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Love leads Flynt's First Amendment charge
December 24, 1996
Web posted at: 4:45 a.m. ESTFrom Correspondent Sherri Sylvester
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Courtney Love is a character too strange for fiction, which probably makes her ideal for the role of porn-peddler Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Milos Forman's new movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt."
Love is lead singer of the rock group Hole and the widow of Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain. Now, after surviving Cobain's suicide and her own bout of narcotics abuse, she has landed a starring role in one of the Christmas season's most-talked about films.
Early notices for "Larry Flynt" are positive, and the word is Love's performance could earn her an Oscar nomination.
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But the blond femme fatale, who has had bit parts in such movies as the independent "Basquiat," says her acting experience really boils down to living her life in the public eye.
Pretending
"All I really know about acting is [how to] pretend, close your eyes, pretend you're the mom," Love told CNN. "I shouldn't tell you this. I should be saying [that] I went to the Royal Shakespeare Academy, but I did not."
Love does, however, believe she's well-suited to play Althea Flynt -- a hometown girl who married Flynt, suffered through heroin addiction, contracted AIDS, served as publisher of Hustler magazine and eventually drowned in her own bathtub.
Although refusing to discuss her own, often public, personal controversies, Love is eager to promote the story of Flynt's First Amendment battles to publish pornography.
"The People vs. Larry Flynt" is built around Flynt's Supreme Court victory allowing him to parody public figures, right-wing Christian evangelist Jerry Falwell in particular.
The irony of Love's role in the movie is that she has often been the focus of painful parodies by the media during her short but tumultuous career.
But Love says the sting of parody in the press is worth the price of admission to a society where free speech is the law.
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