Still in love with Lloyd Dobler.

Has everyone out there seen the 1989 Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything, starring John Cusack?  I remembered it this weekend when my brother alerted me to Cusack's appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann (about his new movie, War, Inc.).

 

A quick aside: I can now add videos to the blog!  Super cool.

Anyway, the interview's interesting, although I worry about John's voice.  Is he still smoking, I wonder?  It sounds like he may be--which is fine, I like smokers--but I am a bit concerned about his health.  But I digress.  A couple of weeks ago at the library somebody asked for the movie Say Anything, which put me in the mood to watch it again (which I did, in video form, using a video I bought in, and have packed through every move since, high school).

Say Anything and Lloyd Dobler do lead, tangentially at least, back to reading.  Consider Chuck Klosterman's book, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, and his first chapter about how Lloyd Dobler ruined girls of his generation for real boys ("It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack.  I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker"); Hank Stuever also wrote about the Lloyd Dobler Phenomenon for The Washington Post.

So here's to you, Lloyd.  And you too, John.  Even though Chuck Klosterman doesn't think I know the difference, I DO know you're not actually Lloyd (and vice versa), but anyone who can form a sentence like "if the Democrats say impeachment's off the table I think that's very troubling" on a news interview program is worth my continuing devotion.

Comments

[Emily]

I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.

[Citizen Reader]

Emily,
"I don't want to buy anything, or sell anything, or process anything. I don't want to buy anything sold or processed, or sell anything bought or processed, or process anything...bought, sold, or processed."

LLL! (Long Live Lloyd!)

[Bookie]

Kickboxing. Sport of the future.

I think I'm still waiting on my Lloyd Dobler. Perhaps in the meantime I'll try to raise little Lloyds.

[Bookie]

Oh yeah...his voice does sound really crappy. Lets think positive, perhaps he's joined a punk rock band or something.

[Bookie]

I just said perhaps twice.

[Citizen Reader]

Bookie,
Ditched in the Malibu! Heinous!

I'm telling myself the voice is naturally low+4 a.m. drowsiness, not smoker's low rumble. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Yes, Lloyd would want us to be optimistic, I think.

p.s. as Klosterman points out, with lots of swear words, is that everyone's still waiting on their Lloyd Dobler. Nice to think he's out there, though.

[The Laundress]

Huh? What is up with the commentary on John Cusack's voice? It is kind of high and squeaky, just like mine. You want cigarette-burned vocal cords, listen to Marianne Faithfull.

16 Candles, that is where John and Joan begin, sweet flick. Now, I am some how culturally naive yet again, 'cuz I never saw nor remember hearing about "Say Anything" yet it is a cultural phenomena. Damn. Gonna reserve a copy pronto.

cough, cough...

tl

[Citizen Reader]

Laundress,
John's voice used to be higher, but now it's kind of low and gravelly. I'm sure it's not a problem, I just worry about our boy Lloyd Dobler. He's no Sylvia Browne or anything. Have you heard her talk? Holy crap. How she's still walking around I have no idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIf6GYiA2JA

Loved 16 Candles, loved The Sure Thing, loved Better Off Dead, loved Say Anything. I can't wait until you see it so we can discuss Lloyd.

[Sarah]

Um, and those of us born, say, before 1965? OK, I'd fit in real well in Britain (younger men . . .)

[Citizen Reader]

Sarah,
No worries. The appeal of Lloyd Dobler transcends all ages and times.

Aren't you proud of those Brit women? About all we have to counter it here is Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, and that's old news.

[Brandon]

I have never seen "Say Anything." Nor have I wanted to. I'm perfectly content in my ignorance.

His voice is nothing. You should hear my voice. It's ridiculously deep. People comment all the time. "My god, you should be on radio!" I'm a heavy smoker, too, though I don't think my voice has anything to do with my habit.

[Brandon]

He sounds like Michael Madsen. Madsen, I know, smokes a lot.

[Citizen Reader]

Well, Brandon, you're not really the target demographic for "Say Anything," or really "romantic comedies" in general, so that makes sense. The whole point of "Say Anything" is really swooning over John Cusack, so unless you're into that, I can't really recommend it to you.

He also references being tired, so that may be affecting the gravelly nature of his voice. I don't know that smoking is the cause, or if he still smokes, but if I want to worry about Lloyd Dobler's health, dammit, I will. :)

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