Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Courtenay Love is in Trouble. No, In an Overall, Unspecific way.

what do you make of this article from rollingstone?
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Dressed down in a T-shirt and sweat pants, she is holed up here in hiding: from the paparazzi, from her manager, from the government, from the bank, from a man, from herself. She does not answer her phone, in case someone calls her "with some bullshit news about some fucking thing." One more turn of events for the worse, it seems, would push our thirty-nine-year-old protagonist over the edge.

"I have all the leading indicators for suicide," she says as she drops a cigarette butt into a bottle of Stewart's root beer. "Loss of child, loss of spouse, public humiliation, civil arrest, financial collapse, displacement from home."


After the scene in Boogie Nights in which William H. Macy shoots himself comes on the screen, Love turns and comments, "That's the first time I watched that scene without closing my eyes. After what happened, you can't really watch a scene like that. Sorry to . . ." She pauses, then begins again: "After ten years, it gets easier."
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