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This isn't easy to say: Cameron Crowe's new movie, Almost Famous, is based on his own unique adolescence. Arrrrrrrrgh! you may be thinking. Here comes Crowe, another privileged male boomer, turning his teen years into a movie. How about a ticket to a sharp jab in the eye instead...
Given the shortage of women's roles and Hollywood's addiction to old TV shows, we can't believe it took this long for Charlie's Angels to make it to the big screen. Columbia Pictures has updated the material with Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu as the latest angels in an ongoing crime-fighting organization. John Forsythe returns as the voice of Charlie, their boss, and Bill Murray joins in as Bosley, trusted sidekick...
...only ones employing their feminine mystique in theaters. Renee Zellweger gives insanity a girlish charm in Neil LaBute's comedy Nurse Betty (Sept. 8), and in December Nicole Kidman stars as Paris' most seductive courtesan in the postmodern musical Moulin Rouge. Kate Hudson is the heart and soul of Cameron Crowe's coming-of-age movie Almost Famous (Sept. 15), an ode to '70s rock that's already gathering momentum in this year's Oscar race. Helen Hunt is unstoppable this season, romancing Richard Gere in Dr. T & the Women (Oct. 13), starring opposite Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment...
...season does have its innovations. James Cameron's sleek sci-fi thriller, Dark Angel (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m., starts Oct. 3), introduces buzz magnet Jessica Alba. On NBC's endearingly oddball Ed (Sundays, 8 p.m., begins Oct. 8), a lawyer moves back to his hometown, buys a bowling alley and courts his high school crush. And teen-TV satire Grosse Pointe (The WB, Fridays, 8:30 p.m., bows Sept. 22) looks like nasty fun. Are sitcoms and dramas back? Well, at least until Survivor returns, with its clones, to vote them off the island...
...that innovators and revolutionaries continue to exist. Though many people can't tolerate anything "too different," it's encouraging to see how diverse our creative nature can be when disdaining the status quo. The type of innovation you described resonates with that sweet Don't Fence Me In melody. CAMERON NORMAN Grand Marais, Minn...