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Entertainment, entertainment | ‘risky business’ at 40: tom cruise’s chicago-made movie has even more to say now — about inequality, about the north shore.

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Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise are Lana and Joel in the movie "Risky Business" in 1983.

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After borrowing his father's Porsche, Tom Cruise's Joel tries to stop it from rolling into Lake Michigan in "Risky Business" in 1983.

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Director Paul Brickman, actress Rebecca De Mornay and producer Jon Avnet attend an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science screening of "Risky Business" in 2013 in Hollywood, California.

Rebecca De Mornay and Tom Cruise are Lana and Joel in the movie "Risky Business" in 1983.

As a teenager, though, I mostly wanted to live on Linden Avenue, also in Highland Park. This home wasn’t glass and steel, and I certainly didn’t know then that it was a real house in a fancy suburb of Chicago. It was more like the Brady homestead, but classier. Palatial , definitely. Big front lawn. Tons of green. Lots of shade. Porsche in the driveway.

Tom Cruise lived there in “Risky Business,” released 40 years ago this month.

Unless they saw Francis Ford Coppola’s semi-successful adaptation of “The Outsiders,” which came out a few months earlier, Americans had never heard of Tom Cruise yet. I didn’t sneak into “Risky Business” a couple of times that August (then once or twice more that September) because “Risky Business” starred some guy named Tom Cruise. Looking back, I doubt that I even snuck in so often because it was a teen sex fantasy.

“Risky Business,” then and now, is an indictment of privilege, and of somehow keeping the uglier world at bay long enough to buy your way into a kind of imperviousness. Except — and here’s what I think I responded to — it’s funny and confident and cool and all of its points about the spoils of capitalism get disguised inside a dream of opulence. It appears to affirm the early Reagan years as ripe for opportunity while, with a much deeper subtlety, undercuts places like the North Shore as chilly incubators of inequality.

No wonder, many decades later, Chicago prefers to see Hughes as its cultural heritage while, in those same conversations, the city rarely mentions Paul Brickman’s “Risky Business.”

Ironically, 40 years ago, released the first week of August, made for a paltry $6 million and shot entirely in the Chicago area, “Risky Business” debuted at No. 3; the second most popular film was “Return of the Jedi,” still going after three months, while the first most popular was “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” written by John Hughes. “Risky Business” was more of a slow burn, a word-of-mouth hit that lingered into November. “Sixteen Candles,” Hughes’ directorial debut, started filming in Evanston and Highland Park that same summer, and later, after “Ferris Bueller,” “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and others, the North Shore became an American image of suburban comfort.

Minus, of course, the harshness revealed just a year earlier by “Risky Business” (and a few years earlier than that by “Ordinary People,” based and shot around Lake Forest).

Not that everyone saw this criticism of the Reagan Years in Year 2 of the Reagan Years. David Denby wrote in a New York Magazine review that “Risky Business” played as “openly corrupt.” Dave Kehr, closer to the truth as the film critic of the Chicago Reader (then later the Chicago Tribune), would likely have agreed with Denby, for different reasons: He wrote that the movie was “one of the finest film explorations of the end of innocence,” ending with a “complete corruption” of Cruise’s character and “one of the most bitter and plangent sequences allowed to pass in an American movie.” And that’s about the ending that played in theaters; Brickman’s original ending gets far darker.

My guess, if you haven’t seen “Risky Business” in years, little of this sounds right.

You remember Tom Cruise’s Ray-Ban sunglasses, his father’s Porsche falling into Lake Michigan (via Belmont Harbor) and certainly Cruise dancing in his underwear to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll.” (That famous sequence, producer Jon Avnet told the Highland Park News a decade ago, wasn’t shot on Linden but at a soundstage in Skokie.) At a glance, much of what we associate with the ’80s teen sex comedy genre — gratuitous nudity, oversized bravado, Muddy Waters on the soundtrack — is still there. But in a brisk 99-minute runtime, there’s also criticism impossible to miss now, in 2023: the exploitation, the coldness, the white privilege, the little judgments (now called “micro-aggressions”), the pressure to hold on to one’s class.

Still skeptical?

Brickman’s original title was “White Boys Off the Lake,” as he told former Chicago journalist Jake Malooley in a 2013 Salon article : “I was writing it in the time just after Reagan had taken office and everyone wanted to be little capitalists, get their MBAs and wear power suspenders.” If you haven’t seen “Risky Business” in a while, you might not remember that the anxiety at the heart of Cruise’s Joel Goodsen (sounds like “good son”) boils over once he leaves the North Shore to cruise Chicago and meet the world. The world is less excited, and his parents, out of town, are unable to pick up the pieces.

If you don’t recall that, you probably don’t remember the movie, which features so much of Highland Park, was actually set in Glencoe. Not that it matters. Brickman grew up in Highland Park and partly made the film using high school memories of the town. Cruise, at 21, was mainlining a teenage naiveté that believes, regardless of wealth and standing, permanent records cannot be overcome. He does that little Tom Cruise thing of vibrating in agitation at times, without the veneer of gravitas he later used for court scenes in “A Few Good Men.” But his Joel is a good kid shouldering the weight of family expectations. There’s a sequence Brickman shoots through Joel’s eyes, as if he were a more benign serial killer in an ’80s slasher flick. Instead of breathing heavy and holding a knife, Joel watches and listens as his parents remind him not to have a party while they are out of town, and not to mess with his father’s stereo, and make sure he has money, and do not forget to meet with that admissions guy from Princeton University .

Joel leaves his parents at O’Hare, then, home alone, messes with the stereo, throws parties, and, until it’s too late, appears to have forgotten all about the admission guy.

He also hires a sex worker named Lana, played by Rebecca De Mornay. Brickman is too thoughtful not to admire her cleverness. She’s as resilient as Joel and his Ivy League-headed friends. After Joel doesn’t have money to pay her, he goes to downtown Highland Park to cash a bond. When he returns, she’s already in Chicago — with his mother’s expensive crystal egg. There’s also a killer pimp (Joe Pantoliano) and a scheme to turn Joel’s home, for one night, into a bordello, as a way of making the money that Joel needs to repair a sunken Porsche. There are hookers with hearts of gold, and a bald love of materialism so enticing that, like “The Wolf of Wall Street,” it’s hard to avoid being implicated in the shallowness.

As a teenager, I was enticed.

