I’ve never been able to suspend belief while watching Cruise. As a fighter pilot type, I thought the aircraft were the only things worth watching in “Top Gun”. As for Cruise, he’d have wimped out of any real fighter squadron in - about one minute. This guy is - to use our old pilot phrase, a real weak dick.
Cruise, it appears, is no longer a bankable star as he has been in the past. The old coot Redstone (Viacom CEO) was wise enough to see this two years ago.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/2008/06/new-tom-cruise.html
Originally posted: June 5, 2008
New Tom Cruise Web site aims to remake image
On the new Tomcruise.com, we learn such valuable tidbits as which movies Tom Cruise starred in and how he looks, sweaty and unshaven, in a muscle shirt.
We also learn, reading between the pixels, that Tom Cruise would like to use the Net to rehabilitate an image that’s recently been battered, largely on the Net.
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