Paul Ridd on how Tom Cruise became a Hollywood icon - YGA#14

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Excellent in depth analysis of Tom Cruise' career and films. It will be very easy for every listener to learn as to why he is a monumental and highly significant figure of modern american cinema. He epitomises those quintessential american values, that in the past were represented by actors like Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, James Stewart and John Wayne. Still, unjustly underrated and placed together with other poster boy stereotypes. He represents in films that relentless, neverending drive to achieve and succeed as an individual in his own right. Embodiment of American Dream, one could say...