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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,

featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

Almost exactly 25 years ago, writer-director Cameron Crow unveiled one of the most

enduringly beloved, deeply satisfying, endlessly re-watchable movies of our time, almost famous.

The film was autobiographical, based loosely, but really not that loosely, on Crow's own

somewhat otherworldly experiences as an extremely

precocious rock journalist who published his first record reviews in his local underground

newspaper, the San Diego Door in 1971 at the age of just 14, and who, within two years

of then, had gone on to publish his first cover story in Rolling Stone

on the Allman Brothers, in case you were wondering, and who found himself regularly spending days,

weeks, and sometimes even months, hanging out and traveling back and forth across the country

with some of the defining bands of the 1970s. The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young,

and on and on and on. By the end of that decade, Cameron Crowe was done, at least for the

moment with Rolling Stone, and had begun his transition into moviemaking as the screenwriter

of Fast Times at Ridgeidgmont High.

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