Originally Posted By alexbook I just heard this and had to share: According to her new autobiography ("Dirty Blonde") and recent interviews, Courtney Love tried out for the New Mickey Mouse Club in 1976, under the name Coco Rodriguez. Apparently, she recited a Sylvia Plath poem for her audition. The mind boggles.
Originally Posted By KarenTj24 Back in 1999, Courtney Love said this about auditioning for NMMC on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show": ROSIE: Did you always want to act because you're an amazing actress. COURTNEY: You see, you don't even know this . . . well, yes I did . . . ROSIE: What should I know? I just know that you're a rocker and you have a beautiful baby . . . COURTNEY: When Tatum O'Neal won that Oscar . . . I ran away from home. Two days later, they found me in Coburg, Oregon, I lived in Eugene, with my suitcase. I was going to go to Hollywood and I asked my mother, put me in Interlocken [acting school] . . . I wanted an agent and my mother wouldn't get me an agent, but I started kind of sneaking around . . . I started doing commercials and stuff anyway in Portland, Oregon, and went up for the New Mouseketeers [smiling]. ROSIE: And . . .? COURTNEY: And I made the finals and I went up to Seattle . . . I did some poem that was very similar to the lyrics I have today . . . quite tragic . . . but for some reason I made the finals and I lost out to Lisa Whelchel. ROSIE: From "The Facts of Life"? Oh Blair, no wonder . . . COURTNEY: I could have been a Mouseketeer! I'd have gotten in none of that trouble. ROSIE: You're right. COURTNEY: So at that point, I just said, you know, fine, I'll get a guitar. ROSIE: Then you became a rock star . . .
