Courtney Cashes In

[Joe Brody]

Published in cnn.com

It's Cobain over Elvis as top-earning dead celeb
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley ceded his crown to Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain on Forbes.com's list as the top-earning dead celebrity.

The list, published on Tuesday, said grunge rocker Cobain earned $50 million between October 2005 and October 2006. Presley wound up in the No. 2 slot with $42 million, down from last year's $45 million.

Forbes.com bases its dollar amounts on licensing deals for using the deceased celebrities' work or image in advertising or elsewhere.

This was Cobain's first time on the list in its six years of publication. Presley has ruled the roost since its inception, said Forbes.com staff writer Lacey Rose.

Cobain's coup was due to his widow, actress and singer Courtney Love, who sold a 25-percent stake in the Seattle grunge group's song catalog to New York music publishing company PrimeWave.

Ranked after Presley is "Peanuts" cartoon strip creator Charles Schulz at $35 million.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love -- especially her acting.

Coincidentally, I'm still tinkering around with my Indy 4 (http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=7784) concept. I've abandoned the Henry-Sr.-artifact storyline in favor of one with the Ark. I'm envisoning Courtney Love-ish character, who is the femme fatale daughter of Walter Donovan.

[Moedred]

After watching the "Kurt & Courtney" documentary, it's hard to draw any conclusion other than she had Kurt offed, or drove him to suicide. Courtney's lauded as a champion of free speech (for being in the Larry Flynt movie), but behind the scenes she and her record company try to shut down the doc. Finally the documantarian rushes the mic after she gets an ACLU award, and he's silenced, of course.

I think Courtney totally stole her baby doll look from Kat Bjelland. I once helped cater when Babes in Toyland played our college, and stepped over Kat while delivering coffee to her room. She looked like she needed it. Her bandmates were totally checking me out, so I hung out in the roadie bus.

[Indy Benson]

She's a skank.

[Gustav]

Nirvana is extremely overrated. Courtney Love is crackwhore all the way.

[Joe Brody]

She's a skank.

Courtney Love is crackwhore all the way.

The secret of her appeal gentlemen. The secret of her appeal.

Actually, I don't buy that. But I do believe she's not fake or a poser . . . and I respect that.

[San Holo]

I love Nirvana's music, and I'm really undecided about Ms. Love. If that doc has any truth to it at all, she should be locked away forever- but I have a hard time believing she could be that much of a monster.I don't know if she had him killed or drove him to it, but I think that she was no good for Kurt Cobain(who was a manic depressed, heroin addict, with one too many guns laying around the house).