Full Name: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Profession: Actor
Biography: Started his career at age 19 in the 1981 film "Endless Love", and became a full-fledged movie star after starring as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in "Top Gun". He is well known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the "Mission: Impossible" film series. He is also known for his support for the Church of Scientology and its affiliated social programs. Read More...
A banana slug is a slimy yellow mollusk that slides across the ground, leaving an oily residue wherever it goes. It is also the name of UC Santa Cruz’s athletic team. When Santa Cruz joined NCAA’s Division III in 1981, athletic officials presented the school with its first official mascot: the sea lion. But the students were having none of it; they wanted to be called the banana slugs. After five years of slug vs. Read More...
The man in the picture keeps his eyes to the ground. Though there are no walls keeping him in — the image was taken in a rice field — there’s no mistaking that he is a prisoner. The rope that binds his arms is only just visible, but the militiawoman guarding him with her bayonet is plain to see.
And yet, 50 years after that striking photograph was taken, he remembers that the event it captures held for him a secret sense of possibility. Read More...
