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Article: Cinema: Courtney Love for the Oscar!
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 24, 1996
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In her five years under the media microscope Courtney Love has
been variously portrayed as a rock goddess, a feminist icon, a
grunge Madonna, a Nineties Yoko Ono, a junkie mother, a tragic
widow, a victim, a villain, a vengeful manipulator, a crazed
Internet surfer, a walking freak show, and a self-destructive
near-OD case. Now, one drastic makeover later, the woman America
loves to hate could be about to take on her most unexpected role
yet: Oscar winner.
But first, there is the small matter of getting America to warm
to a film in which the hero, one of the most vulgar pornographers
in the world, wears the American flag as a diaper. The People vs
Larry Flynt is Milos Forman's impassioned ...