THE BLUES

"The blues ain't nothin but a good woman on your mind."

Tom Cruise (83)

Tom Cruise has done no wrong in my book. He is phenominal in everything! He's just as crazy today as he was in his younger years. He's always running at full speed or laughing at the top of his lungs in every film. He pours his heart into it. I like him in everything, but these two films are priceless.

All the Right Moves '83



Risky Business '83

Brad Pitt (87 - 91)

Cutting Class '87



Great horror film.



The thing I like about young actors is they have a lot to prove. They put so much more into their work.




Thelma & Louise '91



Pitt has a small part in Thelma & Louise, but when he is in the frame I giggle the entire time.



When they get older and being a superstar comes easy, they find out they don't have to work as hard to achieve the fame. And their art suffers.




Johnny Suede '91



Johnny Suede is a bazaar indie film. His character is very confusing to me. It's not at all what you'd expect. Strange and interesting movie by an original directer.



I guess it says a lot about Pitt's role, that it confused me. It was odd, awkward, innocent, naive and had depth.




It's always better to starve the artist, than to praise him.

Richard Gere (78 - 83)

Days of Heaven '78


A transcendent Terrence Malick film. Gere is rough and hot-headed coal shoveler from Chicago in the early 1900s. Him, his girl, and his sister move out the Texas panhandle to work for a wealthy farmer. There they meet a "Malick, man vs nature" as well as a love triangle. Gere is phenomenal, this film is breathtaking.

American Gigolo '80


Surprisingly not a mainstream film. The scenes and the plot in this film are not the kind you see in the theater, yet, it put Gere on the map.

Breathless '83




From the get go you realize that this is not your usual film. And yes... it's a remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless from 1960. The directer Jim Mcbride also wrote the script. Gere's character is obsessed with rock and roll, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the comic The Silver Surfer. The character are switched in this film, Gere is an American in Los Angeles who had killed a cop. He meet up with a French girl there... see how it's different? It was released in France as A Bout de Souffle Made in USA. Tarantino sites this as one of his favorites. There's some seriously hot and heavy scenes in this film, don't watch it with your parents.

The film is a comic book styled film... like a rock and roll Dick Tracy. It's wild and out of control and it's mainly due to the insane amounts of energy Gere brings to the film.

SAD BOY

Page 1 of a letter to Barbara Glenn his girlfriend in New York after first moving to the West Coast for the filming of East of Eden.

SINGING HEARTS

My next lady must be a singer.