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    Which rock journalist is the mentor of the main character in the movie "Almost Famous"? The movie also portrays Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres.

    Question #97264. Asked by evoman. (Jul 05 08 7:48 AM)


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    		In Almost Famous, the mentor figure is the legendary, real-life rock journalist Lester Bangs, impersonated here by the unstoppably versatile Philip Seymour Hoffman. Bangs' crucial advice to William, delivered at two separate turning points in the film, is that his writing must be "honest and unmerciful".

    But this ideal is hard to live up to in the real world. Just as Jerry Maguire lost his job for displaying too much integrity in his mission statement, so William finds his warts-and-all profile of Stillwater spiked by Rolling Stone when the band refuses to confirm his unflatteringly truthful reporting.

    http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/2200

    Jul 05 08, 8:05 AM

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