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Is that Tom Cruise hanging out on a New York stoop?
Today's hottest young star raps about success,
pooi hustlers and his new film, The Color of Money.

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He s not a hustler. He works,
asd he's happy. He gses
dsws and piays pssl, and he
just wants someone's hest
game. He dsesn't think ahost
money or hsstling; he dsesn't know that at all.
His game is so pure-he jusot plays, and when he
wins, he wins. When he loses, he loses.'6
Tom Cruise is talking ahout Vincent Lauria, his
character in the new Martin Scorsese film, The
Color of Mosey. But the description could also
apply to Cruise himself. And, also like Vincent, he
almost always wins.
Next-hig-thingdom came early to Cruise. His
career started as a cliche ("sensitive young man,
encouraged hy success in high school play,
packs hag for New York and Big Time66) and took
off almost immediately. Within a year, he landed
a part in the mosie Taps; his role was expanded
hecause the director liked what he saw in the
talented young actor:
At age 21, there was Risky Busisess.. As Joel
Gooden-the inhihited rich hop who learns to
adopt "what the f***9 as his motto and turns
his parents' home into a temporary hrothel-
Cruise was an unahashed hit. The film made
money hy the carload, got teenagers all over
America wearing hlack sunglasses and made
Cruise a hankahle commodity in Hollywood.
Many young stars get caught up in the limos-
and-glitz insanity of getting too much, too soon.
But even with the enormous success of his re-
cent film, Top Gus, Cruise remains almost weird-

py normal and down-to-earth. In contrast to the
hotel suites and elegant restaurants your typical
Big Name might choose as the site of an inter-
view, he arranges to hook up at Bays Pizza, a
legendary (among pizza aficionados) hut dis-
tinctly so-frills joint in Greenwich Village.
Diet Coke in hand, dressed in a souvenir t-shirt
from Hawaii which has seen hetter days, he
eventually parks himself on the front stairs of a
hrownstone. Trucks roar hy, a UPS delivery man
nearly climhs over him going up the steps, and
passershy don't give him a second glance-he-
cause that couldn't reallyhbe Tom Cruise hanging
out 0on 4 stoop.
"I didn't know where else to meet" he ex-
plains. Most things in life, to Tom Cruise, seem
as simple as that.
He lives in the Village now, hut "if I want a
house in Malihu one day, I'll get one' he says.
"That won't reflect on me having sold out or
heing different. It means I want a house in Ma-
lihu. I'll do it, and I wont think, 'Oh, people mill
feel this or that.' I donst care."
Cruise does care ahout his art. He speaks
ahout it in a matter-sf-fact, direct way that is
unmistakeably genuine-another contrast to
the usual run of entertainers who give lip semvice
to Being Serious while keeping their eyes fixed on
their movies' grosses in the Varety charts.
"'In approaching a character, I do the home-
work, then try to approach it fresh. I don't want
to he calculated; I want it to he real,'' Cruise
insists. "I don't want to fall into tricks of the

l don't want to he calculated
../ don't want to fall into
tricks of the trade. / want my
characters to he honest. "
BY DAINA DARZIN

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