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Fugit at last gets to play a good guy in Almost Famous. Because it's all about good guys. Here was rock 'n' roll in the '70s, dancing rapidly toward the edge of a cliff, but Crowe--still a kind of wide-eyed wonder--has given his story and his characters happy endings. We would like to do the same here, and so we return to the real Pennie Lane. "I'm putting it together now," she says. "It's gonna be a retirement home called the Raisin Ranch for aging rock stars and wayward groupies. We're all gonna be deaf because we didn't wear earplugs. So where are we gonna go? I'm on it." She needn't worry. Thanks to Almost Famous, Lane--and the music she loved--will live forever in their prime.