![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the level of performance expected of a Rolling Stone or an Expendable is one thing, and the work that Tom Cruise appears to demand of himself is something else entirely. Mick Jagger blew by that milestone in 2003, as did Sylvester Stallone in 2006, and, thanks presumably to healthy habits and/or medical technology dreamt of only by science fiction, they’re both still out there, doing a version of the kind of thing they’ve always done. Even for a physical performer like Cruise, sixty is no longer an expiration date. The fact that he does not look it, at all, even in IMAX closeups so tight you can study the grain of his tooth enamel, adds a note of cognitive dissonance to “ Top Gun: Maverick,” the long-aborning sequel in which he’s called back to mentor a squad of younger stick-jockeys who address him as Pops and Old-Timer until he wins their respect in the air. On July 3rd, Tom Cruise will be sixty years old. ![]()
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