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Cincinnati seminary sent Tom Cruise packing

Before he got into showbiz and Scientology, Tom Cruise attended a Roman Catholic seminary in Cincinnati — and was asked to leave for stealing booze, according to the Daily News .

Cruise, then known as Tommy Mapother, attended St. Francis Seminary for two years in the early 1980s. The future actor was sincere about becoming a priest, according to Shane Dempler, a close seminary pal.

Seminary officials have said Cruise chose to leave the school when his family relocated from Louisville, Ky., to New Jersey, but Dempler recalls the situation differently.

One night, he said, he joined Cruise in stealing liquor from their Franciscan fathers. Dempler tossed bottles out a window to Cruise, who waited below.

"Most broke, but we managed to get a couple and hide them in the nearby woods," Dempler said. "The priests didn’t realize until some of the other boys found out about our plan and snuck into the woods and got drunk. They were caught staggering down the road .?. ?. and forced to confess. The school wrote a letter to our parents saying they liked us but would prefer if we didn’t return. So we weren’t kicked out — just preferred not to go."

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Tom Cruise Was Almost a Catholic Priest, Until He Got Kicked Out of Seminary

He could have been fighting real bad guys instead of pretending to fight them in movies!

Tom Cruise is a super famous movie star ( Mission Impossible , Top Gun , et al.), recognizable around the world. He’s also one of the most visible advocates for Scientology .

But his life almost turned out very differently: as a young man, he was a devout Catholic, attended a Catholic seminary, and was on track to become a priest –  until he got kicked out.

Born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in New York, Cruise’s family was Catholic, but his father was abusive. In elementary school his family moved to Canada for his father’s work, but in middle school his mother left his abusive father and took Cruise and his three sisters back to the United States.

As a teenager, he met Fr. Ric Schneider, who persuaded him to enter St. Francis Seminary School in Cincinnati, OH.

“Tom was instantly hooked,” the priest later said . And though the priest said he thought Cruise was lured by the chance at a free education, one of Cruise’s best friends at the time, Shane Dempler, says Cruise was serious about the priesthood.

“He had a very strong Catholic faith,” Dempler recalls . “We went to Mass, spent time in the chapel and enjoyed hearing stories from the priests. We thought the priests had a great lifestyle and we were really interested in priesthood.”

They almost didn’t let Cruise in. The school had an IQ cut-off of 110, and he got exactly that score on their test. Though Cruise never did well in school, he excelled at sports and joined their drama club.

But then it all came to an end. Cruise and Dempler, Dempler says, started to break the rules. For one, they would regularly sneak out and smoke cigarettes.

But what really got them in trouble was much bigger: Dempler and Cruise decided to steal some liquor from the private rooms of the Franciscans. Dempler snuck into the room, found the liquor, and tossed several bottles out the window to Cruise down below. Most of the bottles broke, but they managed to secure a few. Word spread among the other seminarians, and soon a big group of them were in the woods drinking the hard liquor. A few of them were later found drunk by the Franciscans, and they confessed where they had gotten the liquor.

“The school wrote a letter to our parents saying they liked us both, but would prefer if we didn’t return,” Dempler explains . “So we weren’t kicked out, just preferred not to go.”

So Cruise left seminary, and with it any plans to become a priest. He decided to try his hand at acting instead, and 5 years later, just before turning 20, he got his breakout role in the movie Taps . Soon after that came Risky Business , then Top Gun , and the rest is cinematic history.

Unfortunately, he didn’t keep his once-devout Catholic faith in the process. After hitting it big, his first (of unfortunately several) wives introduced him to Scientology – and he fully embraced it . Since the early 1990s, he has been deeply involved, raising huge sums of money for the organization and publicly advocating for it.

Many people who were once devout Catholics can find that they can’t really ever get away from it. So who knows if he may ever return.

So say a prayer for Tom Cruise!

[See also:  The Miracle that Led “Obi-Wan Kenobi” to Convert to Catholicism ]

[See also:  Jim Caviezel’s Stunning Testimony from Playing Jesus in “The Passion” ]

Tom Cruise follows through on promise to Ohio State University Marching Band

• Updated: May. 17, 2022, 4:33 p.m. |
• Published: May. 17, 2022, 3:54 p.m.

A view of the red carpet appears at the world premiere of "Top Gun: Maverick" on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at the USS Midway in San Diego. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

• Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Maverick came through.

Following up on a promise he made to the Ohio State University Marching Band in December, Tom Cruise (or Cruise’s people, it’s not likely he made the call to reserve the building) set up a screening of the new Top Gun sequel to reward TBDBITL for its Top Gun-themed halftime show last season.

“Top Gun: Maverick” is scheduled to be released on May 27, but members of the marching band can attend a screening on Friday at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Ohio State’s campus at 7 p.m. All the members of last year’s marching band were invited, and according to Ohio State, more than 200 students and staff are expected to attend.

The world premiere of the movie took place on the USS Midway in San Diego on May 4.

The band performed the Top Gun show on Nov. 13. Cruise responded with a note that was read to the band during rehearsals for the Rose Bowl in late December.

Dear Band, The Top Gun tribute was fantastic. What a phenomenal performance – thank you! I’d love for you all to be my guests for a special screening of Top Gun: Maverick in Columbus this Spring.

And now that screening is almost here.

Here is that performance that so impressed Cruise.

Tom Cruise, right, and Miles Teller, left, star in "Top Gun: Maverick," which the Ohio State University Marching Band will see a week early. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

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'Rain Man' put Cincinnati on Hollywood's map

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The huge pin oak trees are gone, but the impact of the Oscar-winning Rain Man lingers 25 years later.

Four Academy Awards – including best picture and actor (Dustin Hoffman) – lured a dozen major Hollywood films to Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in the next 10 years, helping build the local film production community.

" Rain Man definitely put us on the map," said Lori Holladay, who scouted locations for the movie in early 1988.

"All I had to say was, 'You know, where Rain Man filmed!' and all of a sudden I got appointments," said Holladay, now membership manager for WNKU-FM (89.7).

Fans of the movie still visit Pompilio's restaurant in Newport, Ky., and St. Anne Convent in Melbourne, Ky., where Hoffman and a young Tom Cruise shot memorable scenes in May 1988.

"They always ask where the table was where Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman sat," says former owner Frank Mazzei.

A few feet away, on the barroom tile floor, was where Hoffman's character – autistic Raymond Babbitt – counted 246 toothpicks as soon as they hit the floor to the amazement of younger brother Charlie (Cruise).

A bonding experience

Charlie, a Los Angeles-based hustler estranged from his rich Cincinnati father, didn't know he had an autistic brother until their dad died. The movie portrays the brothers bonding on a road trip from Cincinnati to Las Vegas and Los Angeles in their father's 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible.

Charlie found Raymond at the "Wallbrook" institution, which is actually the Sisters of Divine Providence's 1919 St. Anne Convent, about 10 miles up the Ohio River from Newport.

Most of the place remains the same today – except for the driveway's pin oak canopy under which Hoffman and Cruise walked for the iconic Rain Man movie poster. The dying and diseased trees were removed in 2008. A few old oaks still tower above the front steps and driveway.

"We weren't allowed to go outside when they were shooting. Everything was closed off," recalled Sister Emerita McGann, who lives in a newer convent next door.

Hoffman, 51 at the time, stayed in character until filming finished, she said. "He was the friendliest person. He took time for everyone," Sister Emerita said.

Cruise, who was 26 at the time, was "more reserved and shy," she said.

Director Barry Levinson, who won an Oscar for the movie, filmed the first week at the convent before shooting at Pompilio's and, among other places, Roger and Janet Ach's large Tudor home in East Walnut Hills, Ohio.

Cruise 'absolutely delightful'

"Tom Cruise was absolutely delightful. He was really sweet to our kids," Janet Ach said. Three of her four children were at home: Roger III (Chip) and twin sister Lela, 14, and Chris, 13.

