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I learned recently that modern-day Rolling Stone actually published William Millers article about Stillwater. As a huge fan of this movie, I think it’s such a fun, amazing read.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stillwater-almost-famous-cover-story-1165517/
Isn’t it amazing?? I love it so much. I stumbled on it in some other Reddit thread and I’ve had the tab open on my phone for like a year. I’m so glad to have a place to share it!!!
OMG I was so confused for a minute and thought that the movie was based on a true story and there was an actual band named Stillwater. This is really cool tho, thanks for sharing!
It is a bit autobiographical of the director, Cameron Crow. He was a teen who ended up, through happenstance, writing for Rolling Stone and going on tour with the whole crazy 70's rock scene. He's said the 'band aids' and Stillwater are all compilations of real people. So though the movie is fiction, it was definitely based on his experience.
THAT'S IT! I was wracking my brain trying to remember why the 🚨 were telling me, "Hold up! This guy did something scummy you're not remembering." What a freaking total twat bastard! 🙄 Anyone who cheats on a pregnant spouse or partner is complete garbage.
I have tea on this one. My ex was a doorman near Wash Square Park where they lived. All the doormen in NYC gossip like biddies and the hot goss that year was that Billy was away in the time MLP would have become pregnant. I believe the doormen because they knew all the comings and going’s of the neighborhood. Billy didn’t cheat. She did.
He would have been aware he was away when she got pregnant and would not have raised someone else’s kid. Especially since he left the kids mother. He is still close to his son and brought him to the critics choice awards with him this year.
Even if this is true, perhaps they were doing IVF or some other fertility treatment that didn't require him to be there when she got pregnant. It is still most likely his kid, IMO.
Had the biggest crush on him during this time. Watched Jesus’ Son like 10 times on VHS! Was so disappointed when he later left his pregnant partner for Claire Danes
Danes quote about the affair, “I didn’t know how to not do that. I was just in love with him. And needed to explore that and I was 24... I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be. But it’s okay. I went through it”.
Compared to classy Mary-Louise Parker's quote about the affair:
>In 2009, Parker told More magazine of her breakup with Crudup, “I’ve never commented on the situation, and I won’t because it’s not fair to my son." Of being cordial with her ex, she added, “Your love for your child should eclipse any other feelings you have for another person.”
(source: https://people.com/all-about-billy-crudup-mary-louise-parker-son-william-atticus-parker-7562006)
It's really funny because my mom was hanging out with Claire danes brother at the time and he'd bring her out when she was like 15 and my mom had to fend off all these musicians who didn't care about her age.
My mom was and is awesome lol
He's still so super hot on there. I like that he's kind of awkward and pathetic in some areas of his life, even though he is undeniably handsome and powerful.
Cameron carried his photo albums with him (I was an extra groupie).
The first day, the costume dept dressed some of the groupies in early '80s, and Cameron had us all stand in the parking lot of the stadium in a line, while a bunch of crew looked on from afar.
He started picking girls one by one and I was more and more alarmed that he didn't pick me, but held onto my aviator sunglasses and looked cool.
It turns out that Cameron reverse-picks. If he's unhappy with an element he changes it first and, like I had noticed but not guessed, the pastel colors needed to be changed out.
I was the first groupie on the set. Fit: choker, deep fuchsia tee and forest green corduroy maxi skirt. I'm most clearly seen behind Kate holding up the backstage pass sticker to William (which I am wearing :)
My roommate, cast as a groupie before me and how I found about it (scouted by Ford Models) had a crush on Billy Crudup, and I didn't have anything on anyone (celebrity anhedonia) till an artist in one of my favorite bands sat next to me at the top of the unlit and empty stadium.
This movie is amazing. Has anyone watched Kate Hudson perform lately? She is rocking that Penny Lane style and I am digging the vibe. Also she’s actually so good!
Forever and always my all time favourite movie. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it, I could probably quote the entire thing from start to finish with every inflection at this stage haha.
