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International Insider: Tom Cruise’s Olympic Descent; Breaking Baz Meets Dave Stewart; How Entertainment Stoked The UK Riots
Tom Cruise's Olympics stunt, Dave Stewart's new musical film and Shah Rukh Khan in Locarno feature in International Insider this week.
Next, he jumped on a motorcycle, strapped in the flag and made an exit, with one commentator suggesting: “Tom’s going to drive this straight to Los Angeles.” A pre-recorded stunt then showed Cruise leaping out of a plane and landing on the Hollywood sign to pass the baton to a group of Team USA Olympians. The Grammys exec producer, no stranger to live events TV, also revealed some of the more stressful elements of the production, which involved technical connections from LA to Paris, working with the Olympic broadcasting team and pre-filming certain sections over security concerns in Venice Beach. “It was over the top and cliché-filled — as if anything less would have sufficed,” wrote our man in the U.S. Dom noted that the sheer weight of the star power “simply dimmed” the majestic artistry that Thomas Jolly’s French portion of the three-hour ceremony favored — even despite the country’s new hero, Léon Marchand, bringing the Olympic flame into the stadium.
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