{"id":792,"date":"2010-04-28T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=792"},"modified":"2010-04-28T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:59:17","slug":"a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though the Big Hollywood Movie about the life and (contested) suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of glum-grunge-rockers Nirvana, may be looming ever closer. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/04\/kurt_cobain.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-794\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px;border: white 5px solid\" title=\"kurt_cobain\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/04\/kurt_cobain-147x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kurt Cobain\" width=\"147\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/04\/kurt_cobain-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2010\/04\/kurt_cobain-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since Cobain&#8217;s death in 1994, his life and iconic status have seemed suitable fodder for the big Hollywood biopic also afforded to singers like The Doors&#8217; Jim Morrison by Oliver Stone in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101761\/\" target=\"_blank\">eponymous film<\/a> from 1991.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article7097770.ece\" target=\"_blank\">As reported in The Sunday Times recently<\/a>, the plot continues.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ve had Val Kilmer as a rock legend: who would you choose to play Kurt and Courtney ?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/&amp;t=A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain.%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/&amp;title=A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/&amp;title=A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain.' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though the Big Hollywood Movie about the life and (contested) suicide of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of glum-grunge-rockers Nirvana, may be looming ever closer. Since Cobain&#8217;s death in 1994, his life and iconic status have seemed suitable fodder for the big Hollywood biopic also afforded to singers like The Doors&#8217; Jim Morrison &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2010\/04\/28\/a-kurt-dismissal-playing-cobain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Kurt dismissal: playing Cobain.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[1091,1092],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}