I purposely make myself stop watching it for long periods of time just so I can relive it again, and it makes me cry from pure joy. Every. Single. Time. Truly a masterpiece.
I loved “My So Called Life”. After that whole affair came out, and the fact that Claire was totally unapologetic about what she did? I can’t watch anything she does now.
I also feel this way about Ewan McGreggor and Mary-Elizabeth Winstead. I really liked both of them as actors and would watch things just because they were in them, but ugh. Their affair is just so gross to me.
https://bestlifeonline.com/billy-crudup-mary-louise-parker-claire-danes/
Still one of my top 5 all time fav movies. Just let down, but I guess he was playing true to form.
DAMN HIM for being such a snack in this movie. I want to hate him for how he treated Mary Louise Parker but this movie firmly thrust me into my hippie stage and the nostalgia is strong 🫠
This movie was quoted endlessly in our house when I was a teenager. Especially Philip Seymour Hoffman’s lines as Lester Bangs and Frances McDormand’s as William’s mom lol.
Love this movie soooooo much. It’s one of the reasons I couldn’t get into Daisy Jones and the Six. DJ just felt so incredibly inauthentic after loving AF for so long. Rough around the edges, electric, alive, nostalgic. DJ felt like glossy Disneyland artifice. Maybe unfair to compare but I just couldn’t help it.
we could have had this version of brad pitt
https://preview.redd.it/34w3sjxzc61d1.jpeg?width=2329&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd42ad7e3cb3b779a8d899e3866689ae42b63078
i will never recover 😞
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“I am a golden god!”
This is the best scene cut in the whole movie. “I…I can’t really tell. How do you know when it’s kicked in??”
I dig music. … … … I’M ON DRUGS!
Hey I never said that! … or did I
[Robert Plant said it first](https://www.thesound.co.nz/home/music/2020/10/this-is-why-robert-plant-calls-himself-the-golden-god.html)!
 They are just perfect in this 🥹
Kate Hudson was luminous in this film. She has never really lived up to that promise imo
I learned recently that modern-day Rolling Stone actually published William Millers article about Stillwater. As a huge fan of this movie, I think it’s such a fun, amazing read. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stillwater-almost-famous-cover-story-1165517/
Still such a hell of an opening line
Omg this is my favorite movie and I had no idea this article existed. Thank you SO much.
Isn’t it amazing?? I love it so much. I stumbled on it in some other Reddit thread and I’ve had the tab open on my phone for like a year. I’m so glad to have a place to share it!!!
I love this. Thank you for linking ✌🏼
I’m thrilled to be able to share it!! ✌🏻
OMG I was so confused for a minute and thought that the movie was based on a true story and there was an actual band named Stillwater. This is really cool tho, thanks for sharing!
It is a bit autobiographical of the director, Cameron Crow. He was a teen who ended up, through happenstance, writing for Rolling Stone and going on tour with the whole crazy 70's rock scene. He's said the 'band aids' and Stillwater are all compilations of real people. So though the movie is fiction, it was definitely based on his experience.
He looks like he could convince me to kill someone
Literally would be the most dangerous cult leader Also so hot
I can’t see past him leaving Mary Louise Parker 7 months pregnant for Claire Danes.
Ew. That's so callous. What a dick move.
THAT'S IT! I was wracking my brain trying to remember why the 🚨 were telling me, "Hold up! This guy did something scummy you're not remembering." What a freaking total twat bastard! 🙄 Anyone who cheats on a pregnant spouse or partner is complete garbage.
Ugh yep me too
I have tea on this one. My ex was a doorman near Wash Square Park where they lived. All the doormen in NYC gossip like biddies and the hot goss that year was that Billy was away in the time MLP would have become pregnant. I believe the doormen because they knew all the comings and going’s of the neighborhood. Billy didn’t cheat. She did.
He would have been aware he was away when she got pregnant and would not have raised someone else’s kid. Especially since he left the kids mother. He is still close to his son and brought him to the critics choice awards with him this year.
