Hirschberg's devastating and prescient portrait of Love ruthlessly plotting her path to stardom, however, is sorely missed here. Brite seems reluctant to explore why Cobain ultimately turned on himself while Courtney, so far, has triumphed, morphing from the original riot grrrl into a Dolce & Gabbana-clad Serious Actress and mainstream media darling overnight. It could be that Love's ferocious survival instincts were forged in a childhood that was actually far worse than Cobain's. One clue to how far she's come may lie in Love's reform-school records. ''Internally, Courtney appears to be a very frightened young lady,'' reads one report, ''who has never met with very much success at anything she has tried.'' Now that the former Pee Girl has a potentially dazzling movie, music, even modeling career ahead of her, that kind of statement, of course, is no longer true. B

Originally posted Oct 10, 1997 Published in issue #400 Oct 10, 1997 Order article reprints
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