When will Lita Ford, the Stevie Nicks of hair metal, get the respect she deserves? Not, apparently, in The Runaways. BOO. "We see Cheri Currie and Joan Jett do drugs and make out a few times, but the movie does nothing to explore whatever complications that brought-if any-to their onstage and offstage relationship and only hints ever so briefly at what it did to the band dynamic. And speaking of the band, what about the other three members? Each gets a handful of dialogue (oh, Lita Ford, you always get the shaft!) but don't even make it into the here's-what-happened notes at movie's end."
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Kiss me once!
It's true. Lita is used to it. In fact, she went to a party just last Saturday night-she didn't get laid, she got in a fight. But it ain't no big thing to her.
Uh huh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3fJ8Nmzyw
The guy who created The Runaways is still bat-shit crazy: http://www.kimfowley.net/
Crazy, but also seems pretty self-aware. This interview is pretty great:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/03/kim-fowley-on-the-runaways-movie-every-movie-needs-a-villain-and-im-a-good-one.html
the interviewer tries SO hard to get him to be upset about his portrayal in the movie, and he just won't take the bait...
"Close My Eyes Forever": that's the 80s song Sarah Palin most reminds me of.
"Kiss Me Deadly" is my karaoke standby.