Cathy and Todd discuss Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, the 2000 film based on Crowe’s own teenage years writing for Rolling Stone. It’s 1973 and 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit) gets an assignment to go on tour with a rising band called Stillwater. On the road, he becomes friends with the band’s guitarist, Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), and a devoted fan named Penny Lane (Kate Hudson). His protective mom (Frances McDormand) keeps checking in from home, and his mentor, rock critic Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman), tells him not to make friends with the musicians he’s writing about. It’s a movie that’s on a lot of people’s favorites lists and it gets better with every viewing.
