The Cult of John Cusack

This morning on the CBC Arts section and there is this great article about John Cusack entitled the Cult of Cusack: Why to women love this man?.

John Cusack is no Brad Pitt. He’s got an oval head, a thorny nose, a maw like a coin slot and eyes that seem to disappear when he squints. His face is one of a kind, to be sure, but he’s nobody’s idea of a hunk.

And yet throughout the trite new romantic comedy Must Love Dogs, females repeatedly — almost mechanically — tout his character’s cuteness, which only proves the extent to which the Cult of Cusack informs our culture. Even screenwriters have bought into it.

The truth is Brad Pitt wishes he were John Cusack. For women of a certain age — maybe between 25 and 45 — Cusack is the ideal male. It’s not the image of perfection perpetuated in hip-hop videos or, say, a Brad Pitt movie, but rather a figure a teen girl might rhapsodize about in her diary.

To me the answer is simple. John Cusack is an "everyman". Everyone loves him.

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