This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing.

It's a award season and we're re-listening to some of our favorite interviews with Oscar

Winners.

Cameron Crow won his Oscar for almost famous.

In his speech he gives a nod to Billy Wilder.

Stay listening to our conversation to hear just how that friendship came about.

Imagine it's the 1970s, the golden years of rock and roll.

And you are one of the biggest rock stars in the world.

Let's say you're David Bowie.

And this cutting-edge magazine that everyone in the industry is taking notice of sends a

reporter to interview you and in walks a 16 year old boy.

Cameron Crow is still probably best known for his personal story.

The child prodigy who convinced Rolling Stone to let him embed with rock superstars at

age 16 has told in his brilliant coming of age movie almost famous for which he received

an Academy Award for best screenplay.

And before he won that Oscar, Cameron Crow spent his high school years on tour with the

legends of rock.

My dream kind of ended with a story on the cover of Rolling Stone.

I was like, that may never happen.

And then it happened when I was 16.

So it was like, okay, let's recalibrate the dream.

But when you go to make movies, was that inevitable?

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