cameron Crowe's saga of '70s rock, is "Almost Fabulous"  BETTER KNOWN AS....: "Home"y heartthrob...
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Apt Pupil (story) - Based on a Book  The book Apt Pupil (story) was made into the movie Apt Pupil. ... Actors on this movie include Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Joshua Jackson, Mickey ... At the top of his game, Stephen King has a real gift for mining monsters--zero-at-the-bone ... Adapted from a novella in the 1982 collection that also spawned Stand by Me and...