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>> yes, ma'am. >> i didn't ask for this role, but i'll play it. >> and the oscar goes to cameron crowes." >> the film wasn't an immediate hit but it caught on in home rentals. and for crowe, it was among his career highs. >> the movie was a love letter to music and to my family. >> and now, 22 years later, that love letter is being read again eight times a week. ♪ "almost famous" the musical opened on broadway last week. faithful to the movie and more. >> if you're going to tell the story correctly, it's a personal story, you have to get personal. >> even if it's painful? >> sometimes, most of all. >> cameron crowe grew up in san diego and lived for a time with his mother and sister in this building. their apartment was actually in the basement. >> how long has it been since you've been back here? >> 50 years. >> 50 years? >> yes. >> this is it, huh? >> oh, man. wow. i want to start listening to joni mitchell and crosby, stills, nash and young, black sabbath. i can feel it coming. holy mackerel. this totally feels like home. i've got to check out the kitchen for a minute. >> yeah, yeah

. >> i really loved playing elaine miller in "almost famous" with cameron crow. he wrote it. his mother. >> don't take drugs. >> it's about my childhood growing up in a family where rock 'n' roll was deeply suspect. ♪ >> he was thrust as a young boy into this world of rock stars and groupies on the road. >> ladies and gentlemen! >> seeing the freedom and the heartbreak that comes along with that freedom was really exquisite. ♪ where i'll end up i think only god really knows ♪ >> there are two scenes. there's penny lane dancing, the cat stevens song. the floor of the empty arena. that felt like the soul of the movie. also the scene where they're on the bus singing "tiny dancer" as a way of kind of bringing the band back together. ♪ hold me closer tiny dancer ♪ >> i have to go home. ♪ count the headlights on the highway ♪ >> you are home. >> what i love about cameron is that he is a deeply devoted fan of film, and the best of his films are because of the way he studied them and the love that he has for the craft. and i think "almost famous" is his best example of that. ♪ there