October 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Two of the biggest screen idols walked the red carpet together for the first time in Leicester Square last night at the world premiere of their controversial political thriller.
Between them Tom Cruise and Robert Redford have created some of Hollywood’s most memorable heroes, from The Sundance Kid and The Great Gatsby to Maverick, the gung-ho fighter pilot in Top Gun, and Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible series. Now they are playing opposite each other in Lions for Lambs, directed by Redford, which was chosen as The Times Gala at The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival.
With Meryl Streep also in the cast, the film is one of the biggest Hollywood movie to have had its world premiere in London and an indicator of the festival’s clout. It intertwines the stories of a hawkish senator (Cruise), a journalist (Streep), an idealistic professor (Redford) and two soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to explore the United States’ approach to the War on Terror. The film has been under attack by conservatives in America.
Matthew Michael Carnahan, who wrote the screenplay, said yesterday: “People who haven’t even seen the movie have been making pronouncements about why nobody should see it. But my ambition was just to contribute another level to this debate that needs to be had about this war and whether another British or American life is worth it.”
Politics was far from the minds of most of the thousands of fans who pressed up to the barriers around the Odeon cinema last night. Cruise had insisted on building two hours into the schedule to meet his public. He spent 1½ hours talking to people in the crowd, chatting to their friends and relatives on proffered mobile phones and being photographed with fans.
The post-September 11 conflicts have inspired many Hollywood projects, although the box-office reception for films such as Michael Winterbottom’s critically acclaimed A Mighty Heart and Peter Berg’s Saudi action film The Kingdom has been lukewarm so far.
The film is a launchpad for Cruise’s new career as a movie mogul. Lions for Lambs is the first film to come out of United Artists since he helped to revive the studio.
September 14th, 2007 No Comments »
An actor whose name has become synonymous with All-American testosterone-driven entertainment, Tom Cruise spent the 1980s as one of Hollywood’s brightest shining Golden Boys. With black hair, blue eyes, and unabashed cockiness, Cruise rode high on such hits as Top Gun and Rain Man. Although his popularity dimmed slightly in the early ’90s, he was able to bounce back with a string of hits that re-established him as both an action hero and, in the case of Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, a talented actor.
Name : Tom Cruise
Birth Name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Height: 5′ 7”Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: July 3, 1962
BirthPlace:Syracuse, New York, USA
Profession: Actor, Producer, Director, Writer
Education: Franciscan seminary (dropped out in a year) ,Glen Ridge High School, Glen Ridge, NJ (dropped out)
Husband/Wife:
- Nicole Kidman (actress; married on December 24, 1990; separated since December 2000; filed for divorce on February 7, 2001; divorced on August 8, 2001),
- Mimi Rogers (actress; married on May 9, 1987; divorced in January 1990)
Relationship:
- Katie Holmes (actress; born on December 18, 1978),
- Sofia Vergara (Columbian; model; born on July 10, 1972),
- Penelope Cruz (Spanish; actress; reportedly began dating summer 2001; split up at the end of January 2004),
- Rebecca De Mornay (actress; 1983-1985)
Father: Thomas Cruise Mapother III (electrical engineer; died in 1984 of cancer)
Mother:Mary Lee Mapother
Sister :
- Cass Mapother (born in 1963),
- Marian Mapother (born in 1961),
- Lee Anne Mapother (born in 1959)
Step Father: Joe South
Son: Connor Anthony Kidman Cruise (born on February 1995; adopted)
Daughter:Suri (born on Tuesday April 18, 2006 in Los Angeles; weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces; 20 inches long; mother: Katie Holmes)
Claim to fame: As Joel Goodson in Risky Business (1983)
September 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Sofia Vergara Biography
Name :Sofia Vergara
Birth Name : Sofia Margarita Vergara
Nationality : Colombian
Date Of Birth : July 10, 1972
Occupation : actress,model
Son : Manolo (born in 1992)
What’s up with Tom Cruise and all these Latin women? First he had a long relationship with Penelope Cruz (from Spain) and now he has been dating Sofia Vergara for about a month. What can we say, he does have a great taste! All these women are very different from former wife, Nicole Kidman (at least they are all much shorter, which is a plus for Cruise).
Even though Sofia is not a Scientologist, the two met at the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre International in Hollywood. Tom is introducing Sofia to the religion, but apparently he is not pushing it (Penelope could tell you all about this). So, we’ll see if Cruise can convert Sofia to Scientology or not. The megastar has been involved with the religion for many years and is more than devoted to it.
He is also very committed to his children, Connor and Isabella. Kidman and Cruise adopted both during their marriage and now enjoy joint custody. Both Tom and Nicole are very devoted patents.
Cruise (42) and Vergara (32) are taking the relationship to a higher level by meeting each others children.
Rebecca De Mornay
Born: Aug 29, 1961 in Santa Rosa, California
Active: ’80s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, ThrillerCareer
Highlights: The Trip to Bountiful, Risky Business, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Tom Cruise hooked up with “Risky Business” co-star Rebecca De Mornay for a brief period.
Rebecca was raised in France and went to college in Suffolk, England. She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. After gaining fame in the highly successful movie “Risky Business,” Rebecca went on to star in other films such as “BackDraft” and appeared on the TV show “E.R.”
Tom Cruise Dated Cher in 1985
Every drag queen’s dream. A Tom Cruise reality.
Name :Cher
Birth Name : Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre
Date of Birth :20 May 1946
Place of Birth : El Centro, California, USA
Height : 5′ 8½”
Nationality : American
Sometimes Called : Sonny & Cher,Sonny and Cher,Cherilyn,Chér.
Tom Cruise lived with Cher according to her son Elijah Allman who saidabout Cruise “people aren’t buying into his whole act”.Allman is Cher’s son with musician Gregg Allman. He tells Us Weekly that Cruise has changed a lot. “He was totally different. We lived with him for a couple of years.”Allman had already made headlines when he confessed on the Howard Stern radio show that he had sex with Paris Hilton & that he was afraid he’d contracted a STD from her!
