March 18, 2004
Courtney Love Does NY, Digs Own...er, Hole! Star Flashes Breasts on TV, Gets Arrested, Etc.
The Air Massive knew Courtney Love was was making a tour stop in New York this week and that it would be special.
We kept seeing the posters for her March 18 show at the Bowery Ballroom every time we walked past the club, which is around the corner from the Massive HQ in downtown Manhattan, and had even thought about popping around the night of the show.
We just never anticipated that her week would be this special...
As the New York Post, NY1 and every other news outlet rushed to report, during an appearance on the popular Late Night with David Letterman television show Wednesday afternoon, Love lifted her shirt and bared her breasts as she walked over to Letterman's guest couch. She was obviously not wearing a bra underneath her shirt.
She then climbed up on Letterman's desk and towering above Dave raised her shirt and let her breasts out (see above photo, left). Love was facing Letterman during the stunt, so the studio audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown didn't see her bare chest.
But wait... there's more!
As Reuters reported Thursday evening, following her Letterman appearance, during her secret concert that same night at another downtown club, Plaid, in the East Village, Love threw her microphone stand which struck a member of the audience. The police were called and she was arrested on assault charges. Love spent Wednesday night in jail and was released at 7:30 AM Thursday morning.
So, we thought, we DEFINITELY have to go tonight's Bowery Ballroom show. But get this, the show, as of 8:00 PM New York time was SOLD OUT! And, as the Bowery Ballroom notes, the show is an appropriately 18-and-older-only event. (Sniff sniff, little ones!)
Love, who keeps an apartment in New York's SoHo neghborhood not far from the Bowery Ballroom, not only pulled a Janet Jackson on national TV Wednesday and got arrested, but also locked herself out of her SoHo digs on her way home from the Letterman show taping.
So, yep, it's just another wacky day in the life of a Courtney Love already troubled by presciption drugs and beset by legal woes.
Maybe the video (see above picture, right) from her recently released solo album, "America's Sweetheart," in which Love runs rampant through a supermarket in a wedding gown as small girls keeps popping out from under her dress, is communicating a much truer, possibly bipolar Courtney Love. Perhaps it's an artistic cry for help.
There may be much more at play here. Let's review the facts: Female celebrity--Check! Roughly 40 years of age--Yes! Career on downswing in recent years--Affirmative! Increasing pop-culture irrelevancy--Uh huh! Member of by-gone-era pop/rock-music royalty--Right.
OK, then, everything does seem to be in order, which could only mean one thing--it's time to bare breast(s) on American television.
It all makes sense now, doesn't it?
But, all kidding aside, let's be fair. Courtney is an entertainer, a "creative type." She's an actress AND a rocker. And in her salad days she briefly worked as a professional stripper in Japan.
Love is also a widow and single mother whose late husband, heroin-addled Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, shot himself to death after unwittingly being crowned the single most influential music-youth-culture-global-MTV-icon of a generation. So, let's give the the lady a break. At least until the next wacky stunt-cum-meltdown.
--Da Smitho + Grand Central Playstation
RELATED LINKS
+ Showoff Courtney Bares Up for Dave [NY Post]
+ NY Police Arrest Courtney Love on Assault Charge [Reuters]
+ Courtney Love Official Website
+ Hole / Courtney Love Bio [MTV]
+ Courtney Love Filmography [iMDB]
Posted by at March 18, 2004 03:22 AM
