Lionel Messi is expected to play in Argentina's second Copa America match after missing Monday's contest against Chile with a back injury.
Messi participated fully in practice in training on Thursday ahead of Friday's match against Panama.
Messi has been fighting a back injury he suffered in a friendly against Honduras last month.
Argentina won the match against Chile without Messi by a score of 2-1.
In the opening scenes of "The Runaways Wholesale NHL Jerseys
China ," Floria Sigismondi's ode to the all-girl hard rock band,
the characters played by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning could be almost any
teenage girls living in the Valley circa 1975.
But then Stewart's
character walks into a rockabilly boutique, dumps a bag full of change on the
counter and demands "what he's wearing," pointing to a guy in a black leather
motorcycle jacket and leather pants. Suddenly, high school girl Joan Larkin has
transformed into Joan Jett.
Cut to Fanning as Jett's soon-to-be-bandmate
Cherie Currie, staring into the bathroom mirror with David Bowie's "Aladdin
Sane" album cover nearby. With a partially drawn red lightning bolt on her face,
she's chopping her long blond hair into an approximation of his glam
shag.
Sigismondi's feature film debut, opening on Friday, is more
evocative portrait than obsessively factual biopic. But the basic plot of the
Runaways story -- L.A. teens rise from the glitter and grit of the Sunset Strip
to kick open the doors of the rock 'n' roll boys club only to discover more than
they bargained for -- is the stuff that rock mythology is made of. Their tough,
sexy, so-called "jail bait" style continues to inspire female rockers from
Courtney Love to the Donnas.
They put out five albums -- including "The
Runaways" and "Queens of Noise" -- before breaking up in 1979, and saw as many
bass players come and go, but the four primary characters in the film remain who
we think of when we think of the Runaways: Jett and Currie, drummer Sandy West
and lead guitarist Lita Ford.
Some critics wrote them off as little more
than the products of a savvy marketing strategy, but Jett, whose black hair and
consistently lean, punk look has earned her fashion icon status, dismisses this
idea. "People think that our images were dictated to us by men, and that's not
the case," she says. "It's not like [our producer] Kim Fowley sat down and
said Wholesale NFL Jerseys
China , 'Cherie, you're gonna wear a corset. And Lita, you're gonna
wear shorts onstage.' We would have laughed! Nobody told us what to wear. People
like to think that that's the case because if teenage girls are being sexual" --
her voice drips with sarcasm -- "obviously men have something to do with
it."
One only needs to see 15-year-old Cherie Currie in her signature
black-and-white corset and fishnets, singing "Cherry Bomb," to know there was
nothing coy about the in-your-face approach. For Carrie Borzillo, author of the
2008 book "Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher
Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend -- and to Living Life Like a Rock Star": "
'Cherry Bomb' is about taking the world by storm and going for what you
want."
It's hard to believe, then, that these girl groundbreakers --
headliners on bills with Cheap Trick, the Ramones and Blondie and revered by
later generations of chick rockers -- are all but unknown in the age of
"American Idol." Even the film's lead actresses admit they were unfamiliar with
the Runaways when they first read Sigismondi's script.
So Stewart and
Fanning took their cues from the source: Jett, who executive produced the film
and Currie were regulars on the set. Stewart says that without the input of
Jett, with whom she remains close friends, "I would have felt like such a
fraud."
Fanning, for her part, did such a spot-on, snarly version of
"Cherry Bomb" that the real Cherie broke down and cried when she saw it
live.
For Sigismondi, who has made her name with stylized music videos
for Marilyn Manson and Christina Aguilera, keeping things raw and real onscreen
was a new kind of challenge. "The '70s are so out there," she says. "It's really
easy for that to become a caricature."
The director was intent on letting
the rough edges show in her R-rated movie. "Don't cover pimples Wholesale Jerseys
China ,'" she remembers saying to the makeup artists. "Give me
bedhead.'" she told the hair stylists.
Carol Beadle, Sigismondi's
longtime costume designer, also steered clear of any kind of modern, glossy
polish. "This was a subculture," says Beadle, flipping through a binder filled
with pages from old Tiger Beat and Melody Maker magazines featuring regular
Runaways hangouts like Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco and other cult
Hollywood hot spots. "It wasn't Beyonce and Rihanna," she adds. "It was
self-made."
To that end, an original '70s-era Bowie belt buckle made by
Currie was revered as the holy grail of accessories on set. Beadle dressed
Fanning in it "as much as I possibly could," and the actress cites it as one of
her favorite pieces.
With 150 costume changes for the actresses, Beadle
and her team literally scoured every costume house in town and dug through
vintage stores from American Rag to American Vintage, Echo Park's Lemon Frog to
Filthmart to Golyester, turning up tiny leather jackets and studded blazers,
football jerseys and zippered jumpsuits; bold poly- ester print shirts, vests
and bell-bottom jeans; sequined tops, scarves and sunglasses; kimonos and Pro
Keds sneakers.
Platform boots of every height, color and texture
(including an especially fabulous vintage pair of green leather with tan
snakeskin trim) were bought, rented and commissioned from Andre #1, a custom
cobbler on Sunset who made boots for KISS and the Runaways and still had some of
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