Posted on 07/31/2005 1:30:02 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
NEW YORK-Lauren Bacall tells TIME Tom Cruise is not a great actor. "When you talk about a great actor, you're not thinking about Tom Cruise," Bacall says.
"His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's a kind of sickness."
She went on to say, "Bogie would have bitch slapped the punk!"
Tom Cruise used to be a good actor. I thought he was incredibly fun to watch in Top Gun, Interview With the Vampire, and A Few Good Men. But in recent years his acting has become pretentious and hammy. That coupled with his bizarre public antics has completely turned me off to him. I now avoid movies that star Cruise - I probably would've seen War of the Worlds had it starred someone else.
"Lauren Bacall, a reminder of an era when Hollywood had class."
True, when most of them back then weren't slaves to rehab centers or dimbulb cults.
Chorus:
Where is my John Wayne
Where is my prairie son
Where is my happy ending
Where have all the cowboys gone
Quite unfortunately long ago...a lifetime it seems. I enjoy watching most of the old black and white movies on Turner Classics....there's nothing like watching Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and, of course, one of my favorites, Lauren Bacall.
at least they arent showing 'The Fan'
My wife and I went to see War or the Worlds, and coming out of it I observed to her that Cruise seems to play the same role in most of his movies: a shmuck who finally grows up a little bit after some adversity. Top Gun, Jerry McGuire, Rain Man, WotW -- it's all the same role he's playing, over and over
Lauren Bacall? I thought she was good. She had a certain class.
She went on to say, "Bogie would have bitch slapped the punk!"
The creepy thing is I'm certain Cruise would've begged Bogie for more. Ewww!
Eh, I think that she's gotten way more mileage than she deserves out of hanging on to Humphrey Bogart as a young woman. Lauren Bacall was never a great actress, and has benefited from surviving everyone else.
However, she's absolutely right.
Lauren Bacall, off the stage or set,in her private life, is a foul mouthed, rancid, itch on wheels. But she's right about Tom Cruise.
No, she's just a grumpy old bitch. People with class don't constantly carp at others and attack them unprovoked. She's been doing this for at least the last couple years to the point where it's almost par for the course with her.
LOL!
Yes, but he has "studied the history of psychiatry," is completely clear mentally, and knows how to cure post-partum with vitamins, fitness, and constantly-repeated control freak mental exercises that would make even hardened Social Darwinists smile a glazed-eyes Moonie smile. [IRONY, SARCASM ALERT]
I thought that song was mean sarcastically?
booze and cigarettes ruined her looks by the time she hit her mid 30s,, she's just an ultra liberal Bush bashing old hag now
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