Scenes were filmed inside and outside the front door, and in the dining room, attic and garage.

"They actually had three Buick convertibles, in case something happened to one," Janet Ach said.

Producers used some movie magic with Rain Man :

-- To the disappointment of movie fans who requested the Vernon Manor Hotel's Rain Man suite, Hoffman and Cruise filmed their hotel room scenes on a set inside local WCET-TV. The hotel closed in 2009.

Vernon Manor exteriors were seen because Levinson's production offices were there. Cruise stayed at the Cincinnatian, downtown, where his wife at the time, actress Mimi Rogers, "would come down to the kitchen in Tom's pajamas to make him breakfast," Holladay said.

-- Cincinnati Opera stage hands taught Rain Man producers how to move disappearing "fly away" walls silently at WCET, Holladay said. "If you watch the camera movements when Tom Cruise starts fighting with his girlfriend (Valeria Golino), and the camera follows them closely around the suite, into the bathroom and back out, the walls disappear."

-- Few knew that Hoffman and Cruise returned to the convent nearly two months later, after completing filming in late June, to reshoot their first scenes together.

Hoffman, a perfectionist, told movie critics shortly before the movie opened in December 1988 that he didn't "find" the character until shooting the road-trip scene in which Raymond babbled obsessively about Hanes boxer shorts "from K-Mart, 400 Oak Street."

"For the first few weeks (in Cincinnati), I just wanted to die. I was ready to quit the picture… I just couldn't do it," said Hoffman, who was coming off Ishtar (1987), a box-office flop.

"I suddenly realized that Raymond's obsessiveness was something I was comfortable with. I can connect with obsession. And so I started going in another direction. (In each scene) I started asking: What is he fixed on?"

Chicago was original choice

Had Levinson stuck with the original script, the film would have been shot in Chicago, Holladay said.

In early 1988, Holladay and two Ohio Film Bureau executives were in Los Angeles waiting to see producer Mark Johnson (Levinson's partner in Good Morning Vietnam, Diner and The Natural ) when he got approval to make Rain Man .

"He said, 'Cincinnati works logistically, because they have to make a cross-country trip,' " said Holladay.

She quickly returned home to take snapshots of possible locations for a sanitarium, restaurant and home. Levinson liked her first choices: Stately St. Anne convent, which she would pass as a kid on Sunday drives with her family, and Pompilio's.

Rain Man proved to be a great rainmaker. Within a year, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell and Teri Hatcher were in Cincinnati making Tango & Cash and Tom Selleck was starring in An Innocent Man .

A Rage in Harlem, Little Man Tate, City of Hope (all 1990), Lost In Yonkers, The Public Eye (1991) Milk Money and Airborne (1993) quickly followed.

In recent years, Ohio film-making incentives have lured Hollywood back to shoot The Ides of March , Marvel's The Avengers and Emilio Estevez's Johnny Longshot .

"It's been a joy," said Pompilio's Mazzei. "It's the kind of publicity you couldn't plan for, and certainly couldn't afford, if you had to pay for it."

Remember when 'Rain Man' was filmed here? For many, it left a lasting impression

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise walked down the tree-lined lane at St. Anne’s Convent, drove across the Roebling Suspension Bridge and secured a place in movie history.

When “Rain Man” was released in December 1988 and went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it also secured Cincinnati’s place as a filming destination. Many scenes early in the film — in which a self-absorbed Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) meets Raymond, the older brother he never knew he had (Hoffman) — were filmed here.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the film’s haul at the 1989 Academy Awards, here’s a look back at Cincinnati’s starring role through the eyes of local people who were involved in or touched by the production.

Joe Bristow is a current owner of Pompilios in Newport, the setting of the film’s iconic toothpick scene. “Rain Man” memorabilia is still on display there.

Lisa Burn is the younger sister of the late Lori Holladay, who scouted locations for “Rain Man” and later founded the Cincinnati Film Commission (now Film Cincinnati). Burn spent time on set during filming.

R.J. Cavallaro was assistant manager of the (now defunct) Ohio Film Bureau at the time.

Scott Froendhoff is an amateur historian and leads tours of Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Kentucky, where the funeral scene in “Rain Man” was shot.

Sr. Alice Gerdeman is provincial superior of Congregation of Divine Providence at St. Anne Province Center in Melbourne, Kentucky. The convent served as Wallbrook, the institution where Raymond lived.

Larry Holladay is Lori Holladay’s husband and spent time on set.

Frank Mazzei was an owner of Pompilios when “Rain Man” filmed there.

Kristen Schlotman is current executive director of Film Cincinnati, the nonprofit that works to bring productions here.

Childhood drives and a fortuitous trip to Los Angeles

R.J. Cavallaro: “I had gone out to LA on a trip where we promoted Ohio to the film industry … Lori Holladay and Jacky DeWert (who was working with Holladay at the time) came with us because they were interested in what we did and promoting Cincinnati. One of the trips we made was to a friend of mine, (producer) Mark Johnson, for me to say hello and just touch base. Lori and Jacky came with me and we were talking … (Mark) said, ‘Oh, I’ve got this movie, it’s called ‘Rain Man.’ … But they were having problems finding the location (for Wallbrook).”

Larry Holladay: “They were in a hurry, and very shortly after that, they came out to visit ... Lori took them all over the place. … They went everywhere, took photographs of all kinds of stuff. Including St. Anne’s Convent, which (Lori) loved.”

Cavallaro: “The convent over in Northern Kentucky was the location that won the job coming to the Cincinnati area. … We had found this needle in the haystack that they were looking for.”

Lisa Burn: “I always loved (Lori’s) stories, how she found all of those locations. There are seven kids in our family. She’d always tell it how our dad would take us out driving on Sundays and listen to the Reds game on the radio, I’m sure to try and tire some of the young ones out. He would take us everywhere, and she just knew all of these locations from him driving all over the area. That’s how she knew the convent.”

The actual filming, of course, caused a stir

Holladay: “Once people knew it was Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, then it started to get a lot more attention very quickly … It was pretty exciting to have them in town.”

Scott Froendhoff: “A photographer from the Kentucky Post came up to me and asked me if I could get him closer to where they were shooting up there (at Evergreen). … So I took him down through the woods, and we started going up into the cemetery, and we actually crawled up the hill on our bellies, like Army-style, to get him a little closer.”

Dustin Hoffman was the outgoing one

Frank Mazzei: “They were all very nice, all very congenial. … Dustin Hoffman was very friendly. … Tom Cruise was a little quieter. He would go out to his trailer between scenes. But then at the end, when they were all done, he stayed out in the parking lot for a couple of hours and signed autographs for neighbors and everybody that was around. They were very nice to work with.”

Holladay: “Dustin Hoffman was very, very nice and very approachable ... He was just easy to talk to and friendly. Tom Cruise was more remote, you know, more private. I think he’s just more introverted, which is fine.”

Actors took in Cincinnati scene — even go-karts

Joe Bristow: “There's a really neat picture of Dustin Hoffman taking a bite of a Dixie Chili cheese coney. The story was that he had never heard of cheese coneys before, so somebody went to Dixie Chili and bought some coneys.”

Cavallaro: “Dustin and Tom, they had a great time in Cincinnati. I took Dustin to a few of the Cincinnati Reds’ games … Marge (Schott’s) assistant asked Dustin if he wanted to meet Pete Rose. … We were walking onto the field because we had to get to center field. … And all of a sudden I think the cameras picked up that it was Dustin walking on the field and you just heard … this incredible applause begin. Dustin looked at me and he said, ‘Hmm, I wonder who that’s for?’ It was just a great moment.”

Mazzei: “We were able to feed them a nice dinner (at Pompilios). They particularly liked our lasagna.”

