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Who Should Play Patti Smith in the Just Kids Movie?

Rock legend Patti Smith set the literary world on fire last year with her memoir Just Kids , a sensitive, longing look at her friendship with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The book mostly chronicles their years in New York prior to her fame as a punk poetess from the mid-’60s to the mid-’70s — before Horses revolutionized Ginsbergian rock. Now word is out that Smith is adapting the National Book Award winner into a screenplay with Gladiator scribe John Logan. Who should play the inimitable lady on the big screen?

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Who Should Play Patti Smith in the Just Kids Movie?

Milla Jovovich Battles Face Blindness (True) in Trailer for Faces in the Crowd

Milla Jovovich has squared off against many insidious adversaries in her career, including zombies ( Resident Evil ), evil itself ( The Fifth Element ), and critics ( The Messenger ). So why is it that her latest foe, a real-life affliction known as prosopagnosia — which confuses a person’s ability to recognize the faces of friends and loved ones (or, in Jovovich’s case in Faces in the Crowd , the face of her would-be killer) — seem like the silliest and most far-fetched enemy of all?

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Milla Jovovich Battles Face Blindness (True) in Trailer for Faces in the Crowd