Newsflash! Courtney Love
Sassy, Dec. 1996

So you thought Courntey was all bad taste, bad hair and roaring girl punk? Not even close. Sure, that's one side of her, but the world is about to see a different Courtney, an endearing, silver-screen Courtney. In the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt,Courtney plays Athea Leasure, the drug-addicted wife of Larry Flynt, a man famous for founding nudey magazines (to put it nicely). While it's no secret that Courtney has indulged in drugs in the past, it's not as if she was doing drugs on the set to get into character-the word is that Courtney can actually act! So well, in fact, that the Oscar people are checking her out to possibly compete for a best actress gold boy with the adorable Gwyneth Paltrow, Aussie-lady Nicole Kidman, and the bodiced-beauty Winona Rider. Call it prim and proper vs. Courtney Love!

But that's not all. ROck's reigning bad girl is putting her guitar down and posing for the camera. Pretty on the inside, and now, on the outside too, Courtney has just signed with the Next modeling agency. And next up filmwise, she's in Not Bad For A Girl, wich analyzes the kickass ways of hardcore girl bands (in art theatres now).

Between her camera-ready career moves (she's also appearing opposite Keanu in Feeling Minnesota and she made a brief appearance in the art flick Basquiat), her latest boyfriend Ed Norton (catch hi in Woody Allen's latest movie Everyone says I love you) and raising little Frances [they spelled it Francis] Bean Cobain, Courtney definitely has her hands full. Maybe that's why her nail polish is always chipped to hell...

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