On this page i have taken several snippets from the web on conversations that have taken place relating John Cusack. In doing so i have most probably broken every existing copyright law but if anyone has a serious problem with me putting up their views, all you gotta do is email me and i will remove it. I happen to find all these conversations very interesting and we as John Cusack fans will all relate to the points raised in one way or another.
These comments were taken from Ted Cascablancas Gossip Site.
From kaeto: Hi, Ted! I'm a die-hard John Cusack fan. Why don't we hear about him anymore? Do you know if he's got anything coming up besides The Thin Red Line? And what's his status relationship-wise?
The last time I spoke with him, he said he was in a relationship, although he wouldn't say with whom. He's extremely talented, very smart, very cute and very underutilized in this town. The best of his career is still to come. He's a very cagey guy who loves to flirt--but just enough to keep you guessing.
From irene: Are John Cusack and Neve Campbell still dating?
Well, Irene, I believe they are. They have been in Chicago recently. It seems people are surprised at that pairing, but I'm not. She has a quirky sense of humor, and he does as well. I think they are a good couple.
From Raul: Is John Cusack as much of a playboy as he seems to be?
I've seen that guy in action on a few occasions, and he's just as engaging with men as he is with women. He's hard to resist. In fact, Minnie Driver came in during one interview I did with him and they had to excuse themselves--if you can imagine!
From chicagogirl411: I've seen two news reports from our Chicago gossip crews on two split couples. Neve Campbell-John Cusack and Julia Roberts-Benjamin Bratt. J.C.-J.R. both starring in the upcoming America's Sweethearts as love interests. Coincidence?
If you're asking if working together gives one the guts to finally break up together, the answer is no. Both of those relationships had a lot of mileage and musings long before Cusack and Roberts hooked up together for the film. From valerie: What's up with Catherine Zeta-Jones not doing publicity with Julia, Billy and John for America's Sweethearts?
You've got to be kidding. If you were in that lineup, would you do it if you were used to being top-wife? And what's with Oprah dissing John on the show? Couldn't she have thrown him a bone or two? It wouldn't have killed her.
This John Cusack and Neve Campbell thing--what's that all about? She's so nothing to write home about. He can do much better than that.
Jacqueline Gecan
Publicity Manager, Northwestern University PressDear Ted:
I don't understand why everyone is dumping on Neve Campbell and John Cusack. I think they make a great couple. No?
Danielle Wilson
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Canadian Gal:
Yes. Blame jealousy, my dear. 'Tis the fuel on which this town runs
on.
Dear Ted:
This is to tell you that T.S. in New York City is not the only woman in America who thinks Brad and Leo are nothing special. I think they're both highly overrated in the looks dept. I prefer real men like John Cusack, Harrison Ford and David Duchovny. These men may not win any pretty-boy contests, but at least they have personality, sex appeal, and did I mention talent?
Chris L. Dawson
The Boyish Eyes (and Ears) Have It
George Clooney, at Hell-Ay's semi-exclusive Buffalo Club. The permanent bachelor-babe (so it would seem) was delightfully (and firmly) perched in a serious boy booth. Joined by other such rubba-hubbas as John Cusack and Jeremy Piven, Mr. C. and his buds swilled and smoked the night fantastic (cigs for George, cigars for John). Dark suits, some facial growth and many rounds all the way around. Less gregarious but just as gangly was...
John Cusack and Neve Campbell, soaring on a flight from Hell-Ay to Chicago. Midway through the flight, an attendant asked John for an autograph. He smiled and obliged, while mate Neve seemed to stew over not being adored.
John Cusack and assorted dudes, dining at Il Moro on Olympic in L.A. True to Cusack's Hollywood-bashing tastes, the restaurant is hardly the chicest in town. John Cusack and that wonderfully weirdo sister of his, Joan, snarl their lips extraordinarily well in Grosse Pointe Blank, a sort of Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion meets The Terminator. (It's due out later this month.) The Cusacks are such delicious malcontents.
Fleming says they've had a phenomenal reception not only from the grunge crowd but with more mainstream artists like John Cusack, Tim Robbins and John Waters. (Only a group that keeps screener videos in an abandoned shopping cart out by the TVs would call John Waters "mainstream.")
Fleming says Cusack attended their "Slum-berparty" when they screened films all night until everyone fell asleep. And Robbins came by on Saturday night, the same night he was honored by Sundance with an Independent Vision Award.
From krrunchee: What male actors would you most like to work with?
Robin Williams, Mel Gibson, John Cusack, Steve Martin and so many more!
