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"That sounds a little David Koreshy...we've now reached a completely surreal [juncture]."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 11, 2009 at 7:03 PM

comment #1

berkguru says ...

that douche needs to lighten up - probably only reason he is famous

Posted by berkguru at November 11, 2009 8:01 PM

comment #2

hiviper says ...

Please - that interviewer is a giggling idiot. Cusack should've smacked him over the head with it.

Posted by hiviper at November 11, 2009 9:01 PM

comment #3

Arran says ...

I dunno, it's kind of like interviewing De Niro and asking him to do a Taxi Driver monologue for you. Cusack may very well be a self-serious douche (I don't think he is, but he very well may be), but I'm not surprised by his reaction.

Posted by Arran at November 11, 2009 9:18 PM

comment #4

DeeZee says ...

Didn't know they're bringing back cravats.

Anyway, QT is a Japanderer.
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2009/11/quentin-tarantino-inglourious-basterds-japan-commercial-softbank.html
Harvey Keitel's a li'l Focker.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ia626985c88bb68723eea0ab6be02184a
Fright Night's remake is being scripted by a mad man-writer.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ia626985c88bb68721d9b87d3ec3cf503
I wonder how many tea-baggers will try to equate what happened to Lou Dobbs with the 50s black-lists.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011196.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
Another Whedon show bites the dust.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011179.html?categoryId=1417&cs=1&cache=false
Anyone wanna buy MGM(again)?
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011199.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=vertfilm
'Fox premiere.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011186.html?categoryId=13&cs=1&cache=false
Not sure why anyone would consider The Cove a a movie to release on dvd during the holidays, but digitalbits.com has it out on 12/8.
Why, Rupert, why didn't you just tell me directly you wanted me to boycott Avatar?
http://crooksandliars.com/node/32659
For that guy who loved Chiwetel Ejiofor in 2012.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/interviews/1502/chiwetel-ejiofor-for-2012-
New Moon director interview.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/15651/exclusive-chris-weitz-talks-new-moon-
Rachel McAdams=Black Cat in Spidey 4?
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/15647/mcadams-becomes-cat-for-spidey-

Posted by DeeZee at November 11, 2009 9:30 PM

comment #5

Atticus Grinch says ...

Hey look, Dee Zee is starting her own website on this website.

Only a movie star living the truly surreal movie star life wouldn't see (or perhaps wouldn't care) that holding that cardboard box over his head for 3 seconds would be way way way less embarrassing than his quietly raging refusal.

Posted by Atticus Grinch at November 11, 2009 9:35 PM

comment #6

Eloi Manning says ...

Fuck, movie stars are pompous douchebags. You'd think his career choices since High Fidelity would be more of an embarrassment than just acknowledging the film that made him a star.

This is why everyone likes Tom Hanks. What a pro.

Posted by Eloi Manning at November 11, 2009 9:46 PM

comment #7

berkguru says ...

Cusack without Say Anything = Jon Cryer

Posted by berkguru at November 11, 2009 9:58 PM

comment #8

Eloi Manning says ...

Why isn't Cameron Crowe working anymore? Fuck me - that man has made six films and three have been bonafide masterpieces of their genre. Not many other directors can claim a 50% masterpiece score card. Vanilla Sky was alright too. It's only really Singles and Elizabethtown that let the side down.

Posted by Eloi Manning at November 11, 2009 10:01 PM

comment #9

dinovelvet says ...

I agree with Atticus. Alright, so he's been put in a slightly embarrassing situation, but it would have been better for everyone if he held it up for a few seconds and smiled instead of coming across like a tool. He is after all out there promoting a Roland Emmerich piece of shit, not a Tolstoy adaptation. This is why Cruise, Hanks, Clooney, Smith etc are stars, and why Cusack never was one.

Anyway Singles is my favorite Crowe movie. Cliff Poncier rocks!

Posted by dinovelvet at November 11, 2009 11:16 PM

comment #10

M. Hulot says ...

So what? Cusack takes himself seriously. Big deal.

He's a bright guy--and a politically astute one, too. The problem here is this Horowitz douche. I used to work the board at the press junket hotel room things, and I can tell you that so called journalists like this fool do this sort of thing all the time.

