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Pile On Tom Cruise Week Continues As Mary Harron Reveals He Served As American Psycho Inspiration
Pile On Tom Cruise Week Continues As Mary Harron Reveals He Served As American Psycho Inspiration
Despite the fact that Tom Cruise hasn't jumped on a single couch or donned a Nazi eye patch all year long, it seems that people still can't resist the urge to take potshots at the world's smiliest movie star. For reasons that we haven't quite been able to figure out, two wholly unrelated people ...
Christian Bale’s Inspiration for ‘American Psycho’: Tom Cruise
Christian Bale’s Inspiration for ‘American Psycho’: Tom Cruise
blackbookmag.com — Christian Bale’s Inspiration for ‘American Psycho’: Tom Cruise (more) Christian Bale’s Inspiration for ‘American Psycho’: Tom ...
Woo and Cruise to Reunite for  Flying Tigers ?
Woo and Cruise to Reunite for Flying Tigers ?
comingsoon.net — A brief mention of John Woo's upcoming project Flying Tigers in a Variety story about New Regency's... future productions mentions that actor Tom Cruise is attached to star in the project written by Christopher McQuarrie, the co-writer of Cruise's ... (more) Woo and Cruise to Reunite for Flying Tigers ?
American Psycho Cruise
American Psycho Cruise
joblo.com — Patrick Bateman is well beyond disturbed. Is it more disturbing however that the inspiration for the character... came from Tom Cruise? AMERICAN PSYCHO director Mary Harron did an interview with BlackBook to talk about current projects, as well as ... (more) American Psycho Cruise
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Cruise missiles: Hollywood bashes L'il Tommy
Mad About Movies — ... on the set of "Risky Business." Then comes Mary Harron, who reveals that she and Christian Bale used Cruise and his oddball energy as the inspiration for the Patrick Bateman character in their film of "American Psycho." I've always considered Cruise somewhat unfairly maligned as an actor, but on each of the several occasions on which I've met him -- well before he jumped Oprah's couch -- I came away feeling like I'd met a borderline madman. At one press event I attended, he introduced himself by name one at a time to each of six or so journalists seated at single a table ...

Eerie: Tom Cruise was Christian Bale’s Inspiration for Patrick Bateman
/Film — ... But, you know, phony “nothingness” in a good way. As Mark Graham at Vulture adds, this slight at Cruise arrives on the heels of another gossipy diss this week by Bronson Pinchot, who fired a public shot at Cruise’s “strange” behavior on the set of Risky Business. Perhaps what is most fun about this Harron’s admission is that Mad Men recently conjured the similarity by casting actor Miles Fisher as an overly charming pot dealer who visits the ...

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