Courtney nixes Nirvana musical
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When I say “poor Courtney Love,” I’m expressing abstract pity, not giving a precise financial description.
All the same, I figured she’s been scrambling for money, ever since her daughter inherited what Kurt Cobain left Postmedia behind.
News But now she tells The Guardian, in England, that she has killed a potentially lucrative Broadway show about Nirvana.
She still controls some rights in connection with Kurt and the band, and says, “There will be no musical.” Sam Lufti, her ex-manager, has been talking this thing up, claiming she was in.
Nope. “Sometimes it’s best to leave things alone,” she said, adding she’s upset at the commercialization of the immortal legacy. What rights she retains she isn’t eager to exploit.
“I got so bullied into selling (the rights) I sold. I regret it so much. I’m never selling the rest of it.” Britney Spears, novelist?: I’m not certain she exactly understands the word, but all the same, The Hollywood Reporter says the singer will commit fiction for It Books, a HarperCollins imprint.
This is to be a fictionalized version of her life so far.
She’s 30. Pitt takes on design: And if Britney can write a novel, Brad Pitt can obviously design furniture.
I see by Architectural Digest that Brad is working with a New Jersey pro in the high-end furniture business, Frank Pollaro, on a dozen pieces: dining table, cocktail table, side tables, club chairs and of course a marble bathtub built for two.
Sounds practical, this stuff. The pieces “incorporate the idea of a single line,” which “can be geometric, as in the case of a 17-foot-long wood dining table” or else “sinuous, as with a glass-top side table that features a wispy spiralling metal base finished in 24k gold.” Thereby shunting Christmas into February: Heidi Klum, the ex-model, had a big Halloween party planned in New York, but then the weather went screwy. Forget about it?
Not Heidi: “I hope to postpone for the near future,” she said the other day. Avatar star walks on drunk rap: Avatar star Sam Worthington, arrested and pepper-sprayed while kneewalkin’ drunk at a restaurant in Atlanta, according to police, has beaten the rap under terms of the Important Persons Act.
By the next morning, however, it was all just a misunderstanding, and when the doorman failed to show up to complain formally, the incident was all over.