Review of filmmaker Cameron Crowe’s memoir The Uncool

As a teenager meeting a girl for a first date, Cameron Crowe took her to meet David Bowie. Cameron Crowe smuggled marijuana seeds from Bob Marley’s private stash. The filmmaker has lived an unbelievable life, and he shares his wide-eyed wonder — and uniquely underage vantage point — in a new memoir, The Uncool. “The more I didn’t speak, the more he enjoyed our conversation.”Shaped by songsCrowe listened and listened and listened. The Uncool Cameron Crowe Fourth Estate ₹670 (Kindle)The reviewer is a screenwriter, critic and columnist.