Did you take my book recommendation a while back and read Patti Smith's Just Kids? If not, you're long overdue. If you don't read, you're in luck... the book is about to become a movie. Knowing that Patti Smith is working closely with John Logan on this makes me somewhat hopeful that the film will live up to the book (though that's probably wishful thinking because no movie ever lives up to a book.) However, I would like to publicly beg that they don't use the girl from Twilight to play Patti (or anyone else in this film) as that is what kept me from seeing the Runaways movie. She is painful to watch. Part of me wants to rant about my favorite classic punk bands getting whored out (The New York Dolls are on tour with Motley Crue and Poison?! Bret Michaels and Tommy Lee are hardly fit to lick the soles of David Johansen or Sylvain Sylvain's shoes!) But the other part of me knows that everyone needs to make a buck and I hope the masses being exposed to this amazing piece of music history will make the bands/artists/musicians more appreciated by the general public. What do you think... did you see The Runaways? Would you see this? Should Brad Pitt play Joey Ramone in a Ramones biopic? (joking!)
