Almost Famous (Biography/Comedy) (2000) © 2001 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters William Miller.................Patrick Fugit A sweet and very smart 15 year old kid (in 1973) who wants to be a rock’n’roll critic and write for Rolling Stone magazine. Elaine Miller..................Frances McDormand William’s very nervous and conservative mother, a college professor, who is always worried that her children are going to take illegal drugs. Anita Miller....................Zoey Deschanel William’s older sister who decides to leave home when she is still very young because she can no longer accept living with her mother. Russell Hammond.................Billy Crudup The guitarist and most well known musician in the (fictional) hard rock group Stillwater, which is trying to become a superstar group even though their music is fairly typical and not very good. Jeff Bebe.......................Jason Lee The lead singer for Stillwater, who is convinced that rock music in general, and his group in particular, is deeply important. "Penny Lane" (Lady Goodman).....Kate Hudson A 16 year old fan of the group who is in love with Russell, who travels around the country when they are on tour. Girls like her are usually called "groupies," but she prefers the term "Band-Aid." Sapphire........................Fairuza Balk A friend of Penny and one of the Band-Aids following Stillwater. Lester Bangs....................Phillip Hoffman A well-known rock critic who writes for Cream magazine, who is convinced that great rock’n’roll is being killed by bad groups like Stillwater, and record companies who only care about making money. Ben-Fong Torres.................Terry Chen A well known editor for Rolling Stone magazine who hires William to write an article on Stillwater. Dick Roswell....................Noah Taylor Stillwater’s inexperienced British manager. Dennis Hope.....................Jimmy Fallon A new more experienced manager that Stillwater’s record company hires to help lead the group. Plot Summary This film is the story of a sweet and very smart kid who loves rock music, and whose dream is to be a rock music writer. Most of the film takes place in 1973, when William Miller is 15, and when he sets out to write an article about an increasingly popular rock group called Stillwater. They are typical of the hard rock groups of that period, in that they are loud and seductive, but not nearly as good as the classic 1960s groups that came before them (such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones). Regardless, Stillwater is a fictional group, although they are very similar to such real 1970s bands as Bad Company or Grand Funk Railroad. And in fact, William himself is really Cameron Crowe in real life, the writer and director of this film, who began writing for责任编辑:yechenglu
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