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Tom Cruise's Origin Myth: Bound In Leather
Posted by Seth at 7:00 AM on May 3, 2008
This is it! The East Coast has already watched the first of two up-close-and-personal hours with Tom Cruise on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and we've taken the liberty of pulling a preview of what you'll see in just a little over an hour. Feel free to move on if you'd rather be surprised. It begins with a tour of the actor's Telluride home (we're in a superstar's vacation home! Don't touch anything!), with Oprah inquiring about a bookshelf containing a leather-bound copy of every script he's ever made, Tom's margin notes included. ("More intensity!!!" "What's Brian Flanagan's motivation, beyond mixing the perfect Mai Tai?" "YEss, or yeESS? See what works...")
He then reads aloud the original stage direction for the scene that would ultimately launch him to superstardom: the Risky Business "Old Time Rock N Roll" dance sequence, during the the shooting of which Cruise, just 19 at the time, got on all fours and waxed the floor to a slippery, high sheen to help facilitate his big, pantless entrance. More as it comes...
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Juancho
Posted 7:50 AM 3/5/08
@DexterRiley: A la Travolta?
It has to be dye as well, I always thought his hair was more black, and it looks brown in this liht
Juancho
KernelPanic
Posted 7:44 AM 3/5/08
Wow, he comes off ass non-crazy and everything.
Guess the meds are working?
kp
KernelPanic
DexterRiley
Posted 7:40 AM 3/5/08
@miramesa:
Botox around the eyes and forehead, and hair implants filling in his front hairline and crown.
Believe me.
DexterRiley
CourageousCoward
Posted 7:38 AM 3/5/08
BEST.HEADLINE.EVER. (You know Cher had him bound in leather!)
CourageousCoward
disslexic
Posted 7:36 AM 3/5/08
Suri, please go into your Daddy's library and wee-wee all over his books.
disslexic
miramesa
Posted 7:32 AM 3/5/08
Has he been getting work done? His face looks weird.
miramesa
Friedneckbones
Posted 7:25 AM 3/5/08
That whole interview had the feeling of general lewdness!
Friedneckbones
DexterRiley
Posted 7:17 AM 3/5/08
He's definitely dyeing that hair.
DexterRiley
WGARefugee
Posted 8:46 AM 3/5/08
When I lived in Colorado I had a friend who had a friend who was a carpenter who claimed to have worked on Tom's house. He said that there was more to the house than meets the eye. And that's about all I can safely say in today's litigious world.
WGARefugee
LBJeffries
Posted 8:38 AM 3/5/08
Why no bound 'Cocktail' script?
LBJeffries
DexterRiley
Posted 8:28 AM 3/5/08
@Juancho:
Agreed; that's in my first post. It has that almost reddish-brown tinge that a sure tip-off.
Plus, the shirt out in front, but not in back? A classic middle-aged man cheat for the ever-so-faint first sign of a spare tire.
I would imagine Suri's father is looking better and better to Katie all the time.
I mean Chris Klein, of course.
DexterRiley
CamilleR
Posted 8:25 AM 3/5/08
What is with the half-tucked in shirt?
CamilleR
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 9:17 AM 3/5/08
@WGARefugee: Oh, come on! You're teasing us!
Miss Anne Thrope
DexterRiley
Posted 9:31 AM 3/5/08
@WGARefugee:
We're waiting.
DexterRiley
WGARefugee
Posted 10:28 AM 3/5/08
Well, okay one more clue. In describing what he saw, the carpenter made, er alleged, an analogical reference to a movie Tom was in. This was several years ago. Ixnay to oremay ishday.
WGARefugee
LBJeffries
Posted 10:19 AM 3/5/08
@WGARefugee: I predict it's a secret chamber holding the divine relics of Scientology--the remains of Tom's libido, Jenna Elfman's career, and Kirstie Alley's metabolism.
Also, I just wrote Indy 5.
LBJeffries
miramesa
Posted 12:47 PM 3/5/08
@LBJeffries: Why no leather-bound Legend script?
+ Watch video
miramesa
yogini
Posted 1:49 AM 4/5/08
@WGARefugee:
Perhaps I haven't had enough caffine today, or perhaps Los Angeles has sucked my poor little brain dry, but this clue did not help!! More, please!
yogini
WGARefugee
Posted 8:36 AM 4/5/08
@yogini: I'd feel bad inside if I spilled any more beans in a public forum. I have a conscience like that little monster in John Hurt's stomach in the first Alien.
WGARefugee
TammyTones
Posted 9:00 AM 4/5/08
@miramesa: Seriously!
TammyTones
bonniegrrl
Posted 1:49 PM 4/5/08
@miramesa: I know! I want to see his script notes for "Legend!"
bonniegrrl
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Posted 5:09 AM 5/5/08
Well, I heard that Tom had a bunker built beneath his house. I'm not sure what the purpose is--preparation for an Apocalypse of some kind, I suppose.
NotReadyForPrimeTime
Admore
Posted 1:34 PM 6/5/08
@ WGA refugee - Is there a Devil Sex Room like in Eyes Wide Shut? Is there an ejector seat, or an indoor beach volleyball court for buff dudes to play a very hetero topless game? Is there a wheelchair? Or a bunch of latex masks? Lots of uniforms? What? Come on, what?
Also Dexter I was pretty much thinking Tom's had a very well executed light chemical peel. Overall lots of work, but with a very light touch.
Admore
bonniegrrl
Posted 9:12 AM 7/5/08
@miramesa: I did notice that he gives props to Legend in his newly redesigned site:
[www.tomcruise.com]
bonniegrrl