ALMOST FAMOUS
AXS TV, 9:00 p.m. ET
Cameron Crowe stuck the landing, and everything else, as the writer and director of this 2000 movie, which stars Patrick Fugit as William Miller, a laughably young and unsophisticated rock journalist for Rolling Stone – an alter ego stand-in for Crowe himself. Billy Crudup and Jason Lee are delightful as two members of the rock band William is chronicling, as are the young women playing the band’s groupies: Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, and, in a star-making turn as Penny Lane, Kate Hudson. And there are other scene-stealers, too, with the grandest thefts pulled off by Philip Seymour Hoffman as rock critic Lester Bangs, Zooey Deschanel as William’s supportive and rebellious older sister, and, most of all, Frances McDormand as William’s understandably concerned mother.