BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 08:20 PM

I have never seen Cruise in a movie so far as I know - I don't watch many movies- but it seems to me that, given the extra care that unusually short leading men require in making films, the guy must be unusually talented or they wouldn't bother with him.

Not that I like what I know of Tom Cruise, the man.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 08:04 PM

The real question, Janie, is...

...how short is he???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 08:02 PM

As Peter O'Toole said in The Stunt Man: "How tall is King Kong?"

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Janie
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 08:00 PM

Of course it matters. Apparently as metaphor to some.


Is he short?

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:59 PM

Who gives a shit? And why?

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:43 PM

Ed... when we were nose to nose, his toes were in me and when we were nose to nose, his toes were in me and when he was in me, I was lonely. That's the way it was told to me by my structural engineering professor... the geek with the glasses and not a hair out of place who began every class exactly on time and ended the same way. THAT was a strange day.

Now... the subject dick. I don't care how tall, or short, he is. He will never be tall in my books after spewing his warped pseudo-religious diatribe on the airwaves. A spiritual man? A man of good will and kindness and then all these movies about violence? Same goes for that there John Revolting fellah. Get back on yer spacedout ship lads and fly back ta LaLa Land.

That's the long and the short of it as I see it.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:36 PM

Only if it stops him from riding the Roller Coaster!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:33 PM

Not the length of the pencil but how and what you write...

Tom Cruise is crazy... Google Nicole Kidman...

B~

Subject: REes it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: GUEST,Ed (
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 07:00 PM

2xcuse my typing + doing it on a blackberry-- the keyboard is really tiny:)

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: GUEST,Ed (
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 06:57 PM

Height seems to matter when you try to get on carnival rides, or give blood. 4ome taller women are cautious about dating shorter men, but certaily not all. Beyond thst, maybe not, especially if you are rich.

This reminds me of a story:

* very tall woman dated a short gent. The next day her friend asked her how the date went. She repiied "Wwe tried to have sex.- but, when we were nose to nose hie toes were in it, and when we were toes to toes, his nose was in it".

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 06:55 PM

It's silly to have an opinion about celebrities at all....but we all do it. Just look at all the sappy celebrity obituaries people post here at Mudcat, and how irritated they get if somebody breaks the taboo and speaks ill of dead child molesters and the like.

-Joe=

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 06:46 PM

The better, and more pertinent question, is: Does Tom Cruise exist, or were we forced to invent him?

Subject: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 06:14 PM

I don't think it does. Who really cares? The reason I bring it up is because I know an old gentleman from the 60s folk music community who keeps viciously insulting Tom Cruise at any possible opportunity, referring to him as "the Lithuanian dwarf" or something like that...I may have the nationality wrong...at any rate, he delights in talking about how short Tom Cruise is, as though this relegated the poor man to the value of a lab rat or a piece of road kill.

He may be annoyed over the fact that Tom Cruise is better known than he is, earns more money, and goes out with better looking women...but I'm only theorizing about that... ;-)

So, what's the verdict here? Does it matter if Tom Cruise is shorter than a lot of other men? I can't see why it should. After all, they can make him look just as tall as most other people by the magic of modern filmmaking, CGI, and the usual old tricks (having his lover stand in a trench when she's beside him, etc). No one can tell the difference.

And he's still taller than Chongo!