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Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering that the $3 million is being held .. Read more

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  Protesters invade red carpet at Italian film festival

  • 30 Oct 2010

  The red carpet premiere of Keira Knightley and Eva Mendes' new movie Last Night was called off at the Rome Film Festival in Italy after hundreds of workers gathered to protest against cuts to the film and TV industry. The actresses were forced to use a side entrance for the opening celebrations after approximately 2,000 demonstrators invaded the event on Thursday (28Oct10). Screenwriters, actors and directors carried banners and marched together against the government's decision to cut its art Read more

  

  Top 10 Tom Cruise

  • 09 Aug 2010

  Tom Cruise’s personal life may have come under fire in recent years but his career still continues to impress. Back in the 80s, the U.S. actor made a name for himself by flashing his pins in a shirt and sunglasses. He has since made the impossible possible, donned prosthetic hands to play an egotistical producer, with a penchant for rap music and ditched the Hollywood persona to play a hit-man. It was no mean feat, but we managed to skim down Cruise’s films to a succinct top 10...... Read more

  

  Tom Cruise: Losin’ It?

  • 03 Aug 2010

  The first image we see in Knight and Day is an over the shoulder shot as a man walks through an airport lounge. Even though he’s heading in the opposite direction, and so close to the camera we can barely see him, the audience immediately recognizes that this is Tom Cruise. To put it another way: Cruise’s back. Yes, Cruise is back. Eighteen months after Valkyrie, and four years since his last big hit, Mission Impossible III. The question is, does anyone care? In North America, the... Read more

  

  Hoffman eyes jazz career

  • 09 Mar 2009

  Dustin Hoffman is chasing an unfulfilled life ambition to become a jazz pianist. The Rain Man actor has starred in dozens of hit films in his thirty-year big-screen career - but he insists he would give up Hollywood in an instant to be an accomplished piano player. And so the star has begun taking lessons to help him achieve his dream. He says, "I promised myself that before I kicked the bucket I'd become a decent jazz player. The guy I'm practising with says he'll have me playing in a year. "I Read more

  

  Hartnett wins best newcomer for West End debut

  • 16 Feb 2009

  Josh Hartnett's West End debut has garnered him the respect of theatre fans - he picked up the award for best newcomer for his role in Rain Man at the Theatregoers' Choice Awards on Sunday (15Feb09). The Pearl Harbor star accepted his prize from Los Angeles for his portrayal of Charlie Babbitt, a role made famous by Tom Cruise in the 1988 film of the same name. And Hartnett insisted he was honoured to receive an award that had been voted for by theatregoers. He said via videolink, "Being on... Read more

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    Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering ...

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