Cavallaro: “We went somewhere close to Cincinnati where they race go-karts … somehow word got out. And there was a line of fans there waiting to get Tom’s autograph, and he was gracious enough to go over and sign.”

The fun wasn’t limited to time off the set

Cavallaro: “One of the surprises was Robin Williams showed up on set one day. Barry (Levinson, the director) and Mark (Johnson) produced ‘Good Morning, Vietnam.’ (Williams) came one day, and he kept everybody in stitches. He was so funny.”

Burn: “(Hoffman) was telling stories about how he’d been filming ‘Tootsie,’ you know, where he dressed up as a woman. He was telling everybody how he called up Jack Nicholson and had him meet him for lunch, but he came in costume. And of course Jack Nicholson didn’t know who he was, because nobody had seen the character from ‘Tootsie.’ ”

Sr. Alice Gerdeman: “I remember one day, when just as they were leaving, Dustin Hoffman, one of his children had a birthday. He was talking on the phone to that child, and some of us walked by and he said, ‘Will you sing Happy Birthday?’ ... So we sang.”

But they took their work seriously

Sr. Gerdeman: “When Dustin Hoffman came in the morning … he would sit on a bench looking out over the hills and get himself into the character that he was going to play, and he stayed in it all day long.”

Cavallaro: “I’ve worked on several productions. I still say that’s the best movie I’ve ever worked on because the crew was so good and the actors were so great.”

“Rain Man” made an impact on those involved in both the short and long term

Holladay: “Locals were in some of the scenes, and lots of production people got hired, and they used a lot of hotel rooms, and they paid people to rent their homes.”

Mazzei: “That kind of publicity you can’t pay for. It certainly did us well over the years. … (Pompilios’ business) probably jumped a good 20 percent almost immediately and built on that as the years went on.”

Sr. Gerdeman: “We were looking at that time to collect some funds to be used for a transportation vehicle for our sisters who were missionaries in Ghana, West Africa. And so it worked out very well for us to receive this payment (for filming) so we were able to purchase that vehicle for the sisters who were our missionaries. … We call it divine providence.”

Cavallaro: “It is one of the highlights of my life, being associated with that movie. And being able to film it in a great area like Cincinnati, it was very special. It’s still really special to me.”

It helped Cincinnati grow into a filming destination

Kristen Schlotman: “In my mind, that’s what started the enthusiasm for Cincinnati being a destination for major motion pictures.”

Holladay: “Because it was identified as Cincinnati, and because there were two huge stars and it won awards, it was greatly beneficial to putting Cincinnati on the map as a filmmaking place. Beautiful, historic, a safe place to shoot, a good place to shoot, a very affordable place to shoot, good people to shoot with — all kinds of reasons to shoot here. And that really helped (Lori) start to get more films.”

The movie hasn't been forgotten in local lore

Bristow: “We totally, absolutely get people that still come in to this day, probably every day, that ask about it. … They still come in and they ask, ‘Where did they sit? What did they eat? How long were you closed? How did it come to be that they were at your spot?’ … It still is exciting.”

Froendhoff: “You always get an ‘ooh, ah’ type of thing with the older folks (when he points out the filming location on cemetery tours).”

Its legacy continues today

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• Born July 3 , 1962 · Syracuse, New York, USA
• Birth name Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
• Height 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
• In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. Nonetheless, this sensitive, deeply religious youngster who was born in 1962 in Syracuse, New York, was destined to become one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history. Tom is the only son (among four children) of nomadic parents, Mary Lee (Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. His parents were both from Louisville, Kentucky, and he has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Young Tom spent his boyhood always on the move, and by the time he was 14 he had attended 15 different schools in the U.S. and Canada. He finally settled in Glen Ridge, New Jersey with his mother and her new husband. While in high school, Tom wanted to become a priest but pretty soon he developed an interest in acting and abandoned his plans of becoming a priest, dropped out of school, and at age 18 headed for New York and a possible acting career. The next 15 years of his life are the stuff of legends. He made his film debut with a small part in Endless Love (1981) and from the outset exhibited an undeniable box office appeal to both male and female audiences. With handsome movie star looks and a charismatic smile, within 5 years Tom Cruise was starring in some of the top-grossing films of the 1980s including Top Gun (1986) ; The Color of Money (1986) , Rain Man (1988) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) . By the 1990s he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world earning an average 15 million dollars a picture in such blockbuster hits as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) , Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996) , for which he received an Academy Award Nomination for best actor. Tom Cruise's biggest franchise, Mission Impossible, has also earned a total of 3 billion dollars worldwide. Tom Cruise has also shown lots of interest in producing, with his biggest producer credits being the Mission Impossible franchise. In 1990 he renounced his devout Catholic beliefs and embraced The Church of Scientology claiming that Scientology teachings had cured him of the dyslexia that had plagued him all of his life. A kind and thoughtful man well known for his compassion and generosity, Tom Cruise is one of the best liked members of the movie community. He was married to actress Nicole Kidman until 2001. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has indeed come a long way from the lonely wanderings of his youth to become one of the biggest movie stars ever. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom McDonough, Grant failor
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Sunday May 19th 2024

Rain Man | 1988

• Locations |
• Barry Levinson
• Dustin Hoffman,
• Tom Cruise,
• Valeria Golino,
• Bonnie Hunt,
• Reni Santoni,
• Archie Hahn

The Oscar-grabbing movie travelled all over the US, but was based in Cincinnati , Ohio , for four weeks, and made use of locations in Indiana and Kentucky .

On hearing of his father’s death, hard-hearted businessman Charlie Babbitt ( Tom Cruise ) travels from Los Angeles , where his business operates out of the docks of San Pedro , to Cincinnati .

Charlie’s childhood home is the Tudor-style mansion at 2 Beech Crest Lane , off Madison Road in Cincinnati ’s East Walnut Hills district, on the Ohio River’s northern shore, northeast of downtown.

The ‘Cincinnati Trust’, where Charlie charms the desk clerk to divulge the whereabouts of the $3 million trust fund, is the lobby of the Dixie Terminal, 120 East Fourth Street at Walnut Street, downtown Cincinnati . The  Dixie Terminal Buildings were completed in 1921 as a combined streetcar terminal, stock exchange and office space for the city's business district. After streetcars were discontinued in the 1950s, the terminal continued to be used for bus services, until 1998 when these too ceased. The complex still houses shops and offices – and its elaborate marble arcade is open to the public.

If ‘Wallbrook’, the home where he finds brother Raymond, looks a bit religiose, with statues of the virgin in the walls, that’s because it’s St Anne’s Convent, 1000 Saint Anne Drive, Melbourne , just to the southeast of Cincinnati over the Ohio River on Route 8, Kentucky . Built 1919 by architect Howard McClorey, it now houses a Montessori school.

Charlie’s father’s funeral was filmed at Evergreen Cemetery, 25 Alexandria Pike, Southgate , just south of Newport , also in Kentucky .

The bridge Charlie and Raymond cross leaving town is the John A Roebling Suspension Bridge , a prototype for the designer’s later Brooklyn Bridge in New York (you can see it from the window of the Dixie Terminal Building ).

The first night away from ‘Wallbrook’ is spent at the Vernon Manor Hotel, 400 Oak Street , Cincinnati , a 1924 landmark in the historic uptown district, loosely modelled on much-used movie location Hatfield House, Hertfordshire , in the UK. Unfortunately, the hotel finally closed its doors in March 2009.

And it’s back to Newport for the café where Raymond reveals his numerical skills by remembering the waitress’s phone number and counting scattered toothpicks. It’s Pompilio’s Bar and Restaurant , 600 Washington Avenue . A southern Italian restaurant, built in 1933, Pompilio’s was granted one of the US’s first post-Prohibition liquor licences.

Serving Cincinnati , though across the border in Kentucky , it’s off to Greater Cincinnati International Airport , where Raymond quotes a few useful statistics, decides that road travel is preferable and the two take the highway, I-275 , which happens to be the ring road around Cincinnati .

