Idiot to be tried for stalking John Cusack
A 33-year-old woman arrested on charges of stalking actor John Cusack is mentally competent to stand trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
Emily Diane Leatherman was taken into custody in March near the “High Fidelity” star’s residence in the posh California beach community of Malibu and later charged with stalking.
But the case was put on hold while she was evaluated by a court-appointed psychiatrist.
- from Reuters
John Cusack Sues For Stopping Power Fee
From Empire:
And so the saga of Stopping Power – the Jan De Bont action movie that had its plug pulled when the financiers pulled out last year - has taken another twist, with news that John Cusack has lodged a $5.8 million lawsuit with a California Superior Court.
Cusack had been due to play the movie’s hero, who takes to the autobahns of Germany in a succession of speedy vehicles in an attempt to save his daughter from kidnappers
John Cusack takes on John McCain in political ad
Pop quiz: Why has John Cusack jumped into the political arena with a video saying John McCain is a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush?
“I know my opinion doesn’t matter more than anyone else’s and I just make films,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. “But I do feel you have to speak out, and that’s what I’m doing.”
The 30-second video, which went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org on Wednesday, will begin airing on television Thursday. In it, Cusack offers a “pop quiz” to voters, asking them among other things: “Who supports keeping our troops in harm’s way in Iraq but not the bipartisan G.I. bill of rights to support them when they return home?”
McCain and Bush both do, Cusack says, adding, “Bet you can’t tell them apart.”
The cost to air the ads is $45,000. They will appear nationally on the Bravo cable channel and in Washington, D.C., on CNN, MSNBC and Comedy Central.
In his latest film, the war satire “War Inc.,” Cusack makes no secret that he believes the Iraq war was created to profit private businesses like Blackwater Worldwide and Bechtel Corp., which hold war-related contracts worth millions of dollars.
“I’m not going to pretend this thing in Iraq was some kind of free market utopia to spread the gospel of democracy through the Middle East,” he told the AP from London, where he’s at work on another project.
Cusack says he supports Democrat Barack Obama.
- From AP
It’s the end of the world as John Cusack knows it, and he feels fine
John Cusack is eyeing a big budget production disaster flick as his next project.
The actor is in negotiations to star in Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic “2012,” about the end of the world, for Columbia Pictures.
Cusack is in talks to play divorced dad Jackson Curtis, who’s a writer and limo driver, the studio said.
The script blends the idea of a Mayan calendar, which predicts the end of the world in 2012, with natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers plaguing the planet and a large cast of characters dealing with the mayhem.
- From THR
John Cusack Goes to War with Hilary Duff
Cusack co-wrote, produced and stars in War, Inc., a new film billed as an incendiary political satire that examines the blurring lines between global military conflicts and big business. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources — everything from Kafka and contemporary anti-globalization author Naomi Kline, to the Marx brothers and political cartoons — Cusack says he hopes the film will continue the long tradition of mocking the powerful elites of government and corporate aristocracy.
“I just didn’t want to go through what I thought was the darkest political period in my life without doing something,” Cusack says. “Well, something besides making money off romantic comedies.”
The people that Cusack got together, along with director Joshua Seftel, were stars Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, and in a somewhat surprising turn, Hilary Duff.
Via IGN
Congrats, John Cusack, you too have a stalker
John Cusack’s alleged stalker is behind bars - for now. Despite a restraining order barring her from approaching Cusack, hardcore fan Emily Leatherman showed up outside his home in Malibu on Sunday night. Deputies were called to the 24000 block of Malibu Road about 7 p.m. Sunday after a cab driver reported that a passenger was refusing to pay a fare for a ride to that area.
Via Perez