In 1989, every girl wanted to be serenaded by John Cusack with a boombox and have sex with him in a station wagon, but Lloyd Dobler only had eyes for Diane Court in Say Anything.
Did Cusack and his co-star, Ione Skye, have feelings for each other in real life? The actress has written a salacious autobiography, Say Everything, and she admits that they had crushes on each other. However, they did not act on it for over a decade, until after her divorce from Beastie Boy’s Adam Horovitz.
She told People that she sent a draft of her book to Cusack. After reading it, he texted her, “You made the experience sound so meh! It wasn’t ‘meh’ for me.”
“I was like, I’m telling a story, and it was more about how all of our chemistry was in our working together and stimulating each other’s minds, not sleeping together!” Skye added. “I felt a little bad, but, oh well.”
This is just one of the love affairs she talks about in her book. She also dated Anthony Keidis when she was 16 and had an abortion. While she was married to Horovitz, she had an affair with Jenny Shimizu when she realized that she was bisexual.
That was then, she has been married to Rocker Ben Lee since December 2008. They welcomed their only child together nine months later.
Those are her love affairs. I wonder if she will talk about her father, singer Donovan, who she has barely had any contact with in her life.
Whether you have seen Say Anything or not, then you know that scene where John Cusack holds up a boom box playing Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes over his head to win back Ione Skye. It was the romantic gesture that men and Hollywood have been retreating ever since.
On April 14th, the coming of age movie turns 30 and People spoke with Skye about that unforgettable moment. She said that the scene was very important to Cusack and the writer/director Cameron Crowe, but she was focused on something else. She wanted to make sure her nightgown was falling the right way and her body looked good as she tossed and turned around in her bed.
Even though Cusack was outside and she was in bed, you would think they both shared that time together; but he was not serenading her. They actually filmed their parts on different days which totally kills the romance.
Her confessions get even worse. Crowe wanted an Elvis Costello song to be playing, but the singer saw the clip and said no. Eventually, they went Gabriel’s tune which was a good thing because Costello’s music sucks. Makes me like him even less after hearing this.
Talking about hearing, she did not hear that song when she was shooting. She does not remember what it was, but she says it was beautiful.
Did she think that would be the thing that stood out from the film? She did not. I guess from her perspective all she was doing was looking at the ceiling making sure her boobs looked good as we were looking at that big boob in a raincoat trying to win her back.
I know after I saw that movie, I wanted and still want a man do that for me. Instead of handing me a mixtape, I want him to play it for me on a boombox. OK, in 2019, I want him to play me my playlist on his phone. Screw my neighbors, they are just jealous. Seriously, who hasn’t wanted that?
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John Cusack was caught by the paps at LAX and it looks like he wasn’t happy about it. I don’t know why he went all 2012 on them because I’d love to have a One Crazy Summer with him in a Hot Tub Time Machine. Seriously don’t you still wish he would hold a boom box outside your window. I know I wouldn’t tell him to turn off the music, well that is until he came inside.
John Cusack was on Jimmy KImmel Live yesterday and to celebrate getting a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame the Say Anything star was willing to do anything. That includes taking part in the latest trend of downing shots of hand sanitizer. So Jimmy Kimmel and him did it and they were wishing they were Better Off Dead as they pumped Purell into their mouths. I think their faces say it all, just how stupid of an idea it is to drink hand sanitizer to get drunk. Their expressions are saying it is Grosse Pointe Blank.
And in case you were wondering if they learned their lesson, the answer is no because after the commercial break they did a second squirt, to which they agreed was worst than the first. But hey if they keep doing it they will have One Crazy Summer in a Hot Tub Time Machine, and I want to hear all about it.
Maybe next time they think about doing it, the two of them will follow the fake PSA that ran earlier in the show? Although even after watching the PSA and seeing the two men down some Purell, is it wrong I want to see what it is like to drink it? Aren’t you curious too?
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Last night there was a special screening of The Raven and John Cusack met up with a bird that the movie was named after. For some reason seeing him holding the death bird like that makes the former-RomCom hottie look even more Ravenshing. Seriously isn’t he just Ravenous? So much so I can’t wait to see The Raven when it comes out on Friday.
