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( 3 stories between 8th May 2009 and 17th September 2009 )Nick Cave
Sep, 17 2009
On the acknowledgments page of Australian musician Nick Cave's new novel The Death of Bunny Munro is written " I would also like to thank Kylie Minogue and Avril Lavigne, with love, respect and apologies." Even though Cave and Kylie did collaborate on the hit single "Where The Wild Roses Grow" way back in 1995, the acknowledgments are nothing to do with music. The novel's title character has a depraved imagination, and he's particularly obsessed with two real pop stars. "A man thinks about unreal figures like Kylie and Avril to keep more terrifying thoughts at bay. Like love and intimacy" Cave explained to Rolling Stone. “Bunny’s obsessed with sex, yet he’s not actually that good at it." The Death of Bunny Munro is Cave's second novel, coming twenty years after And The Ass Saw The Angel. In that time he's released over a dozen albums, mostly with The Bad Seeds. It's safe to say his main focus is music, but ...Bunny Munro is receiving lots of positive reviews. Clearly, Cave is very aware two people might not be so positive about it: "I know Kylie and I’ve sent her a letter of apology for this book. I’ve written one to Avril Lavigne [but] I don’t know where to send it, because I don’t know Avril Lavigne. But it would distress me if she was offended."
Nick Cave
Jun, 12 2009
The multi-talented Nick Cave is known primarily for his musical career, but as we reported recently, he’s also had forays into screenwriting, with a proposed script for an ambitious sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator receiving much attention. The man knows no bounds: he’s also acted on-screen in several films, released several books of poetry and prose, and twenty years ago released a debut novel, And The Ass Saw The Angel, which met with positive reviews and comparisons to William Faulkner. This fall sees the release of his follow-up, titled The Death of Bunny Munro, and we wouldn’t bet against it finding equal acclaim. The new novel has already earned the attention of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, who heaped praise on the book saying "Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro." And The Ass Saw The Angel is being reissued by Penguin later this month, and The Death of Bunny Munro is due in September. For those fans who continue to be most excited by Cave’s musical career, he’s currently on a Europe-wide festivals tour with the Bad Seeds.
Nick Cave
May, 8 2009
"The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood," Nick Cave once told Variety, but somehow it sucked him in anyway. As well as being a prolific songwriter and singer with The Bad Seeds, Grinderman and formerly The Birthday Party, Cave has co-written scripts for three films, including the widely acclaimed 2005 drama The Proposition. Now details have emerged of a rejected script Cave wrote for a sequel to Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning epic Gladiator. Cave's biggest challenge was how to deal with the fact that [spoiler alert!] Russell Crowe's central character, Maximus, dies at the end of the first film - so he dispensed with realism altogether in favor of turning Maximus into a war-mongering version of Dr. Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap. According to film blog Gone Elsewhere, who reviewed the script, it features "a damned Maximus paying for his transgressions against the Gods by serving as an eternal warrior," meaning he has to fight in medieval and modern wars such as World War II. Towards the end there's a "highly-ambitious, crocodile-packed battle sequence," and a final shot shows Maximus working in the Pentagon. Sadly, but not surprisingly, Hollywood wasn't willing to fund the movie, but Cave doesn't mind: “I’m very comfortable in my day job as a musician... and I have a lot to do.”
