Tom Cruise: 25 Years Of Movie Stardom

His couch-jumping antics and a few other risky businesses might have turned a lot of female admirers off, but with 25 years in the business, can anyone really doubt Tom Cruise's showbiz powers?

 

You'd seen him singing and dancing in his dress shirt and briefs in "Risky Business" or hanging on a cord while on an impossible mission. He even got you at hello in "Jerry Maguire." Admit it, you can recall at least one memorable scene or dialogue from most of his movies. So how, in a sudden turnaround, did he manage to turn his own fans against him?

 

Yeah, the couch-jumping incident at Oprah's was a bit too much (marrying Katie Holmes a few months later in a blown up fairy tale ceremony didn't help). And the anti-depressant drugs debate with Matt Lauer and fellow 80s star Brooke Shields was really over the top. But as Cruise explains almost three years later, "It was a moment, and it was real."

 

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