Most of the kids here do that movie thing — weaponized by Hughes — of sounding so confident, you could imagine basing your whole personality around their brand of brio. Joel is told often by his friends that “Sometimes you gotta say ‘What the (expletive).'” That sounded so, so wise in 1983. Of course, what I did not remember, until watching it again recently, was that everyone who says this either doesn’t believe it themselves (way too risky) or are so financially set that it’s easy for them to sound callously confident.

Little betrayals pile up for Joel.

He is kicked out of school. He manhandles a school nurse. The crystal egg cracks. The pimp forces him to buy the contents of his home back. His interview with Princeton becomes a joke. (“Looks like University of Illinois!” he laughs, embracing the truth.)

Except none of this is the truth.

If “Election” is our great cinematic high school film about the nature of politics, “Risky Business” is our great American high school “Chinatown,” about capitalism, only funnier. Brickman leaves his gut kick for the last moments. Joel does get into Princeton, having bought off the admissions guy with sex. He can’t quite believe this at first, though, as he realizes how the world really works, he gets it. And his future comes together. If you’re paying attention, his eyes go cold here. De Mornay’s Lana — whose future as a sex worker is considerably less certain — says they’ll make it big someday. Joel’s eyes offer nothing. He asks if everything bad that happened was a setup — was she working with her pimp all along? She hesitates, then says, no. It’s hard to believe her. Joel doesn’t.

At least, if you watch Brickman’s original ending (easily found on YouTube ), he doesn’t seem to believe her. She curls into his lap and the camera frames them against Lake Michigan and those unsettled feelings you have are not settled. In the ending everyone saw, they walk through Lincoln Park and joke lightly with each other. Roll end credits.

Either way, the good kids of the North Shore head into the darkness of Chicago and find trouble, then emerge in one piece. No, even better! If anyone gets screwed over, it’s Lana, certain to be dropped by a now-less naive Joel. (In what epilogue would Joel bring her to his parents and actually jeopardize his promise?) Indeed, 40 years later, some details aside — Harvard MBAs earn $40,000 here and a $4 hot chocolate at the Drake is considered nuts — “Risky Business” makes way more sense. It’s the world that’s colder. Forty years later, that lovely colonial on Linden looks even less attainable than it did in 1983. Curtis Armstrong, who played Cruise’s best friend Miles, wrote in his 2017 memoir that it seems safe to say “‘Risky Business’ was the last time (Tom Cruise) was just Tom.”

The other day, I streamed the film on Paramount+. Before the end credits could begin, Paramount’s algorithm started budging me into another yet movie about North Shore teens who drive a nice car to Chicago and find trouble. It’s called “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” and it’s the “Risky Business” we prefer today. All the success, none of the mess.

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25 Things We Learned from Tom Cruise’s Risky Business Commentary

“None of us have that egg. What were we thinking?!”

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Scientology is back in the news, and when you think Scientology you think Tom Cruise . (Well, I do… some of you might think of Kirstie Alley.) So with that in mind, we gave a listen to Cruise’s commentary for his first real feature in a lead role. The track was recorded in 2008 for the 25th anniversary of…

Risky Business (1983)

Commentators: Tom Cruise (actor), Paul Brickman (writer/director), Jon Avnet (producer)

1. The trio start off by thanking David Geffen who financed the film after every other studio they approached declined.

2. Brickman points out the opening credit scene ‐ a late-night/early morning shot from a moving Chicago train ‐ and says he recalls riding the train to get this footage and freezing while Cruise and Avnet slept warmly in their respective hotel rooms. He went AWOL around 2am, exited the train, and went to a still-open Blues club until he eventually felt guilty and returned to “work.”

3. They praise the choice of Tangerine Dream for the score as a bold one seeing as no one had previously dared to pair a comedy with such a dark and haunting score.

4. It took eighteen hours to film Joel’s shower dream. “This poor girl looked like a raisin by the time this scene was over.”

5. The poker game was Brickman’s first scene as a director. He also blew smoke into the shot from just outside the frame.

6. Cruise recalls the solo dance scene to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll,” and says Brickman would toss him props. “You told me to jump on the couch. ‘Jump on the couch, go crazy go crazy!’” Clearly, this is one lesson Cruise took to heart for future couch-related endeavors.

7. The teacher is played by Nathan Davis, father to director Andrew Davis ( The Fugitive , Chain Reaction ).

8. If you’re wondering who was in the Porsche while it’s seen backing out of the garage the answer is ‐ wait for it ‐ Sean Penn. Obviously. The stall was unintentional, and Cruise blames Penn. “He was laughing, and it distracted me.”

9. Cruise, who now counts race cars among his hobbies, wasn’t that familiar with driving stick shift during production, so Avnet gave him some lessons along with a warning that the Porsche was both expensive and the only one they had.

10. The original title was apparently White Boys Off the Lake . It’s a real shocker that they changed it.

11. The morning after scene with Joel (Cruise) and Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) was a re-shoot.

12. The re-watch reminds all three about the film’s pace saying it’s not slow but it’s also not fast like many contemporary comedies. They agree it gives the actors and characters time to breathe while also creating a more natural suspense between scenes.

13. Brickman points out an impressive move by Cruise when he drops his left ear at the 43:20 mark.

14. The school doors are locked, but they weren’t meant to be. Brickman decided to use it for the film though.

15. Brickman recalls the film was tough for the marketing department. “I remember the first poster was a cartoon Joel with all these buxom bikini girls in bed with him and money raining down.” They went to an outside company and created the poster of Cruise looking over the sunglasses.

16. Joe Pantoliano kept sticking toothpicks in his mouth as a prop while delivering lines, and Brickman kept throwing them away saying “Do it with your character, you don’t need the toothpicks.”

17. Brickman asks Cruise if he channeled Joel into Jerry Maguire saying that could have been Joel all grown up. Cruise says if he did it wasn’t intentional.

18. They initially went to the prop department for a pair of sunglasses, but they “opened up this box and had leftovers from In the Heat of the Night ” so they decided to go shopping instead.

19. Megan Mullally is one of the nameless call girls first appearing at the 1:06:10 mark.

20. Brickman recalls Cruise’s screen test being a near-miss as scheduling meant it had to be at 5am. He arrived to pick up Cruise at an apartment building, but with no cell phones and no idea which apartment was his he was forced to wait. And wait. And wait before the actor eventually exited the building well past the pre-arranged time. Brickman jokingly credits his “infinite patience” with helping jump start Cruise’s career. “I thank you for waiting,” says Cruise.

