John Cusack shows his "John Cusackness" best in a sort of triology of three films --
Say anything
Grosse Pointe Blank
High Fidelity.
this is the story at least according to one film appreciator:
Certainly I find it hard to see him as an action figure as in Con Air.
Tanya
(I actually got on to this article looking for who Tanya (played by Jenna Elfman of Dharma and Greg fame) was. I dont remember her in the GPB film. But it has been a while.
Found it - she's the one in the full(ish) body cast --
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Grosse Point Blank music
"Go" by Tones on Tail
joes Strummers cover of Willi Williams' "Armagideon Time".
(I have to check out the original)
Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun"
melody of this song is from old jazz song "Collard greens and black-eyed peas"
check it out
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Perhaps similar thing in smaller sense is seen in two movies by Bill Nighy:
he plays a rock star in the films Still Crazy (1998) and also in Love Actually (2003).
I hope to check out the BBC radio dramas Charles Paris Mysteries where Bill plays a gumshoe.
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