Courtney to play Love interest Hole's Courtney Love is to star with Jim Carrey in Milos Forman's Man In The Moon, a true story film about comedian Andy Kaufman, best known for his role as TV show Taxi
's strange mechanic Latka Gravas. Love's buddies R.E.M have scored the soundtrack.This is Courtney Love's second Forman film - the first was
The People Vs Larry Flint. In Man In The Moon she plays Kaufman's wife, film maker Lynne Margulies. Some sparks also flew off screen when Jim Carrey
took her out to dinner to celebrate her 34th birthday and serenaded her. The film, which is not released in the US until November 5, looks like being a success based on early screenings and
positive reviews for Love's portrayal of Margulies. Love has been busy on other film sets too. She plays Lucy in 200 Cigarettes, alongside Benn Affleck,
Janeane Garofalo and Christina Ricci, which was released to mixed reviews in the US. Her latest project has her playing Joan Burroughs, wife of William S Burroughs
who was mistakenly shot by her husband. |
