Tom Cruise
Euh...... Drool, drool! : P~~~
It's not mission impossible for me to fall in love with this hunk!
But he's married to Nicole!
So? He's still yummy!
But but but! What about ANTONIO?!
What he doesn't know won't hurt him! ; )
Info about the person:
Birth date:July 3, 1962
Sign:Cancer
Romeo resume:In Jerry Maguire, this cutie couldn't commit to his babe. In his next flick, Eyes Wide Shut, he's so obsessive he ought to be committed.
Past imperfect:Wearing cringeworthy tightie-whities int he comedy Risky Business proved to be just the boost Tom's career needed.
Total turn-on:"What about a woman attracts me?" Tom asks. "An Australian accent, red hair, blue eyes." Duh, couuld he be talking 'bout his wife, Nicole Kidman?
Cruise control:Growing up, Tom did his best to protect his three sisters from slimeballs. "My sister Mary couldn't figure out why this guy wouldn't kiss her," he says. "It was because I told him, 'If you kiss my sister, I'm going to kill you, man.' I knew he had another girlfriend."
Extreme passions:Tom's into adventure sports like shark tracking. "I like to live in the red zone," says danger boy.
Summary of Tom Cruise's Life
As the top gun of his generation, Tom Cruise has
always made it look easy. When he acts, he
commands more than $20 million a picture, yet he is
never begrudged a cent; his 20 films have cumulatively
grossed $3 billion internationally. When he produces,
he comes in on time -- and under budget. And when he
goes home at night, it is to Nicole Kidman, a woman
whose bisque-smooth beauty turns men to Jell-O. So
it is startling to hear Cruise profess, "I don't find
anything easy. I wish I did. I push myself. I've never
walked through anything. It's all something I have to
work at."
At 36, Cruise is one of those rare stars who
remembers where he came from -- and how hard it was
to get where he is. The third of four children born to
Thomas, an electrical engineer, and Mary, a
special-education teacher, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
dropped his last name at age 18, six years after his
parents divorced. His mother held as many as four
jobs at once to keep her daughters and son fed and
clothed. Her persistent search for better
circumstances resulted in Cruise's attending 15
different schools. "When I hear about a mom who is
single, my heart goes right there," says Cruise. "It was
at times painful and really, really lonely for her."
Dyslexia compounded the problems of adolescence;
the frustration of not being able to process written
words led to poor grades and a low self-image. After a
knee injury forced him to quit high school wrestling,
Cruise tried out for a play, then grew so enthralled with
acting that he left school to make his way to New York
City and Hollywood.
By age 21 he had made six films, most notably 1983's
Risky Business, which transformed him into a star. In
the late 1980s he joined the controversial Church of
Scientology, which he credits with helping him
overcome his dyslexia. Though he has earned two
Oscar nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July and
Jerry Maguire), Cruise still dedicates himself to
mastering the task at hand, whether it is memorizing
his lines or roasting a chicken. While in England
filming this summer's Eyes Wide Shut with Kidman, he
learned to cook from costar Sydney Pollack, who had
the trailer next door. "I started him off with simple
recipes such as spare ribs," says Pollack. "He'd watch
me and write it all down. Sometimes he'd videotape it.
He's a very thorough and serious guy. He's a great
cook now."
In the kitchen with Pollack, racing cars with Color of
Money costar Paul Newman or dining out with Steven
Spielberg, Cruise remains in awe of other Hollywood
talent. "He is the world's biggest fan," says Cameron
Crowe, who directed him in 1996's Jerry Maguire. "Tom
is the first to laugh, the first to applaud and has the
greatest memory for any actor who appeared in the
smallest part." He has seen thousands: As a boy,
Cruise mowed lawns for $5 a pop and bought his way
into the multiplex. "You go early and figure out the
times," he says. "Then you pay for one movie and
figure out how you can sneak into all the other ones.
That was my life of crime." The thrill isn't gone. "When
I was a kid, and I was seeing Stanley [Kubrick]'s work
and Steven [Spielberg], and I remember seeing
[Martin] Scorsese, and all of a sudden there I am
across from [Paul] Newman and [Gene] Hackman," he
says. "It's still pretty trippy for me." A recent evening
at Spielberg's house left Cruise feeling "like a little
kid."
At home, Isabella, 5, and Connor, 3, keep Cruise
grounded. When it comes to parenting, he says, "we're
just trying to figure the damn thing out." He and
Kidman, 31, read to their children "every night before
they go to bed," he says. "We work out our schedules
around them. I take them to school, or Nic does."
These days, Cruise practices reverse psychology on
Connor: "I say yes. He says no. I say no. He says
yes. So anytime I want him to do something, I tell him
he can't do it, and he says yes and goes and does it."
The couple's schedules make for some unorthodox
child-rearing practices. "Sometimes we go out to
dinner and stay up until about 2, 3 in the morning and
wake up the kids," he says. "They chat and play
games, and they go back to sleep. It's wild." It may
not be conventional, but Cruise notes that his own
upbringing was hardly typical. "What is right? What is
wrong?" he asks. "As long as we're together, that is
the most important thing." The greatest challenge, he
admits, is discipline. "Especially the way we travel, to
keep that consistent is difficult." Then again, "they get
to travel the world and learn about different cultures."
Wherever they go, Cruise and Kidman strive to keep a
prying public from penetrating the iron curtain of
privacy that they draw around their home life. Last
November, Cruise successfully sued a British tabloid
that had revived an old rumor that Cruise is gay and his
eight-year marriage is for cameras only. "They printed
that and said some brutal things about my children,"
he says. "I just go, `You know what, guys? This is not
okay. My kids go to school, and they have friends, and
things go out on the Internet. Stop it. It is not okay.'"
So, how are things between the pair Cruise once
claimed would be on their honeymoon forever? "There
are moments when we say this honeymoon is on
pause for the next two hours while we get things
worked out," he says wryly. "You really only learn
about yourself by that stuff that bounces back in your
face." All in all, things must be good: For kicks they fly
a two-seater plane, dubbed Sweet Nic, with Cruise at
the controls and a mirror specially angled so he can
see his wife's face behind him.
Cruise wishes that he had enough privacy to be able to
mount his well-known Good Samaritan rescue acts
without attracting notice; he has saved lives in Santa
Monica and London and off the island of Capri. "It's not
the greatest thing in the world to be rescued by me,"
he points out. "T he next day, everyone comes
knocking on the door." Otherwise, he is very happy to
be Tom Cruise. "I think it's the greatest job of all time,"
he says. "It has its days and its moments, but listen,
it's great. If you can't enjoy this, forget it. Are you
kidding me?"
Source: People Magazine
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