Bay City, Michigan 48706
Front Page 05/07/2024 22:04 About us
www.mybaycity.com August 8, 2003
(Prior Story)   Columns ArTicle 253   (Next Story)

Underrated: John Cusack, The Post Office and The Library System

How can things that work so good get so little respect?

August 8, 2003       Leave a Comment
By: O. J. Cunningham

Printer Friendly Story View

John Cusack, as Rob Gordon, in my all time favorite - 'High Fidelity'
 

Underrated actor: John Cusack

Is there a more likable actor working today? At least a dozen terrific performances, no Oscar nominations. Amazing!



Check out this list of successful movies . . .
    Identity (2003).... Ed
    Max (2002/I) .... Max Rothman
    Serendipity (2001) .... Jonathan Trager
    America's Sweethearts (2001) .... Eddie Thomas
    High Fidelity (2000) .... Rob Gordon
    Being John Malkovich (1999) .... Craig Schwartz
    Cradle Will Rock (1999) .... Nelson Rockefeller
    Pushing Tin (1999) .... Nick Falzone
    Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) .... Myrl Redding
    Thin Red Line, The (1998) .... Captain Gaff
    This Is My Father (1998/I) .... Eddie Sharp, the Pilot
    Chicago Cab (1998) .... Scary Man
    Anastasia (1997) (voice) .... Dimitri
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) .... John Kelso
    Con Air (1997) .... U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin
    Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) .... Martin Blank


Underrated government service: U.S. Postal Service

Neither Rain Nor Sleet Nor Snow -- All for 37 Cents



Let's see. They come to our doors every day, bringing welcome family letters, magazines and Victoria's Secret catalogues. They pick up whatever mail we leave for them. They drive it to the post office. They sort it. They drive it to the airport. They put it on a plane. They fly it across the country. They takeit off the plane. They put it on a truck. They drive it to the address regardless of where he or she may live and deliver it to the door. Within three days. For 37 cents.

And we complain about the cost and efficiency of mail delivery? We shouldn't be complaining, we should be asking how the heck they can do it.

(Runnerup: The library system. You can check out the latest bestseller or a book that's been out of print for 50 years. You check out a video or a CD. You can use their computers to surf the web and exchange email. And it's all free.)



Printer Friendly Story View
Prior Article

February 10, 2020
by: Rachel Reh
Family Winter Fun Fest is BACC Hot Spot for 2/10/2020
Next Article

February 2, 2020
by: Kathy Rupert-Mathews
MOVIE REVIEW: "Just Mercy" ... You Will Shed Tears, or at Least You Should
Agree? or Disagree?


O. J. Cunningham

O. J. Cunningham is the Publisher of MyBayCity.com. Cunningham previously published Sports Page & Bay City Enterprise. He is the President/CEO of OJ Advertising, Inc.

More from O. J. Cunningham

Send This Story to a Friend!       Letter to the editor       Link to this Story
Printer-Friendly Story View


--- Advertisments ---
     


0200 Nd: 05-03-2024 d 4 cpr 0






12/31/2020 P3v3-0200-Ad.cfm

SPONSORED LINKS



12/31/2020 drop ads P3v3-0200-Ad.cfm


Designed at OJ Advertising, Inc. (V3) (v3) Software by Mid-Michigan Computer Consultants
Bay City, Michigan USA
All Photographs and Content Copyright © 1998 - 2024 by OJA/MMCC. They may be used by permission only.
P3V3-0200 (1) 0   ID:Default   UserID:Default   Type:reader   R:x   PubID:mbC   NewspaperID:noPaperID
  pid:1560   pd:11-18-2012   nd:2024-05-03   ax:2024-05-07   Site:5   ArticleID:253   MaxA: 999999   MaxAA: 999999
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)