"standing outside her window, holding up a boom box, and playing Peter Gabriel; a reference to the John Cusack film ""Say Anything..."". However instead of playing ""In Your Eyes,"" like in the movie, Stan plays ""Shock the Monkey"". Henrietta Biggle (one of the ""goth kids"") had a bedroom poster of ""Blauhaus"", a parody version of the gothic rock band Bauhaus. Tim Cain of the ""Herald & Review"" considered Butters' speech at the episode's conclusion ""one of the most heartful and sincere soliloquies in the show's history"", despite not strictly being a soliloquy. ""Raisins"", along with the thirteen other episodes from"
"grade of ""B+"" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ out of 4 stars. Not included within the release of the soundtrack Serendipity (film) Serendipity is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom, written by Marc Klein, and starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. The music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. During the Christmas season in New York City, Jonathan Trager encounters Sara Thomas at Bloomingdale's while they attempt to buy the same pair of black cashmere gloves. While they are both in relationships, a mutual attraction leads to sharing dessert"
"her boyfriend, Biff (played by Jon Lovitz), who is also socially inept. In addition, she did celebrity impersonations of Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, and Queen Elizabeth II. She has been nominated four times for the American Comedy Award in the category of Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and has won three times, for ""Runaway Bride"" (1999), ""In & Out"" (1997), and ""Working Girl"" (1988). She has also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""In & Out"". Cusack narrates the public-TV animated series ""Peep and"
"the aliens who abducted her. The character uses a wheelchair, as a reference to the mythical figure Cassiopeia, who was confined to her throne. In the film ""Serendipity"" (2001) starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, Cusack tells Beckinsale about the constellation Cassiopeia the night they meet one another after noticing that the freckles on her forearm match the constellation's pattern exactly. In the 1997 film ""The Edge"", Anthony Hopkins Character points to Cassiopeia and mentions the two stars forming the last line in the W point to the north. In the hip-hop musical In the Heights, the smog and light"
"Know You Well"", Van Halen's ""Everybody Wants Some!!"", Neil Sedaka's ""Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"", Paul Simon's ""Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover"", Jimi Hendrix's ""Foxy Lady"", Frank Sinatra singing ""A Man Alone"" by Rod Mckuen, Hall & Oates' ""She's Gone"", and Muddy Waters' ""Mannish Boy."" Better Off Dead (film) Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film starring John Cusack and written and directed by Savage Steve Holland. It tells the story of high school student Lane Myer who is suicidal after his girlfriend breaks up with him shortly before Christmas. In the town of"
"Joan Cusack Joan Mary Cusack (; born October 11, 1962) is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama ""Working Girl"" (1988) and the romantic comedy ""In & Out"" (1997), as well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter. She is also the voice of Jessie in the ""Toy Story"" franchise. Cusack was a cast member on the comedy sketch show ""Saturday Night Live"" from 1985 to 1986. She starred on the Showtime hit drama/comedy ""Shameless"" as Sheila Gallagher (née Jackson), a role for which"
"High Fidelity (film) High Fidelity is a 2000 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears. It stars John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, and Lisa Bonet. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the name of the lead character changed. After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with Cusack's performance, saying that ""at times, it appears to be a film in which John Cusack reads my book"". Rob Gordon is a self-confessed music loving everyman with a poor"
"Better Off Dead (film) Better Off Dead is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film starring John Cusack and written and directed by Savage Steve Holland. It tells the story of high school student Lane Myer who is suicidal after his girlfriend breaks up with him shortly before Christmas. In the town of Greendale in northern California, high school student Lane Myer's two main interests are skiing and his girlfriend of six months, Beth. Shortly before Christmas, Beth dumps Lane for the handsome and popular captain of the ski team, Roy Stalin. Roy is an arrogant bully who unfairly rejects"
"Serendipity (film) Serendipity is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom, written by Marc Klein, and starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. The music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. During the Christmas season in New York City, Jonathan Trager encounters Sara Thomas at Bloomingdale's while they attempt to buy the same pair of black cashmere gloves. While they are both in relationships, a mutual attraction leads to sharing dessert at Serendipity 3. Sara reveals her opinion that fate determines many of her decisions in life. They encounter each other again when they both have to return"
"for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in ""High Fidelity"" (2000). In Roland Emmerich's disaster film ""2012"" (2009), he played a family novelist who attempts to survive the apocalypse and save mankind. Cusack played Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's biopic film ""The Raven"" (2012) and starred in David Cronenberg's ""Maps to the Stars"" (2014). Later, he starred in video on demand films, including ""The Factory"", ""The Numbers Station"", ""The Frozen Ground"", ""Drive Hard"" (2014), ""The Prince"" (2014), ""Reclaim"" (2014), ""Cell"" (2016), ""Arsenal"" (2017), ""Blood Money"" (2017) and ""Singularity"" (2017)."
