While Penn played a stoner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he has mostly turned to more serious and dramatic roles as his career went on. Some of his best work has been in Mystic River , Milk ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High‘s ascension to comedy classic was a slow process.. Amy Heckerling, who had only directed student work to that point, was set to helm an MGM project when it was ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s ascension to comedy classic was a slow process. Amy Heckerling, who had only directed student work to that point, was set to helm an MGM project when it was ...

Forty years ago, classic teen film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was labeled as "pornography" by Universal and buried its release. ... “Fast Times” marked a revolutionary turning point in film.

For those who have never attended Ridgemont High or haven’t been in class for a long time, a little primer. In 1981, a young writer named Cameron Crowe published a book called “Fast Times at ...

Vern Shank, a Flagler Beach musician, producer and DJ met Robert Romanus over a decade ago in Los Angeles, where Shank lives ...

Robert: In 1982, the movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” came out. I was fascinated with the Volkswagen bus in that movie. A year later, I found a VW bus for sale for $800 in Alameda, Calif.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, released in theaters on Aug. 13, 1982 (40 years ago this weekend), ... At that point, Zeppelin played a much larger role in the initial story.

Released on Aug. 13, 1982, Fast Times at Ridgemont High featured a cast comprising almost entirely unknown young actors portraying the film’s high school-age characters. Still, for all the what ...

The movie that launched the careers of Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker and others didn’t get a big rollout from Universal because of its racy scenes, but critics and audiences cemented ...

Robert: In 1982, the movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” came out. I was fascinated with the Volkswagen bus in that movie. A year later, I found a VW bus for sale for $800 in Alameda, Calif.