From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marquesie.

As a former rock journalist myself, Cameron Crowe's career always seemed impossibly cool

and impossible to replicate.

He got to start as a teenager in the 70s, going on the road and hanging out with the likes

of Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, and David Bowie for Rolling Stone Magazine.

Trust me, that does not happen anymore.

He would eventually turn those experiences and his mother's completely understandable worries

about them into his classic film

almost famous from 2000, which he directed and which won him the Academy Award for Best

Original Screenplay. Those experiences are also the backbone of his new memoir, The Uncool.

But the book's tight focus on those early days means there's kind of a lot left

on tapped. That includes Crow's transition to writer-director of beloved films like

Say Anything singles and Jerry McGuire, as well as some thornier subjects, like the end of his

marriage to musician Nancy Wilson, and what some people, myself included, see as a real

change in the quality of his more recent work.

So what happened?

And has any of that tougher stuff chipped away at the idealism at the center of his earlier successes?

There's a lot to talk about.

Here's my conversation with Cameron Crow.

Cameron. about. Here's my conversation with Cameron Crow. Cameron, thank you for taking the time to talk with me today.

So great to be doing this, and thanks for you taking the time.

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