"Still Rocking 'n' Rolling"
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie Turn Out for The Runaways' New York Premiere
Seeing Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning dolled up in their Young Hollywood best before the screening of Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways last night made it tough to think that they could accurately portray two queens of early L.A. punk. But we're happy to report that their heavily styled red-carpet looks were deceiving. On screen, in Joan Jett's black mullet and Cherie Currie's feathered blowout, respectively, Stewart and Fanning convincingly snorted drugs in airplane bathrooms, made out together, and danced around in leather trousers and bikini bottoms.
The two still-teenage stars holed up on an outdoor patio at the Tommy Hilfiger-sponsored Bowery Hotel after-party behind a pair of security guards. Of her turn as a gritty, bi-curious rocker, all we could get out of Fanning was that she had fun playing the part. Chloë Sevigny was much more chatty, talking hair with Currie herself, who's now a chainsaw artist working in the San Fernando Valley. Turns out that in the 1997 film Gummo, Sevigny based the blown-out mane of her character, Dot, on the Runaways' album covers. Flattered, Currie asked: "Can I put that on my Facebook page?" And what of Currie's cohort Joan Jett? "I'm still rocking 'n' rolling," she told Marika Thunder, artist Rita Ackermann's 11-year-old daughter, who was wearing a Runaways T-shirt and had asked for an autograph. "It's what I do."
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