KATE HUDSON
Kate Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress, author and businesswoman. She rose to prominence starring in the film Almost Famous (2000), for which she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Raising Helen (2004), The Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), Bride Wars (2009), Nine (2009), and Deepwater Horizon (2016). (More from Wikipedia)
Even more than the delightful portrayal of a rock groupie by a young Kate Hudson (she won a Golden Globe), the best part of the 2000 film Almost Famous – about the early exploits of Cameron Crowe as a rock journalist for Rolling Stone magazine – is the gonzo performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman as legendary rockcrit Lester Bangs, the editor of Creem magazine. As he and the Cameron Crowe stand-in William Miller (played by Patrick Fugit) are beginning to bond, Bangs starts raving during an interview with a hapless radio station DJ: “What is this hippie station?! Where’s Iggy Pop? Don’t you have a copy of Raw Power?!” He paws through some albums, calling out after awhile, “Found it!”, and then starts playing “Search and Destroy” as the DJ mumbles: “Lester, isn’t it a little early for this?”
(March 2017)
