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Tom Cruise's Existential Need for Speed
On July 3rd, Tom Cruise will be sixty years old. The fact that he does not look it, at all, even in IMAX closeups so tight you can study the grain of his tooth enamel, adds a note of cognitive dissonance to "Top Gun: Maverick," the long-aborning sequel in which he's called back to mentor a squad of younger stick-jockeys who address him as Pops and Old-Timer until he wins their respect in the air. Even for a physical performer like Cruise, sixty is no longer an expiration date. Mick Jagger blew by that milestone in 2003, as did Sylvester Stallone in 2006, and, thanks presumably to healthy habits and/or medical technology dreamt of only by science fiction, they're both still out there, doing a version of the kind of thing they've always done. But the level of performance expected of a Rolling Stone or an Expendable is one thing, and the work that Tom Cruise appears to demand of himself is something else entirely.
Check out this collection of 14,000 'Jerry Maguire' VHS tapes
Jerry Maguire, the movie that just won't go away, will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary (congratulations on 20 meh years, Jerry Maguire). Video collective Everything is Terrible decided to commemorate the occasion by building a video store made entirely of Jerry Maguire tapes -- over 14,000 of them, to be exact. When filming a'Star Wars' movie went kind of NSFW The store will be open to the public on Jan. 13 at the iam8bit Gallery in Los Angeles, and will close just two short weeks later, on Jan. 29. The collective decided to create a video store since VHS tapes were the movie's primary home viewing medium back in 1996. After issuing a call for donations, tapes poured in.