Word: hollywoodism
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Organized crime, of course, lives on: Russians, Chinese, South Americans--embattled but not yet as systemically crushed as the Italian-American Mafia, nor as well discovered by Hollywood. How will we know when they're finished? First they'll get their own movies and TV shows. Then they'll get their own John Gotti. And trust me, we'll hear all about it then...
...Tell people in Hollywood that you're interviewing Tom Cruise, and you'll get two responses. One is, 'He's the nicest guy in the world.' The other is, 'Is he gay?' Interviewing him last week, the first thing I learned is that he likes to know whom he's dealing with. I was riding in the passenger seat of his Porsche, when he suddenly said, 'You speak Russian, don't you? Someone told me that.' The information was correct. Maybe it was a message (I'm watching; don't try any funny business), or maybe he's just...
...laugh, and you like him for it. And no, I don't think he's gay. Not just because I've been gay for all of my 36 years and have a pretty good gaydar. The real giveaway is the baseball cap he wears backward. Any gay man in Hollywood knows that that look is definitely over...
...avoid himself. On the trip from Fox Studios to downtown Hollywood, he is driving straight toward an enormous billboard for Minority Report, his dark and timely new movie directed by Steven Spielberg, opening this week. Stuck in traffic, he gazes up at his famous profile and laughs. "The kids always go, 'There's Dad!'" he says. "I remember seeing a Risky Business billboard on Sunset. That was pretty exciting...
...production company with the Mission: Impossible action movies (a third, to be directed by David Fincher, is in development), he has stretched himself as an actor and received Oscar nominations for riskier roles in Jerry Maguire and Magnolia. Cruise is famously professional and polite, on time and always prepared, Hollywood's eagle scout. His not-so-secret craving is for control, starting with himself but not ending there. For one crucial scene in Minority Report, Cruise was required to submerge himself in a bathtub, then emit a solitary air bubble from one nostril. "Don't worry...