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New York Post
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Risky Business' star Rebecca De Mornay praises ex Tom Cruise: ‘I'm really proud of him'
Rebecca De Mornay is still fond of Tom Cruise more than 40 years after appearing with him in 'Risky Business.' The actress, 65, praised her former co-star during an exclusive interview with Page Six published Saturday, July 19. 'I'm really proud of him,' De Mornay said while promoting her new 'Saint Claire' thriller. 'I'm really, really proud of him.' 10 Rebecca De Mornay during an exclusive interview with Page Six. Page Six 10 Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay in a promo short for 'Risky Business' in 1983. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection 'Risky Business,' which was both De Mornay and Cruise's breakout film, was released in 1983. The coming-of-age teen comedy sees high schooler Joel Goodsen (Cruise) fall for prostitute Lana (De Mornay) while his parents are away on vacation. After first meeting on the set of the classic movie in 1982, De Mornay and the 'Mission: Impossible' star dated in real life for nearly three years. 10 Rebecca De Mornay gushed about Tom Cruise and their time filming 'Risky Business' more than 40 years ago. Page Six De Mornay now likens Cruise, 63, to a 'major chord,' whereas she is a 'minor chord.' 'He's like, 'I am Top Gun and that's what America really wanted,' and so he's fulfilled it,' she explained. 'He is a brilliant, brilliant interpreter of what the zeitgeist is.' 'I'm really, really proud of knowing him from when we were in the suburbs of Chicago and knowing what he wanted and where it is now,' the actress added. 'We started this together, and look what he did with it.' 10 Rebecca De Mornay as prostitute Lana and Tom Cruise as high schooler Joel Goodsen in 'Risky Business.' ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection 10 Rebecca De Mornay as Lana and Tom Cruise as Joel Goodsen in 'Risky Business.' ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection 10 Tom Cruise as Joel Goodsen and Rebecca De Mornay as Lana in 'Risky Business.' ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection Following the success of 'Risky Business,' Cruise went on to star in not just in the blockbuster 'Mission: Impossible' and 'Top Gun' franchises but also hit films like 'A Few Good Men,' 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Eyes Wide Shut.' As for De Mornay, she has appeared in 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle' and 'The Slugger's Wife.' 'Saint Claire,' the actress' latest movie that also stars Bella Thorne and Ryan Phillippe, is perhaps De Mornay's grittiest project yet. 10 Rebecca De Mornay at the 51st Annual Saturn Awards at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport on February 4, 2024, in Burbank, California. Variety via Getty Images 10 Tom Cruise at the global premiere of 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' in Leicester Square on May 15, 2025, in London, England. Dave Benett/WireImage Thorne portrays a serial killer who murders misbehaving men, and De Mornay admitted that the script impressed her. 'It's very rare that I read scripts about a female serial killer who's obsessed with Joan of Arc, which I thought was just brilliant,' she told Page Six. 'I just wanted to be a support to this project.' Meanwhile, De Mornay's praise for Cruise comes amid rumors that the 'Cocktail' actor is dating Hollywood starlet Ana de Armas. 10 Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas arriving in London together on April 15, 2025. BACKGRID 10 The 'Knives Out' starlet and Tom Cruise enjoying time together on a yacht in Menorca, Spain. SIBOURMAN / BACKGRID The pair first sparked romance rumors in February, and they were most recently spotted enjoying time together on a yacht in Menorca, Spain. However, insiders close to the 37-year-old 'Knives Out' actress have insisted that Armas is single and simply preparing for a project she and Cruise are working on together. 'Tom is crazy hardworking, and she's very excited to work with him,' a source told People on July 18. 'She calls it an opportunity of a lifetime.' 'Tom is an incredible mentor to Ana,' they added. 'She has nothing but amazing things to say about him.'
Washington Post
04-07-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Five financial lies people should stop telling themselves
On occasion, I'll revisit and update past columns with the most universal financial advice. This column originally ran on Dec. 26, 2010. You don't mean to, but you lie about your money habits. Me: 'Do you eat out a lot?' You: 'Not really.' If I suspect this isn't true because the revolving credit-card debt or lack of savings says otherwise, I channel Jack Nicholson in 'A Few Good Men' when he bellowed: 'You can't handle the truth.'
