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Peter Bart: George Clooney And Tom Cruise Building Strong Third Acts For Their Careers

Tom Cruise and George Clooney proved this year it’s possible to defy the odds and create strong third acts for their acting careers, Pete Bart writes.

For Clooney, it was a welcome turnaround: Only a year earlier, his popcorn movie with Brad Pitt ( Wolfs) had tanked, and he was hearing rumbles about his politics and personal life. Cruise’s eighth Mission: Impossible re-awakened the global box office yet again, even i nvading the Guinness Book of Records(do they really chart burning parachute jumps?). Arthur Miller, the distinguished playwright, had written the misfits screenplay specifically to co-star his wife, Marilyn Monroe — she played a former stripper who fell for Gable, a retired cowboy.

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