Word: home
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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 debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...
...twelve. Cruise learned to adapt. "I'd assume the role of what I thought kids were, what I thought was In. Sports was one way of fitting in. But I was never Mr. All-Star Athlete. It was something that got me out, as opposed to staying home and reading a book. Which I didn't understand anyway...
...Mapother home was now largely a tight sorority in which Tom served as father, brother and friend. "Having grown up with women, I trust and believe them more than men," he says. "I love women. I love the way they smell." Today Cruise is just as close to Mary Lee and his sisters, who are frequent visitors to his sets. This month in Charlotte, when Lee Anne's two-year-old was injured in a hotel door, Tom rushed to the rescue, stayed with the child as the doctors stitched the wound, jollying him in recovery, being a great uncle...
They do well separately and do good together. Cruise and Rogers serve on the board of the Earth Communications Office, an entertainment-industr y organization that promotes environmental causes. The two visited a Brazilian rain forest this year. At home they limit the water pressure in their sinks and toilets. On a cable-TV cartoon series, Captain Planet, Cruise lends his voice to ecologically sound Captain Planet. Says Bonnie Reiss of ECO: "Isn't this guy too good to be true? He loves animals, children, people. And he's gorgeous, O.K.? I mean, please...
...either case, Rodriguez Gacha's much told tale of rags to riches ended in gore. Born in Pacho, in central Colombia, the future kingpin ran away from home at ten to embark on a life of street crime. Eventually he was tapped by the then reigning force in Colombia's underworld, the Emerald mob, to serve as bodyguard to its godfather, Gilberto Molina. Recently Rodriguez Gacha tried to elbow Molina out of the profession; that failed, and Rodriguez Gacha had his former employer killed last February...