Love Bares her Celebrity Skin: Whether you were a fran or just another sniper lying in wait for Courtney Love to go public again, arguably the most eagerly-anticipated album release of the year was Hole's Celebrity Skin, and sure if there wasn't controversy aplenty. The more-or-less coincidental release of documentarian
Nick Broomfield's scathing Kurt & Courtney gave Love's detractors a bucketful of new grenades to lob. Elsewhere, speculation on the level of Billy Corgan's involvement with the album and questions surrounding the status of drummer Patty Schemel threatened to bury the album in a swirl of spin-doctoring. Fortunately for fans, Love, Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf der Maur and Schemel delivered the goods, with a spectacular effort loaded with potential singles.. (Access)
Though Courtney buys lots of vintage sweaters and dresses, she was recently spotted at New York City's famous Family Jewels vintage clothing shop buying a pink ruffly teddy from the 60s. (Seventeen)
Love her or hate her, there's no denying that Courtney Love was born to be a star. The former Ms. Cobain has successfully conquered
the worlds of music and film, and who knows what her next creative frontier may be? (Hit Parader)
It was some kind of alternative rock all-star game backstage when R.E.M. played
Earl's Court in London. Hole chatted with opening band Wilco, Brit scream rockers Skunk Anansie
mingled with Blondie's Clem Burke, and a fresh-from-Winbledom Jim Courier
joined R.E.M. for a mean air-guitar solo on his racket (not really). "Spiritual.
Wonderful. So insanely amazing." gushed Courtney Love after the show. "I wish he'd
come and shake his funky ass onstage at Brixton," said Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson,
referring to Hole's show the next night and Michael Stipe's rump. "Anything's
possible," Stipe replied, although the closest he got was the afterparty.
R.E.M. pulled out favorites like "One I Love" and "Losing my Religion,"
but before dusting off these chestnuts, Stipe reviewed some Web sites that try
to decipher their lyrics. "They were remarkably wrong," he said. "Phenomenally wrong."
(Rolling Stone)
..Rocker-actress Courtney Love turned her hotel room into a shrine for her late husband Kurt
Cobain, the waitress discolsed. "I called her Miss Love and she started cursing and screaming,
'You address me as Mrs. Cobain!' She pointed to a desk. There was a framed picture of
Kurt with lit candles and flowers in front of it. (National Enquirer)
While the SF Weekly ran an advance, albeit fake, review of Hole's
not-yet-released record (asserting, snarkily, "British metal has
never sounded so vital"), Love's impromptu debut of a song from the
long-awaited follow-up to Live Through This at a West Hollywood
nightclub elicted a more tepid response. "Its sucked," announced
one audience member. To which the eloquent chanteuse snappily
rejoindered, "F*ck you! I'm gonna kick your f*cking ass!" (Spin)
Although it has been blamed for being anti-Courtney Love in the making, the director of
"Kurt and Courtney" tells Rock Flash that his controversial documentary began out of nothing
more than admiration for Kurt Cobain.
"Kurt Cobain was much more than a rock star," Broomfield says. "He had a very loyal following."
(Circus or Hit Parader)
Courtney Love thought she
was keeping abreast of fashion when she deepened her cleavage by boosting
her measurements to 35C.
But in March 1993, the rocker said no thanks for the mammaries - she had
her implants removed and de-flated her frontage to 34B. (National Enquirer)
From Spin, June 1999 - Courtney Love didn't like the drugs, and the drugs
didn't like her. She may have diplomatically cited "production issues"
as the reason Hole bailed out of the Marilyn Manson tour last March - and
subsequently fired her powerful management company, Q-Prime - but a source
close to the currently-clean-and-sober rock diva claims the real issue
was Manson's backstage dope show: "He does more blow than Kate Moss on a tear at
the Milan shows, times Liam Gallagher - and honey, that's saying something."
Anotehr factor could have been the anti-Love sentiments expressed by some ticket-buyers
who showed up wearing homemade T-shirts that read "F*ck you, Courtney, I came to
see Manson." When Hole opened at the Forum in Los Angeles on March 14 -
for what would turn out to be their final performance of the tour - the
15,000 capacity venue was barely half-full, though the VIP room boasted
such celeb couples as Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Ben Lee and Claire
Danes, and Bijou Phillips and whoever she's boinking these days. "It wasn't
her crowd," says a Love fan who attended. "She kept saying things like, "Hey,
do you guys think I can still stage-dive?" - and there'd be complete silence. It was embarassing."
There were more luminaries backstage than on the Lemonheads-Buffalo Tom-Gigolo Aunts gig in
New York: soccer player Alexi Lalas, Iggy Pop and David Gilmour, who attended, says Aunt Dave
Gibbs, "because our name is taken from an old Syd Barrett song." Also present: Courtney Love.
"She was backstage," says Gibbs. "The security guy said, 'Can I see your pass?' She said, 'How
about the tracks of my tears?' and walked by." (Rolling Stone)
Courtney Love is the excecutive soundtrack coordinator for the upcoming sci-fi flick Tank Girl.
