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Apparantly Courtney Love isn't too concerned about keeping her day job. The Hole singer, alterna-rock icon, and modern fashion plate is throwing herself into movie work, with a new acting assignment on deck and a new role as movie exec with
This month Love appears opposite Jim Carrey in Milos Forman's long-awaited Andy Kaufmann bio-pic, Man on the Moon, and has just announced that she will star in and produce a detective yarn called Darker Saints. Variety reports that the picture, budgeted at $15 million, will start shooting in April in New Orleans and Toronto. A director has not yet been announced. Love is slated to play a forensic expert for the FBI, tracking a serial killer who preys upon prostitutes in New Orleans' French Quarter. The movie is being described as an "erotic thriller," though it's probably not of the variety that has made Shannon Tweed a late-night cable superstar. Though Love had small roles in such cult faves as Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy and Julian Schnabel's Basquiat, she got her big break in 1996 from Forman, who cast her in The People vs. Larry Flynt. Her starmaking turn as Althea Flynt prompted talk of an Oscar nomination; she didn't get a nod from the Academy, but she did make a fairly stunning appearance on the Awards show, remade as a Versace-swathed glamour girl. She subsequently appeared in the eighties-era ensemble piece, Two Hundred Cigarettes, garnering better reviews than the movie itself, which enjoyed only a brief theatrical run. Love hasn't been ignoring Hole, however, though even her work with the band has a Hollywood slant. The group's very hard-edged new single, "Be a Man" - which owes a musical debt to Love's paramour-turned-nemesis Trent Reznor - is featured on the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's forthcoming pro football flick, Any Given Sunday. The band is offering a downloadable version of the tune on its Web site. Hole recently lost a key member when bassist (and current Calvin Klein model) Melissa Van Der Auf left to join Smashing Pumpkins in the wake of D'arcy Wretky's departure. Dame D'arcy, as she has often been known, is following in Love's footsteps, hoping to launch an acting career. She is set to star opposite Mickey Rourke, who may not have ever been a rock star but definitely has the attitude to suit one, in an indie pic titled Peaces of Ronnie. According to NME.com, she plays "a comedic mafia hit woman" in the film, which will also feature two other pop divas, Debbie Harry and Kylie Minogue. Harry, who has proven to be an accomplished character actress, has lots of indie flick experience and once starred in one of David Cronenberg's cult favorites, Videodrome. Minogue, who is the subject of a lavish new coffee-table book out in England just in time for holiday gift-giving, got her start in the Australian soap opera, Neighbours (which also launched the career of Natalie Imbruglia). To make this rock star/movie star nexus complete, Peaces of Ronnie will also feature actor/writer/director Vincent Gallo, who not only has rock guy attitude but has is own band - and a record deal. That's called synergy, folks.
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