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That really turned me off. No actual music-loving goddess-groupie would do such a thing. Des Barres is no stranger to misogyny. Looking back from the political moment of , her work can spark nauseous feelings about a teen adored by older men. I was always taken care of. At the time of her first book release, she says she was painted as submissive, subservient and anti-feminist by critics.

And that was feminism to me. Or, more correctly — her in Penny Lane. But underneath the coat, behind the sunglasses, there is a certain vulnerability, openhearted and bittersweet. Of course, things get complicated when Penny falls in love with Russell. Her mantra to her fellow Band Aids is one of non-attachment—people will come and go, but the music will always be there for you.

Needless to say, this is much easier said than done, and it's questionable as a long-term philosophy of life. Whether or not her overdose was intentional, the result, either way, is the death of the Penny Lane persona. Revealing to William her real name—Lady Goodman—and leaving New York for home, she hangs up the fur coat for good.

Her Band Aid lifetime has run its course. In the film's final montage, we see Penny finally on her way to Morocco. To look like a real rock band, the four actors in Stillwater rehearsed for four hours a night, five nights a week, for six weeks.

Stillwater's songs were written by Peter Frampton who also had a small part in the film , Cameron Crowe, and his ex-wife Nancy Wilson of the rock band Heart. The music acknowledgments credit Russell Hammond and Stillwater as if they were real authors and performers.

When Cameron Crowe's mother appeared on the set for a cameo, Crowe made every effort to keep her away from Frances McDormand, who was playing a character based on her, so McDormand's interpretation of the part wouldn't be swayed.

When he left the set for a few minutes on the first day of shooting, he returned to find McDormand and his mother having lunch together. His aim was "not to be a parody". According to Cameron Crowe, he sent the script around town to see if he could get anyone to respond to it. Steven Spielberg, founder of Dreamworks, read Crowe's page script over the weekend and called Crowe on Monday saying, "Direct every word". Crowe said he filmed almost all of the script.

There actually was a band called Stillwater in the 70's though the band depicted in the film is not them. They agreed to the use of their name after reading the script. Frampton returns the favor here by acting as a music consultant for the film. At the party, Russell Hammond cries out, "I am a golden god! That is a reference to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, who is purported to have said the same thing sober while looking over Sunset Strip from a hotel balcony.

The old records William looks through at the beginning are actually Cameron Crowe's, saved from his younger years. Fairuza Balk's exclamation, "Does anybody remember laughter? Peter Frampton taught Billy Crudup how to play the guitar in preparation for the concert scenes. Kate Hudson considers the experience on making this film as one of the greatest times of her life. Philip Seymour Hoffman's schedule only permitted him to be on set for four days.

He had the flu the whole time. The legal disclaimer at the end of the film which, for most films, merely states that all characters and events are fictional, with any real-life similarities being coincidence , notes that the character of Penny Lane was "loosely based" on a real individual.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, and is involved in the music industry. When the tour plane hits turbulence, Russell starts to sing "Peggy Sue", a reference to Buddy Holly, who died in a plane crash while on tour. Russell then continues "Whoa baby!

Penny Lane dancing in the empty, debris-strewn Cleveland auditorium is Cameron Crowe's favorite scene in the movie. At the Continental Hyatt, William briefly peers into a room to see a man and woman singing a duet. Parsons was one of the first artists that Cameron Crowe interviewed for a paper called Music World and he has used Parsons' music in other films.

For this film, however, Crowe asked Droge to write a new song that would sound Parsons-esque. This song is called "Small Time Blues. Cameron Crowe created, directed and released a music video to the Stillwater song "Fever Dog" following the release of the movie. Cameron Crowe's character is pulled into the pre-performance huddle. The scene is based on an occasion when Eddie Vedder pulled Crowe into Pearl Jam's huddle before performing one of their Lollapalooza shows. When the band finds out that William is using "everything" in his Rolling Stone article, Jeff Bebe wears a T-shirt that says "Jeff Bebe" on it, but the picture above it is of Russell Hammond.

This is a sly allusion to the feud between them, and ties into the line from the "Untitled" version where Jeff says to Russell, "I'm the you they get when they can't have you. The school shown for a few seconds at the beginning of the film is the University of San Diego High School, Cameron Crowe's alma mater. Crowe gave his high school journalism teacher, Daniel Wilson, a cameo during the high school graduation scene.

Polley dropped out to work on her own project, the low-budget Canadian movie The Law of Enclosures She further explained that after a few years, she met Crowe, and he was apologetic and even wanted to make it up to her. Hudson had told Barres that she read her book while researching for the role of Penny Lane.

Des Barres had some grievances about the film, but what pained her the most was one scene that involved Penny almost dying from an overdose after a rejection. However, after four months of developing the movie, both Pitt and Polley dropped out.