21. The iconic shot of an open-mouthed and smiling Cruise was born from him not understanding how to play the line “Looks like University of Illinois!” Cruise thought it was a dumb line so when he stood and said it he followed it with a big goofy look as if to say “How’s that? I’ll dance for ya!” Brickman loved it and used it.

22. The train-set scene was added at the end and filmed while Cruise was in production on All the Right Moves . This memory triggers Avnet to recall his surprise at how difficult it was for that film’s producers to finally sign Cruise as their lead. Avnet showed them Risky Business footage, but they were still slow to be convinced.

23. The big train sex scene originally featured green-screen work as the train car left the tracks and flew over Chicago, but they all agreed the execution was “embarrassing” so they scrapped it.

24. They shot the egg-catching shot multiple times, and it “knocked the wind out of” Cruise each time.

25. Brickman hates the last scene with Joel and Lana walking in the park. “It’s just banter,” he says, but the studio made him add it so things finished on a more upbeat note. He wanted to end it with Joel’s “Isn’t life grand” line. His preferred ending is available on the Blu-ray.

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Final Thoughts

Brickman only directed one other film, 1990’s Men Don’t Leave , and that’s a shame. His commentary offers insight, as do Cruise’s and Avnet’s, and it’s clear the three made for a good team. Cruise’s contributions are mostly balanced between observations and praising everyone who worked on the production. The track is one of those video commentaries meaning the three of them are in a small window in the corner of the screen. It’s a distracting way to offer a commentary, but it’s fun watching their faces during the sex scenes.

Read more Commentary Commentary from the archives.

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We take you across the state and over numerous genres to find the best films centered in Illinois.

The Blues Brothers (Chicago)

Why is The Blues Brothers the greatest Chicago movie? Not because it’s a great movie. The plot makes no sense — religious orphanages don’t pay taxes — and its quotable moments (“I hate Illinois Nazis”) are interspersed with slooow-paced scenes that show Dan Aykroyd was more adept at sketch comedy than screenwriting. The Blues Brothers is the greatest Chicago movie because it displays a particular Chicago, now long gone: the gritty industrial metropolis that looked like it was headed toward the same post-industrial ash heap as Detroit and Cleveland, just before the yuppie makeover reflected in About Last Night and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off . As that Chicago recedes into time, the movie’s historical value grows.

The film’s opening sequence, as the Bluesmobile navigates industrial South Chicago, is a montage of railroad bridges, fish shacks, run-down two flats, and the smoking, flaming U.S. Steel South Works, which once employed 20,000, but would be gone by decade’s end. Elwood (Aykroyd) demonstrates the car’s class by jumping it over the 95th Street bridge, which is open to make way for a freighter, probably carrying iron ore to a mill up the Calumet River. Wisconsin Steel closed the year The Blues Brothers was released, putting 3,400 steelworkers on the unemployment line. Elwood lives in an L-side flophouse in the Loop, then a seedy, windblown district of gin mills and grind houses where no respectable Illinoisan set foot after five o’clock.

The Blues Brothers reintroduced Chicago to moviegoers. Mayor Richard J. Daley discouraged filmmaking here after the police drama M Squad aired an episode about a corrupt police officer. Mayor Jane Byrne welcomed it. Before filming began, actor John Belushi met with Byrne to ask permission to shoot a large-scale Hollywood movie in Chicago. He offered to donate $200,000 to local orphanages, but what really seemed to sell Byrne was the proposal to drive the Bluesmobile through the Daley Center, named for the family of her political enemies. Do whatever you want, Byrne told Belushi. Just clean up afterwards. Chicago was back on the cinematic map, and the multiplex of movies that followed — Risky Business , The Color of Money , Running Scared , The Untouchables — helped transform the city into the cultural capital it is today.

Trespass (East St. Louis)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre comes to Metro East. Vince (William Sadler) and Don (Bill Paxton), two firefighters from Fort Smith, Ark., go out on a call and hear the confession of a dying man who robbed a Catholic church 50 years before and hid the gold statuary in an East St. Louis factory, for which he provides a treasure map. The factory was long ago abandoned to derelicts and drug dealers, as the country boys discover when they start rooting around with a metal detector and a crow bar. The ruins are the turf of drug dealer King James (Ice-T), who uses the place to perform executions and dump bodies. Alarmed and confused by a couple white guys who don’t seem to be cops, King James calls out his henchmen — who definitely don’t need no stinking badges — forcing Vince and Don to choose between their loot and their lives.

Trespass was actually filmed in Atlanta, at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, which shut down during the 1970s — the older cities of the South are just as rusty as the Midwest. Beyond its inventive use of a factory for a story of buried treasure and gunfights, Trespass is a piercing look at the gang culture of the early 1990s, when the Crack Wars drove big-city murder rates to all-time highs. It’s better than New Jack City , because the gangbangers are characters in an action drama with no good guys or bad guys, rather than villains presented for our disapproval. The casting of gangsta rappers Ice-T and Ice Cube is also shrewd. The battle for gold between thugs and rednecks gives the movie an opportunity to express the racial estrangement of that era — 1992 was also the year of Malcolm X and the Los Angeles riots. When Vince and Don capture a derelict living in the plant, Vince complains that he needs the gold because of “taxes that get higher every year so that people like him can keep eatin’ without doing any work.” And when they capture King James’s brother, Lucky (De’voreaux White), he tells them, “the only time you white boys ever come down here is to rip us off.”

The Informant! (Decatur)

I’m trying to imagine the conversation in which Steven Soderbergh talked Matt Damon into starring in The Informant! : “Matt, we had a big hit with Ocean’s Eleven . Now let’s do a movie based on an investigative reporter’s book about price fixing in the lysine industry. Last time, we filmed in Vegas. This time, we’ll film in Downstate Illinois.”

Damon plays Mark Whitacre, an executive at Archer Daniels Midland, the food processor headquartered in Decatur. In the early 1990s, Whitacre acted as an FBI mole, exposing an international conspiracy to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in livestock feed. At the same time, he was embezzling $9 million from ADM, a crime for which he served eight-and-a-half years in federal prison.

