Courtney Love On 'Discovering' She Is Part Jewish

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Sometimes pieces of the puzzle mysteriously fall into place... like what happened to Curt...  --CSR

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Courtney Love On 'Discovering' She Is Part Jewish

"[Courtney] Love feels empowered in her quest to become a free agent by the recent discovery that she has Jewish ancestry, which includes a certain Hollywood legend. Love's mother, therapist Linda Carroll, was adopted by a wealthy San Francisco family but later learned her birth mother is 78-year-old literary sensation Paula Fox, daughter of '30s screenwriter Paul Fox and wife Elsie. (Paul Fox was a first cousin of Douglas Fairbanks Sr.)

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Paula Fox

Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer (1973) received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008. Fox is the biological grandmother of rock star Courtney Love.

Childhood

Paula Fox was born in New York City, New York,[1] the daughter of Cuban-born screenwriter Elsie Fox (née "De Sola")[2] and novelist Paul Hervey Fox. She was given up for adoption as an infant and was passed among various relatives and friends. In her 2001 memoir Borrowed Finery, Fox recalled that at her first meeting with her mother, at age five, "I sensed that if she could have hidden the act she would have killed me." Not long after, another visit with Paul and Elsie ended when her mother threw a glass at her.[3]

Through adulthood

A teenage marriage produced a daughter, Linda, in 1944. However, given the tumultuous relationship with her own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Fox later attended Columbia University, married the literary critic and translator Martin Greenberg, raised two sons, taught, and began to write.

The daughter Fox gave up for adoption, Linda Carroll, is the mother of the musician Courtney Love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Fox

Linda Carroll

Linda Carroll (born 1944 San Francisco) is an American author and the mother of Courtney Love.

Carrol was adopted into an Italian Catholic family. She graduated from high school in 1961 and gave birth to Love in 1964. After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the 1970s, she moved to New Zealand. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. As an adult, Carroll found her birth mother, the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox).[1] In 2006, her memoir Her Mother's Daughter, was published by Doubleday.[2] In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled Love's Four Journeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Carroll

Early life

Courtney Michelle Harrison was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Linda Carroll, a therapist, and Hank Harrison, a publisher.[7][8][9] Love's mother, Linda, was adopted by an Italian-American couple at birth, retaining no contact with her birth father or her birth mother, whom she later discovered was children's author Paula Fox. Through Paula Fox, Love is related to actor Douglas Fairbanks (through Fairbanks' mother).[10] According to Love, her mother named her after the alcoholic, fledgling debutante protagonist of a 1956 "dime-store novel" called Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore.[11] Love's mother is also an heiress to the Bausch and Lomb eye care fortune, to which Love is also entitled.[12]

Childhood (1967-1980)

Love's family separated soon after her birth. During a child custody case following her parents' divorce, her mother and one of her friends presented letters implying her father had given LSD to the three-year-old child.[13] Harrison denies this allegation[14] and has passed polygraph tests; however, these allegations led to full custody being awarded to Love's mother.

Love, under custody of her mother, spent a troubled childhood settled in countercultural hippie communes in Oregon.[15] Love's mother re-married to a man named Frank Rodriguez soon after, but the couple divorced by the time Love was seven years old. During Love's childhood years, she began experiencing anger management issues as well as emotional problems, which prompted her mother to send her to therapy, and later on, boarding schools.

In 1972, Love's mother re-married yet again, and relocated to New Zealand with her daughters, but leaving Love behind in the United States under the care of a family friend. Eventually, custody of ten-year-old Love was granted to her former stepfather, Rodriguez, whom she lived with in Portland, Oregon. During her time in Portland, Love joined a Bay City Rollers fan club, and at age twelve, applied to join the Mickey Mouse Club;[16] Love was rejected after reading the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath for her audition.[17] The same year, Love was arrested for shoplifting a KISS t-shirt and was sent to the Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility, a reformatory in nearby Salem. After leaving the care of Rodriguez during the age of 14, Love reunited with her family in New Zealand, only to be sent to another boarding school soon after.[13]

Teenage years (1980-1987)

At age sixteen— after being juggled between the homes of her ex-stepfather, friends, and various reform schools— Love gained legal emancipation from her family and left Oregon, traveling around the U.S., England and Ireland, living on a trust fund established for her by her mother's adoptive parents.[18] While in Ireland, Love took two semesters at Trinity College in Dublin and worked as a photographer for Hotpress.[19] Love was given 500 dollars each month[20] and began taking jobs in strip clubs to make extra money.[20] In England, she moved into the Toxteth, Liverpool, home of musician Julian Cope, of The Teardrop Explodes, and became a regular at rock shows. In his autobiography Head-On, Cope refers to her as "the adolescent" in place of her name.[21][22] She also developed a friendship with Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen.[23]

During this time in the early 1980s, Love's interest in punk and rock music began to flourish; though she didn't play an instrument at the time, she wrote songs and poems often, and cited some of her favorite artists of the period being The Runaways, Flipper, Lou Reed, Billie Holliday, Dead Kennedys, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, and Frank Sinatra.[24]

Following her stint in Europe, Love returned to Portland, still pursuing music, and eventually moved back to California. Love briefly attended several colleges between 1985 and 1987, spending little more than six months to a year at each— she took classes at Portland State University[25], as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, studying English and Buddhism, but never invested enough time to graduate.[26] According to Love, she also briefly worked as a DJ at Portland's community radio station, KBOO.[27] Meanwhile, Love worked as an erotic dancer in various venues, choosing the stage surname Love as a tribute to the motto "peace and love";[28] she worked at various strip clubs in Oregon and California. While in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, she met and married "Falling" James Moreland, lead singer of the band The Leaving Trains.[29] Their marriage was short-lived and was ultimately annulled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Love

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