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Tom Cruise: Love affairs, Marriages, Hookups and 20 amazing facts about your Favorite actor and producer. Interesting and surprising facts about your beloved Tom Cruise 1. Tom Curise original name is Thomas Cruise Mapother 2. Nominated 3 times in Oscars award. 3. Won 3 Golden Globe Award for his best performance in 2 films “Born on the Fourth of July”, “Jerry Maguire” and best supporting role in “Magnolia” 4. Tom Married 3 times with Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Kaite Holmes 5. Cruise has…

On October 11th 2015, I had the opportunity to go to a police ride along in Montgomery County at 6am. I was excited to go to my first police ride as soon as I hit the door. The first thing I heard was a police saying “I don’t want to hear your negativity, so you go through that door and back again with a positive one”. So after I waited for a while, I was greeted by a police officer name Mike Joseph. Joseph gave me a slight tour of the department. There was an integration rooms, paper work, and…

“Parenting gone wrong” is a phrase used to describe a child’s bad behaviour when he or she does something unexpected. Many call this phrase harsh because one can never control children. If children behave in a certain way later on in life it can’t be blamed on their upbringing, but does it really have nothing to do with bad parenting when a child feels abandoned and feels that they have been forced to do something they never wanted to? The story “Next term, we’ll mash you”, which is written by…

industry (“Leading By Example”). The Award Academy has also stepped up to solve their own problem. To celebrate more people of color on their board, they have vowed to double the percentage of diversity in their members by 2020. Roughly 683 people, that are deserving, will join the academy board. Of all the invitees, 46% are women and 41% are people of color (Feinberg). Putting more diversity in the Academy does not automatically make it a better Academy but it is progress. It will also set a…

According to a study done by USC, “across 100 top-grossing films of 2012, only 10.8 percent of speaking characters are Black, 4.2 percent are Hispanic, 5 percent are Asian, and 3.6 percent are from other (or mixed race) ethnicities.” Moreover, the remaining 76.3% roles in these films were given to White actors. Whitewashing and misrepresentation needs to stop because, Hollywood and many other forms of media don’t bother with casting POC in movies. Hollywood gets praised for this, and the white…

Have you ever had the passion for creativity? Have you wanted to create movies, videos, or be a famous Youtuber? In an advertisement produced by Samsung titled “The Rest of Us,” Samsung highlights the features of their new phone and products that can be used in film-making and production. In the advertisement, it uses Casey Neistat, a famous YouTuber with over six-million subscribers, to deliver a powerful monologue about creativity. He is known for being a top filmmaker on YouTube, producing…

Award season is creeping upon us and the best picture nominees of 2017 have been released. Nine nominees and only one winner. All the films that have been nominated are tough contenders and it will be hard to pick only one. With nominations like Dunkirk, call me by your name and Three Billboards (which already won the golden globe for best picture.) It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but if I had to choose I would pick The Post. Kay Graham the publisher for the Washington Post, was given…

The importance of an assortment of racial groups off-screen is arguably necessary in order to produce a larger amount of diversity within films and to better represent POC. Arguably, this may be one factor when considering why POC are not being cast if the people that are casting are white and will not want to break the system of institutionalised racism. In regards to gender, Women are another oppressed group. Women are often sexualised and objectified and are also commonly exposed to negative…

were famous at the time. A cycle of small successes and failures pursued, but even when a movie itself was a failure critics tended to compliment on his performance. His role in “Big” brought him his first big success, gaining him his very first Academy Award nomination for best actor. His success factors that helped him through his acting career are luck, education, and talent. Tom Hanks is a very successful actor all of his success comes from many factors. One of those factors are luck.”He…

An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry. It corresponds to the Grammy Award for music, the Academy Award, or the Oscar for film and the Tony Award for theatre. Winning all four is referred to as the grand slam or “EGOT” coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas who said his acronym originally stood for energy, growth, opportunity and talent. Only 12 people have achieved this. Directly off the Emmy website, The Emmy Awards were conceived in 1948 and its founding fathers…