Courtney Love releases book of memoirs
(8 Nov 2006) SHOTLIST AP Entertainment Los Angeles 7 November 2006 1. Wide of Virgin Megastore 2. Pan of fans outside store 3. Wide of book display 4. Medium of book jacket 5. Medium of Courtney Love grabbing book and posing for photographers 6. Close up of Love posing for photographers 7. Photographers 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer, on the essence of her book: "Oh yeah, it's definitely a scrapbook. I mean, that is by definition, what it is. But I think all the pieces come together to tell the story, too." 9. Pan up book jacket 10. STILL image from book - picture Courtney Love as an adolescent 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer, on highlights of her book: "There's a letter I wrote...I was really young. Well, the rejection from 'The Mickey Mouse Club' really formed me." 12. STILL image from book - close up of rejection letter from the 'Mickey Mouse Club' 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer: "This is kind of seminal. Like this is all the foster homes I was in, that's why there's so many of them. And this is sort of a reporter... I don't even know how I got these. I think I stole them. And I kept - well, held on to them." 14. STILL image from book - list of foster homes 15. STILL image from book - letter from Children's Services Division 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer: "And then I like this: This is, all the things you should teach your children but this is written by a 15 (year old), so I'm using the word 'droll,' it's... their names: Frances, Clair, Scarlett, Kevin, Steven. 'Never let anyone see yourself being self-promoted.'" 17. Close up of camera person, with pull out to reveal E! Entertainment crew interviewing Love 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer: "I'd been written about so many times and had so many articles written about me, that this was something where I could present fractured parts of myself. And there's no editor putting me in a box and making me into something I'm not. This is me, like it or not. This is how I think, how I write lyrics. Things that have happened to me, real things." 19. Pan of photographers 20. UPSOUND Reporter Question: "What goes in the next book, then?" 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Love, Entertainer: "The two rooms full of stuff that I wouldn't let (allow to) be in this book." 22. Love puts on sunglasses with pan to photographers 23. Close up of Love signing book, with pan up to Love COURTNEY LOVE LAUNCHES SCRAP BOOK MEMOIRS Courtney Love met the press, greeted fans, and signed copies of her new book on Tuesday night at the Virgin Megastore in Hollywood. The musician, actress and tabloid favourite marks her non-fiction literary debut with 'Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.' Instead of a linear remembrance of things past, Love filled the pages with photos, clippings and doodles - everything, but a conventional narrative. "Oh yeah, it's definitely a scrapbook," Love told AP Television. "I mean, that is, by definition, what it is. But I think all the pieces come together to tell the story, too," she said. The result is an impromptu memoir, reaching back to childhood horrors and highlights. The story moves through her life with her late legendary husband -rocker Kurt Cobain, and takes the reader through the time after his death. It continues with the triumphs and tribulations of her life today, as an artist, a mother and recovering addict. She is reportedly 15 months sober. The singer mentioned "all the foster homes" she was in, and showed a list, and accompanying letter from the Children's Services Division. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
