Almost Famous-2000

As per the picture should show above, my first official review here is for the 2000 film Almost Famous. I always thought this film was so interesting and entertaining, not really recognizing at the time how much I identified with William Miller( Patrick Fugit) because he was a writer and how much we naturally notice things around us.

     This movie comes directly from director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a rock writer for Rolling Stone magazine. The first article he ever did for the magazine was in January of '73 for the band Poco, they paid him $350. Kinda a small band, I remember some of their hits vaguely. But by the March 13 issue, Cameron was the featured author of the band on the cover which was Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

      Cameron has said of this film, that the experiences he drew from most was when he was with the bands Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, and Glenn Fry of The Eagles. 
         Penny Lane was based on a real groupie called Pennie Lane a girl from Oregon who had a school for groupies called Flying Garter Girls and gave them specific rules to live by.

     Cameron was only fifteen years old when he started writing for Rolling Stone and still is to this date the youngest correspondent they have ever had working for them. Remember who YOU were when you were fifteen and who you were listening to? How totally boss would it have been to go on the road with your favorite band or singer and report on it ? Totally awesome and way better than a book report on Romeo and Juliet.