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...introduced to rock by his rebellious big sister and grew up in San Diego (his father James, who died in 1989, sold real estate and ran answering services). Crowe skipped three grades, graduated from high school at 15 and became a journalist by sending writing samples to rock critic Lester Bangs (played in the movie by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Writing became both his vocation and his mode of rebellion against his mother Alice, a teacher who banned rock music in their home and refused to buy Crowe a bicycle because "they're too dangerous." ("If she'd bought...
Assignments for Bang's Creem magazine led to gigs at Rolling Stone, where Crowe felt more like a groupie than a critic. "I always remember that us-against-the-world thing," he says, recalling his days with the bands one afternoon in his office in Santa Monica, Calif., "the way it felt to sweep into a hotel lobby." Says Wenner: "He was such a fan. Artists gave him access because of that." Just as Miller pursues Stillwater's members for a cover story, Crowe wrangled Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin for the cover of Rolling Stone...
...typical boy-to-man fable is one of groping in the dark, a child beset by demons, on a road with no signposts. But William isn't clueless; he has too many clues. He is swamped in advice: from his musical mentor, the rebel critic Lester Bangs (another off-kilter, on-target tour de force by Philip Seymour Hoffman); from his muse, the knowing groupie Penny Lane (Kate Hudson, with the soft, curly haired charisma of a Woodstock Botticelli); from Stillwater's lead guitarist, Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup, who has finally found the movie role to fit his questing intelligence...
ROBERT HUGHES, our pugnacious and perspicacious art critic, has long held that American films and TV fare have created an outrageously false impression of his native Australia. In response to the "Crocodile Dundee" stereotypes, Hughes lets fly this week with a look at the Olympic-host country that is based on his six-part documentary, Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore, which airs this Tuesday through Thursday on PBS. Hughes, who is back in top form while still mending from a near fatal car crash last year, calls the series "a corrective to the very sketchy and almost invariably wrong picture...
...CRITIC'S CHOICE...