He’s one of those famous people that really illustrates how people can’t just be put into neat little boxes. On the one hand, he’s deep into a scam cult that does extremely unethical stuff. Sounds like he’d be a clear-cut bad guy, but on the other hand I’ve never heard anything negative about his professional behavior…

M:I 4 hit when I was working at the movie theater. Feelings on Cruise were kinda neutral, but film fans wanted director Brad Bird to cross over and kick ass in live action - and boy did he. I think 4 remains my favorite - good mix of gadgets in with the action and stunts. The music isn’t dated like in #2.

Friend of mine worked on JACK REACHER. He’s worked on a number of AAA projects.

Tom Cruise learns EVERYONE’S name on set. Tom Cruise treats EVERYONE like a human being on set.

It goes a long way.

Is this what people think will happen...?

I do not ask anyone about their religion, so Mr. Cruise is no different. If someone wants to bring up a Bat Mitzvah story, that is up to her, and I will listen politely.

Why would anyone want to ask Tom Cruise about Scientology? It’s not like he’s going to tell you anything you don’t know, and there’s always the chance that he’ll start talking and won’t stop. It’s like walking up to a used car salesman and telling them that you have $15,000 saved up and don’t know what to spend it on.

In before someone shames you for being old like me and referring to the BotW/TotK Link as the “Hero of Time” because your childhood Link was the OoT/MM Link. Apparently he’s “The Hero of the Wild.”

I really like Southwest as well and I don’t understand the haters. Unless you’ve got high level status, are rich, or lucky, pretty much every carrier these days is just operating a bus that flies. At least Southwest doesn’t nickel-and-dime you for the privilege, and is relatively humane about their booking policies.

It’s not just emptiness required. Rocket launches (in the west, at least) take place on coasts, so a rocket that goes wrong down-range does so over water. Thus, Kennedy Space Center for east launches, Vandenberg for polar launches (to the south), French Guiana Space Center for ESA launches (east or north). Some others…

And again, SpaceX said repeatedly, before the launch, that “clearing the pad” was a success, and everything else was “icing on the cake.”

Ityped that because of this line in the blog:

Years ago, Falcon 9 was “supposed” to perform vertical landings during tests, but it crashed and crashed and crashed. Now it’s the world’s most reliable medium-lift rocket. This is how SpaceX works— it makes iterative improvements based upon the learnings from unsuccessful attempts. That the highly experimental Starshi…

In current continuity, there is no real space for the introspection and evolution of the Imperial Remnant as seen in the old EU

This is a really good call.

If it wasn’t for Timothy Zahn and his blue Grand Admiral, we wouldn’t be looking at Star Wars in the same way now. The success of the Heir to the Empire series in the early 90s started the publishing re-birth of the whole thing and brought George Lucas’ interest back as well.

You’d think it could have at least been reported in this “story”.

Robert Jones died of a heart attack while aboard a Celebrity cruise in August 2020

Wait, what else were they supposed to do? If their Morgue refrigeration unit breaks, there is not much else to be done. Either throw him overboard or find another solution. I do feel like this a money grab by relatives.

“I can’t imagine the pain and devastation of losing your husband while isolated on a ship”

The Miami New Times reports that the morgue corpse fridge broke down. That took me less than 3 minutes to google.