In defense of John Cusack
I owe a debt of gratitude to John Cusack, actually. His portrayal of an obsessive compulsive record-store owner in High Fidelity kind of validated the kind of existence I had in the early 1990s.
I owe a debt of gratitude to John Cusack, actually. His portrayal of an obsessive compulsive record-store owner in High Fidelity kind of validated the kind of existence I had in the early 1990s.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.21.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack, whose new film "War, Inc" is in theaters and whose MoveOn.org ad is tearing up the airwaves, was the #1 story on "Countdown" Friday night...
Bill Cusack | Posted 06.14.2008 | Entertainment
The crucial facts are all represented in War Inc.'s satire, Mr. O'Reilly; they're just presented in a way that reveals a side of reality not commonly seen in other media outlets, most especially yours.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack's righteous rage over the billions being pocketed in Iraq by companies like Blackwater, and Halliburton, is the beating heart of his brilliant War Inc. The film pulls off the near-impossible: it finds a savage, reality-altering humor amidst the tragedy of Iraq. READ MORE The Big Story You May Have Missed During the Obama v. Clinton Finale The Senate Intelligence Committee's "Phase II" report on how the Bush White House used -- and abused -- pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq never uses the word, but we all know what it's called when someone presents something as fact that's directly contradicted by the evidence. A lie. Not a mistake. A lie. READ MORE Five Word Speech Submissions: Boy, Are You Guys Good!
Paul Hipp | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
Hilary and I did these songs in one session in LA and one in Bulgaria. She was in character the whole time and a delight to work with.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2008 | Entertainment
Cusack's new Film, War Inc., is a powerful, visionary response to the cheerleading culture of the corporate media and a pliant Hollywood afraid of its own shadow.
Howie Klein | Posted 04.21.2008 | Entertainment
John Cusack and his colleagues have taken Eisenhower's 1961 warning and updated it into a chilling movie set in the not too distant future, at a time when, unfortunately, no one remembers what Ike said or why.
John Cusack | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
Naomi Klein: Companies like Blackwater and Halliburton are already roaming the world looking for new markets in other frail states - new governments to guard, new war zones to privatize.
John Cusack | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
Naomi Klein: Give a bunch of pumped-up guys guns, and send them to a place where they're above the law, and they'll act like cowboys.
John Cusack | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
Klein: In the book, I raise the question, "Why is it that we refer to Richard Perle merely as an ideologue -- rather than, say, as an arms dealer with an impressive vocabulary?"
John Cusack | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
I sat down with Naomi Klein to talk about her audacious and revelatory new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. And the camera was rolling.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics
Cusack's powerful new film pulls off the near-impossible: finding a savage reality-altering humor amidst the tragedy of Iraq.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects...
Tom Davis | Posted 08.25.2008 | Living