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Cameron Crowe remembers the challenge of shooting a memorable scene in his 2000 cult classic Almost Famous

The movie was based on Crowe's time as a teenage reporter for Rolling Stone , and earned the director the Academy Award for best original screenplay

"We did whatever it would take to get us to the story that we wanted to tell," Crowe tells PEOPLE for a story in this week's print issue, about his new memoir The Uncool

Cameron Crowe ’s semi-autobiographical movie, Almost Famous , still sings for audiences 25 years after its initial release. Based on the writer and director’s own tenure as a teen reporter for Rolling Ston e, the film earned Crowe the 2001 Academy Award for best original screenplay — but is, above all else, a love letter to music, the director

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