Inexplicably, The Informant! was filmed as a comedy, with a zany piano score by Marvin Hamlisch. That was, it seems, the only way to make lysine price-fixing sexy. Damon gained 30 pounds and wore a toupee to play the bumbling Whitacre. I was working at the newspaper in Decatur when Whitacre’s crimes were exposed, so I recognized some of the people and places in the movie. Damon meets with FBI agents at the Chinese Tea Garden, a classic Chinese restaurant downtown. One of my old colleagues, Tim Cain, has a line as a reporter at a press conference outside Whitacre’s house in Moweaqua. If you’ve always wanted to see Central Illinois on film, The Informant! is your movie.

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (Peoria)

Richard Pryor’s autobiographical film begins with a stand-up comedian in the hospital, recovering from burns suffered while freebasing cocaine. As he lies in a coma, Jo Jo Dancer’s Alter Ego relives his life, beginning with his childhood in Peoria, where he grew up in his grandmother’s brothel. In one early scene, little Jo Jo runs home from school, just in time to see a whore throwing out a john who asked her to piss on him. 

Like most artists, Pryor had a complicated relationship with his hometown. When a Peoria Journal-Star columnist asked Pryor if he had any advice for the newspaper’s readers, he offered two words: “Get…out.” Yet Jo Jo Dancer , the only movie Pryor directed, was filmed in Peoria, although not in the actual houses where his grandmother did business: those had been demolished to build a bridge across the Illinois River. Peoria also made its peace with its most famous and controversial native, erecting a Richard Pryor statue in 2015, a decade after the comedian’s death. The Richard Pryor’s Peoria website is a tour of the town that inspired his comedy.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Springfield)

Daniel Day-Lewis may have acted and sounded more like Abraham Lincoln than any actor who played the 16th president. That’s why he won an Oscar. But no actor ever looked more like Lincoln than Raymond Massey. It’s hard to find anyone so homely in Hollywood.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is based on Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, in which Massey starred on Broadway. (Massey became so associated with the role that he began dressing and acting like Lincoln at parties. “Massey won’t be satisfied until someone assassinates him,” playwright George S. Kaufman cracked.) Lincoln arrives in Illinois as a young rustic, farming, flatboating, and postmastering, and leaves 30 years later as president-elect. In between, he runs for the legislature, gets married, and debates Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), who is portrayed as a respected rival, rather than simply a foil for Lincoln’s anti-slavery views. Abe Lincoln in Illinois is not nearly as political as Lincoln .

In fact, the movie is more concerned with Lincoln’s romances than his politics. First, with Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard), an early love who died young of typhoid. Then, with his wife Mary (Ruth Gordon), portrayed as an ambitious tyro pushing the bashful Lincoln to higher and higher offices. Disappointingly for Illinoisans, Abe Lincoln in Illinois was filmed on location in…Eugene, Oregon. That explains the mountains in Sangamon County.

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (Cave-in-Rock)

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates features the only cinematic depiction of Mike Fink, the semi-legendary Ohio River keelboatman. Fink called himself “the Salt River Roarer.” He bragged “I can out-run, out-jump, out-shoot and lick any man in the river. I’m half sea-dog, and the rest of me is Kentucky war horse, Ohio snapping turtle and Mississippi gator. I can shoot a whisker off a sleeping cat at fifty yards without waking him up. I love women and I love a good fight.”

In this 1956 production, originally aired on ABC’s Disneyland program, Davy (Fess Parker) and his sidekick George (a proto-Jed Clampett Buddy Ebsen) team up with Fink (Jeff York) to capture a gang of pirates posing as Kaskaskia Indians. The pirates are led by a freebooter named Samuel Mason, whose hideout was Cave-in-Rock, a deep, low shelter that looked out on the Ohio from the bluffs at the southern tip of the Illinois Territory. Mason enticed boatmen ashore with a sign advertising “Liquor Vault and House of Entertainment.” If that didn’t bring ’em in, Mason dispatched a confederate to pose as a pilot who could guide the boat through the treacherous channel. Instead, the pilot ran it aground near the cave, where Mason and his pirates overwhelmed the gullible crew and looted their cargo.  Davy Crockett, Mike Fink, and Samuel Mason were all real-life figures whose deeds have been embellished by dime-store novelists, so Davy Crockett and the River Pirates is an entertaining blend of Americana and folklore. Most importantly, for the purposes of this list, it was actually filmed on the Ohio River, at Cave-in-Rock, which is now a state park .

Risky Business (Highland Park)

His name is Joel Goodsen. He deals in human fulfillment. Risky Business was the movie that made Tom Cruise a star. When he danced to Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll” in his underwear, that was it. It was also the movie that started the trend of 1980s teen comedies set in the Chicago suburbs — a year ahead of John Hughes’s Sixteen Candles . Writer/director Paul Brickman attended Highland Park High School.

What those suburban teen movies have in common is a preoccupation with social class and status. In Risky Business , the stakes are higher than who’s popular enough to get invited to Stubby’s party. Joel wants to get into Princeton University, his father’s alma mater. An Ivy League degree will allow him to duplicate his parents’ elite North Shore lifestyle. He and his overachieving friends have one goal: “Make money.”

Joel needs money after a hooker named Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) accidentally rolls his father’s Porsche into Belmont Harbor while his parents are out of town. Lana and her colleagues throw a party at Joel’s house to help him pay for repairs. That same night, a Princeton recruiter (Richard Masur) visits, telling Joel that his credentials are “not quite Ivy League.”

“So, how we doin’?” Lana asks after the interview.

“Looks like University of Illinois!” Joel shouts, before flashing a shit eating grin.

(I know U of I grads who hate that scene.)

 Before the recruiter leaves, Lana’s friends entertain him. When Joel’s father returns, he asks his son, “Do you have something to tell me?” It’s not about the car, or the whores. It’s about the recruiter telling him, “Princeton can use a guy like Joel.” Even if Dad had known all, getting into Princeton would have forgiven all.

High Fidelity (Chicago)

High Fidelity came out in 2000, but it’s a ’90s movie, an homage to Wicker Park’s alternative music scene, which was second only to Seattle’s in that decade. Rob Gordon (John Cusack, the most Gen X actor) owns Championship Vinyl, a used record store at Milwaukee and Honore. Rob and his scenester employees, Barry and Dick (Jack Black and Todd Louiso) wish they could be musicians. They can’t, so they settle for judging everyone else’s musical tastes.

