Jacky wrote: << sadly, all Joni Jreferences have been removed. I say sadly, but in a way it's a good thing as I think her music would have been presented in a pretty bad light if it had been included - very uncool. J>>
Thanks for the update, Jacky. And I agree, even though I have yet to see the movie. The odd thing about Nick Hornby is that while he has written or edited the most books with Joni mentions in the upcoming Joni in Fiction section, he pretty much trashes Joni in "About a Boy" (the novel) in order to make the Will character (played by Hugh Grant in the movie) appear to be cool. (Although I think Hornby is pretty much enamored of Joni since he mentions her so many times in his novels.) The boy, Marcus, and his depressed hippie mother love Joni, so Will turns Marcus on to Kurt Cobain in order to "save" him. From what I've read in movie reviews for this film, they also dropped the novel's mentions of Cobain and references to the day he died (which were a crucial part of the book's storyline) from the film in order to have the movie take place now, rather than in 1994 when Cobain died. The film was produced by Robert Dinero, who is a pretty hip guy. My guess is that he, or someone else with half a brain, decided that a movie that bashed one of the greatest talents of our time would alienate too many moviegoers, so that's why they used Robera Flack and the Carpenters as musicians who would be uncool to the Will character. J--Bob
