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Cruise turns 60 next year and is right now enjoying the biggest hit of his career. And it’s not even a squeaker: Top Gun: Maverick broke his opening day record with a $51 million haul. His previous record was Mission: Impossible—Fallout’s $23 million.
You want to know why Tom Cruise is one of the few movie stars still standing? It’s not his looks or his agelessness or even his talent. There are all kinds of good-looking, talented, ageless actors and actresses out there… No, Tom Cruise is a star because he understands stardom in the same way John Wayne and Errol Flynn and Gene Kelly and Bette Davis and Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson understood stardom… It’s not about you! It’s about the audience! Dazzle them. Make them laugh. Make them cry. Inspire them. Broaden their horizons. Show them something new. Teach them. But never, ever talk down to them or act as their superior.
Respect the audience as a partner, and you will never break up.
Tom Cruise puts on a helluva show.
Calm down.
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I did notice they backed down on their initial censorship of the Taiwan and Japan flags on his jacket.
Early publicity pictures showed them changed to ChiCom pleasing flags.
But they are reportedly in the movie, same original jacket with the Taiwan/RoC and Japanese flags.
86 degrees out, hazy, a bit breezy, but almost as perfect as it can be.
You are so right.
Yep. Cruise may be a little nutty but he makes a hella movie. Its called entertainment.