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Cusack Blames iPhone for Wonky Tweets

Do you lose a little piece of your soul every time John Cusack tweets a misspelled word like “breakfasy,” “lysten,” or “hippocrite”? “I’m pretty new to it, and if there’s a spell check on an iPhone, I can’t find it,” the actor told the NYT . “So I basically get in the general ballpark and tweet it.” Still, he can’t understand why grammarians bust his chops: “The vitriol was so intense that at first I didn’t think they were serious. Because, like, who would care?” [ NYT ]

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Moment of Truth: Alex Gibney on Casino Jack (and the Rest of His Documentary Binge)

If you think you may have read a disproportionate amount of coverage here over the last few weeks about filmmaker Alex Gibney, you’re probably right. But it’s only because the Oscar-winning documentarian has a staggering number of films arriving on the scene at once: In addition to his three movies debuting at the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival, Gibney’s Casino Jack and the United States of Money opens tomorrow in limited release. Not even Werner Herzog can match than kind of productivity, though as Gibney told Movieline, it was kind of accidental for himself as well.

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Moment of Truth: Alex Gibney on Casino Jack (and the Rest of His Documentary Binge)