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Tom Cruise is one of the most influential and powerful men in Hollywood... it wasn't always that way. He has had to fight his way to the top of tinseltown's A-list. Even now he constantly has to prove himself to nay-sayers who question his competence and talent.Cruise seemed to have had to struggle throughout his life. More
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In March 2004, Cruise cut ties with longtime agent Pat Kingsley for speaking out against Scientology as bad for his image, the book relates. "From that moment, she was doomed," Morton quotes a "Hollywood insider" as saying.
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If that's true, Cruise may have to draw upon that bond to boost Samurai, which could prove his toughest test as a box office draw. Running nearly 2½ hours long and centered on feudal Japan's Meiji Restoration period, Samurai isn't exactly the popcorn fare that made Cruise Hollywood's most bankable leading man.
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