The ’90s were a golden decade for Chicago. High Fidelity inspires nostalgia in anyone who lived through those years. Rob makes a mixtape for a music writer from the Chicago Reader , which was still a fat four sections and still the last word on music in Chicago. Barry belts out “Let’s Get It On” at Lounge Ax , which closed in January 2000, two months before the movie opened, truly marking the end of the ’90s in Chicago. Rob is infatuated with singer Marie De Salle (Lisa Bonet). When he plays her CD at the record store, the voice belongs to Edith Frost , who lived in Chicago then.

At the end of the movie, Rob offers to promote a record by a pair of young skate punks who hang out at the store. The message: Gen X aren’t the kids anymore. The ’90s are over.

The Color of Money (Chicago)

I knew a junkie pool hustler named Waterdog who earned $50 a day as an extra in The Color of Money . The producers needed a lot of pool players for the movie’s final scene, the Atlantic City nine-ball tournament, which was filmed at Navy Pier. Despite the windfall, Waterdog didn’t like the movie, especially compared to its predecessor, The Hustler , which had inspired him to take up pool.

“It didn’t have no plot,” he said, and it didn’t help the action, by inspiring moviegoers to take up the game. 

Waterdog did enjoy meeting Paul Newman, who won an Oscar for reprising his role as Fast Eddie Felson, now a washed-up pool shark working as a liquor salesman. Felson acts as a stakehorse for a young hotshot named Vincent (Tom Cruise, who played a lot of young hotshots in the ’80s). Eddie takes Vincent around to all his favorite rooms, including Chris’s Billiards on Milwaukee Avenue, where he beats hustler Grady Seasons. Chris’s is still there, and still commemorates its cinematic moment with movie posters and stills of the stars, forming a rising gallery along the stairwell.

Soul Food (Chicago)

George Tillman Jr., a Columbia College graduate, also directed Barbershop , which some viewers consider the Great South Side movie. I’ve always preferred Soul Food . I sent my mother the single of the film’s theme song — “A Song For Mama,” by Boyz II Men — and she gushed that I was the real gift. Barbershop is a male-dominated movie, but Soul Food celebrates the matriarchal aspects of African-American culture. Big Mama (Irma P. Hall) gathers her family for a soul food dinner every Sunday. Big Mama holds the family together, but she’s afflicted with diabetes. When Big Mama dies after suffering a stroke during an amputation to remove her leg, everyone in the family starts misbehaving. Teri’s cousin seduces Teri’s husband, leading to a divorce. Then Teri (Vanessa Williams) tries to sell the house to pay Big Mama’s hospital bills. Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) and Bird (Nia Long) go to court to stop her. Soon Big Mama’s family isn’t talking, much less sharing Sunday dinners.

Besides the main players, Soul Food features a couple of amusing supporting characters who play on neighborhood stereotypes: skirt-chasing Reverend Williams (Carl Wright), and reclusive Uncle Pete (John M. Watson Sr.), whose emergence from his room helps save the family.

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Sometimes you just have to say ... 'Risky Business' is 30

Joel Goodson is pushing 50 now, probably a suburban dad wrestling with kids and lawncare woes and holding only fading memories of the night he was chased by Guido, the Killer Pimp. But maybe sometimes he still takes those old records off the shelf to sit and listen to 'em by himself. Dancing in his underwear, of course.

"Risky Business" hit theaters 30 years ago Monday, and turned Tom Cruise from that cute face viewers had seen in "Taps" and "Endless Love" and into a Ray Ban-wearing, toothy grin-sporting young movie star on his way up.

Cruise's image has had its ups and downs since then, thanks to his couch-jumping and other antics, but "Risky Business" lives on as a perfect slice of 1980s cinema. Entertainment Weekly included it on the magazine's list of the top 50 high-school movies, and it did wonders for sales of Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses as well as Bob Seger's 1978 song "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll." It also taught a generation of aspiring status-climbers to covet Porsches because, in Joel's words, "there is no substitute."

But the film did more than that. It's one of the 1980s' most iconic films, predating John Hughes' high-school movie run of "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Pretty in Pink." It features one of the sexiest scenes of its day, where Cruise's character and Rebecca DeMornay get hot and heavy on Chicago's El. (The romantic action may have seemed especially realistic because Cruise and DeMornay were interested in each other in real life, and started dating after the film came out.) And the film's oh-so-quotable dialogue is forever inscribed in a generation's minds -- and sometimes, under their senior yearbook photos.

Here are some of our favorite quotes from that infamous night in Chicago three decades ago:

1. Mrs. Goodson in Joel's dream: "Please, Joel, do what they say, just get off the babysitter."

2. Joel to his friends: "Doesn't anyone want to accomplish anything, or do we just wanna make money?" Friends: "Make money." "Make a lotta money."