"Arts, where one of his student projects ""Going Nowhere Fast"" (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art show ""Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures"". Savage Steve Holland Savage Steve Holland (born 1960) is an American writer, producer, voice actor, animator, and film director who wrote and directed the cult films ""Better Off Dead"" (1985) and ""One Crazy Summer"" (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film ""How I Got Into College"" (1989), and animated the ""Whammy"" on the game show ""Press Your Luck"". He later went on to create and produce ""Eek! the Cat"" for Fox Kids. Now,"
"copywriter. He then turned to writing special material for vaudeville acts, and then for film studios, ultimately writing complete scores for two movies: ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" and ""Reach for Glory"". The latter film received the Locarno International Film Festival prize in 1962. A number of other movies featured compositions by Russell: ""Affair in Trinidad"" (1952), ""Blue Gardenia"" (1953), ""The Girl Can't Help It"" (1956), ""The Girl Most Likely"" (1957), ""A Matter of WHO"", ""Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"" (1952), ""Sound Off"" (1952), ""That Midnight Kiss"" (1949), and ""A Ticket to Tomahawk"" (1950). In the movies ""The Girl Most"
"Kiss"" (Bobby Vinton) ""The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A."" (Donna Fargo) ""Jungle Fever"" (The Chakachas) ""Alone Again (Naturally)"" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) ""Coconut"" (Nilsson) ""A Horse with No Name"" (America) ""Take It Easy (In Your Mind)"" (Jerry Reed) ""(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"" (Luther Ingram) ""Back Stabbers"" (The O'Jays) ""Liar"" (Three Dog Night) ""How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"" (Bee Gees) ""Mr. Big Stuff"" (Jean Knight) ""Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves"" (Cher) ""(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All"" (The 5th Dimension) ""Double Barrel"" (Dave and Ansell Collins) ""The Candy Man"" (Sammy Davis"
"in the film received two Golden Globe nominations by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 65th Golden Globe Awards. Clint Eastwood was nominated for Best Original Score, while the song ""Grace is Gone"" with music by Eastwood and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager was nominated for Best Original Song. It won the Satellite Award for Best Song at the 12th Satellite Awards. Grace Is Gone Grace Is Gone is a 2007 drama film starring John Cusack as a father who cannot bring himself to tell his two daughters that their mother, a soldier in the American army, has just"
"on to bigger and better things"". Hot Pursuit (1987 film) Hot Pursuit is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Steven Lisberger, written by Lisberger and Steven Carabatsos, and starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, and Jerry Stiller. High school student Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up. Ganja-smoking island natives give him a lift"
""" (1981), ""The Maid's Tragedy"" (also 1981), ""The Taming of the Shrew"" (1983), ""Our Lady of Sligo"" (1998) and ""Rock 'n' Roll"" (2007). Cusack married British actor Jeremy Irons in 1978, and together they have two sons: Samuel James (b. 1978), and Maximilian Paul (b. 1985). Prior to her marriage she had given birth to another son, the Irish member of parliament Richard Boyd Barrett (b. 1967), whom she put up for adoption. They have since been reunited, and Cusack has supported him in his political campaigns. Along with her husband, Cusack was named in a list of the biggest"
"Savage Steve Holland Savage Steve Holland (born 1960) is an American writer, producer, voice actor, animator, and film director who wrote and directed the cult films ""Better Off Dead"" (1985) and ""One Crazy Summer"" (1986), starring John Cusack. He also directed the film ""How I Got Into College"" (1989), and animated the ""Whammy"" on the game show ""Press Your Luck"". He later went on to create and produce ""Eek! the Cat"" for Fox Kids. Now, he manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd. and directs shows for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. He studied animation at the California Institute of the"
