With the super-successful, and actually super, Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol (is our punctuation on that okay?), Tom Cruise slunk back into Hollywood's good graces after a few years in the wilderness with only Kate Holmes-Cruise and a child in full makeup and heels to keep him company. The odd thing about the Mission: Impossible franchise as Read More
"I'll find something to climb," Tom Cruise told The Observer last night at the US premiere of his new film, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. "There's always something." He was talking about turning 50, a fact that means if insurance companies have anything to do with it, Mr. Cruise won't be scaling buildings for much longer. Read More
Just posted to the Empire State Building's Facebook page—yes, it has one—is a photograph of none other than Tom Cruise gracing its visage, the lesser-seen parts. Mounting the lip of the infamous, extensive mass and sporting a reluctantly exposed smile far from the reaches of Manhattan's cosmically-lesser beings below him, Mr. Cruise lets his wavy Read More
Gawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer, declined to publish this story.Did the Church of Scientology use a Vanity Fair contributing editor to infiltrate and gather intelligence on the cult's enemies in the media?John Connolly is a well-known, and well-liked, character in New York media circles. He's a former NYPD detective and stock Read More
And they said there was a slump. Buoyed by vampires and the worst reviewed movie of the year, the box office exploded this weekend like a Grucci Brothers fireworks display. Here's a breakdown of the top five.
1. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: $69 million ($161 million total)
There is no possible way that the Read More
Two major A-list stars open movies this weekend, but judging from the product, you'll probably want to see Toy Story 3 again. Here's a handy guide to the new releases.
Knight & Day
What's the story: We know Hollywood loves remakes, but was it really necessary to take another swing at Killers so soon after Read More
O.K., so I think I might finally have a handle on Tom Cruise. Not Tom Cruise the "human being," mind you-'cause, get serious, who (save Xenu) has a handle on that-but Tom Cruise, Movie Star. I say this after seeing Mr. Cruise's new film, Knight and Day. The credits rolled, and as I blinked my Read More
For the recent MTV Movie Awards, pop culture aficionados were delighted to see the resurrection of Les Grossman, the feral, vulgar movie producer from the Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder, as the purported producer of this year's awards. It's worth remembering that when Thunder was released in 2008, the word was that Grossman was Read More
Tom, Cameron, Angie and Leo return to the multiplex. But is there still pop in their corn?
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Here’s City Councilman and comptroller candidate John Liu at a candidate forum on Manhattan’s East Side last night explaining how he grilled the head of the M.T.A. during a council hearing once and achieved a little bit of a breakthrough.
Liu compared the experience to that scene in a Few Good Men in which Tom Read More
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.
Need a movie to keep Read More
A funny thing happened on the way to the funeral being held for Tom Cruise's career ... Valkyrie became a hit. Well, maybe calling it a "hit" is a bit too much. But still, the film, which was dragged through the muck for the better part of a year, grossed a respectable $153 million Read More
Seriously, is it our imagination or is Tom Cruise aging backwards? Last night the toothy movie star hopped aboard Dave Letterman’s couch, and while we normally are distracted by those flashing bicuspids and that strange uber-focused glint in this eyes, this time we could only stare at his smooth, smooth forehead. Read More
When two-year-old Suri Cruise arrived to the Berlin set of her father’s latest film, Valkyrie, she was confused by his austere military uniform and menacing eye patch. “Suri would always be in the trailer with me, trying to pull it off,” Tom Cruise said excitedly at the New York premiere of the film at Time Read More
