It’s probably not going to come as a huge surprise, but one of my favourite films is Grosse Pointe Blank, the film with John Cusack playing the hitman, Martin Blank. Cusack’s cool, quirky killer is very sexy to watch. It doesn’t parallel my life. It doesn’t even come close.
That said, I did work with a guy once, three years ago, who was very like Dan Aykroyd’s character. This guy was chatty to the point of annoying. I worked alongside him for three weeks and all he wanted to do at the end of each day was hang out. He wanted to form a club and even had a Facebook page for it. I have no problem with Facebook, we use it a lot for work, but this guy actually set up a club.
Last year, I heard that Interpol had caught him. He was killed within a week. It’s understandable – he had a big mouth and had worked with too many people to be trusted to stay quiet.