The film’s crew was based in Oklahoma City for the cross-States journey. The motel in ‘Amarillo, Texas’, where Charlie realises that Raymond was his imaginary friend, ‘the Rain Man’, was the Big 8$ Motel, 1705 East 66th Highway, El Reno , on I-40 about 15 miles west of Oklahoma City . It later became the DeLuxe Inn, but has since been demolished.

The sign, ‘Amarillo’s Finest’, was added for the movie, and, much to the confusion of passing motorists, was retained as a feature of the motel. The brothers’ room was 117.

The gas station, where the pair stops to make a phone call, is a disused, and now once again dilapidated W.S. Kelly Gas Station and Store , at Cogar , Caddo County , Oklahoma , about ten miles south of El Reno over the South Canadian River.

Twenty miles west of El Reno , south of I-40, is the town of Hinton , where Raymond gets to watch Judge Wapner on the farmhouse TV. Way up about twenty miles north of Oklahoma City , on I-35, is the town of Guthrie , where Charlie takes Raymond to see the doctor at the Guthrie Clinic , on the corner of Oklahoma Street and Division Street .

More road filming took place in south Nevada , en route to Las Vegas . Raymond demonstrates his skill with cards and Charlie teaches him to dance in Caesars Palace , 3570 South Las Vegas Boulevard . The complex has been enlarged since filming. The foursome from Todd Phillips 's 2009 hit The Hangover follow in their footsteps.

Back to Los Angeles , and Susanna ( Valerie Golino ) is dropped off at her apartment, Ocean View Apartments, 1435 South Beacon Street in San Pedro .

Charlie, reborn as a caring brother, turns down a $250,000 offer from Dr Bruner poolside in the Westin Bonaventure Hotel , 404 South Figueroa Street , downtown. Its cylindrical glass towers can also be seen in This Is Spinal Tap , True Lies , In The Line of Fire , Jim McBride ’s 1983 remake of Breathless (with Richard Gere ), Strange Days and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century . Its interior even became the NASA facility for Christopher Nolan 's Interstellar .

Charlie's LA home is (the rear of) 1599 Sunset Plaza Drive in West Hoillywood .

He takes Raymond for pancakes at the Pink Cadillac Cafe (you can’t do the same – the pancake house is now Blue Bamboo, 359 North La Cienega Boulevard , serving up Asian fusion fare), before battling it out with the medical profession (a cameo from director Barry Levinson ) for custody of Raymond.

The meeting takes place in the Wattles Mansion , 1824 North Curson Avenue on the south end of Runyon Canyon Park in Hollywood , a 1905 house and gardens built as the winter residence of an Omaha businessman.

Charlie finally sees Raymond off back to ‘Wallbrook’ at Santa Ana Train Station, 2800 North Main Street, Santa Ana , southeast of Los Angeles .

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Where Did Tom Cruise Grow Up?

Though he would eventually become one of the biggest movie stars in history, Tom Cruise had a complicated and busy life long before he was a big-screen superstar. He grew up in multiple locations and never called just one city his home. 

Tom Cruise was born in the city of Syracuse, New York on July 3, 1962. Cruise grew up in different cities across North America. After his childhood in New York, Cruise and his family moved to Canada then eventually back to the U.S. in various cities.

Cruise’s journey through his youth was winding and often troubled but it eventually led to the fame and fortune that made him a Hollywood legend. 

Cruise’s Early Years

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III, an electrical engineer. Born in Syracuse, New York, Cruise was just one of four children; he has three sisters named Lee Anne, Cass, and Marian. 

Aside from his sisters, Cruise also has a cousin, William Mapother . William is an accomplished actor who has appeared in Lost , In the Bedroom, and other projects. 

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Growing up, Cruise’s family didn’t have it easy and the actor has stated that they lived in near-poverty for much of his youth. 

His home life was also hard because of his abusive dad. The actor has repeatedly referred to his late father as a “bully” and “coward.” Their relationship was incredibly strained right from the beginning. 

Because of his low income and constant relocating, Cruise was frequently bullied as a kid. The actor has said he grew up without friends and was ridiculed for everything from his choice of shoes to his accent. 

His father took a job as a defense consultant with the Canadian Armed Forces in 1971 so nine-year-old Cruise and his sisters and mother moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa. He attended Robert Hopkins Public School for elementary school and it was in fourth grade that he first became involved in theater, thanks to his drama teacher George Steinburg. 

Cruise attended several other schools in Canada around that age, including Henry Munro Middle school in Ottawa. His interest in acting continued to grow throughout this time in his life. 

Cruise was also becoming a budding athlete at that young age and excelled at floor hockey. Sadly, during a hockey game Cruise fell hard and chipped a front tooth, something that is quite noticeable in early photos of the star. 

Return to the U.S. 

In 1974, when Tom was in sixth grade, his mother Mary Lee left his father and took Tom and his sisters back to the United States. It was there she would remarry after meeting Cruise’s stepfather Jack South. 

Tom would have little-to-no contact with his dad until his death years later.  

After his mother remarried, Cruise’s family wound up moving around America a lot without ever fully settling. His family lived in various locations, including his mother’s home state of Kentucky . All told, Tom was enrolled in 15 schools during this time in his life. 

Eventually, Cruise planted roots in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received a church scholarship and attended a seminary school while briefly considering a career as a priest. He left Ohio, however, and his family traveled to the east coast. 

Tom ended his schooling career in Glen Ridge, New Jersey where he graduated from Glen Ridge High School. 

As Tom graduated from high school, his interest in acting had blossomed even more. His final years saw him starring in multiple high school productions including Guys and Dolls .

Growing Up and Moving On

After high school, Cruise was intent on pursuing his career in acting. At the young age of 18, he moved from his family in New Jersey and started his acting quest across the river in New York . 

Cruise worked hard to achieve his goals and would soon relocate across the country to Los Angeles where he secured an agent and began to land bit parts. In just a few short years, Cruise went from small roles in films like Endless Love to career-making turns in Risky Business and All the Right Moves. 

After that, Tom Cruise’s career skyrocketed to heights that few have reached. From Mission: Impossible to Top Gun and War of the Worlds , Cruise is certifiably one of the largest names in Hollywood history. 

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Let’s Take a Peek Inside Tom Cruise’s Property Portfolio

At long last, “Top Gun: Maverick” is set to land in theaters at the end of May. A-lister Tom Cruise will step back into the cockpit and reprise his role as test pilot Maverick.

Now 59, the seemingly ageless performer has been box-office gold since the 1980s. His hits include “Cocktail,” “Jerry McGuire,” and “A Few Good Men.” The father of three also starred in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, the latest of which is the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning.”

With the superstar set to take off on the big screen, we thought we’d take a spin through the actor’s real estate.

Along with starring in blockbusters over the decades, the “Mission: Impossible” star has been busy when it comes to pricey real estate. In many cases, the paparazzi-averse Cruise tends to buy up multiple lots in extremely private locales.

So don your aviators, and let’s head into the “property zone.”

Clearwater condos

The star’s latest “mission”: a move to a giant spread in Clearwater, FL . He dropped $9,580,500 on a 20,826-square-foot, two-level penthouse in 2017. It’s located in the Skyview tower , which was reportedly altered to accommodate Cruise, according to the Tampa Bay Times .

The actor’s lavish living quarters include four bedrooms, a gym, game room, home theater, roof deck with an infinity pool, hot tub, gardens, and a bar, according to the Times.

The penthouse boasts a private garage with a car elevator on the second floor. That level also apparently includes a flight simulator. (Perhaps Cruise could get in some practice for his “Top Gun” role?) There’s also office space and a sports storage area.

Cruise paid an additional $1,475,000 for three more condos in the Clearwater high-rise, perhaps for staff or relatives.

