Fast Times at Ridgemont High - A True Story

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For seven years I wrote articles for a youth culture magazine, and perhaps not a day went by when this term wasn’t used—“the kids.” Editors assigned certain articles for “the kids.” Music and film executives were constantly discussing whether a product appealed to “the kids.” Rock stars spoke of commercial concessions made for “the kids.” Kids were discussed as if they were some enormous whale, to be harpooned and brought to shore.

It began to fascinate me, the idea of The Kids. They were everywhere, standing on street corners in their Lynyrd Skynyrd t-shirts, in cars, in the 7-Eleven. Somehow this grand constituency controlled almost every adult’s fate, yet no adult really knew what it was nowadays—to be a kid.

In the summer of ’79, I had just turned twenty-two. I discussed the idea for this book with my New York publisher. Go back to high school, he said, and find out what’s really going on in there with the kids. I thought about it over a weekend, and took the project.

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