He is famous for playing wise-cracking slackers. But John Cusack says that's only because those are the parts he gets offered - and it drives him crazy
By Ryan Gilbey
John Cusack wastes no time getting down to business. "I've made 10 good films," says the 41-year-old actor shortly after striding into the Berlin hotel room in a backwards baseball cap and sprawling in an armchair. "I'm sure you know which ones they are. The ones that suck I tend to blank out. It's like I never even made them." I'm slightly taken aback at his honesty, though his tally is in the right ballpark. Here's my list: The Sure Thing, Eight Men Out, Say Anything, The Grifters, Bullets Over Broadway, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Thin Red Line, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Max - that pretty much covers it. But has he really made 40 movies that suck? He mulls it over. "Well, there aren't 40 that are great, put it that way." He pauses for an eternity, eyes widening. "But that's fine. Ten is a good batting average, don't you think?"

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Are you ready for some football? The NFL season kicks off today, but the action's already under way with the release of the latest in the Madden franchise.

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The avant-garde work of three Taiwanese artists will be featured at this year's Istanbul Biennial
By Susan Kendzulak
The Istanbul Biennial in Turkey is one of the world's most prestigious exhibitions, equal in stature to the Venice and Sao Paulo Biennials. This year, three Taiwanese artists will be featured.

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Scientists have proven what music fans always knew: rock and pop stars die young
By James Randerson
From suicide to drug overdose, murder to bizarre gardening accidents - the hallowed halls of rock legend are littered with fallen young men and women who took the phrase "live fast, die young" as more life instruction than metaphor.

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Since 2005, Tokyo has been trying to catch up with the world's major fashion hubs like Paris, New York and Milan by holding the Japan Fashion Week
Gut's Dynamite Cabarets was one of the hot stocks of the 2008 spring-summer Tokyo Collection.

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