The building, developed by fellow Scientologist Moises Agami , is located just blocks from the Church of Scientology headquarters. Cruise has been a member of the church since 1986.

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Terrific in Telluride

More recently, the “Risky Business” actor took care of a piece of business in the Rocky Mountain region. He sold his longtime Telluride, CO, ranch for a whopping $39.5 million.

Cruise had held on to the 320-acre mountain retreat for decades, before trying to quietly sell it for $59 million in 2014. It was relisted in March 2021 for $39.5 million and quickly sold.

Cruise spent years amassing the land, then built a 10,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom home in 1994.

The picturesque home was the setting for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair magazine featuring his daughter Suri  with his then-wife Katie Holmes . Oprah Winfrey also interviewed Cruise at the home in 2008.

The main house includes a chef’s kitchen, fitness center, rec room, den, office suite, two fireplaces, and multiple terraces. There’s also a three-bedroom guest lodge.

Though secluded, the retreat is just minutes to Telluride and a two-hour private jet flight from L.A.

Lavish in Los Angeles

Before decamping to the Sunshine State, the busy actor let go of his holdings in La-La land.

In 2016, Cruise sold the Beverly Hills compound he had shared with  Holmes . The 1.2-acre spread changed hands for a startling $38 million. He had paid $30.5 million in 2007.

The compound included a 10,000-square-foot mansion with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, a tennis court, a swimming pool, and a pair of guesthouses.

That sale came almost a year after he sold his Hollywood Hills compound to  Eva Longoria for $11.4 million.

Initially listed for $13 million, that property featured two adjoining houses built in 2005 on an ultraprivate 2.75-acre lot. The compound consists of a three-bedroom French villa, a four-bedroom guesthouse, two standalone studios, and a quaint stone cottage.

Beverly Hills rental home with Holmes

Cruise and Holmes leased a mansion in the 90210 for $55,000 a month from 2001 through 2008.

Last offered for lease for $100,000 a month in 2016, the three-acre estate includes a nine-bedroom main house, a guesthouse, a pool with a spa, and a tennis court.

Crash pad in New York City

Cruise sold his longtime East Village loft in the American Felt Building for $3 million in 2013. He had picked up the pied-à-terre in 1984, following his starring role in “Risky Business.”

The two-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot unit is said to contain a state-of-the-art gym. It’s located on the 10th floor of the 12-floor building.

Cruise reportedly shared the condo with all three of his ex-wives, including Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman . The building housed other notable residents, including author Bret Easton Ellis and the Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti , the Real Deal reported at the time of the sale. Cruise’s loft was sold in an off-market deal.

Randy White ([email protected]) contributed to this report.

Claudine Zap covers celebrity real estate, housing trends, and unique home stories. Her work has appeared on Yahoo, New York Post, and SFGATE.

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Tom Cruise lauds Ohio State marching band’s Top Gun tribute

FILE - Actor Tom Cruise smiles during Game 2 of a baseball National League Division Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in San Francisco. The Ohio State University marching band paid a tribute to the movie “Top Gun” during the Nov. 13, 2021, NCAA college football game against Purdue. On Tuesday, Dec. 28, the marching band tweeted that Cruise, the movie’s star, saw the halftime performance and offered a personal message thanking them, saying the “tribute was fantastic.” (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio State University marching band’s tribute to the movie “Top Gun” has earned the attention and gratitude of the film’s star, Tom Cruise.

For the Nov. 13 halftime show during Ohio State’s 59-31 victory over Purdue, the marching band transformed into formations reminiscent of the 1986 film, such as a fighter jet complete with smoke machines and the iconic volleyball scene.

On Tuesday, the marching band tweeted that Cruise saw the performance and offered a personal message thanking them.

Cruise said the “tribute was fantastic,” and invited the band to see a screening in Columbus of the sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The actor also wished the OSU football team good luck in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, where the band will be performing during the parade and the halftime show.

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If you're anything like me, you've heard by now that Tom Cruise is moving to the area.

Well, he’s not.

the world’s “premiere fantasy news site” (whatever the hell that means), is spreading the

lie that the Top Gun actor is moving to Oxford.

Again, he's not.

Come on folks, not everything you read on the Information Superhighway is true.

Here's part of the lie:

"In a surprise to everyone in Hollywood and certainly everyone in Oxford, Tom Cruise announced today in an interview with People Magazine that he was 'tired of the Hollywood lifestyle' and that he wanted to 'live in a place where people were people and whose sincerity you didn't have to question.'  He recently visited Oxford while scouting out a film location with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and, according to Bruckheimer, 'Tom immediately fell in love with the relaxed lifestyle and the tranquil beauty of the surrounding countryside and was telling everyone that he was going to move there.'"

The site also has the A-lister moving to Maryville, Tennessee and Indianola, Iowa.

Cruise is not the only star the site says is surprising Hollywood by leaving it in the dust.

Singer Katy Perry evidentially likes cows and chicken so much that she’s moving to Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Justin Bieber likes them, too. (By the way, happy birthday, Biebs !)

JB gives the exact same quote about cows and chickens in Sandy Oregon that Katy gave about them in Rock Hill.

"'I want a farm, I want cows, I want chickens!' Justin told Us Weekly with an excited laugh. 'I'm not giving up my career, I just want to move to a place that feels so different than what I've been used the last several years of my life. For me, that place is Sandy, Oregon.'"

They don't want cows or chickens.

That’s some crazy clickbait there, McKenzie Post.

Then again, maybe they are onto something.

How about these rumors for your brain:

• Oscar winner Cate Blanchett is moving to Springboro because it has great garage sales.
•  Leonardo Di Caprio i s going to sell shells in the Oregon District.
• Tom Cruise is not moving to Oxford until he sells his bungalow  in Belmont.
• Comedian Chris Rock is moving Yellow Springs to pursue an underwater basket weaving degree at Antioch Mcgregor.
• Liam Hemsworth Is moving to Lima for obvious reasons.
• Rihanna just bought a house in Riverside. Bring her an underwater welcome basket.
• Halle Berry just invested in a Huber Heights movie theater. It will not sell popcorn.
• Khloe Kardashian i s moving to Clayton to get away from Kanye West.
• Miley Cyrus plans to enroll in the Miami Valley School even though she's too old for prom.

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Where Does Tom Cruise Live And How Big Is His House?

With a  net worth of $600 million , Tom Cruise and the word "movie star" are practically synonymous. Given his impressive resume, spanning from his breakout 1983 role in "Risky Business" to his ever-more-momentous "Mission Impossible" blockbuster franchise, the actor has not stopped making the big bucks for both himself and everyone around him — with his films earning hundreds of upon hundreds in the three decades he's been a star.

Like many of Hollywood's biggest stars, Cruise's life story was as close to rags-to-riches as they come. "For years, all I had were a bed, a desk and a chair," Tom Cruise told Roger Ebert in 1986. "When I was making a movie, they put me in hotel rooms. Between jobs, I moved back into my apartment, and my lifestyle dropped considerably." Coming from an underprivileged childhood, Cruise quickly learned the value of hard work no matter one's net worth.  "It's a strange thing, being handed so much power," Cruise also related to Ebert.  "My point of view and my values haven't changed. Everybody wants to push and pull me, but I refuse to change my lifestyle."

Nonetheless, Cruise's lifestyle has changed on the surface at least. Given that he has no doubt ditched that scarcely decorated apartment for cushier digs since, let's explore just where and what type of home Cruise inhabits these days!

Tom Cruise's penthouse is cool — even for Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise has called Florida his home base since 2018. Per Architectural Digest , Cruise fetched a pretty $55 million when he sold his Los Angeles and New York properties in 2016, moving into a multimillion-dollar penthouse in Clearwater, Florida. Planned by a wealthy Scientologist — Cruise is controversially tied to the religion — the 10-story SkyView condominium is one block from the Church of Scientology, per People . With Cruise reportedly close friends with church leader David Miscavige, a source told the outlet that the movie star was "very relaxed when he's here." 

