Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
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May 26, 2021 · Pamela Springsteen played a cheerleader in the 1982 teen comedy 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe. Bruce Springsteen referenced the film and his sister during his radio show 'From My Home To Yours' on SiriusXM.
Springsteen took up acting, and was cast in her first role as a young cheerleader in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. [9] Two years later, in 1984, she appeared as a cheerleader in the film Reckless. She appeared in Modern Girls, and Scenes from the Goldmine.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Sean Hutchinson
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High began as a non-fiction book. While a freelance writer for Rolling Stone, screenwriter Cameron Crowe spent a year secretly embedded at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California under an assumed name (and in cooperation with the school’s administration) to gather stories for a non-fiction book with the same title.
- The inspiration for Mark “The Rat” Ratner would go on to become a real-life computer guru. Crowe based the geeky Rat on then-Clairemont High School student Andy Rathbone.
- Fast Times is Amy Heckerling’s directorial debut. Heckerling, who would go on to direct Look Who’s Talking and Clueless, was hired to direct Fast Times at Ridgemont High based on her AFI thesis film.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh also did a bit of undercover work to prepare. Twenty-year-old Leigh took a job at the actual Perry’s Pizza in the Sherman Oaks Galleria mall, where parts of the movie were shot, to get into character as Stacy Hamilton.
- The movie has no instrumental score. Lots of movies have supplemented a traditional instrumental score with popular music, whether it’s nostalgic classic rock or current pop hits.
- Several cast members were born into showbusiness. Though Fast Times was definitely Sean Penn’s big break, he wasn’t exactly unfamiliar with the world of Hollywood before he got the part.
- Forest Whittaker had only just started making movies. Forest Whittaker secured his first two movies in 1982 – Tag: The Assassination Game, released in April, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which came out in August.
- Mark ‘The Rat’ Ratner was based on a teen Andy Rathbone, who became a real ‘geek god’ Cameron Crowe carried out the research for his original novel at Clairemont High School, San Diego.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus ...
Watchlist. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Pamela Springsteen: Dina Phillips. Showing all 2 items. Jump to: Photos (1) Quotes (1) Photos. Quotes. Cindy : We just want to say that we're not Spirit Bunnies anymore. We always hated that name. It bugged the heck out of Dina and me. Dina Phillips : It's just such a put-down! Cindy : Really!
