Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I am head over heels in love with ALMOST FAMOUS, but it is a very personal story to me. Most people around me at the time the movie came out kept saying that it could have been about me. In a basic sense, they're right. I started interviewing celebrities at the age of 14 (George Carlin was my first, think about how crazy that is... a 14 year old kid chatting with someone as sharp and frank as Carlin!) and started writing for this very website when I was 16. Harry himself said he very much saw Patrick Fugit's William Miller as me (although my deflowering wasn't with a trio including Anna Paquin and Fairuza Balk, damn it!) and Philip Seymour Hoffman's Lester Bangs as him. Just a little AICN trivia for ya', but you can see why the film hit me hard.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to ELIZABETHTOWN. Crowe says in the interview that he feels this one will be very much akin to ALMOST FAMOUS. I've heard it's a great script and I absolutely can not wait! Check out the interview linked below... it's a great read!
Hey Harry. Cameron Crowe has been here in Louisville for a few weeks now filming Elizabethtown. The actual town of Elizabethtown (E-town if you're a local) is about an hour south of here. The town of Versailles (pronounced Ver-sails because this isn't France, this is small-town Kentucky) is actually substituting for E-town in a lot of shots; it's between Louisville and Lexington. Side note: the world's best bourbon, Woodford Reserve, comes from a distillery in Versailles. If you're ever in the region, check out the distillery tour - it's amazing.
The Louisville paper scored a pretty good interview with Crowe regarding the movie, and apparently it's the first one he's given. Check it out:
CLICK IT HERE YOU GOLDEN GODS!
