John Cusack, War Inc and naked cycling in London
I’ll be honest — John Cusack makes me feel like a smitten teenage girl. Great roles in some of favorite movies like Eight Men Out (1988), Say Anything (1989), The Grifters (1990), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Being John Malkovitch (1999), High Fidelity (2000), and lest we forget the wonderful comedy he co-wrote Gross Pointe Blank (1997).
I also happen to agree with his politics and so I encourage you to go see his latest effort War, Inc.. Despite minimal advertising, the movie has played now for 7 weeks and is still generating business. Political satire is one of the hardest genres to nail and War, Inc. does it.
And to add some incentive for you, here is a link to John’s MySpace page, where just beneath the ad for his new movie, you can catch some home video he took of the “Naked Tour du France… er, England”.
UPDATE: Hey, here’s John Cusack in a sit-down interview with blog fave and Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Artist on Artist: John Cusack and Diablo Cody
http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=33430427,t=1,mt=video
UPDATE #2: Well, it sure seems like Hwood is All Diablo Cody All The Time. Announced today that Cody is writing a comedy based on an idea by someone you might have heard of:
“Script based on original idea by Spielberg”
The article has an interesting historical tidbit:
Cody first came to the attention of Spielberg when Mandate Pictures was looking for a domestic distributor for “Juno,” well before Jason Reitman was attached as the film’s director. Spielberg even considered directing the teen pregnancy comedy at one point.
And so Diablo Cody’s magical whirlwind ride through Hollywood continues unabated!