Tom Cruise: “I Always Wanted To Be A Father, A Husband”

For 20 years Tom Cruise has been wowing audiences, with his action-packed movies raking in well over $7 billion. Tom's leading-man status in Hollywood quickly started to fade after several television appearances including a testy encounter with Today’s Matt Lauer, his comments on Brooke Shields' drug use for her postpartum depression, and of course jumping on Oprah's couch. As a result, he lost his long-standing producing deal at Paramount Pictures and became fodder for parody in the town that made him a star.

As he nears 50, the Top Gun actor has put his career crisis on Cruise-control, coming off the biggest box office hit of his career in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and he aims to please in the upcoming summer flick, Rock of Ages. Cruise opens up to Playboy about keeping his life simple with mother, sisters, wife Katie Holmes and his kids - Bella, 19, Connor, 17, and Suri, 6 - close to his side.

Filed under: Tom Cruise

Photo credit: FameFlynet

Read Original Article »»