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Writer and director Cameron Crowe is looking back on the influence Kris Kristofferson had on his journalism career

Crowe interviewed the country singer-songwriter and actor when he was a teenage music journalist

“He really took time with a kid to tell me some truths," Crowe tells PEOPLE in an interview about his new memoir The Uncool

Cameron Crowe is reflecting on the influence of Kris Kristofferson .

In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE for this week’s print issue, for his new memoir The Uncool , Crowe, 68, looks back on how the singer-songwriter and A Star Is Born actor, who died in 2024 at age 88 , helped kickstart his career as a music journalist.

Crowe first interviewed Kristofferson in 1972. At the time, Crowe was a freelance journalist on assignment f

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