In addition to occupying the entire top two floors, according to AD, Cruise's pad packs amenities like a roof deck, a nearly 40-foot pool, a bar, and more.What sets the pad apart from other celebrity dig, however, is the passageway that leads to a private, smaller condo on the second floor (which houses a flight simulator, for one). Additionally, there is a nine-car garage and private car elevator (what a cool phrase to say). Now that's  on par with expectations for the "Mission Impossible" star.

Tom Cruise sold his vacation home in Colorado for millions

Although Clearwater, Florida, might be Tom Cruise's personal headquarters, he also owns property in West Sussex, England — for one. Per The Sun , the estate was purchased by Cruise in 2006 for a reported $4.2 million. Bearing the regal title of "Rede Place," the property is located in Dormans Park, East Grinstead, which is reportedly close to the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology. Boasting 14 acres of land and an 11,331-square-foot interior, per insider , the manor was constructed in 2003, meaning Cruise would likely be one of its very first owners.

Cruise parted ways with his longtime 320-acre Telluride, Colo. ranch, which was reportedly a vacation refuge frequented by Cruise with ex-wife Katie Holmes and his children. Putting the ranch on sale for $39.5 million in March, per Forbes , the home sold without a hitch two months later for the asking price . Ardent followers of Cruise's career might remember this was the shooting location for a follow-up to his infamous 2005 interview with Oprah Winfrey , as noted by  Town & Country . However, Cruise's Telluride ranch's main draw, aside from being a ski haven known for its celebrity denizens, is the cozy seclusion it provides for the uber-famous. No wonder it sold so fast! 

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Tom Cruise Briefly Attended High School in Louisville

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In the mid-to-late '70s, Tommy attended high school at St. Xavier, a private Catholic school nestled in a kind of confluence between a few of Louisville's East End neighborhoods. At that time, the city was locked in a kind of economic and demographic stasis, where the decades of white flight and so-called urban renewal stabilized the metropolitan population for years to come. Some theorize that this was simply a byproduct of young Tommy Mapother harnessing the city's energies, siphoning Louisville's untapped psychic reserves like a battery and transforming its power, bending it to his will.

Before Tom Cruise climbed mountains and pretended to destroy aliens for a living, Tommy Mapother was just doing stuff. A nd he was doing this stuff in, of all places, Louisville, Kentucky. According to multiple biographical sources gleaned from the Internet in a great haste, the young Mapother moved to Louisville from Canada when he was a teenager where he ostensibly did normal Louisvillian things. While in school, the young Mapother reportedly excelled in athletics and theater, and was fascinated with theology, intending to pursue ecclesiastical studies at the St. Francis Seminary School in nearby Cincinnati. He was well on his righteous path, but as most endeavors undertaken by Kentuckians inevitably are, Mapother's pursuits were ruined in the pursuit of alcohol.

A March 4, 2013, New York Daily News article details Mapother's exploits with fellow seminarian Shane Dempler:

Miraculously, beginning in the early-to-mid-eighties, Louisville began to slowly grow once more, having nursed the rising star to manhood. This is probably a coincidence, but as they teach police detectives, we don't believe in coincidences. Not today.

If anything, the city of Louisville can claim it was there that Cruise discovered two of his life's chief passions: Acting and religion. Both have catapulted him out of our state and into fame and fortune, resulting in some of America's most valuable cultural exports and at least one international human rights violation investigation. However, Cruise's Wikipedia page is, as of this writing, scrubbed of any mention of his Louisville residency despite multiple corroborating sources elsewhere on the Internet. (Efforts to reach out to his cousin, Louisvillian and actor William Mapother, were unsuccessful, leaving us woefully unsure if Tom Cruise ever puked in the infield during Oaks Day races at Churchill Downs.)

Logic dictates that, because Tom Cruise lived in Louisville, he lived in Kentucky, thus making him——however fleeting——a Kentuckian. It is an easy distinction to make, but not one rendered lightly. It may not be Berea, Hazard or even Newport, but dammit, Louisville's close enough.

But who knows what could have been? Perhaps, like Castro and his failed baseball ambitions, had the Franciscan friars let him get drunk on that fateful night, Tom Cruise might have remained Tommy Mapother, and the world might have been a different place… probably one with a lot more Eric Stolz.

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Tom Cruise smiles when asked about his hometown of Syracuse (video)

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Syracuse native Tom Cruise smiles at the mention of his hometown -- even when he's on a marathon media blitz.

The "Edge of Tomorrow" star attended three premieres of his new film in three cities (in three countries) in one day last week. At an afterparty, Cruise signed autographs and posed for pictures with fans around 1 a.m. after the third movie screening in New York City.

Tom Cruise attends a special premiere of "Edge of Tomorrow" at the AMC Loews on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in New York.

Videos show one exchange where the 51-year-old actor was asked about the recent passing of Maya Angelou and one man told Cruise he was also born in the Salt City.

"Oh, is that right?" Cruise responds with his movie star grin.

The three-time Oscar nominee, Hollywood's highest-paid actor in 2012, was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse, N.Y. on July 3, 1962. His family moved around several times when he was a child, but his birthplace will always tie him to Central New York.

He remained at the NYC event until 3:30 a.m., wrapping up his 24-hour world tour that included stops in London and Paris.

" Edge of Tomorrow ," originally titled "All You Need Is Kill," stars Cruise as military PR man Maj. William Cage, who goes into battle against an alien invasion and dies -- but then comes back to live his final day over and over again in a futuristic, action-heavy twist on "Groundhog Day." Emily Blunt co-stars as a highly-trained Army soldier who helps Cage.

It's the latest blockbuster adventure for " our last real movie star ," whose credits include "Top Gun," "Mission: Impossible," "Jerry Maguire" and "Born on the Fourth of July." However, a new book titled "Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor," claims the Internet and a certain couch-jumping incident hurt his star power more than scrutiny of his personal life, relationships and Scientology beliefs.

"Edge of Tomorrow" opens Friday, June 6.

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Tom Cruise's quiet life in Sussex in £3m mansion on exclusive estate away from cameras

The Top Gun star can't seem to stay away from the county

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Tom Cruise is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood. From his iconic role in Top Gun, to acting parts in Mission Impossible and Jack Reacher - the American actor is never far from the big screen.

While he is known across the globe, many people may not realise that the 59-year-old has strong links to East Grinstead . He just can't seem to stay away.

But why is the superstar actor so fascinated with the West Sussex town? We've done some digging into Tom Cruise's links to the county and this is what we found.

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Tom Cruise's links to East Grinstead

Back in 2006, the American actor forked out around £3 million on an enormous house in East Grinstead, measuring 11,000 square feet. Since then, he's been pictured in the county on many occasions, and it is believed he even spent the first national lockdown in the West Sussex town.

Some may wonder why the film star chose to spend part of his life there, but it holds great significance for the famous Scientologist. Scientology's headquarters, Saint Hill, are located in East Grinstead - the religious movement followed by Cruise and numerous other A-list actors.

After selling his house in 2016, he returned to the town last summer. During the first national lockdown, the actor was believed to be staying in a wing of the headquarters.

Saint Hill had a multi-million pound renovation in 2016, which includes a new Michelin-starred chef and luxury accommodation. Cruise's former mansion continued to attract famous residents, with singer Peter Andre taking the property off his hands for around £5 million.

The six-bedroom property is more than eight times higher than the average house price in East Grinstead - but it features a cinema room as well as a gym, outdoor swimming pool and a tennis court.

Has Tom Cruise visited other parts of Sussex?

In July last year the producer was spotted at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2021. He was seen enjoying the event and was pictured alongside the Duke of Richmond at the festival's final day.

