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1. John Malkovich
   IT's 5 O'clock on an unusually chilly Las Vegas morning, and John Malkovich is shivering on top of a firetruck. Behind him looms the empty shell of the soon-to-be-demolished Sands Hotel and Casino, the legendary Rat Pack hangout, with the twisted wreckage of an airplane casually jutting out of its lobby. The plane is not another gaudy Vegas attraction, like the volcano that erupts on cue across the street, but a prop for Con Air, the action thriller that pits Malkovich's prison escapee against Nicolas Cage's homeward-bound parolee. "We went everywhere to find a bad guy, and we only cast John two days before we started," says first-time director Simon West (best known for his croaking-bullfrog commercials for Budweiser). "Funny enough, it was one of my first ideas, [and] it ended up being the best idea. He's suited perfectly, kind of a clever, twisted, articulate psycho."
2. Being John Malkovich -- John Malkovichs
   A man takes a new job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building and stumbles upon a membranous room that leads inside the head of stage and screen actor John Malkovich. There he can see life through Malkovich's eyes before being systematically ejected from the room and onto the New Jersey turnpike. The man then rents out Malkovich's head to others, eventually letting his wife inside where she falls in love with another woman who, in turn, thinks she has fallen in love with John Malkovich.
3. Being John Malkovich (1999)
   An unhappily married puppeteer stumbles upon a doorway into John Malkovich's head, through which he hopes to win the heart of his obsession--a beautiful and manipulative co-worker--and to live his dreams through the body of a world famous star. All madness breaks loose as he finds himself competing with his wife for the ownership of John Malkovich's head to win over the co-worker and for the dreams of escape from their toilsome life.
4. Being John Malkovich -- Puppeteers
   Being John Malkovich is the kind of film you might want to see several times to appreciate fully: every characterization, every line of dialogue, every frame of film stock has something unique to offer. Even a twenty-word synopsis of the plot screams originality in such bold brushstrokes that you wonder how this picture even got made: "An unemployed puppeteer takes a job as a file clerk and discovers a portal into the head of John Malkovich." That's "John Malkovich, The Actor" by the way.
5. Being John Malkovich -- Movies
   The premise of Being John Malkovich is easy to explain: one character finds a tunnel that leads to John Malkovich's brain. Simple to explain, but it is the variations on this premise that make the movie such a delight. You only get to spend 15 minutes in Malkovich's brain before you get dumped out beside the New Jersey turnpike. As fast as you can come up with questions about the premise, the movie answers them in twists too perfect to reveal here. What would happen if Malkovich himself went through the tunnel? What would happen if more than one more person went through?
6. John Malkovich -- Puppeteer
   Spike Jonze directs this dark comedy about a puppeteer (John Cusack) who discovers the ability to enter the mind of John Malkovich (John Malkovich) for 15 minutes at a time. Catherine Keener will play a love interest of both characters, and Cameron Diaz will portray Cusack's wife. Orson Bean will ... star.
7. Being John Malkovich
   Spike Jonze' directorial debut, Being John Malkovich, is a madcap surreal comedy leading straight into John Malkovich's consciousness. Aimless puppeteer Craig (John Cusack) discovers the portal to Malkovich behind dusty file cabinets in the “Deep Storage” room at his filing firm located on the 7 1/2 floor. You get to occupy Malkovich's being for about 15 minutes before expulsion onto the New Jersey Turnpike. Needless to say, this is a very strange film. Amazingly enough, the movie soon escalates into heightened levels of absurdity.
8. John Malkovich -- New York
   In 1976, John Malkovich joined Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, newly founded by his friend Gary Sinise. After that, it would take seven years before Malkovich would show up in New York and win an Obie in Sam Shepard's play
9. John Malkovich -- Craig
   On a narrow road off Craigie Street, deep in the lush property values north of Harvard Square, John Malkovich has gone to ground. It's a comfortable burrow, padded in a rich mulch of private schools and late-model Subarus, not too far from where Julia Child grew creaky, and it's well supplied with squirrels. Even within the muted tones of Cambridge, his house is a wallflower, a triple-decker with a plain brown door and a peaceful mask of unwashed shingling. There's a garage, a brick chimney, and an inadequate lawn with a few unassuming shrubs for privacy. But there's barely a paparazzo within 200 miles.
10. John Malkovich -- Steppenwolf Theatre
    John Malkovich won an Obie for Steppenwolf's True West in 1983. The following year, he appeared with Dustin Hoffman in the Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, which would earn him an Emmy when it was made into a television film in 1985. He received Academy Award nominations for Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire and burlesqued his own public persona in the films Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. In addition to film and stage directing, Malkovich designs his line of menswear under the label “Uncle Kimono.”

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