Almost Famous tells the story of a teenaged wannabe rock journalist who winds up following a rock band called Stillwater around on tour. It stars Goldie Hawn progeny Kate Hudson in her only-as-yet-even-halfway-memorable film role as, of all things, a groupie-with-a-heart-of-gold named--hold on for it!--Penny Lane. Frankly, I think the two most memorable things about this film is Kate Hudson's all-too-brief nude scene--since, after all, she is playing a groupie-with-a-heart-of-gold!--and the scene where said teenaged wannabe rock journalist has a meeting with an older established rock journalist named--again, hold on for it!--Lester Bangs played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. During their meeting, Bangs talks about what he less-than-affectionately terms Rock Geniuses, i.e. these pretentious-as-hell rock stars (and, yep, I'm looking at YOU, Bozo, uh, I mean, Bono!) who pretentiously think that their songs are gonna change the whole freakin' world with the pretentious freakin' songs (and, yep, I'm looking at YOU, Bob Dylan!). Hey, it's worked out great so far, hasn't it?
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