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Tom Cruise has shelled out “huge sums” for two high-tech robots to enforce coronavirus safety protocols on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7” – and also administer spot tests to the crew, according to a report. “Tom is so serious about making sure the shoot isn’t shut down that he’s splashed out on these robots as he can’t be everywhere to ensure people are behaving themselves,” a source on the set told The Sun. Shooting resumes this week in the UK before the production heads to Dubai, the source said. The 58-year-old megastar — who recently blew up at two...

VIDEOThe Tom Cruise meltdown in which he curses out and threatens to fire the crew on the "Mission Impossible 7" movie set could prove to have more entertainment value than the movie itself. In fact, it is my recommendation that Cruise incorporate his unhinged rant into the closing credits of the movie.

Back in the ever changing conditions at Camp Covid-19 the prison for everyone and that reminds me of a television series I watched 50 years ago..... The "crisis" has given plans of our rulers to ban cars in cities a big push forward.... The coronavirus stats are out in full with Worldometers putting out the Saturday number as 43,851 nationwide with 6,079 in Texas a record number for one day in that state..... North Korea's Bluff And Bluster For The 70th Anniversary of the Korean War And The "Health" Of Kim Jong Un..... Newsdump Update: Phoenix Church And Air Filtration...

“The head of state met with him at the President’s Office on September 30 in the evening. During the meeting, Tom Cruise informed Vladimir Zelensky that he was interested in Ukrainian locations for the filming of one of his new film projects. This was another reason to visit our country, ”the press service of the President’s Office said. Zelensky was told that he had told Cruise about his own experience in the cinema and about the new legislation on compensation to foreign producers who make films in Ukraine. American film actor Tom Cruise arrived in Kiev at the invitation of...

I know that there are a lot of Tom Cruise haters and yes, he is beginning to really show his age, however, if you can put these issues a side I think you would really enjoy this film. The plot involves a group called "the Syndicate" led by a mysterious man named Solomon Lane and a subplot emerges involving the CIA whose director, played by Alec Baldwin, is trying to shut down the IMF. The cast includes Ving Rhames, Jeremey Renner,Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, and the very beautiful Rebecca Ferguson, Jingchu Zhang and Hermione Corfield. There are the typical car...

Declaring peace is not “a mission impossible,” US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived on Thursday and immediately met a downbeat Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who spoke of growing Israeli doubts about the Palestinian commitment to peace. .....

As kids, they sat on gas lines in the backs of their parents’ cars. As young adults, they saw the stock market crash, and when it finally came time to settle down, they bought a house at the peak of the housing bubble and then were faced with the worst economy since the Great Depression. It’s no shock that Generation X — those born from 1965 to 1981 — may get short changed in their golden years. Though they’ve watched parents and grandparents nestled with pensions, Social Security and strong economic growth, these are no longer guarantees. On the other...

Peter Graves was an elegant, classy man that conducted himself as a gentleman on and off of the screen. Both Peter Graves and James Arness were great family men and were good to people around them. No scandal sheets with Peter Graves or James Arness headlining them.

Actor Peter Graves was found dead Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to law enforcement sources. Graves, who stared in "Mission: Impossible," "Airplane!" and Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17"--apparently died of natural causes, the sources said. Graves was 83, according to a biography on the website IMDB.com. [snip]

Why do we bend over backwards to accommodate the Muslims? We give them their foot baths at Universities, we give them special rooms to pray at the airports, and we in some towns announce their prayer calls over loud speakers. We do this because we're afraid, if we don't, they'll blow up a building. What other reason is there? In this country, you can't say the word Christmas in any secular environment, yet we are allowing Sharia law to permeate every secular facet of society. Please take a look at this video and let me know what you think… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQqLMKOPbck

Taliban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been hit by a wave of defections and betrayals that has resulted in a witch-hunt within the militant movement.

POWERFUL Hollywood friends of Tom Cruise rallied to his defence as a poll suggested the actor's odd behaviour in recent months might have cost him millions of dollars at the box office. Days after his latest movie, Mission: Impossible III, opened to lower-than-expected domestic ticket sales, a USA Today/Gallup poll showed Cruise's star power has dimmed considerably during the past year in the eyes of the public. In the poll of 1013 adults conducted over the weekend the film opened in theatres, 35 per cent had a favourable opinion of Cruise, while 51 per cent had an unfavourable opinion. That...

Tom Cruise is back this week in Mission: Impossible 3, and is said to be proving a hard sell to female audiences after his fried placenta remarks. If only the movies were as provocative. Here's how the first M:I looked to me when it came out in 1996: I happened to see Mission:Impossible the same week I saw Spy Hard. One of them comes on like a parody of every spy-movie cliché in the book as its vain hero is whisked from one absurd situation to another; the other is a comedy with Leslie Nielsen. Both begin with an assignment...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Arson & Explosives experts check out a newspaper rack in Canyon Country. A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming Mission: Impossible III got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a Californian news rack, thinking it contained a bomb. The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the Mission: Impossible theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.

Movie Promotion Confused With Bomb in L.A. Saturday April 29, 2006 10:46 PM SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming ``Mission: Impossible III'' got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb. The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the ``Mission: Impossible'' theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers....

CHICAGO, April 10 (UPI) -- Special agent Ethan Hunt -- a.k.a. Tom Cruise -- suddenly appears on your mobile phone's color screen. You're being recruited to be a non-official cover intelligence asset. As Hollywood prepares to premiere the third installment in the "Mission: Impossible" film franchise, Paramount Pictures, and producers Cruise and Paula Wagner, are working with a mobile-gaming company to bring the action right to your "third screen." Is it any wonder, experts are telling United Press International's Networking column, that, with interactive games like this, consumers are today very satisfied with the level of performance of their mobile...

According to a brand new Survey USAPoll that was commissioned by television stations KABC-Los Angeles, KPIX-San Francisco, KXTV-Sacramento, and KGTV-San Diego...Bush 46% vs. Kerry 49% is now within the margin of error. And this is occuring in a state that Democrats carried by 11pts in the year 2000. Survey USA has had a fairly good track record in most of the polling work that it has done. This same poll shows the Senate race growing closer as well between BOXER (D) 48% and JONES 42% (R). Here's how some of it breaks down:589 Likely Voters (Not merely registered)FOR PRESIDENT -Bush/Cheney - 46% Kerry/Edwards - 49% Other -...

There's a GOP voter registration rally going on this afternoon outside the Crossfire studio on the GW campus. The Dems are having a rally across the street at the same time, so it would be really cool if we had more people there. Apparently, Third Day will also be there (they're appearing at the Patriot Center on Sunday).