"written by Chris Isaak. Forever Blue (Chris Isaak album) Forever Blue is the fifth album by American rock and roll musician Chris Isaak, released in 1995. The album included three singles: the Grammy-nominated ""Somebody's Crying""; ""Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing,"" which was featured in Stanley Kubrick's final film, ""Eyes Wide Shut""; and ""Graduation Day,"" featured in the 1996 film ""Beautiful Girls"". In 1996, Forever Blue was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album, though it lost to Alanis Morissette's ""Jagged Little Pill"". In 2014, a cover of ""I Believe"" was done by Melissa Hollick for the video"
"Tapeheads Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman and starring John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Sam Moore and Junior Walker. The film was produced by Michael Nesmith, who briefly appears as a bottled water delivery man. After losing their jobs as security guards, best friends Ivan (John Cusack) and Josh (Tim Robbins) start a music video production company called ""Video Aces"". When they meet their childhood heroes, 1970s soul duo ""Swanky Modes"" (Sam Moore and Junior Walker), Ivan and Josh concoct a scheme to give them a new audience by hijacking a Menudo concert, getting them to perform"
"Kiss the Girl ""Kiss the Girl"" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989). Originally recorded by American actor Samuel Wright in his film role as Sebastian, ""Kiss the Girl"" is a calypso ballad; the song's lyrics encourage a young man to kiss his female love interest before it is too late. ""Kiss the Girl"" had a mostly positive reception. The song was nominated for both an Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but lost both to ""Under the Sea"", another"
"falls in love with a girl. Among the list of rides and attractions listed in the song are: ""Shoot the Chute, Rocket Ship, Roller Coaster, Loop the Loop, Merry Go Round, Tunnel of Love, and the Ferris Wheel. Barris wrote a song about an amusement park and it was suggested he use the name of an amusement park as the title. One night he was in Manhattan when he looked toward the New Jersey Palisades Cliffs, on which the amusement park sat. That was when inspiration hit and the title was added. Years later the Palisades Amusement Park closed, on"
"(1950), ""Little 'Tinker"" (1948), ""Margie"" (1946), ""Red Hot Riding Hood"" (1943), ""Sufferin' Cats"" (1943), ""Design for Scandal"" (1941), ""Strike Up the Band"" (1940), and ""Westward Passage"" (1932). The song was also featured in the 1950 MGM movie ""To Please a Lady"" starring Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck. The song was sampled in 1997 by the American hip hop geoup Psycho Realm in the song ""Temporary Insanity"" contained on their debut album ""The Psycho Realm"". Wonderful One ""Wonderful One"" is a popular song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on January 25, 1923 in New York and was released as Victor"
"appeared there for several seasons. By this stage he had established a successful career in films, which had started at the age of eight. Also in 1963, Cusack won a Jacob's Award for his performance in the Telefís Éireann production of ""Triptych"". He received honorary degrees in 1977 and 1980 from the NUI and the University of Dublin respectively. Cusack, who was bilingual in English and Irish, had a leading part in the controversial Irish language film ""Poitín"" (1977). Cusack's last stage performance was in Chekhov's ""Three Sisters"", in which three of his daughters played the sisters. His four daughters,"
"Woods"", ""Little Women"", ""Once Upon A Mattress"", ""The Mousetrap"", ""A Christmas Story"", ""Once On This Island"", ""Fools"", ""A Christmas Carol"", ""Seussical the Musical"", ""Twelve Angry Men"", ""Taming of the Shrew"", ""West Side Story"", ""The Diviners"", ""Hamlet"", ""Alice"", ""Rent"", ""Julius Caesar"", ""Les Misérables"", ""The Winter's Tale"", ""Legally Blonde"", ""Peter and the Starcatcher"", ""Lazarus Rising"", ""1984"", ""The Addams Family"", ""Twelfth Night"", and ""Little Women"". 4th place at dimond bar high school for show choir (2016) Henry J. Kaiser High School (California) Henry J. Kaiser High School is a small to medium-sized high school located at 11155 Almond Avenue in Fontana, California. Kaiser"
"mathematics teacher and political activist. His father, Richard Cusack (1925–2003), was an actor, along with John's siblings Ann, Joan, Bill, and Susie. They moved from Manhattan, New York to Illinois. Richard was also a documentary filmmaker who owned a film production company and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan. Cusack graduated from Evanston Township High School in 1984, where he met Jeremy Piven, and spent a year at New York University before dropping out, saying that he had ""too much fire in his belly"". Cusack began acting in films in the early 1980s. He made his breakout role in"
