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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the third of July, 1962, the third child of Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters: Lee Anne, 30; Cass, 26; and Marian, 28. Dad had to follow the work, and the family followed Dad; young Tommy attended a dozen schools before he was twelve. Cruise learned to adapt. "I'd assume the role of what I thought kids were, what I thought was In. Sports was one way of fitting in. But I was never Mr. All-Star Athlete. It was something that...
...Louisville, Mary Lee rallied the children. As Lee Anne recalls, her mother said, "O.K., things have changed. This is the new game plan." With no child support available, Mary Lee juggled three jobs, and the children earned money too -- especially Tom, then twelve. "All of a sudden, I was the guy," he says. "I grew very protective of my family." Cruise remembers the first Christmas without his father: "There wasn't any money for presents. So we picked names out of a hat and did something special for that person. You would find a flower on your...
...love the way they smell." Today Cruise is just as close to Mary Lee and his sisters, who are frequent visitors to his sets. This month in Charlotte, when Lee Anne's two-year-old was injured in a hotel door, Tom rushed to the rescue, stayed with the child as the doctors stitched the wound, jollying him in recovery, being a great uncle -- perhaps because Cruise missed having a great...
...being a Jew. But Mamet has a fresher approach to the politics of image and empty rhetoric. He equates Ronald Reagan's feeble explanations of the Iran arms-for-hostages deal with the answers of parents whose fogginess hides an implied threat: "If you want to remain a child, if you want to enjoy the privilege of life without fear, do not judge...
...dead, including a child, on the streets," he said. Other Yugoslav travelers said soldiers were seen three-deep at main intersections in Timisoara on Sunday. The official Hungarian news agency MTI quoted a Czechoslovak, not identified, as saying tanks were in the streets...