2. Joel in his Princeton interview: "Sometimes you just have to say, 'What the (expletive)?' "

3. Lana, after Joel's Princeton interview: "So how are we doing?" Joel: "Looks like University of Illinois!"

4. Joel's dad: "I don't remember giving permission for a party, Joel."

5. Joel's pal Miles: "I don't believe this! I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp."

6. Joel: "Porsche. There is no substitute."

7. Auto-repair shop guy, after Joel's dad's Porsche is pulled out of Lake Michigan: "Who's the U-Boat commander?"

8. Miles to Joel after the car sinks: "You OK? Do you want an aspirin? Your dad own a gun?"

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• [ last lines ]
• Joel Goodson : My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night. Time of your life, huh kid?
• Miles : Sometimes you gotta say "What the Fuck", make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying "What the Fuck", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity makes your future. So your parents are going out of town. You got the place all to yourself.
• Joel Goodson : Yeah.
• Miles : What the fuck.
• Miles : I don't believe this! I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp.
• Joel Goodson : You know, Bill, there's one thing I learned in all my years. Sometimes you just gotta say, "What the fuck, make your move."
• Rutherford : I beg your pardon?
• Service Manager : Who's the U-Boat Commander?
• Joel Goodson : Porsche. There is no substitute.
• Miles : Fuck you.
• Joel Goodson : Some of the girls are wearing my mother's clothing.
• Lana : What's wrong with that?
• Joel Goodson : I just don't want to spend the rest of my life in analysis.
• Joel Goodson : It was great the way her mind worked. No guilt, no doubts, no fear. None of my specialities. Just the shameless pursuit of immediate gratification. What a capitalist.
• Jackie : Joel, I'm going to give you a number. You ask for Lana. It's what you want.
• Joel Goodson : Thank you.
• Jackie : It's what every white boy off the lake wants.
• Joel's Father : Haven't I been telling you. Every once in awhile you just got to say, "what the heck" and take some chances.
• Joel Goodson : You are so right.
• Joel's Mother : Please Joel, do what they say, just get off the babysitter.
• Miles : Say "what the fuck."... If you can't say it, you can't do it.
• Joel Goodson : You didn't tell anyone did ya?
• Miles : No... Glen knows.
• Joel Goodson : What about Barry?
• Miles : He knows too.
• Joel Goodson : Okay. Just don't tell anyone.
• Miles : [ to Joel ] What happened?
• Joel Goodson : Last night?
• Miles : That's right - with Kessler.
• Joel Goodson : She was babysitting down the street...
• Miles : We know that!
• Joel Goodson : So I went over there. It turns out that, uh, she was giving the kid a bath and accidentally hit the shower thing...
• [ some guy off camera ]
• Joel Goodson : right.
• Miles : That could happen.
• Joel Goodson : ...and all her clothes were drying upstairs. So she plops down right on the kitchen floor and she looks up at me and says 'I think I'm in the mood.'
• Barry : She said that? What did you say?
• Joel Goodson : I didn't have to say anything.
• Glenn : Whatcha do?
• Joel Goodson : What do you think I did?
• Glenn : I think you got the hell out of there, ran home, and wacked off.
• Barry : [ makes a wacking off noise with his cheek ]
• Miles : I disagree.
• [ to Joel ]
• Miles : Did you have your bike there?
• Miles : I think you jumped on your bike, peddled home, and wacked off!
• Joel Goodson : You listen to me, buster. You, you a-hole.
• Guido : A-hole?
• Joel Goodson : I want my stuff back right now.
• Guido : Now you listen to me, you little fuck. Not only you take my two best girls, you call me names. If I didn't have any self-respect, it wouldn't just be the furniture, it'd be your arms, your legs, your head.
• Joel Goodson : College women can smell ignorance... like dog shit.
• [ Lana is the prostitute Joel has hired using an alias ]
• Lana : Are you ready for me... Ralph?
• [ after Joel's Princeton interview ]
• Lana : So, how're we doin'?
• Joel Goodson : Looks like University of Illinois!
• Joel Goodson : Uh, my name isn't really Ralph. It's Joel.
• Lana : Mmmm. I'll be needing 300 bucks... *Joel*.
• Joel Goodson : You're kidding.
• Lana : No, I don't believe that I am.
• Joel Goodson : Well, uh, it's just that I don't have that much here in the house.
• Lana : How much do you have?
• Joel Goodson : I have 50 dollars.
• Lana : 50 dollars? What are we going to do about this, Joel?
• Joel Goodson : I don't know.
• Joel Goodson : Could I send it to you?
• Lana : [ incredulous ] Could you *send* it to me?
• Joel Goodson : [ long pause ] I, uh, have a bond at the bank. I could go cash that.
• Lana : I'm not real good at waiting.
• Joel Goodson : I'll be quick.
• Joel Goodson : It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
• [ first lines ]
• Joel Goodson : [ voiceover ] The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are *you* doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined.
• [ Miles is taunting Joel with outrageous personal ads ]
• Miles : "When I was a little girl, my daddy used to spank my bare bottom. Now he's gone. Will you take his place?" Call Misty!
• Jackie : Hello, Joel. I'm Jackie.
• Joel Goodson : Hello, Jackie. I'm not Joel. Joel stepped out for a moment. Hold on... I'll go call him.
• Lana : What if I said I'd be your girlfriend the next couple of days? No charge.
• Miles : [ Miles tries to comfort Joel after the Porsche incident ] You okay? Do you want an aspirin? Your dad own a gun?
• Lana : Let's go make love on a real train.
• Barry : He boffed Hendrix last week!
• Joel Goodson : He did?
• Barry : Yes. And then after the game Saturday, he fucked her.
• Joel Goodson : Barry...
• Barry : What?
• Joel Goodson : Boffing and fucking are the same thing.
• Barry : They are?
• Joel Goodson : Will you do me a favor?
• Lana : Anything, cookie.
• Joel Goodson : Don't steal anything. If I come back here and anything's missing, I'm going straight to the police. I mean it.
• Lana : Joel, go to school. Go learn something.
• Joel Goodson : This was a great idea, Joel. Where else can you get a hot chocolate for $4?
• Joel Goodson : Dad, do you want me to start your car?
• Joel's Father : The car will be fine, Joel.
• Joel Goodson : I mean, for the battery, I mean.
• Joel's Father : Joel, please, you're not to use my car. You're not insured for it. Use the station wagon.
• Joel's Mother : Use my car, honey.
• Joel Goodson : Okay.
• Joel's Father : Joel, do we understand each other?
• Joel Goodson : Okay!
• [ Joel Goodson's parents are away for the weekend ]
• Miles : Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.
• Joel Goodson : So is this Guido guy... he's your "manager"?
• Lana : That's right.
• Joel Goodson : Or a pimp?
• Lana : Now that's quick Joel. Have you always been this quick, or is this something new?
• Guido : Let me give you a little advice so you know. In times of economic uncertainty, never ever fuck with another man's livelihood. Go have fun, now? You know fun, time of your life? Maybe if you follow that, I won't have to come back here.
• Joel Goodson : When it came right down to it, I just wasn't attracted to her.
• Miles : That should never stop you.
• Lana : I'm really trying to be, friends with you. But, I'd appreciate it, if you'd stop laying these little judgments on me, while you're leaning on your daddy's $40,000 car.
• Joel's Mother : Just use your best judgment. We trust you.
• Joel Goodson : I don't think I'm gonna say 'What the fuck' anymore. This thing has gotten... WAY out of control. I'm Gonna kill Miles!
• Joel Goodson : Are you going to help?
• Miles : Sure. When?
• Joel Goodson : Right now!
• Miles : Well, I can't do it right now! I've got a Trig mid-term tomorrow.
• Joel Goodson : Hey, "Mr. What-The-Fuck" - I mean, what about "exploring the dark side" and all that? Or was that just bull shit?
• Miles : That was just bull shit, Joel. I'm surprised you listened to me.
• Joel's Father : Joel, do you have something to tell me?
• Joel Goodson : No. I don't think so.
• Joel Goodson : I was just thinking, where we might be 10 years from now, you know.
• Lana : You know what I think? I think we're both gonna make it - big. I am very optimistic. I mean it.
• Lana : Have you ever made love on a real train?
• Guido : Listen to me.
• Joel Goodson : No, no. You listen to ME!
• [ Guido hangs up ]
• Joel Goodson : Shit!
• Rutherford : You've done a lot of solid work here, but it's just not Ivy League, now is it?
• Barry : Are you stoned?
• Joel Goodson : No. I do not believe so.
• Barry : I think you're really wasted.
• Joel Goodson : This is not wasted, Barry. This is definitely not wasted. - - Barr?
• Barry : Yeah?
• Joel Goodson : I'm a little wasted.
• Lana : What do you think?
• Joel Goodson : I don't know. You tell me. Yes? No? Maybe?
• Lana : Yes. No. Maybe.
• Joel Goodson : Where's Lana?
• Guido : Maybe she's on the choo-choo. I hear she's got this thing about choo-choos.
• Joel Goodson : Joel, do you hear something odd? Something unpleasant?
• Joel's Father : No.
• Joel Goodson : A preponderance of bass, perhaps?
• Joel Goodson : Is this the way I left the equalizer?
• Joel Goodson : No. This is not some toy for you and your friends. If you can't use it properly, you're not to use it at all. My house, my rules.
• Jackie : I mean, when you put your good money down, you gotta get what you went after in the first place. Know what I'm sayin'? When you buy a TV, you don't buy Sony if you want RCA.
• Joel's Father : Princeton can use a guy like Joel.
• Glenn : Do you know what a Harvard MBA makes - first year? Forty grand.
• Kessler : Well, I've got a cousin who went into dermatology. First year - over 60,000.
• Barry : Just for squeezing zits?
• Glenn : Why don't you try it, Barry? You got the experience.