Expect new tracks from Bjork, Luscious Jackson and Hole ("Drown Soda," from a BBC Peel
session.) (Rolling Stone)
Chuck Dean -- In the sad, fun, true tradition of Janis, Jim and Jimi, Courtney Love has proven
herself a worthy one-woman sack of hell. Look at the track record: lost a husband; kind of got
new boobs; lost a bass player, gained a Michael Stipe; threatened to sue her shrink for getting
her hooked on drugs, went on the radio to announce that Stone Temple Pilots' Weiland was hooked
on drugs; and in her downtime tongued Evan Dando, saw her estranged father Hard-Copy out on her,
kicked around (figuratively) with some Tibetan monks and had her site unplugged by America
Online! Look how she rattled Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards. Poor Madonna was left
shaking her hair extensions, but that's rock & roll, too: fright and intimidation, aiming for the
mightiest and leaving a photographable blood trail. (Rolling Stone)
No gold or silver around Courtney Love's wrist - the wild rock band leader's only bracelet is a
simple rubber band. She told a pal it's there as a reminder to practice "self-restraint." (Like
wearing underwear the next time she jumps into a mosh pit!) (National Enquirer)
Rock stars may be rich and famous, but they sure can be dumb. Take rocker-actress Courtney Love, wife of the late Kurt Cobain. She once got into a fight backstage with another woman - during a benefit to "stop violence against women."
When she was giving birth, husband Kurt was in a drug rehab in another wing of the hospital.
So she walked into his room and demanded that he help with the delivery. They marched
back to the maternity sector, and Kurt vomited during the birth. (National Enquirer)
Open wide! No, Courtney Love's not at the dentist. The outspoken punk rocker/actress was belting out a tune at a recent event hyping the upcoming
"MTV Video Music Awards," to be held September 10 in Los Angeles. (National Enquirer)
Journalist Belissa Cohen, 39, filed a civil suit against Courtney
Love, 33, on May 28 in L.A., alleging assault and batter and seeking
unspecified damages. Cohen says that after she snapped Love's picture
at a fashion show on April 25, the singer charged her, kneed her,
pulled her hair and smacked her face. Love plans a vigorous legal
defense. Love: A lawsuit may put her in the hole. (People Weekly)
As the month progressed, there were more legal woes for Courtney Love, who was busted upon arrival in Melbourne, Australia, for harassing a stewardess ("I said unsalted nuts!") during a 90-minute flight.
In the wake of an America Online controversy (Hole's folder was temporarily deleted from AOL after numerous "service violation"), Hole dazzled on MTV Unplugged, spotlighting new tunes, including "Best Sunday Dress" and "Old Age". (Rolling Stone)
Courtney Love (with designer Gianni Versace) has become the new muse for some top
designers, including Isaac Mizrahi. "She has fabulous chameleon quality," he gushed.
The former Seattle residence of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain is for sale. Reportedly, Love was tired of fans flocking to the neighboring park to pay homage to her late husband. Real-estate agent Bob Bennion said interest has been "really strong. I think everyone knows the house. It's not a secret." Love currently lives in Lost Angeles with her daughter, Frances Bean. She also plans to buy a horse farm in Olympia, Wash. (Rolling Stone)
No Drew, boo-hoo? Is Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson in tears over his breakup with his long-term honey-love Drew Barrymore? He certainly looked happy enough while dining at a trendy new L.A. restaurant - then again, he was the only guy among four other girls (one of them Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur). (Teen)
Camaigning Courtney: Multi-faceted Courtney Love has already segued into acting (she'll be starring opposite Woddy Harrelson in the bio-pic The People vs. Larry Flynt); now she's moving into modeling! Yup, the indomitable Courtney has signed with the agency Next to do high-profile ad campaigns...(Unknown)
Courtney divorced her mom & raised herself: Courtney Love was five years old when her parents split, and her mother Linda later abandoned her on several occasions, leaving the girl in a string of foster homes that Courtney hated. In 1978, her own mom turned in 13-year old Courtney to the police for stealing a T-shirt, which led to a stint in an Oregon reformatory.Three years later Courtney went to court and became an emancipated minor-and she's had little to do with her mother since.
"Courtney's basically raised herself since she was about 12," said her good friend. (National Enquirer)
Courtney Love is erasing late hubby Kurt Cobain from her life-she's having her "K" tattoo removed from her torso.
In the world of the famous, friendships seem to spring up at a much more rapid pace than they do for hoi polloi. Consider Courtney Love and Sandra Bernhard, who were gallivanting around Irving Plaza, in New York, at a post-show party (which raised bread for LIFEbeat, an AIDS charity) after Hole's two Roseland gigs. (Rolling Stone)
COURTNEY ditching her grunge for glamour: She burst on the scene as a
tough-talking grunge rocker. But Courtney Love cleaned up her trashy diva
image (left), and transformed herself into a gorgeous glamour girl. . .with help
from Sharon Stone and the late fashion great Versace. Sharon loaned
Courtney a stunning designer gown for the Golden Globes-and Courntey
wore va-va-voom Versaces to other award galas. (National Enquirer)
Breakin' the law! Breakin' the law! Courtney Love, clutching her daughter,
Frances Bean Cobain, headed out of Grant Courtney District Court, in
Ephrata, Wash., after pleading guilty to assault. (You may recall that a
few months ago, Love belted Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill during an
argument.) As part of a plea-bargain afreement, Love will serve no jail time.
(Rolling Stone)
Woody Allen directs yet another autobiographical movie and his first
musical with Everyone Says I Love You, starring about every
young hot thang you can imagine, like Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore,
Lukas Hass, Gabby Hoffman, and Courtney Love's new beau, Edward
Norton. Speaking of Courtney, don't dare miss the rock 'n' roll
documentary Hype, about the blast-off of the Seattle music
scene (aka grunge, dig?). (Sassy)