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Courtney Love Sees A Lot Of Her Young Self In Scarlett Johansson
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 11:16 AM on January 15, 2008
Outspoken defendant of 5150-hold survivors' rights Courtney Love has, according to NME.com, settled on the two actors she think could most accurately bring her tumultuous marriage to life in a movie version of Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heavy. In the part of her Tormented Musical Genius and Voice of a Generation husband, she wisely, if rather safely, elected Ryan Gosling, who in Half Nelson proved how effectively he can crawl into the skin of a barely functioning but brilliant drug addict, and, in Lars and the Real Girl, made it somehow believable that someone could fall in love with a mostly-plastic spouse that required constant propping.
To play herself, Love reportedly chose Scarlett Johansson: While The Nanny Diaries star most certainly has the musical chops, having performed to sell-out Coachella crowds as The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey"-repeating girl, we're not entirely convinced the pouty-lipped ingenue would be able to accurately capture the troubled rocker's wildly modifying looks, or successfully tap the far, demon-prowled reaches of her psyche. Still, Johansson has always been one to rise to the occasion, and should she nail the pivotal scene in which she is called upon to lift her shirt so an unidentified Wendy's patron (Don Cheadle) can suckle on a single bazoombah, this might finally be the project that spells Oscar for the always in-demand actress.
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TedSez
Posted 7:57 PM 14/1/08
It's Heavier Than Heaven (based on Charles Cross' book, which was great).
Scarlett Johansson playing Courtney Love would be like Diana Ross playing Michael Jackson. It's wrong in ways you can't even explain.
TedSez
BabylonSister
Posted 6:34 PM 14/1/08
@raincoaster: I admire your quest for accuracy. :)
BabylonSister
raincoaster
Posted 6:32 PM 14/1/08
As someone (Spy? Esquire?) once said, if YOU were married to her, wouldn't you shoot yourself?
But for accuracy's sake, it must be noted that back when Kurt was alive, she wasn't that plastic. She did that with his money after he was dead.
raincoaster
Dr. Spaceman
Posted 8:06 PM 14/1/08
@TedSez: Your example is so wrong it's right.
Dr. Spaceman
mwynn13
Posted 10:33 PM 14/1/08
The whole thing propelling Courtney from day one is that she always perceived herself as a homely girl who had to make herself "pretty" (um... eye of the beholder). She has devoted her entire adult life to that end. Miss Ross playing Michael is right on the money.
mwynn13
brechtgirl
Posted 10:19 PM 14/1/08
oh my god, I see it too:
[www.imdb.com]
I agree with Courtney Love??!!?
brechtgirl
ricksparks
Posted 9:14 AM 15/1/08
Let me get this straight - Courtney sees a lot of herself in Scarlett? So, Johansson had a stint in the skankiest strip club in in Anchorage, Alaska too?
ricksparks
Rey
Posted 10:31 AM 15/1/08
Perhaps there will also be a post-Kurt-death scene where Courtney looks up to the sky and screams, "What about the farewell drugs, Siiiiiiid!! I mean, Kuuuuuurdt! What about the farewell drugs!"
Rey
remarkie
Posted 1:57 PM 15/1/08
Wouldn't there also be an obligatory cameo by Courtney? Like Jackie Suzanne playing a reporter in *Valley of the Dolls*?
remarkie
Miss d
Posted 10:27 AM 16/1/08
@mwynn13: All that money spent - & Courtney is still a homely jizz bucket...
Run, Scarlett, run far, far away...
Miss d