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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stone, who planned the movie for more than a decade, was ready to do battle too. "Tom has the classical facial structure of an athlete, a baseball player," he says. "He's a kid off a Wheaties box. I wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Here, the disasters of war are at home. The Bronx veterans' hospital where Ron is sent to recuperate is an open sewer teeming with rats, drugs and whores. Back in Massapequa, Ron is now the flinching veteran used as a prop for patriotism, and family life is a ceaseless, sickening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Whereas Platoon had news value, Born on the Fourth of July tells a familiar story; it wants to teach us what we already know. The movie's uniqueness is in its tone. Stone plays director as if he were at a cathedral organ with all the stops out. Each scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

In 1975 the Mapother family faced a plethora of problems. The parents divorced, and Mary Lee moved her children to Louisville. Tom missed his dad, but says, "My father was not a guy to go out and hit baseballs to me. It was my mother who took me to my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

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