This wasn't the first time he'd attended the racing event. He made an appearance in 2014 on Ladies' Day, where he was photographed with supermodel Edie Campbell and Theo Fennell.

However, Cruise wasn't able to stick around in Chichester for too long last year. He was spotted just hours later waving to fans at Wimbledon, London.

He watched Serbian Novak Djokovic win his sixth men's title against Italian Matteo Berrettini. His socialising didn't stop there, though, because he was later seen at Wembley sat beside David Beckham cheering on England in the Euro 2020 final against Italy.

The star was seen celebrating Luke Shaw's goal in the first two minutes.

What does Tom Cruise think of England?

When approached at the last Jack Reacher premiere, he said that England "is a really great place to live". In 2020, sources told The Sunday Mirror that Cruise was looking into buying a home in Britain.

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The Real Reason Tom Cruise Hasn't Aged

He might be in his 60s, but Tom Cruise is showing no signs of slowing down, and he isn't aging either.

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Tom Cruise is turning 62 in July (born July 3, 1962), yet he still looks like his 24-year-old self in his hit 1986 film, Top Gun . Some say it is all plastic surgery while others believe it is the actor's healthy lifestyle and commitment to doing his own stunts . In March 2021, Men's Health revealed the real reason the actor has stayed in great shape all these years.

Jacked Gorilla shared an inside look into Cruise's workout routine, which helps keep him in shape as well as feeling young. "Tom Cruise's workout routine consists of many different exercises. Cruise uses three days of weight training and cardio. It's his job to get active and utilize other forms of fitness on the other two days."

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Updated May 2024: A photo of Tom Cruise and his children, Bella Cruise and Connor Cruise taken in December 2023 made its way to social media recently. It has been nearly 15 years since the trio was photographed together, despite the fact that Tom is very close with his older children. This photo was taken before Cruise and Elsina Khayrova ended their relationship in February. The photo shows that Tom continues to not age, even with him being almost 62 years old. Something that can be attributed to a strenuous workout routine and healthy diet.

While many have speculated Tom Cruise has had plastic surgery, Cruise denies it

Cruise has been accused of getting plastic surgery for several years. In 2016, fans noticed that he looked "inflated" and "puffy" during the BAFTAs for that year. Many assumed that he'd gotten Botox or fillers. Around the same time, Cuba Gooding Jr. — Cruise's co-star in Jerry Maguire — told Watch What Happens Live! that the actor "absolutely" had work done on his face .

"I don't know what he's had done, but I remember I surprised him at his house one day," Gooding Jr. shared. "And he had all of these dots all over his face and I was like, 'You all right?' and he goes, 'I didn’t know you were coming' and I was like, 'I can see why.'"

In 2012, when asked whether he has had plastic surgery, Cruise told Playboy : "I haven't, and I never would." Meanwhile, National Enquirer 's sources said that the Risky Business star was lying.

"Insiders say the gifted star remains desperate to maintain his boyish good looks and stay atop of the heap as he approaches his sixties — with the help of plastic surgery!"

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Tom cruise had teeth whitening and braces to give him his bright smile today.

One cosmetic procedure the actor has never denied is getting his teeth fixed .

When Cruise was in his 20s, back in the early '80s, he had extremely unaligned and discolored teeth. He eventually had teeth whitening and alignment procedures to correct them.

In 2001, he also had invisible braces with ceramic brackets. By 2010, he had a massive improvement in his smile. Still, fans noticed that aside from his misaligned middle tooth, his left incisor also appeared bigger than the right one. It still does today, but we are sure the highest-paid actor per word is not bothered about it.

Tom Cruise's diet and exercise routine are directly related to his lack of aging

In a 2021 Men's Health feature, the magazine finally spilled Cruise's secrets to defying youth . For his diet, he is reportedly on a " Beckham-devised diet consisting of a just 1200 calories, grilled foods and a noticeable absence of carbohydrate."

Nutritional scientist Dr. Paul Clayton told the magazine that carbs generate insulin, which is an aging hormone. "They become glucose molecules in the body, damaging muscle and skin tissues which causes aging," said the Health Defense author.

The actor's mindset is apparently a big factor as well.

"I don't invalidate it when I can't do something...I say, 'that's interesting' and go with it. It's from there you get your energy," quoted the magazine.

Clinical psychologist Dr. Abigael San said that Cruise's resistance to failure helps in keeping him active.

"Never avoid looking at why something went wrong – list all the reasons why it did as soon as you can," said San. "Failure leads to inaction. Planning goals as soon as possible restores a feeling of power and control. If you didn't get a promotion, do all you can to find out why." No wonder the actor is such a beast who is so committed to every project he takes on. It is also what boosts his confidence, making him the sex symbol that he is.

"Being super-informed bestows subtle confidence," explained career consultant Sherridan Hughes. "Everyone else will feel at ease working with you and for you. You're more flexible and adaptable than your peers because whatever happens, you've covered it."

Then, of course, there is a whole workout routine for achieving and maintaining that action star physique. "Sea-kayaking, caving... fencing, treadmill, weights... rock-climbing, hiking... I jog... I do so many different activities," Cruise once said when asked how he stays youthful.

Sports scientist Anne Elliott said that "variety" is the secret to getting that body. "How we move conveys energy and youth – not how buff we are," she explained. "Regularly switching up cardio and strength work with something like fencing or climbing – like Cruise – maintains flexibility and balance: the first two things that give your age away."

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By dressing in stylish and form-fitting clothing, tom cruise looks younger than his age.

Lastly, it's all about dressing well.

"The right fit conveys power and shows you've accepted who you are, physically," said the actor's stylist, Alan Au.

Au went on to say, "Cruise always wears a well-tailored coat (lapels not too big or small) whether smart casual and his ‘relaxed’ is only just loose enough (too loose looks hand-me-down). Avoid boxy cuts and styles and bring attention up to the face and chest with a lighter top. Make sure only a quarter-inch of sleeve hem is showing from jackets."

Suri Allegedly Opts for a New Surname, Embracing Mom’s Legacy over Dad Tom Cruise

I n a move that might suggest a distancing from her father, Suri Cruise, child of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, appears to have adopted a different last name. The adolescent, who recently turned 18, may have taken a significant step to redefine her identity.

As Suri Cruise celebrated her coming-of-age, whispers of her name change began to circulate.

Evidence of Suri’s new surname appeared when she was credited as Suri Noelle in the casting sheet for her role in the Broadway production of “Head Over Heels.”

Suri’s adoption of her mother Katie’s middle name can be seen as a testament to their close relationship, having lived together in New York City for many years.

An estrangement from her superstar father has characterized much of Suri’s life, allegedly leading to practically no relationship between the two.

Although Suri’s birth certificate lists her as Suri Cruise, this recent development hints at a possible shift in her personal identification.

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FAQs about Suri Cruise’s Name Change

• Is it confirmed that Suri Cruise has changed her last name? No official confirmation has been made regarding Suri Cruise’s surname change. However, reports suggest that she was credited with a new surname in a Broadway production’s casting sheet.
• What is the significance of the last name ‘Noelle’? ‘Noelle’ is the middle name of Suri’s mother, Katie Holmes, which may reflect the strong bond they share.
• How has Tom Cruise’s relationship with Suri been described? Various sources indicate that Tom Cruise has been estranged from Suri for a significant period, resulting in virtually no relationship between the two.
• Does Suri Cruise plan to pursue a career in acting like her parents? While Suri Cruise has performed on Broadway, it is currently not clear whether she intends to follow in the footsteps of her parents and pursue a full-time acting career.

The possible decision by Suri Cruise to adopt a new surname is an intriguing development in the public narrative surrounding the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise. While the implications of this alleged change point towards Suri’s autonomy in shaping her identity, they also shine a light on her relationship with her parents—especially the nuanced connection she potentially intends to maintain with her father. Until official confirmation surfaces, speculation on Suri’s last name and its bearings on her personal life remains just that—speculation. What seems clear, however, is the strong bond she shares with her mother, Katie Holmes, which may have prompted this rumored name alteration.

