Slog - Comments on Hollywood Hero of our Times http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times John Cusack has made a movie that relentlessly attacks all that constitutes the insane age of Bush. Because the insanity has no bottom: MESEBERG, Germany -- President Bush on Wednesday raised the possibility of a military strike to thwart Tehran's presumed nuclear weapons ambitions, speaking aggressively even as he admitted having been unwise to have done so previously about Iraq. The insanity of War, Inc, Cusack's new anti-war film, has no bottom or boundry. This passage is from my interview with Cusack: In America, we treat war like the weather and weather like the war. A tsunami can happen and... Copyright 2008 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:20:58 -0800 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:23:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by wonderment if you play the moveon.org piece backwards, his sister joan appears in the background.

]]> wonderment http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050532 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050532 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:39:56 -0800 Comment by monkey I just saw the preview for this yesterday and I didn't think anything of what you just said. What I thought was, "ooh, look, it's Gross Point Blank II."

John Cusack plays a government assassin. Joan Cusack plays his bat-shit crazy assistant and now Dan Ackroyd is his boss instead of his rival. Really, they could have just used the same charactor names and saved time.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050551 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:47:46 -0800 Comment by Vince Keep these things coming until November. It doesn't sink in otherwise.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050565 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:51 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Maybe he should change that from "weather" to "natural disasters." Tsunamis are in no way related to the weather.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050578 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:03:44 -0800 Comment by kat Hooray, Charles finally posted something worth reading.

]]> kat http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050601 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050601 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:15:18 -0800 Comment by jess I'm sorry, I just can't get past John Cusack's douchebaggy answers to the Proust Questionnaire in the June issue of Vanity Fair. It's ruined him for me forever.

]]> jess http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/hollywood_hero_of_out_times#c1050801 Film Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:23:45 -0800