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Watching the witty, often breezy autobiographical work of director Francois Truffaut helped inspire Almost Famous, but Crowe found his film's muse nearly 30 years ago. At the same time that he was embarking on his journalism career, a striking young Portland, Ore., woman, standing 5 ft. 10 in. with waist-length red hair, moved to Los Angeles to be with a keyboard player for Steppenwolf. There she became enamored of musicians and their milieu, and when she returned to Portland, she continued hanging out with the bands that came through town. Adopting the name Pennie Lane and a vintage...
...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 and almost-too-hunky features); and from his protective mom (fierce, nattering Frances...
...says Frischmann, now 30. She refuses to speak about the impact of drugs on this period of her life. When Frischmann and Albarn separated in 1998, Albarn made their breakup the theme of Blur's 1999 album, 13, and Frischmann became known more as her ex-lover's troubled muse than as an artist in her own right...
...adopted a baby boy named Roan Joseph, the actress signed a reported $15 million deal to reprise her erogenous zone-baring role in the sequel to Basic Instinct. Stone had studiously avoided Basic Instinct 2 for years (though for some reason she agreed to do Gloria, Sliver and The Muse), but relented when original producer Mario Kassar regained the film rights. "I felt assured that the project will be made with respect to the original," said Stone, although co-star Michael Douglas, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas won't re-up. "I'm hoping that this will also...
...muse's functionary, and has preserved space for his own writings," Heaney said...