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Tom Cruise’s daughter Suri Cruise has moved into her university dorm.

The 18-year-old freshman was spotted getting settled at the private Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., with the help of her 45-year-old Dawson’s Creek actress mother Katie Holmes.

Suri’s move comes as her 62-year-old actor dad is busy filming Mission: Impossible 8 after taking part in a stunt to mark the closing of the Olympic Games in Paris last week.

A source told MailOnline, which published snaps of Suri moving in with her mom’s help: “Suri wants the full college experience so she is giving the dorm rooms a try and she will have a roommate.

“She is excited for a new chapter in her life.”

Suri’s move will be a huge change from the three-bedroom high-rise luxury apartment she shared with her mum.

The Mail reports the biggest dorm facility on the Carnegie campus is in Donner house for first-year residents.

It has four levels and caters to around 250 freshmen.

There is also the smaller exclusively female Scobell House, which has a maximum of 88 students.

Despite its basic accommodation, the campus features a series of restaurants and a wellness center.

The Mail says Suri will start classes on Aug. 26.

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The actress told Glamour magazine: “I hope she always does something on my films. I always ask her… you have these projects and you become a family with people.

“And it’s this safe, beautiful, creative space.”

She also told recently how she fears rebooting Dawson’s Creek into “today’s world” could “tarnish” the show.

The actress, who starred as Joey Potter in the Massachusetts-set teen romance drama from 1998 to 2003, added there had been a series of talks down the years about bringing back the popular series.

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It certainly looks like these famous freshmen-to-be aren’t just leaving high school behind, but also any drama associated with their family names. Jolie has not yet revealed if she’ll be enrolling in college, but many other celeb students have made their education plans known.

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After over 40 years in the business, Tom Cruise is still Hollywood royalty. The actor, who began his career in the 1980s, is as busy as ever with an eighth Mission: Impossible film slated for release in 2025.

Following his breakthrough role in 1983’s Risky Business , the movie star went on to lead multiple films and was nominated for four Academy Awards (three for his performances in Born on the Fourth of July , Jerry Maguire and Magnolia and one for Best Picture for Top Gun: Maverick , which he produced and starred in).

The Golden Globe-winning actor has also had his fair share of high-profile relationships , dating the likes of Cher and Penélope Cruz as well as his marriages to Mimi Rogers , Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes .

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Risky Business, Baby!

Widely considered his breakout performance at 19 years old, Tom starred as the handsome Joel Goodsen in Risky Business . The dance scene from the 1983 film has become iconic, with Tom seen busting a move in only a button-up shirt, briefs and socks. “I grew up dancing in my underwear in my house. Who didn’t?” he told Access Hollywood in 2023. “I had to figure out how to slide across the floor in my socks.”

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Top Gun Tom

By the time Top Gun was released in 1986, Tom was a bona fide Hollywood superstar. In the film, he played Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a young aviator aboard the USS Enterprise. The film’s sequel, Top Gun: Maverick was released 36 years later in 2022, reuniting Tom with actor Val Kilmer .

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His First Marriage

Tom married actress Mimi Rogers on May 9, 1987. Though the couple divorced in February 1990, they attended the 61st Academy Awards together in 1989. Tom sported a buzz cut and megawatt smile in a classic tux alongside his wife when they arrived on the red carpet.

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His Second Marriage

By the end of 1990, Tom was already married again — this time, to actress Nicole Kidman , whom he met on the set of their film Days of Thunder . Young and in love, they attended multiple red-carpet events together and went on to adopt two children: Isabella Jane and Connor Antony . However, things did not last, and the couple’s spokesperson revealed they were separated on February 5, 2001.

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The Mission Begins

In 1996, he began starring as Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series, which went on to release seven movies with an eighth currently in the works. In the films, Tom looks like a certified heartthrob playing an agent of the Impossible Missions Force.

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Show Him the Money!

The same year as the first Mission: Impossible film, Tom also starred as the titular role in the 1996 sports drama Jerry Maguire . At that year’s Golden Globe Awards, Tom took home the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.

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Cruz-ing Along

Following his divorce from Nicole, the award-winning actor dated his Vanilla Sky costar Penélope Cruz from 2001 to 2004. At the premiere of her film Captain Corelli’s Mandolin , Tom joined Penélope on the red carpet, again sporting a buzz cut and looking suave in his 5 o’clock shadow.

