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Almost Famous Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journa list - he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while s till in hig h school - inspired this coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hit ting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller is a bright, loving, but strict single paren t whose distrust of rock music and fe ars about drug use have helped to drive a wedge between herself and her two children, Anita and William . Anita rebels by dropping out of school and becoming a stewardess, but William makes something of his love of r ock & roll by w riting album reviews for a local underground newspaper. William's work attracts the attention of Lester Bangs , editor of renegade rock magazine Creem, who takes William under his wing and gives him his first professional writing assignment - cov ering a Black Sabbath concert. While William is unable to score an inter view with the headliners, the opening act, Stillwater, are more than ha ppy to chat with a reporter, even if he's still too young to drive, and William's piece on the group in Creem gains him a new admirer in Ben Fo ng-Torres , an editor at Rolling Stone. Torres offers Willia m an assignment for a 3, 000-word cover story on Stillwater, and over th e objections of his mother , and after some stern advice from Bangs , Williams joins St illwater o n tour, where he becomes friendly with guitarist Russell Hamm ond and singer Jeff Bebe . William also becom es enamored of Penny Lane , a groupie traveling with the ba nd who is no older than William, but is deeply involved with Russell. L ester Bangs and Ben Fong-Torres, incidentally, were real-life rock write rs Crowe worked with closely during his days as a journalist. Almost Fa mous' original score was composed by Nancy Wilson of Heart . >