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Peter Bradshaw: Tom Cruise is a dancing scream
Film | guardian.co.uk — Tom Cruise's fantastic cameo in the Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder has re-awakened my never-too-dormant fan worship of the great man. He plays Les Grossman, a horrific, fat, bald movie mogul with hairy forearms to match Hellboy's. It's one for the "Mr Hyde" section of this great actor's CV - by which I mean his roles in Magnolia (1999), Collateral (2004) and also, slightly lower in octane, Interview With The Vampire (1994) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Les has to preside over a catastrophically over-budget Vietnam movie starring Stiller's fading action star Tugg Speedman, who is currently imprisoned for ransom in the jungle by a Laotian drug gang, whom ...

Peter Bradshaw: Tom Cruise is a dancing scream
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — Tom Cruise's fantastic cameo in the Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder has re-awakened my never-too-dormant fan worship of the great man. He plays Les Grossman, a horrific, fat, bald movie mogul with hairy forearms to match Hellboy's. It's one for the "Mr Hyde" section of this great actor's CV - by which I mean his roles in Magnolia (1999), Collateral (2004) and also, slightly lower in octane, Interview With The Vampire (1994) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Les has to preside over a catastrophically over-budget Vietnam movie starring Stiller's fading action star Tugg Speedman, who is currently imprisoned for ransom in the jungle by a Laotian drug gang, whom ...