This is just freaking mind boggling

Well the first thing that blows my mind is to learn that Paula Fox is Love's grandmother. I had no idea of that whatsoever. I've never read Paula Fox, but she's been hailed far and wide, and Jonathan Franzen has always spoken highly of her novel Desperate Characters. God only knows what she thinks of Courtney -- I hope she likes her.

Talk about degrees of separation: sounds like Courtney may be a step or two from everyone famous in the U.S.

Eric -- it gets stranger. Turns out Douglas Fairbanks is in there somewhere, too, which makes Love the bastard child of the Thief of Baghdad, Stanley Kowalski and American literature.

The tale of the "Love connection" can be found here. Also, The London Guardian also recently published a generous profile of Paula Fox, from which I gleaned the following:

Twelve years ago, to her immense happiness, Fox was traced by Linda, the daughter she gave up for adoption. She discovered that she had five extra grandchildren, one of whom is the rock musician and actress Courtney Love, with whom Fox does not get on. Love, for her part, was impressed to find, reading [Fox's memoir] Borrowed Finery that through Fox she was distantly related to Douglas Fairbanks.

No wonder she's so weird; in fact, under the circumstances she's remarkably normal.

Well, at least this accounts for the pre-surgical noggin. You know she's the living extreme embodyment of the super hot psycho babe we've all had or wanted. At least until we got her, and she started slashing our tires. And calling our current girlfriends in the middle of the night. And our animals started disappearing. Or were found hanging from the telephone wires.

This news is bound to have repercussions here in Portland, Love's hometown. She was known as one of the most ambitious club kids around -- and utterly lacking in scruples.

The Portland media will have as much fun with this as they did with the Monica Lewinsky connection to Puddletown.

OK, sure. Look at Paula Fox and Marlon Brandon and then tell me how you get three generations of Shrek look-a-likes from that?