Every journalist who covered Hollywood in the Golden Era that stretched roughly from Risky Business (1983) through Top Gun: Maverick (now) has had a Tom Cruise moment.
I had mine in 2002.My father had just died. It was a rough death, not quick, and as I was driving back for the last time from attending him in Sacramento, I made myself a promise: I would be at peace with everyone for a while.
No fighting. No arguments. What anyone asked, insofar as I could, I would just do.As luck would have it, the first test occurred somewhere around Bakersfield.
On the road, I got a call from Maer Roshan, now editor of Los Angeles Magazine, then editorial director of Tina Brown’s Talk.We have a problem, explained Maer.
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