Tom and L.Ron Zen

by Jason Craft on June 28th, 2005

I’m so much more interested in unhinged, delusional Tom Cruise than managed, boring, blank Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise is both a mythmaker — a recurrent figure in our mythology of blockbuster media events — and an adherent to a modern science-fiction made into mythology, made into faith. Fiction, religion and lived experience elude easy divisions in his existence.