I was watching the Almost Famous DVD the other night and I was once again puzzled by a little scene in there. William has arrived at the Riot House hotel and walks past a room where there is a man with a guitar playing and a woman singing along. They are both in profile so it's kind of hard to see them and no names are mentioned. They're just singing this cool song.
After a little detective work, I found out the deal. The two people in the movie are Pete Droge and Elaine Summers, but they're supposed to be playing Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
That particular scene was originally longer and explained itself a little better, but was shortened due to time constraints. Director Cameron Crowe talks about it in an interview with Film Comment from 2000.
Speaking of Gram Parsons, did you know when he died in 1973, his friends posed as hearse drivers, stole his body and took it out to the desert and burned it? The whole bizarre story is at The Strange Death of Gram Parsons.
More Famous trivia at Crowe's The Uncool site.
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