I read this column on the NFL playoffs by Sports Guy (I just finished his book last night – SO GOOD!!!!) – and in the column he is describing his own writer’s block. How he just could not write this one column. His mind was a blank. He takes us through the process. And he ends up making this point about Mr. Cruise which I agree with COMPLETELY:
Desperate to clear my head, I hung out with my kid for the next 45 minutes. The kid always clears my head. Not this time. I couldn’t stop thinking about those stupid games. By 5, the kid fell asleep. Miraculously, “Cocktail” came on one of the Encore channels, giving me 110 minutes of obligatory procrastination with a sleeping baby. I mean, you can’t pass up “Cocktail.” Not under any circumstances. Especially when it’s running unedited.
Well, I finally realized something during the movie …
One of the prevailing themes of 2005 was that Tom Cruise turned into an insane person. I made that joke. You made that joke. Everyone made that joke. But when you watch “Cocktail” again — a movie that was released in 1988, by the way — it becomes abundantly clear that Cruise was bonkers way back then. Just watch the “Addicted For Love”/bottle-flipping scene again, it’s absolutely no different than his doing somersaults on Oprah’s sofa. In fact, his performance on “Oprah” was lifted right out of this movie. They’re the same guy.
Here’s the point: Cruise didn’t change … we changed. He’s always been crazy. He tried to tell us in “Cocktail,” we just never realized it. Now we know. And the same goes for Round 1 of the playoffs. It’s always been screwed up, it’s always been tough to pick four winners, but the biggest difference in 2006 is that there aren’t any crappy coaches or crummy QBs to make it easier. There’s no Anthony Wright at home, no Jake Plummer on the road, no Mike Sherman, no Mike Martz. Hence, there are no layups. We just have to work a little harder at figuring this out, that’s all. Just know that Round 1 has ALWAYS been crazy. Just like Tom Cruise.
“He tried to tell us in “Cocktail,” we just never realized it.”
hahahahaha I SO agree with this. He was ALWAYS nuts. Nothing changed this last year. He just was unprotected by his publicity machine, and he also is now OTVII – which makes $cientomogists take it to the next level. The LOUD and CRAZY evangelical level.
OTVII? Help.
hahaha Okay. Here is the cliff notes version.
There are different “levels” you need to get to in the cult – OTI, OTII, etc. Each level, of course, costs thousands of dollars in classes, etc. OTVII is a certain very high level – and it has been noticed that when people reach this level, it’s like they tip over into an abyss – the brainwashing becomes complete, the scam total – and it becomes an OBLIGATION to people at that level “share” the learnings of the “church” with others. Tom C. is at that level – which, along with firing his publicist, can possibly explain his insanity over the last year. He MUST “share”.
Dear God.
hahahahaha Exactly
Yup, I’ve been screaming this at people for the last year – he’s been crazy for a LONG time. He just doesn’t have a shark of a publicist keeping it from the rest of us and he’s too big of a self-centered egomaniac to realize the way he’s coming across. We are not an entirely unforgiving public, Tom. We don’t love you that much that you can be that big of an asswipe and expect us to still want to see your movies.
Last night I was playing Bookworm, and I got the word “glib” which normally wouldn’t even register on my radar, but now I kept saying “Glib! You’re so glib! Don’t be glib!”
Stoopid Tom.