JOHN CUSACK is THE MAN..... X-post from GD....

[jus_the_facts]

....THANKS to DU'er Kadie for posting this story!!! :)

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/25/film.sundance.grace.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

John Cusack finds 'Grace'
POSTED: 3:03 p.m. EST, January 25, 2007

Story Highlights
• John Cusack stars in Sundance film "Grace Is Gone"
• Film concerns widower of woman killed in Iraq
• "Grace" has been picked up by Weinstein Co.
• Cusack: "I don't want to be too inside the system"


PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- Last year's big road-trip tale at the Sundance Film Festival was greeted with guffaws. This year's has met with sobs.

Both "Little Miss Sunshine" from last year and the current Sundance entry "Grace Is Gone" are highway heartbreakers, "Sunshine" showing a family that comes together through hilarious adversity, "Grace" depicting a family shattered by the cruelest of tragedies.

Starring John Cusack, "Grace" tells the story of a stern, loving but emotionally distant father who learns his wife, an Army sergeant, has been killed in Iraq. Unable to tell his two young daughters, he takes them on a trip to an amusement park, buying a few days before he has to break the news.

First-time director James C. Strouse's script came Cusack's way at just the right moment. Angry that the Bush administration had banned media footage of coffins coming home bearing soldiers killed in Iraq, Cusack had been looking to tell the story behind one of those coffins.

"I thought it was the most brazen, cowardly, egregious political act I'd seen in my lifetime," Cusack said in an interview. "Do you think that's going to stop anything? Do you think if you don't show the coffins we won't find out?"

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[idgiehkt]

1. he's a brave man

The best part of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" for me is his over the top flirting with The Lady Chablis...most of it looks to me like it was ad-libbed and there is definite chemistry there, which Cusack never seemed to be intimidated by, to his credit. Of course, most of it got hacked out in the TV version so their chemistry doesn't come across at all, but if you rent the movie it's wonderful.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. That totally turned me on!

:D

I loved watching those two together -- he treated her exactly like the lady she was, and I adored him for it. One of my favorite little bits is when they are at the deb ball and he walks the Lady to the bar -- he puts his hand on the small of her back to guide her, just lke a real gentleman.

Those two walked off with that film!

[idgiehkt]

14. they really did, and it's atrocious how much of it was edited out

for the tv version. There is nothing explicit about their scenes at all, and yet the tv censors or whoever just hacked them to pieces. Plus a lot of her swearing they cut out for the tv version is just funny as hell. I love Cusack for that open flirtation with her.

[Blue-Jay]

2. Everybody's first thought when they hear the name "John Cusack":

C'mon...You know you were thinking it.

[jus_the_facts]

4. Oh YES...favorite Lloyd Dobler quote....

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that." Lloyd Dobler

:D :hi:

[Blue-Jay]

5. My favorite:

"You probably got it all figured out, Corey. If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise."

True 'dat.

[jus_the_facts]

7. Okay... one more....

"You used to be fun. You used to be warped and twisted and hilarious... and I mean that in the best way - I mean it as a compliment!" :D

[Kerrytravelers]

3. He did some work on the Kerry campaign.

He's wonderful! :loveya:

[jus_the_facts]

9. I've always had a crush on him...knowin' his politics makes him even more attractive....

:loveya:

:hi:

[Shine]

6. I adore John Cusack

of course it doesn't hurt that he's dead ringer for my adorable husband. :loveya:

Can't wait to see this movie. It sounds powerful.

[jus_the_facts]

8. Lucky Lady....

....your husband must be adorable if he looks like John!! :hi:

[Shine]

12. Did you ever see the movie "Max"?

It was a good one. He played an art dealer who makes "friends" with the young Adolph Hitler, as he was on the verge of choosing between being an Artist or going into politics. Interesting...

[jus_the_facts]

21. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't seen it....will have to go rent it asap....

...thanks for the heads-up...it does sound quite interesting! :)

[Shakespeare]

11. John Cusack = complete class act

Jeremy Piven = not so much (and from all appearances, a supreme douchebag).

In case you're unaware, snivelly little Piven has now decided that John Cusack is jealous of his success (HBO show), and won't hang out with him and be his bud anymore (gee, Jeremy, that fact that you're an obnoxious asshole couldn't have anything to do with that, now could it?). He's been all over the press intoning with nauseating condescension about how he's the same person, and Cusack is just jealous, and blah blah blah. Cusack's camp has not issued so much as a one-word comment in response (more class).

[jus_the_facts]

13. Never even heard of Jermey Piven....

...seriously..I've never heard of him!! :D :eyes:

[Shakespeare]

17. HAHAHAHA....and thus we have an excellent example of....

...Piven's missplaced ego. I suspect a LOT of people don't have a clue who he is.

:rofl:

[jus_the_facts]

20. I googled his picture...okay... now I remember him.....

...but not from just his name LOL!! :D

[LibraLiz1973]

16. Yeah I loathe "The Pivert"

and I can't believe he is talking shit now about John after alllll the John did to carry Jeremys career for years.
Stories about Jeremys bad behavior in Hollywood are all over the place. Everyone I know who has met John loves him

[grace0418]

19. My old boss was waiting to get into a club in Chicago a few years back

(before Jeremy Piven even had a starring role in anything, when he was just guest-starring in John Cusack movies) and said that Jeremy Piven drove up and pulled that whole "Do you KNOW who I am?" bullshit to get into the club. Apparently, the bouncer didn't and he didn't get in, so he got even more beligerent. I think he finally just left after making an ass out of himself.

[LibraLiz1973]

15. i ADORE j.c.

He is the (HOT!!) man

[jus_the_facts]

18. Yessss indeed....

*sizzle* :evilgrin: