She loves Miles Davis' militant riffs, goes to action films a lot, finds Playboy and Barbie dolls more subversive than Hustler, thinks of director Milos Forman as the father she never had, and lost 20 pounds in two weeks on an all-meat diet. Courtney Love. Notorious rock lady, and now big-time movie star.
Tottering on a pair of shiny, black, spiked high heels she'd purchased at a Berlin fetish clothing store, Love wobbled into the hotel conference room remarkably game for still another round of press questions. Her raw, vital performance in The People Vs Larry Flynt has made her an overnight sensation, Hollywood's new darling and the critics' flavour of the month. Naturally, the offers are pouring in.
'First it was like Janis Joplin, then Grace Slick. Ridiculous,' she laughs. 'But now they are very respectable scripts. Good parts. But they don't like you to talk about them.
'With regard to the feminist controversy swirling around the film: 'Gloria Steinem is a friend of my mother's. I grew up going to lunch with Gloria Steinem. When Gloria called, I asked her 'Would you rather live in a house with Larry Flynt or Jerry Falwell?'' Enough said.
Asked whom she admires: 'That's a long list.' She mentions Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Patti Smith. But lately she's made some new friends. 'I went to Sharon Stone's house and that was an amazing experience. And Demi Moore. I admire their ability to play the game.'
About being raised in Oregon she says, 'I believed I could grow up to be a football player. The reason I got a guitar when I was very young is because only boys did it.'
About the future of her daughter, who the late Kurt Cobain fathered: 'My daughter is going to Harvard to be a biochemist. My daughter has a full plate.'
Has she any regrets? 'You want to write a book?' she shoots back. That says it all. Owen Levy
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