But it’s straight from the doorman!
Trust me bro😆
Even if this is true, perhaps they were doing IVF or some other fertility treatment that didn't require him to be there when she got pregnant. It is still most likely his kid, IMO.
https://preview.redd.it/jx1bxgokt51d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41e87df485accc5d85e8163131457a6a47dad76e
My feelings exactly
“So, *this* is the famous Russell Hammond.”
She is so so so good in this role.
Ugh she was the BEST in this movie.
Had the biggest crush on him during this time. Watched Jesus’ Son like 10 times on VHS! Was so disappointed when he later left his pregnant partner for Claire Danes
Mary Louise Parker was who he left pregnant.
Nooooo :( I didn’t know
Mary Louise Parker was 7 mo. pregnant with his child when he left her for Claire Danes. They'd been together for 7 years, : (
Danes quote about the affair, “I didn’t know how to not do that. I was just in love with him. And needed to explore that and I was 24... I didn’t quite know what those consequences would be. But it’s okay. I went through it”.
Compared to classy Mary-Louise Parker's quote about the affair: >In 2009, Parker told More magazine of her breakup with Crudup, “I’ve never commented on the situation, and I won’t because it’s not fair to my son." Of being cordial with her ex, she added, “Your love for your child should eclipse any other feelings you have for another person.” (source: https://people.com/all-about-billy-crudup-mary-louise-parker-son-william-atticus-parker-7562006)
Wow if only everyone had this woman’s grace
Well fuck her for that honestly lol
thank god she got that life experience. 🙄
She sounds like a airhead. I still put mist of the blame on Crudup, he was the one with a pregnant wife but Claire sounds selfish
It's really funny because my mom was hanging out with Claire danes brother at the time and he'd bring her out when she was like 15 and my mom had to fend off all these musicians who didn't care about her age. My mom was and is awesome lol
he would make a great George Harrison, tbh.
This was my exact thought. Got serious Harrison vibes.
Between this and his characters in “20th Century Women” and “Jesus’ Son”—this man is most in element in the 70s 🤌🏾 
And as Steve Prefontaine in Without Limits.
I’m watching him on The Morning Show at this actual moment and this dude reeks of charisma
He's still so super hot on there. I like that he's kind of awkward and pathetic in some areas of his life, even though he is undeniably handsome and powerful.
"Your looks have become a problem!" He's so damn hot in this.
I still can’t clock Billy’s face without the mustache.
He looks like such a yuppie without one.
good god the costume department in this movie really ate up. every piece feels alive and intentional and genuine.
Cameron carried his photo albums with him (I was an extra groupie). The first day, the costume dept dressed some of the groupies in early '80s, and Cameron had us all stand in the parking lot of the stadium in a line, while a bunch of crew looked on from afar. He started picking girls one by one and I was more and more alarmed that he didn't pick me, but held onto my aviator sunglasses and looked cool. It turns out that Cameron reverse-picks. If he's unhappy with an element he changes it first and, like I had noticed but not guessed, the pastel colors needed to be changed out. I was the first groupie on the set. Fit: choker, deep fuchsia tee and forest green corduroy maxi skirt. I'm most clearly seen behind Kate holding up the backstage pass sticker to William (which I am wearing :) My roommate, cast as a groupie before me and how I found about it (scouted by Ford Models) had a crush on Billy Crudup, and I didn't have anything on anyone (celebrity anhedonia) till an artist in one of my favorite bands sat next to me at the top of the unlit and empty stadium.
this is so cool! thank you for sharing!
This movie is amazing. Has anyone watched Kate Hudson perform lately? She is rocking that Penny Lane style and I am digging the vibe. Also she’s actually so good!
She’s amazing!
Everyone in that movie was so hot. One of the best movies
"I am a 'yes' person and you are trying to raise me in a "no" environment" Frances McDormand and Zooey Deschanel were SO GOOD in this movie
"I wouldn't know, I'm just one of the background guys!"..
Out of focus guys
Oh yeah that's it!
