Yesterday I expressed my concerns about both Dan Dare and Bill Hicks movies, and speculated on the potential of each for bigtime disappointment. I can’t say I wonder too hard about the new Runaways biopic, except that, back in 1976 or there about, I went on the road with The Runaways on assignment for the NME. Now they’ve made a movie about it all with an almost-grown Dakota Fanning playing Cherie Currie, I can’t help but fondly muse that someone might play me as a cameo? I doubt it, but who knows. And who, if it happened, might that be? Click here for a trailer
So, tell us about your road trip with the Runaways.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard a lick of their music beyond Cherry Bomb, but the time was right for me to sit up and notice when they came along. I'll be seeing the movie - probably on DVD - and I'm looking forward to seeing who they got to play Kim Fowley, someone I'm really interested in. (Please note that 'interested in' and 'like' are two very different things.)
Actually it was kinda uneventful. They were protected like Muslim schoolgirls. Weren't allowed in hotel bars. Joan and Cherie seemed to take a lot of pills. The only adventure was when they stole everything that wasn't nailed down in the last English hotel and were arrested while boading the ferry at Dover.
ReplyDeleteThey stored their gear in Mike Marten's garage in St Stephen's Mews - where i had just started living & making badges, having been kicked out of Manly's kitchen. So my claim to fame is at least I slept with their amps.
ReplyDeleteNice pic of CC's bum here
Was this during the time when Kim Fowley produced (managed?) them? Saw them at the Roundhouse once and got their first album!
ReplyDelete"The only adventure was when they stole everything that wasn't nailed down in the last English hotel and were arrested while boading the ferry at Dover."
ReplyDeleteHahaha! That's plenty of adventure. There's a novel in that, methinks. What leads folks to do that - poverty or middle class entitlement (or other). Quite a premise. Plus underage pussy = blockbuster premise.
wv is gravely, which is totally boring.
The cameo could played by Jamie Afro, one of the finalists in last year's UK X-Factor series, he's a dead ringer for you Mick, but whether he's got any acting ability is another matter!
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Holy shit. I just looked at this guy. The resemblence is as scary as his name is absurd.
ReplyDelete... yes it's uncanny ain't it?
ReplyDeletePerfect casting.
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