(Mellissa Joan Hart)
Nickname(s): Johnny
Date of Birth: June 28, 1966
Place of Birth: Evanston, IL
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA (although he still has a pad in Chicago)
Sign: Cancer
Stats: 6'2; brown hair and eyes
Education: Graduated Evanston Township High School; dropped out of NYU after one semester
Status: Involved
Partner: Neve Campbell
The Ex Files: Minnie Driver, Alison Eastwood, Claire Forlani
Famous Family: John's father, Richard, is a documentary filmmaker who also had a small part in High Fidelity. And duh! Joan, his big sister, is, like a huge star too.
It's a Hard-Knock Life: His mother prevented him from taking part in Oliver Stone's Platoon.
At Play: He likes to write, play b-ball, go to the movies, and, yes, kick box.
Hangs with: His writing buds, D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink, as well as his big sis, Joan and her son, Dylan.
The Latest: John is starring in America's Sweethearts with Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I Heard a Rumour: That he tried to hit on soccer star, Heather Mitts. What would Neve say about that?
Crimes and Misdemeanors: After being stopped for speeding, John was hauled down to the clink because of an outstanding parking ticket. It was until the cop realized who he was that John was let go.
It's a Drag: John smokes American Spirits.
Fave Flick: John loves Oliver Stone's JFK.
Fave Band: He digs Marvin Gaye and admits that ELO and Cheap Trick are guilty pleasures.
Pet Peeve: Toeing the party line, in other words, doing the whole Hollywood kiss-ass thang. And talking about his private life.
Most Embarassing Moment: Being exposed in an article about dating celebrities in women's magazine as being an arm-pitt sniffer.
Real Random: He turned roles in Sleeping with the Enemy, Apollo 13 and Indecent Proposal...But he really wanted to a chance to be in Interview With a Vampire, but wasn't asked.
Star Style: John is usually dressed in basic black, nothing too swank. He's not a designer clothes whore, which is why we dig him so much.
Admires: Al Pacino.
The Word on The Street: Close friend Jeremy Piven says:Piven says, "I think the one thing Johnny is afraid of is mediocrity, of failure, of not being the best he can possibly be." Director Joe Roth says: "Johnny takes lots of chances. He's interested in not doing the same thing over and over again."
Reelteen says: "In our eyes, John can do no wrong. We'll see just about any movie he does, and he holds a special place in the halls of Reelteen for making so many kick-ass teen flicks."
Before They Were Famous: John followed his older sister, Joan, into Chicago's illustrious Piven Theatre Workshop when he was just seven years old.
First Break: Getting a McDonald's commercial when he was only thirteen years old -- and later, scored his first movie role in Class.
Famous for: He'll always be Lloyd Dobbler to us. Even John admits that: "Lloyd Dobler was simply the best part of who I could ever be."
Rank Role: Hot Pursuit -- the name says it all. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was unbelievabley bad. And we don't even want to talk about Con Air or The Road to Wellville.
What's Next:: Catch him in the romantic comedy Serendipity with Kate Beckinsdale and Cosmic Banditos, set for a 2002 release.
The Small Screen: John had a small guest role on Frasier in 1993, playing a caller named Greg.
All the World's a Stage: As a kid, he starred in J.D. Salinger's Just Before the War With the Eskimos at the Piven Theater Workshop.
What I Really Wanna Do Is: Have a long-standing, memorable role like Jimmy Stewart. John says: "I wouldn't mind having a couple of films that sort of stuck around, either really challenging films or life-affirming films. Like it must be great for Jimmy Stewart to have had It's a Wonderful Life. It must be a pretty cool thing to have everybody around Christmas just sit around and freak out over the same pieces of film."
Awards: John won a Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actor for Say Anything, and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor in Con Air.
``America's Sweethearts'' stars John Cusack as a movie star who feuds with his equally famous ex-wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones), attempts to kill her new beau (Hank Azaria), suffers a very public nervous breakdown and falls for his ex-wife's sister (Julia Roberts). In fact, Eddie Thomas so desperately needs a hit that he lets a publicist (Billy Crystal) cajole him and his ex into appearing together at the publicity junket for the last of several films they made while still a couple.
Cusack insists that the romantic comedy, which will open nationwide on July 20, is pure fiction. Really. Seriously. No kidding.
``I haven't had a nervous breakdown,'' Cusack says, rattling off the ways in which he doesn't resemble his ``Sweethearts'' character. ``I haven't tried to kill anybody with a motorcycle.''
Yet.
