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...most amazing journey of all was taken by COURTNEY LOVE. Last year she was still rock's open wound. Tread-marked and track-marked, widow of Kurt Cobain and primal scream of the rock band Hole, she was the id other rockers warmed their instruments against. This year she's Audrey Hepburn. O.K., not quite. But for her sizable performance in The People vs. Larry Flynt, in which she played Flynt's formidable and doomed wife Althea, a druggy ex-stripper, Love won the New York Film Critics Circle Award as Best Supporting Actress. Last month the same woman...
...wanted "to hear music, not to be preached to." Is it a gross understatement to say that most music carries with it a message of some sort? Kurt Cobain had his anthem of angst and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony carries the message of hope, brotherhood and unity of mankind. Mike Macintosh, the lead singer, had an important message, something important to integrate into his band's music...
...a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, is not only chilling and tragic, but also deeply symbolic. The deaths of popular icons often reflect the flaws or excesses of their generations. The fates of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrision were representative of the pitfalls of a drug culture; Kurt Cobain's suicide exemplified the nihilistic and selfdestructive elements of the so-called Generation X. Biggie's slaying, especially because it was so closely preceded by the death of Tupac Shakur, is indicative of a hip-hop culture that is too often obsessed with mindless violence and senseless killings...
...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...
...involved in a long-running feud with Ticketmaster; in the case of R.E.M., the band was plagued with health-related problems and decided to skip a major tour; and in the case of Nirvana, the record--a live album--was released in the wake of lead singer Kurt Cobain's suicide, and the trio's surviving band members could not mount a successful tour. Of course, the problems might also have been due to the fact that the R.E.M. CD was not as strong musically as some of the band's earlier efforts, and that Pearl...