Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cruise, 27, is the movies' biggest star, with nothing but promise on the horizon. Just ask two masters he has apprenticed with: Dustin Hoffman, the decade's most lauded actor, and Paul Newman, the last golden exemplar of Hollywood star quality. "There's no sense of a crest in Tom," says Hoffman, who won an Oscar as Cruise's brother in Rain Man. "His talent is young, his body is young, his spirit is young. He's a Christmas tree -- he's lit from head to toe." Newman, who played Cruise's mentor in The Color of Money, considers...
...Born on the Fourth of July, Cruise had no Hoffman to play actor's Ping- Pong with. In front of the camera, he was on his own. Behind it, he would be led by two Viet Nam vets, Stone and Kovic. "I chose Tom," Stone says, % "because he was the closest to Ron Kovic in spirit. I sensed that they came from the same working-class Catholic background and had a similarly troubled family history. They certainly had the same drive, the same hunger to achieve, to be the best, to prove something. Like Ron too, Tom is wound real...
...danced like a dynamo in Risky Business, swaggered through the sky in Top Gun and held his own against Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Cruise is Hollywood's biggest attraction, and he is about to be acclaimed one of its best actors. In Born on the Fourth of July, he displays rage and range as Viet Nam veteran Ron Kovic. For the engaging, intense young star, life has never been sweeter...
News Editor for This Issue: Colin F. Boyle '90 Night Editors: Ross G. Forman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Philip P. Pan '93 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Melanie R. Wright '91 Editorial Editor: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editors: Andrew M. Fine '91 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Business Editors: Michael L. Gordon '91 Michael S. Harwayne '91 Daniel J. Lehman '92 Copy Editor: Mark N. Templeton...
News Editor for This Issue: Susan B. Glasser '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Colin F. Boyle '90 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Forman '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editor: Susan B. Glasser '90 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Sports Editors: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Michael R. Grunwald '91 Photo Editor: Leor S. Bachar '91 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwaine '91 Copy Editor: Tericke D. Blanchard...