``Yet, that's true,'' Cusack says with a laugh as he settles into a chair at New York's Regency Hotel. The 35-year-old actor looks as relaxed as could be, sporting a black T-shirt and blue jeans, sitting with one leg slung over the side of an armchair.
``I've pretty much stayed out of the tabloids, but I definitely know what it's like to put on a happy face,'' he says in a voice barely louder than a whisper. ``And I'm not at that crazy Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow and Julia Roberts level. I didn't really talk with Julia about it. She's a pretty sharp person, and she's smart about all that stuff. You read about her, but she knows how to handle it.''
Fair enough, but Cusack has reportedly romanced his share of Hollywood beauties.
``I don't know if that's true,'' he says, interrupting. ``Let me think. One or two, but not really. I went out with somebody for six years who wasn't well known. I've gone on dates with people who were well known, but they weren't relationships.''
So what of Minnie Driver, Alison Eastwood and Neve Campbell, the last of whom he's apparently still dating? A couple of names are tossed Cusack's way.
Campbell?
``Uh-huh,'' Cusack says, refusing to elaborate.
Eastwood?
``That's not true,'' he says. ``I wasn't in a relationship with her.''
Whatever the case, both the public and the media crave details about their favorite stars' private lives. Cusack had to know, going into ``America's Sweethearts,'' that he'd open himself up to questions about his personal life and the ways in which life imitates art.
``I didn't really think about it that way,'' says Cusack, who hails from a Chicago-based family of actors - sisters Joan, Ann and Susie, brother Bill and father Dick are all in the business - and has been in the spotlight since his teens. Youthful roles in ``Sixteen Candles'' (1984) and ``The Sure Thing'' (1985) gave way to ``Say Anything'' (1989) and ``The Grifters'' (1990), which led to more adult fare, including ``Bullets Over Broadway'' (1994), ``Con Air'' (1997), ``Being John Malkovich'' (1999) and ``High Fidelity'' (2000).
``I didn't think, `What will it be like to talk to the press about this movie?''' he says. ``I thought about, `Will this be a good movie or not?'
``The film is a satire,'' Cusack adds, ``and I think in some strange way it validates the way I deal with the whole thing, which is not to deal with it. I don't see any upside for me to talk about my relationships, to send messages to people through the media, in public. That seems kind of crazy.
``So the fact that Eddie and Gwen (Zeta-Jones) do that, exploit their relationship for their careers, and things don't work out, feels very logical to me.''
Just as Cusack aims for a low profile in his personal life, so he rarely gravitates toward mainstream Hollywood fare. He turns up most often in independent features, say ``Map of the Human Heart'' (1992) or ``This Is My Father'' (1998), or more modest studio pictures along the lines of ``Eight Men Out'' (1988) and ``Grosse Pointe Blank'' (1997).
Except for ``Con Air,'' most of Cusack's excursions into bigger-budget filmmaking - ``Fat Man and Little Boy'' (1989), ``City Hall'' (1997), ``Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' (1997) and ``The Thin Red Line'' (1998) - have failed to win critical favor or make a major dent at the box office.
His upcoming slate of projects is typical. He produced the upcoming no-budget drama ``Never Get Outta the Boat'' for a friend, cameos as himself in ``Adaptation'' as a favor for ``Being John Malkovich'' director Spike Jonze and co-stars opposite Kate Beckinsale in ``Serendipity,'' a romantic comedy that Miramax will release later this summer.
This fall, he'll begin production on ``Hoffman,'' a drama about art and politics in which he'll play an artist-turned-art-dealer in post-World War I Germany.
``A career is a very complex thing,'' says Cusack, who has written and produced movies - he produced ``Grosse Pointe Blank,'' ``The Jack Bull'' (1999) and ``High Fidelity,'' and co-wrote both ``Grosse Pointe Blank'' and ``High Fidelity'' - and plans eventually to direct as well. ``I could relate to Eddie on that front. I've felt desperate. All actors are ambitious and we all want to do well.
``I've been tempted to do the `hit' film,'' he admits, ``but I got really comfortable with what my tastes were when I was younger. If I liked a film, I liked it and that was enough. I didn't necessarily want to be in something because it could make a lot of money.
``I thought `America's Sweethearts' was really a fun script. (Director) Joe Roth had run Fox, and I knew he'd have a good perspective on the business. You also knew he'd attract good people, and everybody who works with him wants to work with him again.''
Cusack, always the everyman, shrugs.
``My career hasn't been based on box-office success,'' he says. ``It's been primarily based on being in films people might like, that sometimes have a life longer than however they're out in theaters.
``I'm comfortable with that.'' |