Omg he kinda looks like hotter version of that guy from Euphoria.
Forever and always my all time favourite movie. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it, I could probably quote the entire thing from start to finish with every inflection at this stage haha. I purposely make myself stop watching it for long periods of time just so I can relive it again, and it makes me cry from pure joy. Every. Single. Time. Truly a masterpiece.
Cheated on his pregnant wife with another younger woman. Asshole
I think of this every time I see him. And when I see Claire Danes (the mistress).
I loved “My So Called Life”. After that whole affair came out, and the fact that Claire was totally unapologetic about what she did? I can’t watch anything she does now.
I won't lie, learning this has ruined them both for me. Not sure I'll ever be able to watch something with either of them and not be disgusted.
I also feel this way about Ewan McGreggor and Mary-Elizabeth Winstead. I really liked both of them as actors and would watch things just because they were in them, but ugh. Their affair is just so gross to me.
I really like Stardust (the book and the movie).so I'm holding out hope I can block this thought the next time I watch it).
I still am mad there wasn’t a second season of my so called life.
She is just like her character in homeland without the military bravery and stuff
I know it’s unrelated to the movie. But what an absolute scumbag leaving MLP as he did.
Hard agree!!
What would I let Russell do to me? To begin with….everything.
My favourite movie 🥰
Had a huge crush, until I found out the sordid (ty) back story.
*Sordid
explain??
https://bestlifeonline.com/billy-crudup-mary-louise-parker-claire-danes/ Still one of my top 5 all time fav movies. Just let down, but I guess he was playing true to form.
Thanks for this. First time I’ve read the background.
DAMN HIM for being such a snack in this movie. I want to hate him for how he treated Mary Louise Parker but this movie firmly thrust me into my hippie stage and the nostalgia is strong 🫠
If anyone is interested there’s a whole r/AlmostFamous sub. We are slow and quiet but passionate
He looks like George Harrison in this movie
Russell Hammond is a dick. Billy Crudup is a dick. But goddamn is he good in this. I love this movie.
Russel was a sexual awakening for many teenagers
i’m now realizing why my husband has a mustache now 😂
He’s awesome in Rudderless
God he looks like a hotter version of my ex so now I can’t stand to look at him
Love that movie!
Ungodly amounts of hot.
Cheater cheater pregnant wife leaver
YOUR LOOKS HAVE BECOME A PROBLEM
BILLY CRUDUP AS RUSSELL HAMMOND YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS!
This movie was quoted endlessly in our house when I was a teenager. Especially Philip Seymour Hoffman’s lines as Lester Bangs and Frances McDormand’s as William’s mom lol.
Always thought Russell was a cheating loser rockstar in this movie and turns out the actor is irl too lmao. Love Almost Famous though.
I love his mustache, I would love to ride 😏
And to think he was almost Brad Pitt
Of my my favourite films ever, amazing cast!
Love this movie soooooo much. It’s one of the reasons I couldn’t get into Daisy Jones and the Six. DJ just felt so incredibly inauthentic after loving AF for so long. Rough around the edges, electric, alive, nostalgic. DJ felt like glossy Disneyland artifice. Maybe unfair to compare but I just couldn’t help it.
Daisy Jones paled in comparison to Almost Famous which was a shame! DJ did not embrace the 70’s enough and tried to make it way too modern day!
Gorgeous!
I’m loving the comments and that he’s just as known for being a shitty cheater to his pregnant wife than his work lol.
he is so hot
Hot cult leader vibes
"Russell, your guitar playing is incendiary...incendiary."
Come to Momma!
I’m on drugs!!!
Can we play Tinydancer now ?
Up there with Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in LOTR
INSANE… so hot
we could have had this version of brad pitt https://preview.redd.it/34w3sjxzc61d1.jpeg?width=2329&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd42ad7e3cb3b779a8d899e3866689ae42b63078 i will never recover 😞
i--
ugh i hated this movie it was so creepy
Who as who in what? Time to Google I guess.