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His Third Marriage

By April 2005, Tom was dating actress Katie Holmes . That year, he famously appeared on a TV show and declared his love for Katie by jumping off — and on top of — the set’s couch and telling the talk-show host, “I’m not going to pretend,” adding: “I’m in love.” However, their relationship ended in divorce in 2012.

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Single and Stoic

Seen here in 2013, Tom was single yet again. Still, he looked as handsome as ever as he suited up the hand and footprint ceremony honoring Ben Stiller at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 3, 2013, in Hollywood.

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Only Tom Cruise can rock a face mask in style. The actor was photographed in October 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic filming the seventh Mission: Impossible film at Via Dei Fori Imperiali in Rome, Italy.

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Mission: Possible

Who thought it possible that the actor would still be starring as Ethan Hunt in his 60s? Here he is at the Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premiere at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 10, 2023, in New York City, where he rocked his shaggy hairstyle in a classic suit.

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Dressed for the Occasion

The man can certainly clean up well! In February 2024, Tom attended the London Air Ambulance Charity Gala Dinner in London, England, where he was also photographed alongside Prince William . Looking dapper in black and white, it’s safe to say that some things only get better with age.

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Creator of Tom Cruise deepfakes shares how he made those viral TikTok videos

It took a lot more work than the average person could handle, says visual effects artist Chris Ume.

• Named a Tech Media Trailblazer by the Consumer Technology Association in 2019, a winner of SPJ NorCal's Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2022 and has three times been a finalist in the LA Press Club's National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.

Actor Miles Fisher appears on the left, while the deepfake depicting him as Tom Cruise is on the right. 

Chris Ume was just trying to have some fun when he created those Tom Cruise deepfake videos  on TikTok with actor and impersonator Miles Fisher . He didn't expect the clips to go viral or to stir up as much conversation as they did in the past week.  

"We weren't trying to fool people," the visual effects artist said in an interview. "We were trying to spark their fantasy." 

In the three videos, which were posted under the TikTok account @deeptomcruise , someone who appears to be Cruise is seen playing golf , doing a magic trick and awkwardly sharing an anecdote . Everything is practically spot on, from the laugh to the gestures to the facial expressions. But in reality, it's just Fisher behind the camera, whose image has been warped by deepfake technology. 

Deepfakes  are videos that appear to show people doing or saying things they never did. Despite Ume's goal to have fun with the project, several people took to social media to discuss the darker possibilities of  how deepfake technology could be used to mislead or manipulate people . One Twitter user  outlined potential scenarios  in which videos of leaders are altered to have them appear to say things they never did, or false information is used to spark riots. There's plenty of concern deepfake technology could  disrupt elections  or  violate people's privacy .

Ume wants to make it clear that his intentions were purely creative, and that it's not so easy for anyone to create videos as convincing as his -- at least not with where the technology currently stands. He spent two months training an AI model, several days shooting the clips and around 24 hours on post-production for each video.

"A lot of work went into creating these things," Ume said. "For this particular project, you have to know you have a professional actor. He's one of the best Tom Cruise impersonators. ... On the other hand, you have me. I'm a deepfake specialist, and I'm a visual effects artist. I also have professional hardware to work with. The two of us, we're like a professional team. It's not like you're sitting at home and you can just click on a button and you can create the same thing we did."

That doesn't mean the technology won't progress in the coming years, he notes. 

"Yes, the tech will get better," Ume said. "People will be able to do more stuff on their own. But we are not there yet."

So far, the tech has largely been used to show what's possible and as a source of entertainment, particularly in the online pop culture space. Curious fans have reimagined a handful of actors, from  Tobey Maguire  to  Lynda Carter , into  roles they never played . If this isn't a completely novel practice, then why did the Tom Cruise videos get so much attention?

"Because the impersonator is so good," Ume said. "And it's Tom Cruise. Everyone loves Tom Cruise."

Despite their popularity -- or perhaps because of it -- Ume and Fisher initially decided to delete the videos from the @deeptomcruise TikTok account. They felt the clips had fulfilled their purpose, Ume says, and they didn't want Cruise to feel uncomfortable. (He notes they were never contacted by TikTok or Cruise, but they just felt it was time to close out that chapter. TikTok and Cruise didn't respond to a previous CNET request for comment.) But on Friday, Ume and Fisher once again made the videos visible on their TikTok account so people could view them in their original format, instead of watching reuploads across social media.

Ume also released a breakdown of how he created the deepfakes on his YouTube channel, and is ready to start on his next project, whatever that may be. 

"The pressure is on for me now to create new stuff," he said. "It's [going to be] a challenge, just as these videos were." 

But it likely won't be Mission: Impossible. (Sorry, I had to.)

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Katie holmes runs errands with wet hair after dropping off look-alike daughter suri at college.

Katie Holmes was out and about in New York City on Tuesday after dropping her daughter, Suri Cruise, off at college over the weekend.

The actress, 45, sported a head of wet hair as she ran errands while wearing an almost sheer black button-up top and a pair of matching black slacks.

She paired the casual fit with red flats.

Holmes went without makeup and carried two tote bags on her arm during her outing.

She also chose several small accessory pieces to finish her look including a pair of large square-shaped sunglasses, some stacked gold chains and a pair of gold earrings.

Holmes was seen helping her daughter Suri — whom she shares with ex-husband Tom Cruise — move into her dorm over the weekend as she started her collegiate career at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tom wasn’t present for the big move-in day. Though, he was seen in pictures  landing a helicopter  at London Battersea Heliport following his week-long vacation in the Mediterranean.

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The “Mission: Impossible” actor hasn’t had much of a relationship with his daughter for most of her life.

“Proud” mom Holmes, on the other hand, has held a very close bond with Suri. She recently told Town & Country Magazine she’ll miss their “close proximity.”

However, she’s “happy” for her only child.

“I remember being this age, this time of beginnings,” Holmes said. “It’s exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that.”

She also joked that she’ll be spending more time with her book club friends.

“The members of my book club are going to get annoyed hearing from me,” she said with a laugh. “I’ll be like, ‘Let’s meet once a week.’”

Suri — who recently started going by the name “Suri Noelle” to honor her mother — graduated from LaGuardia High School in June.

She revealed her college choice in a May TikTok posted by one of her classmates. The video has since been deleted.

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