Along with the news that Ryan Gosling has been hand-selected by Courtney Love as the man who will play Kurt Cobain—and get raked over the coals by pretty much every self-styled pundit who owns a copy of
Nevermind forthwith—comes the tidbit that she has chosen Scarlett Johansson to play, um, Courtney Love. You can debate the visual accuracy of this bit of casting via the compare-and-contrast pics above (the one of Courtney's actually from 1995, but it's still a pretty good representation of her pre-plastic-surgery self, I think), but as someone who knows Hole's catalog—and Courtney's persona during the
Live Through This years—pretty well, I would think that La Love would want someone who could, y'know,
emote to play her, va-va-voom curves be damned.
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Idolator
Over the weekend, Courtney Love took to her MySpace page for the purposes of calling out fellow blogger Ryan Adams, thanks to some mysterious American Express bills from 2003 that she believes are evidence that some $858,000 that went into the making of his 2003 album Rock N Roll was funded by Frances Bean Cobain's inheritance. (I guess that's why Frances is trying her hand at journalism-type stuff this summer.) Not only is she appalled by the theft, which was apparently part of the identity-theft issues she's been blogging about and facilitated by her ex-boyfriend/Rock N Roll producer James Barber, she's irritated that her funds were used to make such a crappy, poorly named album: "Ryan Adams worst record and one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history ironically called'Riock and Roll '... yeah you listen to this shit im listening to my i tunes on right now who names a record 'Rock n Roll' what assholes do that? ... with these trebled up guitars my bandmate said sounded like 'really horrific rem on steroids' all treble and compresssion and shit wirtten songs - but so what?"
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Courtney Love blogs the Oscars before heading out to "Eltons Party": "i love dthat tattoo on her ( Dibalo) and her cute thigh and the wietzman shoes were actually pretty unnatractuve really,. neat, i like the minnesota thing too, i wont be getting a bl;ack bob although i think abou tit contstantly , but it was inspiring rarely does anyone win when theyre an "outisder" particul;alrly chicks who talk about sex working- desp[ite the fact that EVERYONE i know in this town who wasnt upper middle class or didnt come from a hollywood family DID IT and even then i know of some exceptions. so i was really proud a little Nirvana moment if you will." Oh, honey, I know what you are saying but... agggh. Nooooo. [