Digital Trends
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Here's your chance to stream Independence Day this weekend for free. Find out how
Happy Fourth of July! We hope the long weekend is full of delightful weather, great food, and exciting movies. Dinosaurs have infiltrated the box office thanks to Jurassic World Rebirth. Race cars are also driving at breakneck speeds in F1. When you need a break from the blistering heat, stream a free movie on a FAST service. That is not a typo. FAST services cost zero dollars. One of our recommended movies is aptly titled Independence Day. Read about the rest of our selections below. Recommended Videos We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+. A Few Good Men (1992) A Few Good Men isn't a Fourth of July movie. However, it is a movie involving the military and its values of honor, integrity, and loyalty. Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a JAG lawyer known for cutting deals and avoiding trial. Kaffee wants to seek a plea bargain for his latest case — two Marines charged with murdering another soldier at Guantanamo Bay. However, the two Marines and his partner, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), convince Kaffee to take it to trial. The investigation leads Kaffee to believe that the Marines followed the orders of a commanding officer. Proving their innoncence will be tough sledding, but Kafee and Galloway will take their chances. The courtroom scenes are more riveting than most action movies. The final battle between Cruise and Jack Nicholson is why we go to the movies. Hot take: Cruise, not Nicholson, is the one who wins the scene. Stream A Few Good Men on Pluto TV. Jurassic World (2015) The Jurassic Park franchise is a quintessential summer blockbuster. Action, adventure, and dinosaurs — what more could an audience want? With Jurassic World Rebirth in theaters, revisit the movie that kicked off the second trilogy a decade ago, Jurassic World. It may have taken a few tries, but John Hammond's dream of a dinosaur theme park has come true in Jurassic World. The humans couldn't take their win and go on with their day. No, they had to mess around and create a transgenic dinosaur bigger and nastier than a T-rex. The Indominus rex eventually escapes captivity and transfers power over the island back to the dinosaurs. Life found a way, and if the remaining humans want to survive, they must find a way off the island. Stream Jurassic World on Tubi. Independence Day (1996) Welcome to Earth. Independence Day is Roland Emmerich's alien invasion saga that revitalized the disaster movie. After an extraterrestrial ship arrives in Earth's atmosphere, panic sets in, as humanity questions if this is the end. The aliens do not come in peace, destroying several major cities and killing millions. On the verge of extinction, a select group of survivors — including President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman), David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum), and Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) — band together and prepare for humanity's last stand. Try staying calm during Whitmore's Fourth of July speech. It's impossible. Today, we celebrate Independence Day! Stream Independence Day on Tubi.
Yahoo
07-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
EDITORIAL: Rochester airport has an enviable safety record
Jun. 7—Most readers of this editorial will be familiar with the 1992 blockbuster film "A Few Good Men," starring Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and Jack Nicholson. (If you can't believe it's been 32 years since that movie hit the big screen, then you can't handle the truth.) Anyway, the film's male-centric title actually refers to a mid-'80s military recruiting campaign, in which the U.S. Marines Corps told the world, "We're looking for a few good men." Perhaps the Federal Aviation Administration should reboot and update that ad campaign. Our nation's air traffic control system is looking for good people — and it needs more than just a few. Nationwide, the pool of air traffic controllers system is short by about 3,500. And, based on current data from the FAA and staffing targets from something called the Collaborative Resource Workgroup (CRWG), the Rochester International Airport (RST) is one of just six airports nationwide that has less than 50% of needed controllers on staff. (The goal for Rochester is 23, and currently RST has 11.) Is that ideal? Of course not. But should these numbers concern people who fly into and out of RST? Not really. We can't recall any reported near-misses at RST, let alone any actual collisions involving planes. Yes, a pilot walked away from a single-engine plane crash earlier this year, but the accident had nothing to do with air traffic control. The last fatality at RST happened in 1985, when three people died during a training flight on a Learjet. Again, this was not due to a problem or mistake in the control tower. While we won't claim to have examined the records of every airport in the nation, we feel quite confident in saying that RST has an enviable safety record. We don't hesitate to use it or to have friends and family do so. And it's not as if RST, city leaders, Mayo Clinic or any other local governing body is somehow responsible for any staffing problems at the airport. Controllers are trained and assigned by the FAA and its operational arm, the Air Traffic Organization, which considers staffing levels at airports across the nation as it strives to keep the skies safe. The pool of available talent is assigned where it is most needed, and right now, RST doesn't appear to be anywhere near a crisis. We don't mean to downplay the very real shortage of controllers across the nation, but there does appear to be at least a slight disconnect between the current staffing levels and staffing goals that were set with the assistance of the air traffic controllers' union. In a perfect world, those targets would be achieved, but right now they appear unrealistic. We suspect that controllers at many smaller airports, including RST, would be thrilled if their airport reached 75% of the staffing goal. Hitting even that less-ambitious mark won't be easy, because air traffic control is a tough field to enter. To be considered as a potential candidate, one must be a U.S. citizen less than 31 years old with essentially perfect hearing, vision and blood pressure. You'll face a battery of physical and psychological tests, and even if you clear those hurdles and are admitted to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, there's no guarantee you'll complete the training. It's a demanding program, and the failure/dropout rate ranges from 30-50%. Those who graduate will enter one of the most stressful, thankless occupations in the world. Few professions require perfection on a daily basis, but such is the life of an air-traffic controller. There is no margin for error, no room for lapses in concentration. Some liken the job to a souped-up, insanely difficult remake of the classic video game Tetris — but in three dimensions, with human lives at stake with every move. The reward? Salaries start around $60K. The average annual pay nationwide is about $100K, with top earners reaching $160K. Retirement is mandated at age 56, but many controllers leave the profession years before that date due to burnout and/or health concerns. Given all that, we're surprised the staffing situation in airport towers isn't much, much worse. And here's the truth that everyone needs to grasp: The fix isn't simply to hire more controllers, or even to pay them more. The recent, much-talked-about breakdowns at Newark Liberty International Airport should serve as a warning that the entire air travel system is beginning to crack under the strain of using obsolete, 40-year-old infrastructure to monitor and guide nearly 17 million flights in American airspace every year. The flight delays and cancellations at Newark didn't originate with staffing shortages in the traffic-control tower; rather, they were due to hardware failures that, without warning, left controllers working blind and unable to communicate with pilots. Much to their credit, these controllers somehow managed to avoid disaster in the skies and on the runways. Not surprisingly, some employees took trauma leave after these incidents — which, of course, only added to bottlenecks on Newark's runways. What happened in Newark will happen elsewhere. It's only a matter of time. The latest cost estimate to modernize the national air-traffic control system is about $30 billion, and waiting won't bring the price down. Congress should authorize this spending ASAP, even if that means adding a new federal fee to the price of every domestic ticket sold in the U.S. With more than 800 million domestic passengers flying every year, an add-on of just $2 per seat would raise $16 billion in the next decade. We're already paying at least $35 to check a bag and $14 for a fast-food "value meal" as we wait for our flights, so we believe most fliers wouldn't balk at the thought of spending an extra $2 to ensure that the dedicated, highly trained people working in the tower aren't using technology that, by today's standards, is roughly equivalent to a corkboard and push pins.
