The question: Who should take a hike, the Osbournes or “Joe Millionaire”?
“I like OZZY OSBOURNE,” responded actor JOHN CUSACK. “I haven’t seen `Joe Millionaire,’ but those women all seem to be gold diggers. I’m sure they’ll be properly humiliated on network television.”
The Evanston native phoned us from Los Angeles to chat about his new film, “Max.” Cusack plays a Jewish art dealer who befriends an art student — Adolf Hitler. He said it was a hard project to get off the ground, given Hollywood’s reluctance to tackle serious subject matter.
“It’s a tough balancing act because you have to be in enough hit movies to be bankable enough to do the radical art project that you like,” he said. “You have to sort of do one for them, then do one for you. At the end of the day, doing `Max’ is no different than doing a great play you want to do. You don’t do a play because you’re going to get rich; you do a play because it’s saying something you want to say.”
