We’re being inundated with ’90s nostalgia at the moment, so it’s a good thing Courtney Love has an endless supply of pseudo-shocking recollections about her time with Kurt Cobain. Today she explains how “Smells Like Teen Spirit” played into their first sexual encounter, and discusses the night they made Frances Bean. In an excerpt from the new book, I Want My MTV, Courtney says,
“The first time Kurt and I slept together was at a Days Inn in Chicago. We were having our first postcoital moment, and we’re watching MTV and the video came on. I pulled away from him, because it was his video, his moment, he was the king of the fucking world, and he put his arm around me and pulled me closer. Which was symbolic, like, ‘I’m letting you into my life.’ That really endeared him to me. The next time I saw the video with him was at the Omni Northstar Hotel in Minneapolis. I’d flown there to fuck Billy Corgan, who still had lots of hair. I didn’t even know Nirvana were playing that night. Kurt and I wound up at the Northstar, and our daughter, Frances, was basically made that night. ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was on MTV every five fucking minutes.”
[N.Y. Mag]
Tabloid editors see a baby bump every time a starlet eats a burrito and touches her belly, but for some reason they can’t accept that Beyonce is actually expecting. Today her rep called the rumors about her “deflating” belly in a recent TV interview “stupid, ridiculous and false,” particularly because there are paparazzi shots of Beyonce and her bump in a bikini. [TMZ]
Rumors have been swirling that Taylor Lautner is gay, and a GQ Australia reporter surmised that they must be true because he had dinner with Gus Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black, who are both openly gay. When asked if they guys hit on him, Taylor said, “No, definitely not. I think they know I’m straight.” That’s pretty surprising, because when a few heterosexual people have dinner together, they usually wind up banging by the end of the night. Those straight people just can’t keep their hands off each other! [E!]
Are you convinced that the world-renowned cheater you’re dating is staying faithful to you? Kat Von D may have a tip. Supposedly she’s working out a deal to endorse Cheaterville.com. A source says, “She has been offered $20,000 and all she has to do is endorse the site and make a 30 second PSA with the site’s owner, former US Marine James McGibney, about anti-cheating and why cheating in Hollywood needs to stop now.” [Radar]
- Kelsey Grammer is going to court to try to prevent his ex-wife Camille from letting their kids talk to the media because she recently directed their son to answer a paparazzo’s question. Supposedly Camille is indignant because Kelsey has been taking the kids to restaurants where stars go when they want to be photographed. [TMZ]
- Tori Spelling has given birth to her third child. She Tweeted, “Our family’s so happy 2 announce [that on] 10/10/11 [our] baby girl Hattie Margaret McDermott was born at 7:08am! Xoxo.” [People]
- Penny Marshall is writing a memoir. “I have had many lives (not in the Shirley MacLaine sense) and you will hear about them all … Just don’t expect any recipes … I don’t cook,” she says. [Reuters]
- Shocker: Anna Kournikova has been dating Enrique Iglesias for a decade, but she insists she doesn’t have a stack of Martha Stewart Weddings hidden under her bed. “[Marriage] isn’t important to me. I’m in a happy relationship — that’s all that matters,” she says. “I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.” [Us]
- Here’s a charming tale about fratricide from Tilda Swinton: “I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother,” she says. “I went into his room to kill him, saw some ribbons from a bonnet going into his mouth, and began to pull them out. And I was discovered saving his life. So I had this strange reputation – my brother’s savior – and no one knew I wanted to kill him.” [N.Y. Mag]
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