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...What It's Been Good For In the discussion with Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and TIME's Richard Corliss, Tom Cruise said, "Wars never solved anything" [Nov. 12]. Such a shockingly wrongheaded statement makes one wonder why anyone would want to hear his opinion on anything. One war should be enough in itself to refute his statement: the American Revolutionary War. It took years of fighting and the deprivation of American troops to defeat King George III and his minions. Negotiations could not have persuaded the English government to give up its colonies. In addition, the efforts needed...
...picture is worth a thousand words, and so it was in the photograph of Cruise, Streep and Redford. Cruise's cocky smile and arms thrown chummily around their shoulders said it all. Cruise looks like he's thinking, Hey, if TIME thinks I belong in their presence, maybe the public at large will also buy it. Dream on! Maarten Reuchlin, Rio De Janeiro
...Iraq is, compared with past conflicts, relatively small--a niche market, if you will, like the audience that has paid to see Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (with Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron) or Gavin Hood's Rendition (with Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep). The first movie, about a man's search for his soldier son killed after returning from Iraq, was gripping, suspenseful, poignant. Rendition, detailing the torture of an Egyptian American under U.S. auspices, sank under the burden of its plot contrivances. But quality, or lack of it, was irrelevant to audiences. They...
...Lions for Lambs, Hollywood brought its heaviest star artillery yet to a film about the Iraq mess. Tom Cruise, Streep and Robert Redford (he also directed) were the big guns in a civics lesson that blamed politicians, the media and the public. By doing wrong or doing nothing, we failed our troops, our country and our better selves. Cruise's first film for his United Artists proved a mission: impossible. It grossed a measly $6.7 million its opening weekend...
...following in the footsteps of either one. The first story line begins in Washington D.C. Harvard graduate and U.S. Senator Jasper Irving, played by Tom Cruise, reveals the government’s new strategy for the war in the Middle East to ambitious journalist Janine Roth, played by Meryl Streep. The plan, implemented as the Senator discloses the information to Roth, impacts the lives of two recently-graduated soldiers: Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña) and Arian Finch (Derek Luke), who are under active duty in the front lines of the War on Terror. Their trials constitute the second storyline...