They act like they are buddy buddy with their interview subjects and therefore feel free to ask them to say or do pretty much anything.

Most journalists are complete fools. And they do no service to their field when they do things like this. It's simply embarrassing.

You know when the last time I felt embarrassed about a journalist making an inappropriate comment? When Jeffrey Wells told Carey Mulligan he felt "amorous feelings" with regards to the potential use of her real accent in future movies.

That was truly inappropriate. And disgusting.

Posted by M. Hulot at November 11, 2009 11:33 PM

comment #11

Deathtongue_Groupie says ...

I see a big blank space in comment #10's future once Jeff wakes up.

Ironic when it really should be #4, which apparently is unaware of a site called "moviecitynews.com" which provides the same service.

Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie at November 12, 2009 12:00 AM

comment #12

Steven Kar says ...

The interviewer did something similar with Megan Fox when he asked her to sing and she refused. It was rehearsed. The clip was posted on this site a couple months back.

Cusack was aware of the kind of interview he was in for.

Posted by Steven Kar at November 12, 2009 12:08 AM

comment #13

lazarus says ...

Shut the fuck up, D.Z.

Wells, please ban this troll.

Posted by lazarus at November 12, 2009 12:21 AM

comment #14

Renfield says ...

Cusack is an ass for not recognizing the fact that he was even in "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer". He's famous for refusing to talk about those films in interviews.

That piece of shit needs to BOW before Savage Steve Holland.

Posted by Renfield at November 12, 2009 12:33 AM

comment #15

LexG says ...

Really, people?

SO clearly a put-on, Cusack is clearly in on the joke. He's playing along. It's a joke.

Posted by LexG at November 12, 2009 1:52 AM

comment #16

Jonathan Spuij says ...

it was odd at least.

Posted by Jonathan Spuij at November 12, 2009 3:44 AM

comment #17

Josh Massey says ...

I loved Identity. Very underrated.

(That was also with Cusack and Peet, in case somebody thinks I too am going off the rails).

Posted by Josh Massey at November 12, 2009 3:56 AM

comment #18

M. Hulot says ...

Really, Lex? Please explain how you know this to be true? It most certainly did not appear to be a goof?

Renfield. You are correct. Savage Steve Holland rules!

Kar: He may have been aware of what he was in for in the sense that his publicist said, "Hey John, this MTV guy is really a big douche. But you must suffer this fool to some extent because MTV viewers are the main demo for this shit movie you've been paid an enormous sum of money to promote, so suck it it up and deal". But that doesn't mean he has to act like he's enjoying it when some asshat asks him to act out a scene from a movie that is 25 years old, like he's some sort of performing monkey.

If this was a set-up, if all of you who claim that Cusack knew this was going to happen, my question to you is, WHY? What's the point? Why pretend that you loathe the interviewer? For publicity's sake...nn a big-budget Roland Emmerich movie? I don't think so.

And by the way, I hate to admit it, but Hot Tub TIme Machine looks to have some enormous potential.

Posted by M. Hulot at November 12, 2009 4:02 AM

comment #19

Brendan says ...

DeeZee's website within a website is 1997's version of the Huffington Post.

Quick poll - How many people click any of his link post? One vote for Nay.

Posted by Brendan at November 12, 2009 5:31 AM

comment #20

moveable hype says ...

What kind of office does this douche work at were people hold cardboard boom boxes over their head? Apparently dozens of people were doing so. But I doubt it.

Also...Nay as well on comment 19

Posted by moveable hype at November 12, 2009 5:52 AM

comment #21

Ulysses says ...

I agree with the "nay" on comment # 19.

That Josh guy needs a kick in the ass, at the very least.

Amanda Peet is looking damned fine these days. Very Lex-worthy.

Posted by Ulysses at November 12, 2009 6:13 AM

comment #22

bents75 says ...

I've been tempted to occasionallly, but I don't...out of spite. Nay.

Posted by bents75 at November 12, 2009 6:17 AM

comment #23

corey3rd says ...

The piece was bogus since they weren't even framing for the shot if John had picked up the cardboard sign and put it over his head.

If you're going to want John to pay tribute to the film - they ought to at least have a real boom box.

