Tom Cruise, Fred Claus Denied
November 14, 2007 on 11:39 pm | In Actors, Celebrity, Entertainment, Hollywood, Money, Movie Premieres, Personal Thoughts, Television, Tom Cruise, VIP People | No Comments
When is a Tom Cruise movie not a Tom Cruise movie? When it doesn’t open at number one, for one thing. Lions for Lambs, the Iraq War-inspired drama starring Cruise as a hawkish senator, Meryl Streep as his obsequious media mouthpiece and Robert Redford as the last principled man, couldn’t solve the weekend box office, taking in just $6.7 million, per estimates. Fred Claus, the new Vince Vaughn holiday comedy, had its own problems, failing to crack the $20 million mark. I resent that crack aimed at anyone who is older than the current crop of celebrity brats. Could it be that we, the “over 35″ crowd, don’t “rush out to movie premiers” because we have better, more important, things to do? Perhaps we have responsibilities that we take seriously enough that we don’t just drop everything and rush off to the movies. Not everyone sees life as one frivolous movie premier after another. That certainly doesn’t mean we’re old and decrepit and easily broken! Perhaps when you grow up and discover how many people of your age still manage to have meaningful lives without movie premiers, you’ll realize just how shallow your remark was.