“My first boyfriend’s mother was in wardrobe and I was her assistant. The first film I worked on was Mommie Dearest. I used to measure people nipple to nipple. The first line I heard from Miss Dunaway was: ‘Who is that fat girl in my eyeline?’ I was terrified. Funnily enough, when I became a movie star for five seconds [in The People vs Larry Flynt, for which she won critical acclaim], Sharon Stone called me and said, ‘Welcome to the industry. When I got here, Miss Dunaway welcomed me.’ And I was like, ‘Miss Dunaway has welcomed me already.’”
- Courtney Love in the Times Online
Courtney Love certainly has a taste for the macabre when it comes to art and decor. (This is the woman who put late husband Kurt Cobain’s ashes in a teddy bear, after all.) Now, the star, who sometimes has trouble finding assistants, reportedly flipped out on her assistant when a piece of art was thrown out during a move. The art, a dead bird inside a matchbox (it apparently cost £8,000) got tossed like a piece of trash while movers took stuff out of Courtney’s house. Courtney was apparently so upset about the loss of the precious piece of art that, rather than fire the movers for actually chucking the thing in the garbage, she blamed her assistant for not looking after the piece closely enough and then fired her.
Hey, Courtney, one time I found a dead pigeon on my stoop. I’m pretty sure it got killed by some feral cats in the neighborhood. I’ll give it to you for a bargain – just £7,000. It’s a steal! I’ll even throw the matchbox in for free!
These days, even internships at glamorous workplaces like magazines and fashion houses are so sought-after that you practically have to be a celebrity to get one. Ashley Olsen interned at Zac Posen while attending NYU, and sister Mary-Kate interned for photographer Annie Leibowitz. And you can’t forget about Sean Avery’s ‘internship’ at Vogue. And now another celebrity kid is taking a spot an actual journalism major would kill for: Frances Bean Cobain is interning at Rolling Stone for the summer. So how is Frances doing as an intern?
Page Six reports that Frances is not very popular with the other interns at Rolling Stone. They quote several ‘insiders’ who say “she doesn’t get coffee for anyone . . . calls in sick all the time and wears funny outfits.”
Are interns even allowed to call in sick?
I guess this is what happens when you allow not only a celebrity, but a 15-year old-celebrity, to be an intern. Maybe this is why Teen Vogue banned high school interns.