Cusack without Say Anything still has The Sure Thing. And Time Machine Hot Tub will become the greatest film since Death Spa.

Posted by corey3rd at November 12, 2009 6:46 AM

comment #24

Ryansi51 says ...

how on earth would that have been set up? it wasn't even funny, it was just right down the middle boring embarrassing for john.

you can see amanda peet put her arm around him after she does it because she can sense he feels like now she's on horowitz' side.

cusack comes off like a real fucking asshole.

not only have i not clicked on DZ's links, i've never even glanced at what he says about them

Posted by Ryansi51 at November 12, 2009 7:00 AM

comment #25

Ulysses says ...

Is DZ a male or female ? Inquiring minds need to know.

Posted by Ulysses at November 12, 2009 7:05 AM

comment #26

Ryansi51 says ...

definitely a dude. but a dude like Lex is a dude. one that never gets laid.

Posted by Ryansi51 at November 12, 2009 8:54 AM

comment #27

Stringer Bell says ...

How does Cusack have more hair now than in 'Say Anything'?

Posted by Stringer Bell at November 12, 2009 9:12 AM

comment #28

dinther says ...

This interviewer is the most annoying, obsequious twat on the planet.

Posted by dinther at November 12, 2009 9:43 AM

comment #29

Terry McCarty says ...

berkguru wrote:
Cusack without Say Anything = Jon Cryer

Looks like everyone's forgetting THE GRIFTERS.

Posted by Terry McCarty at November 12, 2009 11:20 AM

comment #30

Terry McCarty says ...

Eloi Manning wrote:
Why isn't Cameron Crowe working anymore? Fuck me - that man has made six films and three have been bonafide masterpieces of their genre. Not many other directors can claim a 50% masterpiece score card. Vanilla Sky was alright too. It's only really Singles and Elizabethtown that let the side down.

Crowe has a Pearl Jam documentary film in the works.

Posted by Terry McCarty at November 12, 2009 11:24 AM

comment #31

bmcintire says ...

Sorry, but I though Cusack handled this pretty well (and the "David Koreshy" bit was funny).
You want to see an actual asshole, take a gander at Carrie Prejean's interview with Larry King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R0a9xq6uek&feature

What a useless moron.

Posted by bmcintire at November 12, 2009 12:23 PM

comment #32

Terry McCarty says ...

M. Hulot wrote:
And by the way, I hate to admit it, but Hot Tub TIme Machine looks to have some enormous potential.

It would have had more potential if some combination of Cusack, Anthony Michael Hall, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez had been the leads (not to take away from Craig Robinson and Rob Cordrry).

Posted by Terry McCarty at November 12, 2009 1:54 PM

comment #33

Terry McCarty says ...

M. Hult wrote:
Renfield. You are correct. Savage Steve Holland rules!

Not so much these days. Take a look at the direct-to-DVD LEGALLY BLONDES with the Disney Channel-esque twin leads. Although Holland did shout out to the glory days by casting Curtis Armstrong in a key role as a teacher.

Posted by Terry McCarty at November 12, 2009 1:56 PM

comment #34

dinovelvet says ...

"Crowe has a Pearl Jam documentary film in the works."

Everyone knows they did their best stuff as Citizen Dick

Posted by dinovelvet at November 12, 2009 3:22 PM

comment #35

YRG says ...

It would have been funnier if he also had a mixtape, a string puppet, two halves of a metal sphere, a videotape, and two dollars to give him.

Posted by YRG at November 12, 2009 3:32 PM

comment #36

Colin says ...

I hate that MTV thinks they should be covering film news. You can't even fucking do music videos right anymore. Go make another shows about spoiled, stupid, blonde, twats and leave film alone.

Posted by Colin at November 12, 2009 6:18 PM

comment #37

Gordon27 says ...

"Although Holland did shout out to the glory days by casting Curtis Armstrong in a key role as a teacher."

Curtis Armstrong is just good friends with Holland; he's been in everything Holland has done, including voicing Eek! the Cat and one of the two humans on Thunderlizards.

And the best Cusack interview clip ever:
http://www.maniacworld.com/how-not-to-interview-john-cusack.html

Posted by Gordon27 at November 12, 2009 9:02 PM

comment #38