The Tom Cruise Curse- who will he play next? [View All]

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A warning to any real person mega star Tom Cruise may be depicting in a big screen box office smash: You may get caught up in a Washington corruption case.>>>>snip

Cruise's character in "Top Gun" -- Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell -- was based on former Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-San Diego, who is now in jail after pleading guilty to bribery charges.

And Cruise's character in "A Few Good Men," Lt. Daniel Kaffee, was based on New Mexico's fired federal prosecutor David Iglesias. Iglesias was one of eight U.S. attorneys recently dismissed by the Bush administration.

Cruise is slated to play a Member of Congress in "Lions for Lambs" that also will star Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.

Will the curse of Cruise continue?

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/03/tom-cruise-political-curse.html

"Lions for Lambs"

The movie is a drama called Lions for Lambs directed by Robert Redford , and Redford and Meryl Streep
will co-star. Written by- the film weaves together three interconnected storylines. In one Cruise
plays a congressman dealing with a journalist played by Streep. In another, Redford
plays an idealistic professor trying to inspire rich snobby students. In the third,
one of Redford's former students is one of two American soldiers wounded in enemy territory.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Cruise-Takes-Lions-For-Lambs-3881.html