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The Advocate 2 Apr 1996

#obviously love bruce but can i also shoutout to how cool it is to be able to actually read the magazine/interview in full #very interesting little 90s time capsule #bruce springsteen

marisatomay

Happy Pride to these pictures of Steve Rubell, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Tom Cruise, Maripol, and Martin Burgoyne in a limo at Madonna and Sean Penn’s wedding in 1985

marisatomay

Madonna and Sean Penn, cooking up who of their friends who could sit with the girls and the gays at their wedding: Yeah let’s grab Tom

#oh tom cruise doing poppers in the back of a limousine with keith haring you will always be famous

pearlpoet

wikipedia Tell me about this man's personal life

#immediately scrolls down to the ‘sexuality’ subheading

top gun is great because tony scott was like “i want to make a movie about sunsets” and the us navy was like “No you’re gonna make recruitment propanganda for the navy” and val kilmer was like “the studio has tricked me, juilliard trained val kilmer, into being here, so i’m going to portray a closeted homosexual” and tom cruise was like “i’m in a ray bans commercial!”

twiceturned

All this, but also “my agent has blackmailed me, Julliard-trained Val Kilmer, into taking this role, which somehow I’ve been offered after giving the worst audition of my life, absolutely tanking it on purpose, so I’m…” etc

I mean, the hilarity of both Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer not wanting to do Top Gun vs what it has morphed into in their careers. It wasn’t until recently that I heard Bruckheimer‘s story of how Cruise was on the fence about the role, so they arranged for him to take a ride with the Blue Angels. And the Blues were like “We are going to make this pretty boy actor soooo sick, he will never go near a plane again” and then when they were back on the ground after Tom Cruise was like “That. Was. AWESOME!” and it was maybe the moment he became Tom Cruise Absolute Madman

marisatomay

it also should be known that tom cruise showed up to be flown by the blue angels fresh off the set of LEGEND (1985 dir. ridley scott) where he played a wood sprite(?), had long hair, looked even twinkier than he did in top gun, and spent the whole movie completely covered in glitter. so when the reagan era pilots who were tasked with flying the pretty boy actor to convince him to represent them in a movie all immediately decided That Twink Needs Obliterating it’s important to know that they were looking homophobically at a long haired, glittery, 22 year old twink that actually liked being obliterated. go figure.

marisatomay

Not to come back to this over a year later but. He looked like this.