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Hj lay-lay iMyiniy niyi 1.11 'f 't'yy 9 'I 8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 19R6 For Cruise, success is doing what he wants Advance interest in 'Cats' will bring encore engagement ily a verbal or literary Intelligence." You see that intelligence in Cruise's willingness to probe and push the way a character is written, to lift off the page. "I'm looking for a different angle, trying to find something new about the character that hasn't been done before, that's something in myself or that I've seen somewhere, and incorporating it," Cruise says. After "Risky Business," Tom Cruise made three movies in a row: "The Color of Money," "Top Gun" and Ridley Scott's "Legend," a debacle that consumed a year of his life. "This is the first time that I'm going back and starting to read books, and get some studying in, and reading some plays, and hanging out," Cruise says. "Getting my life and taking a look at it, see where it's at." And where it's at, well, that's not half bad.

"When I wake up in the morning, if I didn't feel good, and I didn't feel that I was going to do the best I work with director Martin Scorsese and Paul Newman. Color of Money" is playing at Green Tree 4, Oxmoor, Raceland, and Westland.) "I'm very detail-oriented, with just little things," Cruise says of his acting approach. "When you look at the way Joel Goodson walks he's got kind of a duck walk, when you see the guy. Or look at Maverick. Maverick 'carries his The shoulders, very slow he's not the kind of guy who's gonna run anywhere, really." That attention to detail meant playing football and going to a local high school under an assumed name for "All the Right Moves," and shooting pool (thus the table in his apartment) till be could perform all but one of his own shots in "The Color of Money." But Cruise's talent as an actor stems from more than just a dogged-ness in doing his homework.

He has, in Chapman's words, "what all talented actors have, a kind of genuine intelligence, which is not necessar could do that day, I would stay in bed. And I did that for a while!" he says, laughing. "It's been a struggle. Growing up, it's been difficult, and things have been difficult. "Sometimes for people, failure is much easier than success.

Because once you get in the position where you're given everything, it's in some ways a frightening thing. Because of friends and family who have been around me, It's made it enjoyable. And I want it to be enjoyable. I don't want to be afraid of it. "It's that thing you know, that self-destruct light goes off.

Things have happened and I'm here, and it's the thing now of really taking the time and not quitting, not sitting back. Like Newman he kept at it. I just want to live my life, because that's what enriches my work. It's Just a matter of not pulling back from that, not letting it be easy. It's the thing of, like anything, What do I want?" "It's to take care of your wish, because you might get it." Continued from Page 1 1 on those emotions, to use fear and anger to unlock the characters he's played.

''Acting Is scary at times," Cruise says. "You have to face a lot in yourself. There are certain things you can hide from, and get away from, but if you're playing a guy who has a lot of anger and fear first you decide what they're afraid of." And then Cruise launches into a discussion of some of the characters he's created: Maverick, the reckless flyboy of "Top Vincent, the impulsive pool shark of "The Color of and Joel Goodson, the confused "Future Enterpriser" of "Risky Business." "Maverick is most afraid of death. He's afraid, really, to get involved with people, really get Involved. I mean, the best friend he ever had was Goose, and he killed him." "Vincent is not part of the crowd.

He's always needed a lot of attention and affection, and he's very "Someone else phoned me and talked about all the great times we had in Scout troop; it wasn't he'd been on for 10 minutes that I realized he was referring to my brother." Nobody seemed to mind paying as much as $40 for a ticket. "People didn't even ask us what the price was," Broecker said. "They "Just said, 'Get them for Advance interest in "Cats" was so great that negotiations for next season's encore performances began weeks before the show's recent Kentucky Center run. "We'd never before negotiated and confirmed a repeat of a show before presenting its first performance," Broecker said. He said next season's presentation in the Kentucky Center will feature the original touring production "probably with many of the same actors." Continued from Page 1 1 tickets were sold at full price, with no group-sale discounts or complimentary admissions.

"We made a nice profit," Broecker said, "but I don't want to put a number on it." The previous Broadway Series sales record was held by "Sugar Babies," which attracted 19,473 patrons and generated $448,760 worth of tickets during its September 1985 run. But nothing prepared Broecker for the hysteria surrounding the production of "Cats," which sold out its 1,000 non-subscription tickets in less than three hours. "People wanting tickets called us up with every excuse," Broecker said. "One person said his mother was dying, and seeing 'Cats' would be one of the last things she'd be able to do. afraid of being alone, because, in some sense, he's always alone.

Via cent has a lot of fears that's why he moves so fast. When you see him walking, it a skip and a jump. "Joel is the kind of guy who cried when his mother left him in kinder garten, you know what I mean? Joel is afraid of everything. He's afraid of women, he's afraid of sex. And he's afraid of not being part of the crowd.

When he questions his friends about the money situation, he doesn't stand up for himself and say, 'Hey, c'mon you guys, look at everything we have, and look at what's going on in the He's too afraid." There are actors his age, like Sean Penn, who may have more varied technical resources than Cruise. And there are others, like Rob Lowe, who are more conventionally attractive. But no one else has that smile, the big-toothed sliver that says "It's great to be Tom Cruise!" None of which means much to Cruise. "You can't live your life for applause or for box office or re-Views," he says. "It's not to say that it doesn't affect me at all.

But my choices in life can't be based on that. The good thing about being a movie star is that luxury of being able to do what I want to do, to be fortunate enough to work with a Scorsese." That's not merely self-serving on Cruise's part, for the facts are there he's used his leverage as a movie star to develop his skills as an actor. Another star in his position might not have taken a second part in "The Color of Money" (and reportedly, a cut in pay) for the chance to When You Call 976lif 11 Get A Chaigs Out Of Itf Jttfi amount varies from service to service Additional long distance charges may also apply. So when you call, be aware of the cost. Make sure your children know, too.

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