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- In the conversation, (co-hosted by James Andrew Miller, whose behind-the-scenes podcast Origins has dedicated its current season to the making of Almost Famous), Crowe and the actors looked back at the film’s most indelible scene: the sing-along to Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” on Stillwater’s tour bus.
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Jul 31, 2020 · Cameron Crowe, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, and Patrick Fugit recall the making of the most memorable scene in 'Almost Famous' movie.
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It’s probably the most iconic scene focusing on Billy Crudup’s character, Russell Hammond, lead singer for the band Stillwater and a stand-in for just any number of real-life rockers from which screenwriter Cameron Crowe drew inspiration. For what it’s worth, Crudup says he will never tireof fans coming up to him and delivering this famous line.
Arguably the film’s standout scene, this is the reason a generation of young movie-goers ended up learning all the lyrics to an Elton Johnsong from 1971.
There’s no shortage of tender scenes between young journalist William (Patrick Fugit) and supreme Band Aid Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), but this airport scene might come the close to summing up their relationship – a real connection that’s not based on sex or music but just genuine affection between two people who want the best for the other.
All the tears shed by Hudson’s character might lead you to forget that Almost Famousis a comedy too. In one of the funniest scenes, it looks like the band’s plane may crash, and confessions come out left and right. Easily the best of them is Stillwater member Ed (John Fedevich) announcing “I’m gay!” Moments later, the turbulence ceases, and every o...
While Deschanel technically made her film debut in 1999 in Mumford, most movie-goers first met her in Almost Famous, in which she plays a mod stewardess and the older sister to Fugit’s character. Fifteen years later, she’s still the cool girl, and she’s still rocking looks straight out of a mid-’70s period piece – and we wouldn’t want her any other...
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Of all the film’s performances, perhaps the most indelible is that of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs, the scabrously honest rock journalist who, in real life, became...
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Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It tells the story of a teenage journalist, played by Fugit, writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, touring with the fictitious rock band ...
