Word: cusack
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...film is called "America's Sweethearts," and it's the story of two married movie stars who must promote their new movie while trying to hide the fact that they despise each other. Although not all the actors' deals have been finalized, "America's Sweethearts" will likely star John Cusack as the movie-star husband who's fallen for his wife's sister, who'll likely be played by Roberts, with Billy Crystal as the publicist spinning liar's gold. The project was announced in the Hollywood trade papers last Wednesday, even as a contingent of top movie-studio executives...
...John Cusack co-produced, co-wrote and stars in High Fidelity. He is a genius...
Championship vinyl--a Chicago record store specializing in antique discs--provides Rob Gordon (John Cusack) with a rich life but no better than a marginal living. Mostly it exists to give him a place to argue with his employees (a hilariously passive Todd Louiso and a manically aggressive Jack Black) about musical arcana...
...other words, High Fidelity, of which Cusack is also a co-writer and producer, is a comedy born of depression. Based on Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity takes the form of an intermittent monologue, at once glum and knowing, done directly to the camera. Cusack's Rob leads us in and out of various scenes from his sad past and his various current efforts to come to grips with it. This is a daring strategy: the potential for boredom is large. But Cusack is awfully good at calm desperation (or is it barely suppressed frenzy?). We await, with suspenseful...
...Cusack goes back to the marvelous Grosse Pointe Blank with some of the writers, to The Grifters with director Stephen Frears, to the cradle with his sister Joan, who plays a smart, tart role here. That could have resulted in a kind of hermetic insiderism--a desire to break each other up and leave us out of the joke. Instead, they have made something that we can all laugh at--sometimes raucously, sometimes tenderly, often ruefully...