"Pontiac Moon Pontiac Moon is a 1994 adventure film directed by Peter Medak, and produced by Robert Schaffel and Youssef Vahabzadeh. The film stars Ted Danson as Washington Bellamy, a ""pigheaded"" science teacher in a small California town, and Mary Steenburgen as his wife Katherine. Danson was also one of three executive producers of the film, along with Jeffrey D. Brown (co-writer) and Robert Benedetti. The film takes place in the summer of 1969, when NASA astronauts successfully landed on the moon for the first time, in the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Katherine, suffering from panic attacks caused by an automobile"
"(b. 2000). She discovered she was pregnant with her first son, Dylan, on her first day of shooting the movie ""Mr. Wrong"" (1996). Cusack owns a home in Three Oaks Township, Michigan, and lives in Chicago, Illinois. In 2003, both Joan and her brother John signed the ""Not in My Name"" resolution (along with people such as Noam Chomsky and Susan Sarandon) opposing the invasion of Iraq. Joan Cusack Joan Mary Cusack (; born October 11, 1962) is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama ""Working Girl"" (1988)"
"Music Box (film) Music Box is a 1989 American crime drama film that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. The plot revolves around his daughter, an attorney, who defends him, and her struggle to uncover the truth. The film was written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Costa-Gavras. It stars Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat and Lukas Haas. The film won the Golden Bear at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. It is loosely based on the real life case of John Demjanjuk and, as well, on"
"young outdoorswoman and proceeds to have a series of misadventures. The Balloonatic The Balloonatic is a 1923 American short comedy film co-directed by and starring Buster Keaton. It was one of Keaton's final short films. A young man (Keaton) has a series of encounters in an amusement area, much like Coney Island, until happening upon a group of men preparing a hot air balloon for launch. The young man assists the group by climbing atop the balloon to affix a pennant, when the balloon mistakenly takes flight with no one aboard but the young man. The young man finally downs"
"Circus Girl"", ""The Gay Parisienne"", and ""A Runaway Girl"". He continued to write musical comedies throughout the next decade, including such hits as ""The Messenger Boy"", ""The Toreador"", ""The Girl From Kays"", ""The Earl and the Girl"", ""The Orchid"", ""The Spring Chicken"", ""The Girls of Gottenberg"" and ""Our Miss Gibbs"". He also wrote some operetta scores, such as ""The Duchess of Dantzic"". After this, he moved to New York City, where his post-war works, incorporating new fox-trot and one-step rhythms, included ""The Girl Behind the Gun"" (later a London hit as ""Kissing Time""). At the peak of his career, he"
"from high school, so producer Roger Birnbaum had to go to court to have him emancipated. During the filming of the movie, Birnbaum then became Cusack's legal guardian. Many popular songs were used in the film but a soundtrack was never officially released. The following is a list of tracks featured in the film: The film earned over $18 million at the box office. Reviews for ""The Sure Thing"" were mostly positive. Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film and called it a ""small miracle"" for its handling of teenage material in an era when movies like ""Porky's"" were the"
"prominent on the show, but when producers decided to increase the character's screen presence, she was forced to pull out of the part. Cusack has received critical acclaim for her performance, receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nominations in 2011, 2012, and 2013, as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015, winning in the later year. Cusack married attorney Richard Burke, President and CEO of Envoy Global, Inc. in 1996. They have two sons: Dylan John (b. 1997) and Miles"
"Hot Pursuit (1987 film) Hot Pursuit is a 1987 American action comedy film directed by Steven Lisberger, written by Lisberger and Steven Carabatsos, and starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Wendy Gazelle, and Jerry Stiller. High school student Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up. Ganja-smoking island natives give him a lift in their vehicle, but they don't"