On Instagram, Courtney Love wrote that she is ‘tired of these old boys’ from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Vocalist and leader of alternative rock band hole, courtney love went to Instagram to criticize Rock Hall of Fame due to lack of female representation. The post uses a tweet from the author Jessica Hopperwho criticized the institution’s programs in commemoration of the Women’s History Month.
In the caption, love wrote: “So tired of these old boys. Thank you so much, @msjesshopp. I’ve been begging someone to do these maths for decades.” The original post by Hopper told how, of the 719 honorees of the Hall, only about 8.5% are women. The writer also reported how the representation of women at the institution is “worse than the numbers of female artists on country radio (10%) and female headliners at major music festivals (13%).”
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Courtney Love did not participate in Fight Club for rejecting film about Kurt Cobain with Brad Pitt
courtney love almost participated in Fight Club (1999). As he stated in an interview with the podcast WTFshe would have received an invitation from the director David Fincherbut was removed from the film after rejecting a proposal to brad pittwho wanted to interpret Kurt Cobain in feature film.
love would interpret Marla Singerwhich ended up being lived by Helena Bonham Carter. Although she is best known for her career in music, the newspaper The globe pointed out that she was noticed by the film industry after her performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996).
the idea of Pittprotagonist of Fight Cluband the director Gus Van Sant to portray the life of the leader of the Nirvana didn’t like courtney: “I would not let Brad to interpret Kurt. She was incisive. ‘Who the hell do you think you are?'”
“I don’t know if I trust you, and I don’t know if your movies are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies, but… if you don’t get my meaning, you kind of don’t get it. Kurtand I don’t feel like you do, Brad,” he added about the conversation he had with the star.
Source: Rollingstone
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