A Guide to Tom Cruise's Family

Marriage to Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise was in the process of divorcing first wife Mimi Rogers   when he met Nicole Kidman   making the racing movie  Days of Thunder  in early 1990. He proposed to the Australian actress once he was officially single and they tied the knot that year on Christmas Eve.

"It was that special connection when you recognize your soul mate," Tom told Vanity Fair   in 1994. "She is a person who understands. It was as if a whole new life had started for me."

They announced their divorce in February 2001 with a press release citing the "difficulties inherent of diverging careers which constantly keep them apart." Though it's unclear if Nicole agreed with that rationale.

"I'm starting to understand now [why we broke up]," she told  Vanity Fair  toward the end of 2002. "At the time I didn't."

Her ex, meanwhile, had told the publication earlier that year, "She knows why, and I know why. She's the mother of my children, and I wish her well. And I think that you just move on. And I don't say that lightly. I don't say that with anything."

Isabella Cruise

Tom and Nicole adopted their eldest child, Isabella , when she was born on Dec. 22, 1992.

Admittedly "scared to death" the first time he changed a diaper, Tom told  VF  in 1994 that he and Nicole "talked about children from time to time, but there was always the work. But then we went, When is it ever going to be the right time? That's how the conversation started. You're lying in bed at night and you're trying to sleep, so you roll over and you go, What would happen if we had this in our life?... One of the things that Nic and I talk about is that now suddenly we're a family ."

Nicole said they definitely planned on having more kids, whether by birth or adoption, preferably both.

"Isabella was meant for us," she told the magazine. "I think when things come into your life at a certain time you have to take them. It's destiny."

She later revealed to  VF  in 2007 that they decided to adopt after she lost a pregnancy. "From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies," she said. "And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that's when we would adopt Bella." 

"There's a complicated background to that," she added, "given that I never speak much about many things. One day maybe that story will be told."

Isabella, an artist and graduate of London's Delamar Academy of Make-Up and Hair, lives in England with husband  Max Parker . 

It raised a few eyebrows when the bride's parents didn't attend the couple's 2015 wedding at the Dorchester hotel in London.

"Of course, they're my parents," she fired back at Daily Mail Online when the newlywed was asked if she spoke to Tom and Nicole. "Anyone who says otherwise is full of s--t."

Moreover, only a few close friends attended and the groom's parents weren't there, either, his mom Beverly Parker telling the Mail they stayed away to avoid "a media circus." Calling the pair "lovely," she said, "I'm very pleased for them both and they're very happy."

Max told the publication that "you could say" his wife had foregone the spotlight, but it was "more of a weird situation for everyone else" than it was for them. 

Meanwhile, sources told  People that Tom approved of Max, was OK with not being there and he paid for the wedding, while Nicole was just glad her daughter seemed happy.

Connor Cruise

Connor rounded out the family when he was adopted at birth on Jan. 17, 1995. He's a musician and DJ, and reportedly lives in Miami.

Nicole married Keith Urban  in 2006 and they share daughters Sunday Rose , born July 7, 2008, and Faith Margaret , born via gestational surrogate Dec. 28, 2010.

Reflecting on how Connor and Isabella chose to live with their dad after the divorce, she told HELLO! , "I'd love them to live with us, but what can you do?" (They did attend the Kidman-Urban nuptials in Australia.)

Talking to Now to Love in 2014, Nicole called Isabella and Connor "generous, kind and hardworking," all "traits that I love to see in my children."

Several years later she acknowledged that both of her older kids were practicing Scientologists, like their father, but—contrary to rumors that religion had driven a wedge between them—that was neither here nor there.

"They are adults," the Oscar winner told Australia's  Who   in 2018. "They are able to make their own decisions. They have made choices to be Scientologists and as a mother, it's my job to love them."

And, like his sister, Connor has never said a cross word about his mom.

"I love my mum," he told Australia's Woman's Day  in 2014 while in town to deejay at a festival. "I don't care what people say, I know that me and mum are solid. I love her a lot. My family means everything."

He also loved music, he added, "but the family comes before everything else."

Marriage to Katie Holmes

Tom was in a sharing mood when he started dating the  Dawson's Creek  alum in 2005, boisterously telling Oprah Winfrey   and her sofa that he was in love with the actress.

"Here's the thing, you can't think about it in terms of what people are going to do or say," he told MTV News that June of the PR perils of wearing his heart on his sleeve. "It's 'I want to share my life with this woman. This woman is exceptional, she's special, she's extraordinary and I have great respect for her.' It's someone who's saying 'I've got nothing to hide, I'm happy.' I'm happy, man!"

The Top Gun star proposed atop the Eiffel Tower in June 2005, reportedly within eight weeks of their first date.

Their lavish Nov. 18, 2006, nuptials were held at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy. Suri, Connor and Bella were in attendance, along with the likes of the Beckhams, Jennifer Lopez  and then-husband Marc Anthony , Will Smith  and Jada Pinkett Smith , and Brooke Shields  and spouse  Chris Henchy .

Suri Cruise

Tom and Katie's daughter was born April 18, 2006. 

The  October 2006 cover of  Vanity Fair , first revealed on the CBS Evening News  Sept. 5, introduced Suri to the world. The portrait by Annie Leibovitz featured the 3-month-old tucked into her dad's leather aviator jacket, an homage to Linda McCartney 's famous shot of  Paul McCartney with their baby daughter Mary  from his 1970 album  McCartney .

"She's a glorious girl," Katie told the magazine. "She's the miracle of our life."

Tom shared that they found the name in a baby book sent to them by friends and just loved it. "We later found out that it meant 'red rose,' and that was just a bonus," he added. "Suri—it was perfect."

The article noted that the family, including Conor and Bella, were all gathered cozily at Tom's house in Telluride (which he sold in 2021 for $39.5 million).

"It's really special to see them holding their little sister," Katie said. "To hear them talk about all of the fun things they are going to do together." Added Tom, "It's very moving to me too. I look at those moments of watching Bella and Connor grow up and you get a sense of what kind of people they are going to be as adults."

Katie filed for divorce in June 2012, her attorney saying in a statement her "primary concern remains, as it always has been, her daughter's best interest."

Tom's rep told E! News that he "is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children."

The proceedings were settled relatively quickly , with both sides agreeing on Suri living primarily with her mom  while her dad got generous visitation rights. Katie started splitting time between New York and L.A. and resettled Suri on the East Coast for school. 

The  Batman Begins  actress set about giving her kid the most normal life possible, ferrying her to school and gymnastics like any other Manhattan mom. While the paparazzi never stopped clicking away, Katie shared only a handful of glimpses of Suri on social media over the years. But they also were seen at sporting events and have made many a pilgrimage to Broadway  to catch a show.

"My child is the most important person to me, and her upbringing is paramount to my work right now," she told Town & Country  in 2017 . "It's very important that I'm present and she has a stable, innocent childhood. I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there's nothing in the world better than watching your child succeed."

At the same time, she said, "Every day, kids get a little further away from you. That's a positive thing. They should be becoming more independent, but it's heartbreaking."

Suri may not have caught the acting bug yet, but she did sing the cover of "Blue Moon" that opens Alone Together , the rom-com her mom was inspired to write during the pandemic and then also starred in and directed. Suri also provided a vocal for her movie  Rare Objects .

"I hope she always does something on my films," Katie told Glamour  in March 2023. "I always ask her. But both of those experiences came out of the same sense of what I love about our industry, which is, you have these projects and you become a family with people. And it's this safe, beautiful, creative space."

With Suri about to turn 17 at the time, she noted, "What has been really important for me with my daughter, because she was so visible at a young age, is I really like to protect her. I'm very grateful to be a parent, to be her parent. She's an incredible person."