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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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Under consideration today is the new full-length by Scarlett Johansson, Anywhere I Lay My Head, which hits stores today:
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ARTIST: Scarlett Johansson
-Rod Stewart's Still The Same will likely debut in the top slot on this week's album charts, which can only be good news for big-haired Hot Rod impersonators everywhere. [Hits Daily Double]
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