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...recent interview,Days of Thunder producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer(Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop I and II, Top Gun) swore that they had balked at the prospect of making a sequel to their fabulously successful Top Gun. Well, they lied...
...Thunder, quite simply, is Top Gun II, the continuing adventures of Tom Cruise and his ongoing relationship with fast motorized vehicles. Once more, the entire cast is back: the same cocksure motorcycle-riding Cruise, the patented Simpson/Bruckheimer ethos, the guitarladen soundtrack, and the same formula-ridden script...
Amid the hype surrounding the forthcoming Tom Cruise $60 million race-car epic Days of Thunder is the widely reported claim that the film left Hollywood preview audiences gaga with delight. In fact, some early responses were so grumbly or apathetic that the producers decided to take the star and his car back to the speedway at Daytona to reshoot the ending. Two more racing shots were added. Such tinkering with big-ticket productions is not so unusual in these days of compulsive market research, but the timing for this one was unusual: the new ending was filmed just three...
Aside from the physical problem of getting the memoirs out of the country, there was a moral consideration. It was no longer 1958, but it wasn't yet 1988 either. Only ten years before, Boris Pasternak had drawn thunder and lightning down upon himself by giving his manuscript to an Italian publisher...
...will last, and how he has survived with so many things going so wrong. Those questions, however, were far from his thinking. He was the man at the eye of the storm, supremely confident that he will still be working his will and wit on the world when the thunder and gale- force winds are spent...