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Tom Cruise Returns Golden Globes Statues Amid HFPA Controversy
THR ^ | 5-10-21 | mia galuppo/

Posted on 05/10/2021 2:24:40 PM PDT by dynachrome

Tom Cruise has returned his three Golden Globes statues amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Cruise won the best actor honor in 1990 for Born on the Fourth of July and in 1997 for Jerry Maguire, as well as a best supporting actor award in 2000 for Magnolia.

Earlier today, NBC announced that it would not be airing the 2022 iteration of the Golden Globes. Said the network in a statement: “We continue to believe that the HFPA is committed to meaningful reform. However, change of this magnitude takes time and work, and we feel strongly that the HFPA needs time to do it right.”

The backlash began after an L.A. Times report detailing that the organization counted zero Black journalists among its then-87 members. Last week, the HFPA’s membership voted to approve a proposal of reforms aimed at addressing its lack of diversity and other ethics issues, but many in Hollywood, including Time’s Up and a coalition of PR Firms, noted that the reforms do not go far enough.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: closetcase; diversity; foreignpress; freak; gayscientologist; goldenglobes; hfpa; hollywood; hollywoodwokeness; miagaluppo; rayciss; scientologist; scientology; tomcruise; wokeness
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To: dynachrome

Tom Cruise, winner of 3 Golden Globe awards, will always advertise the fact that he one three times, giving them back just once. He’s the ajohn Kerry who threw his medals over a fence but later touted his status as a Purple Heart veteran.


21 posted on 05/10/2021 2:52:49 PM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: Ratman0823

Jerry MacGuire, Top Gun, come to mind. They were both very popular. As with any actor or actress, they go through peaks and valleys of work and popularity.


22 posted on 05/10/2021 2:53:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Nobody cares much.


23 posted on 05/10/2021 3:02:30 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: Ratman0823

Mission Impossible 1,2,3,4,5,6
Jack Reacher
Tropic Thunder
Minority Report
Valkyrie
War of the Worlds
The Firm
A Few Good Men
Days of Thunder
Rain Man
Top Gun


24 posted on 05/10/2021 3:05:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dynachrome

Hollywood is DEAD! American popular culture is DEAD!


25 posted on 05/10/2021 3:09:20 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I take it that Tom Cruise feels the need, to bend over backwards to prove that he is liberal.


That is one way of looking it. Another way is that Cruise is punking the Hollywood Elite into eating themselves. He has set the bar and now they will ALL have to prove how liberal they are and return THEIR GG awards.

The thing is that with Cruise’s box office draw and body of work (see post #24), 3 GGs isn’t going to affect him at all. However, it will devastate many others, whose only award is a GG. So, if he is indeed punking them, then: Well done Mr. Cruise!

For the rest, all I can say is: Suffer, baby, suffer.


26 posted on 05/10/2021 3:16:50 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Yet Scientology lives. Evil crowd wherein walks Tom Cruise


27 posted on 05/10/2021 3:19:24 PM PDT by Broker (Truth & Transparency & Equal Justice)
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To: Sacajaweau

“...never liked him....mediocre actor at best...naw....crappy actor.”

I’m not crazy about him either. But, I did enjoy his performance as “Austin Powers.” ;-)


28 posted on 05/10/2021 3:21:26 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: EEGator

His acting was good in Born on the Fourth of July and Vanilla Sky too.

As for the Golden Globes return, the world says, whatever. I used to love the Oscars but over time I have grown to loathe all entertainment awards shows.


29 posted on 05/10/2021 3:22:46 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: dynachrome

Tom is signally the woke have a home in Scientology.

Who better to be his new servants? Smart move.


30 posted on 05/10/2021 3:31:03 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: Ratman0823

Has he done anything worthy of note since “Risky Business”?

His Jack Reachers and last 2 MI’s were good. American Made is quite good.


31 posted on 05/10/2021 3:33:29 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: dynachrome

Did he throw those awards over a fence or something?


32 posted on 05/10/2021 3:37:01 PM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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To: webheart

I would not compare the two. How insane to even do so.


33 posted on 05/10/2021 3:43:01 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: dynachrome

Tom Cruise : winner at movies and loser at life. His movies are excellent. Some scenes in Jerry Maguire are brilliant. Sadly, his religion is garbage. Scientology creates slaves who are trapped in San Bernardino. Cruise funds it.

Marc Headley talks about he was stuck in Scientology in San Bernardino for three years. He planned with his father to have a motorcycle hidden on the ranch which he started one night, drove quickly away and immediately got followed by two black Scientology Suburbans. The CHP saw him and escorted him at high speeds to a safe meeting place with his father. Cruise should make a movie about Headley but won’t, because he is a loser at life.
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34 posted on 05/10/2021 3:45:06 PM PDT by Falconspeed (A"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Howie66

He ought have left the awards on the ground and thrown himself over the fence. NOBODY would have missed him.


35 posted on 05/10/2021 3:49:22 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: EEGator

Somebody starred in more top movies, but to prove it is a waste of time.

Every time I see TC has a new movie, and back to his first exploits in them, I doubted if they were worth watching. I do not do that anymore, as he has a near 100% record of watchable movies, with some great ones. He is a movie star. Not a great actor, but his movies are a must see. I loved Jack Reacher, the others after, not so much. I am just bored with the action type like this. Even the Keanu Reeves did enough with his first assassin thing.

Tom Cruise, I do not know him but wouldn’t want to. He is though a Top Gun in movies.


36 posted on 05/10/2021 3:53:53 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: rockrr

Bet his First Church of Appliantology Is pissed. Those were supposed to o fund the Sea Org’s future.


37 posted on 05/10/2021 4:06:30 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Glad2bnuts

And he’s still doing all his stunts to, or a large majority of them. He was recently seen running on top of a moving train for a new film.


38 posted on 05/10/2021 4:12:12 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: tenthirteen

He’s pretty short, though.


39 posted on 05/10/2021 4:39:04 PM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Rain Man
The Color of Money (my pick for his best performance)


40 posted on 05/10/2021 4:40:10 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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