Los Angeles, April 6, 1996 -- Pop-scene pals Drew Barrymore and Courtney Love showed up at the premiere of "Primal Fear," the new Richard Gere movie, on Monday, as brunettes. Barrymore hit the dye bottle for her role in the next Woody Allen film, Love for her's in the Milos Foreman movie, "The People Versus Larry Flynt."

COURTNEY LOVE: The nearer we get to peroxide, the more trouble we get into.

DREW BARRYMORE: Yeah, it's true. We're much more well behaved as brunettes.

LOVE: Yes.

MTV: Tell me why you guys are out here tonight.

LOVE: She did a movie with movie with Edward Norton and I'm doing a movie with Edward Norton, and we both love him.

BARRYMORE: Yes, and we're here to support him.

MTV: So, you're doing the Woody Allen flick with him, right?

BARRYMORE: Yes.

MTV: Can you tell us a little something about it?

BARRYMORE: What else can you --

LOVE: It's a musical and you sing and dance. That is scary.

BARRYMORE: Yes. Edward and I play fiancees, and we sing and dance, and we have a glorious time, and there is no bigger gift in my life than getting to do a Woody Allen movie. And she's doing "Larry Flynt" with him -- "The People Versus Larry Flynt" -- and she plays Althea Flynt.

MTV: Right, which is Woody Harelson's wife, right? What is it like working with Woody?

LOVE: Woody's nice. Woody's great.

Barrymore Joins another Courtney -- Cox -- and David Arquette in the cast of a new horror flick called "Scream," which director Wes Craven will start shooting in LA this month, and Love also has a small part in the upcoming Keanu Reeves movie, "Feeling Minnesota."

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