Courier-Mail
06-06-2025
- General
- Courier-Mail
Ignoring scandals at elite schools does not serve students
Don't miss out on the headlines from Kylie Lang. Followed categories will be added to My News. If you've allowed your school to define you – and cause you to ignore or dismiss issues that might taint its public image – try stopping. Immovable pride – in any institution just because you're part of it – is a dangerous thing. All too often, 'old boys' and 'old girls' of private schools, most notably, will feel aggrieved and personally attacked when an alarming issue makes headlines. It's as if their own identity has been targeted and found wanting – and it can explain why they close ranks and, like a scene out of the film A Few Good Men, 'can't handle the truth'. For some people in these tight-knit fan clubs, such as alumni associations, the first instinct is to ask who blabbed. I've written countless articles over many years about schools – independent, religious and state – and that those with strong leadership do best, taking swift and meaningful action. Shouldn't the objective be constant improvement through learning from mistakes and unfortunate incidents – and not pretending they didn't exist? Ridiculous, really, for anyone to have their sense of self enmeshed in a school – because like first names, they are chosen by someone else, specifically parents. If I had been able to name myself, I wouldn't have been Kylie. I rather like Valentina. Had I been in charge of deciding on my schooling, I wouldn't have left my first one to attend another. I am grateful my parents sacrificed, including holding down several jobs, to give me a private education from years 1 to 12 – but it was their decision, not mine. Nudgee College in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard So I do have to call out this obsession with old school ties. How is it logical to attend an institution for a few years of your life then allow it to define the rest of your life? And why do people, particularly in Brisbane, persist in asking where you went to school, and decades after you left, as if your answer determines if you're an acceptable individual to know? Snobbery or insecurity, perhaps, but it's a bit silly, not to mention limiting. This week I interviewed an alumnus of Brisbane Boys' College who told other old boys to 'stop closing ranks and grow a backbone'. This followed two examples of poor behaviour – BBC boys sharing allegedly serious and potentially illegal nude content on social media, and trashing an Airbnb house during an out-of-control party. Both sparked police investigations. Some old boys shrugged off the incidents as 'boys will be boys' and maintained that BBC always would be a great school. Last week a parent alerted me to a 'disgusting' video made and shared on social media by St Joseph's Nudgee College boys about St Rita's girls. Nudgee said 'the behaviour did not meet the standards expected at this college' and was investigating. An appropriate response. Yet some parents like to vent. A Nudgee mum emailed, asking if we 'stop to consider the broader impact these stories have'. 'My son loves his school and wears his uniform with pride,' she continued. 'How unfair it is for his pride to be undermined by criticism based on the actions of a few.' Hmmm. Pride, in any school, is to be earned and not automatically present because of its perceived pedigree – or the significant financial price parents pay for their kids to belong. The broader impact is why it matters. I like how a parent in a general Brisbane schools chat group put it when another questioned why the story was newsworthy: 'Because silence protects the wrong people. 'Parents, schools and the public need to be informed so we can guide our children, hold institutions accountable and create a culture of respect – not secrecy. 'If girls from St Rita's or any other school are affected, their experiences matter. 'Brushing it aside minimises the harm and perpetuates a dangerous silence. 'We must talk about it – loudly, honestly and without shame.' Principals and teachers have to deal with problems that didn't exist when I was a kid – with social media enemy number one. But it's time past students and current parents wearing rose-coloured glasses ditch them in favour of perspective. Schools are complex entities and will never be perfect. They may shape a person, but they should not define them. Kylie Lang is associate editor of The Courier-Mail LOVE Women who drink coffee (in moderation) are more likely to age well, maintaining physical, mental and cognitive health into their 70s and beyond. Can't see this study translating into cheaper prices though. LOATHE A tone-deaf decision by Queensland's Court of Appeal that juvenile criminals who invade homes and attack residents with knives in heinous acts should not have convictions recorded against them. It apparently aids their rehabilitation.
