Word: penn
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What does he have that separates him from the Brat Pack? He's not as lovely as Rob Lowe. He doesn't explode, on- or off-camera, as ripely as Sean Penn. "Tom is at a disadvantage," says Barry Levinson, his Rain Man director. "He's got a pretty face, so his abilities are underestimated. And he's not working a rebel image, which is associated with being a good actor." But he does have the image, in the films that made him famous, of an intense young man with a mission: the total workhorse, the ultimate party animal...
Some teen dreams become stars; a few become actors. In one early role, Cruise showed he had the capacity for both. In Taps (1981), where he was up against Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn, he played a military-school cadet who goes picturesquely bonkers and is killed by the National Guard. "It's beautiful, man! Beautiful!" he shouts as he sprays the quad with an orgasm of machine-gun fire. In his first significant film of the '80s, as in his last, Cruise was the gung-ho soldier boy, his body destroyed in the fantasy of combat...
Although it's just 28 days long, February sees a relentless onslaught of game after game after game, including the big three matches against Penn, Princeton, and Yale...
Clark lost her first-round match in a very close game to Belknap's twin sister, Mary Belknap from Princeton, 3-2, and then defeated Mary McGowan, Penn's number-one player, 3-0, in the feed-in consolation round before losing to Hope Mackay...
...Carril might close his paper and think about what he's going to say to his team at practice today. Maybe it'll go something like this, "Guys, we've got a lot of work to do before the Ivy season starts. We have to prepare for Penn, Dartmouth, Yale...(pause)...and Harvard...