Cameron Crowe: I dig it.  I keep thinking I’ll run into Nathan Rabin and we’ll have a great conversation about it.  Every MPDG he’s assigned to me has been based on a real woman, though, so they’re not really “cinematic creations” to me.  Often that persona is a front, and every true man’s job is to dig beneath the surface and really come to know the woman he finds himself in love with.  Still, the coinage is hilarious.  I love it.

I still believe that Crowe is one of the few remaining humanist filmmakers in Hollywood and his reputation has been sullied by the dross of lesser imitators. It is like blaming The Clash for Simple Plan. His films can be rightly accused of having a dominant masculine point of view, but they are also critical of this myopism; the coat-tuggers in his wake are not wise enough to have it.