Cusacked - I've always liked

Cusacked - I've always liked John Cusack. He's had probably the best percentage of good-movies-to-clinkers of any actor I can personally think of. Better Off Dead was the best teensploitation film of the eightiesand the best John Hughes parody ever. Say Anything, Grifters, Hi Fidelity, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...he's no slouch in the movie department. Less so than most actors, anyway.

But this, from Newsmax, kinda makes Winona Ryder look good:

The New York Post recently reported that the actor is fond of a practice he calls "celebrity looting." In an interview with Black Book magazine, he explained what the activity entails.

Cusack pointed out a clothing store to the interviewer and said, "We did celebrity looting there. … They asked me to come over, patronize the store, pick up some stuff. So I took all my friends over, and we went straight for the $8,000 rack of leather coats and took a bunch. The managers, they get all nervous and twitchy. They freak. But you just look at 'em really hard and walk out. That's celebrity looting."

Needless to say, Cusack is a liberal - but his name is being bruited about as a potential far-left candidate:

The actor, who is actually being touted by the left as a possible presidential candidate, told Details magazine last year what he thinks of President Bush. He labeled him a hypocrite who is going to "do a lot of damage."

"Bush means Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and all these ... crypto-fascists are gonna get in and start carving up the pie and handing in all their markers to the Republican Party that's been itching to get back into power," Cusack said.

Although bear in mind this piece was written two weeks before the November election.

Posted by Mitch at December 29, 2002 10:39 AM