Posted on 06/11/2006 7:14:22 PM PDT by World_Events
CHICAGO (AP) - John Cusack's motivation for his latest film grew out of something he did not see - flag-draped caskets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pentagon policy bans media coverage of America's war dead as their remains are returned. The administration of U.S. President George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as "one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I've seen in my lifetime."
So the actor started looking for a project that would illustrate "what happens when the coffins come home."
While Cusack's motivation for taking the part are political, he insists the movie is not. "It's kind of a spiritual story about grief and, hopefully, a little bit of redemption," Cusack said recently........
The actor said he wonders if people reading about his political opinions will keep some from seeing the movie. Others, he believes, will appreciate the timeliness.
"I feel that people will be interested in seeing the story of the human cost of this" war, Cusack said. "I think people are probably tired of being manipulated endlessly on the reasons and realities of this misadventure - political misadventure. I don't mean the soldiers fighting, I mean the civilian leadership."
Whatever the case, Cusack said he does not dwell on how his movies are initially received by the critics or public.
"I'm not worried about how it turns out in the first two months after it's released. A piece of art takes a while to be appreciated or not - if it is a piece of art. You try to make something that has some value and then in three, four or five years, it will still be interesting or it will have a pulse.
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From the Hollywood Halfwits page.......
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showtopic=4136
Quoted in June 2001 issue of Details magazine
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“This dude who’s got control of the White House now, he’s gonna do a lot of damage,” Cusack says. “I think people are gonna respond to all the hypocrisy of this Bush administration. He’s sort of like this great sort of symbol of inversion to me – the inverse of the truth. It’s like the ethics of the new millennium, the new dawn: All you have to do is say something and it’s true. It doesn’t matter if it’s based on any core principle; it doesn’t matter if it’s based on any facts. The most important thing is the aesthetic. If you have a compassionate aesthetic, that‘s all we need to do. All you have to do is say ‘I’m Muslim.’ But you don’t actually ever go to a mosque. You don’t have to give up pork. You don’t have to do anything. You don’t have to believe in Allah. You just say it. And maybe wear a turban. That’s the level of the hypocrisy and stupidity that’s going on right now.”
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Celiberal.com
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"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these freaking crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power,"
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Celiberal.com
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Cusack, who supported former vice president Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, also had a few choice words for people who supported the Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader.
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"Of course it's okay for you to have everything fall apart," [Cusack says about Nader's showbiz supporters.] "But a lot of people have to deal with the world the way it is, and it would have been a lot less brutal for some people with [Al] Gore than it will be now under Bush. ... I'm not saying I loved Gore. But I'm saying I don't want that mother-f***ing Bush in the White House."
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Celiberal.com
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FreeRepublic.com
The New York Post recently reported that the actor is fond of a practice he calls "celebrity looting." In an interview with Black Book magazine, he explained what the activity entails.
Cusack pointed out a clothing store to the interviewer and said...
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"We did celebrity looting there. … They asked me to come over, patronize the store, pick up some stuff. So I took all my friends over, and we went straight for the $8,000 rack of leather coats and took a bunch. The managers, they get all nervous and twitchy. They freak. But you just look at 'em really hard and walk out. That's celebrity looting."
Source: NewsMax.com
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Ohio.com
In an extraordinary interview with Beliefnet, Cusack is asked how he prepared for the title role of art dealer Max Rothmann, a German Jew. However, the interviewer pushes a button by mentioning, en passant, that Cusack himself was raised Catholic. The actor's answer:
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I was raised Catholic until I was old enough, you know, to say no. My father was great friends with [peace activist] Phil Berrigan, who just passed away. So obviously, I was informed by his kind of radical, left-wing Jesuit mindset."
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WeeklyStandard.com
Notice how even as an ex-Catholic, Cusack seems to want credit for being the right kind of apostate. That established, Cusack goes on to say that "research-wise," he did do "a little work" on the role of Max:
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"I read a book by a Yale professor, Paul Mendes Flohr, a history of the different manifestations of German Judaism."
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WeeklyStandard.com
The hilarious thing about these actors is that their cultural influence on the world is one of the PRIMARY FACTORS that makes Muslims around the world hate us so much. This does more to make us a target of Muslim hatred than any of our foreign policies. Even if we had no foreign policy whatsoever, we'd still be enemies of Islamists simply due to our culture of decadence.
If the Islamists ever had their way, the actors would be the first ones killed, being such obvious and easy targets. Ironic isn't it?
The Dixie Chicks, IIRC, had a similar opinion.
Hope this Asshat can support himself with the
Canadian box office take.
Funny how the coward backs off criticizing the troops. But attacks the "civlian leadership".
The majority of the troops back the mission. Believe in it so much that many go back 2 and 3 times! Recruitment goals are being met, retainment is good.
I just wish somebody would confront this puke with this kind of thing and watch him stammer.
"They should flown the planes into Hollywood buildings instead... Maybe that would gotten their attention..."
If only.
You gotta love the way Rob Reiner had his (meat) head handed to him last week in the real-world battle over Prop 82. That's not the way he would have written the script at all...
Never heard of the nerd.
Is that from "Better Off Dead"?
Another name to add to the long list of "stars" and "celebrities" who won't be getting any of my money.
He practically played himself in that god-awful Bob Roberts movie.
"Is that from "Better Off Dead"?"
Oh, buck up little camper. We'll tackle that slope, together.
People know that Hollywood is buying anti-military, anti-American films, the more blatant the better. So that's what the aspiring scriptwriters are pitching.
They don't care if the movie doesn't make any money, they get paid. And the director gets paid and the actors and the script girl and the makeup peoople, all of them get their money.
If the movie flops, what's it to them? They got their paychecks. The only people who take a hit on it are the investors, who are, I suppose, going to wise up someday or other.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the Dixie Chicks aren't eating scraps:
"For the third time in their career, the Dixie Chicks roost on the top of The Billboard 200. The Columbia album "Taking the Long Way" tallied 526,000 copies in its first week of U.S. sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the trio's best-selling week since 2002's "Home" debuted with 780,000.
And while country radio has remained cool to the group in the wake of a 2003 boycott following comments group member Natalie Maines made about President Bush, "Taking the Long Way" also nabs the No. 1 spot on the Country Albums chart, bumping Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" (Lyric Street/Hollywood) down to No. 2 after seven weeks at the top."
How's their music tour coming along then?
Especially in the south?
Wouldn't recognize this "star" if he was standing at an adjacent urinal and uh...reached over...
Personally, this lack of recognition applies to most of Hollywood's current bright lights.
I'm very happy about that.
I also heard henry treab is doing an anti bush film
They are having huge problems selling tickets in the red states. Last I heard down here they said on the radio that if you wanted good seats for the Houston show, no problem. So, I don't see how they are #1 in Country as most stations still aren't playing them. Their leftist friends are buying multiple copies to keep them around. As to Cusack - only good movie he was in was Con Air, and even then Nicolas Cage was the main attraction along with John Malkovich.
Now *that* was a funny movie!
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