He's With the Band

摘要

The music-crazed hero of Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" can't quite believe his luck. Here he is, all of 15 years old, on the road with the rock-and-roll band Stillwater, and Rolling Stone is paying him good money to write about it. (The magazine doesn't know how old he is: when it calls, he lowers his voice to disguise his youth.) Nervous, excited, grateful and confused, William (Patrick Fugit) is torn between being a fan and being a journalist. "Just make us look cool," says the very cool lead guitarist, Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup). On the other hand, William can't get the words of his cranky mentor, Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman), out of his head: "You can't make friends with rock stars.