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slate.com - 12/23/2008

On the eve of Valkyrie, revisiting Tom Cruise in Risky Business. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine

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Tom Cruise. Illustration by Charlie Powell. A worry shadows the forthcoming Tom Cruise thriller Valkyrie . The worry is that, upon seeing Cruise done up in an eye patch and Nazi jackboots— trick or treat!— audiences will laugh . This is not a high bar for the world's biggest movie star. Cruise ...

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