ISSUE DATE: July 5, 1999
CRUISE ALSO APPEARED: Dec. 25, 1989; July 1, 2002
THE BUZZ:
When Warner Bros. (which is owned by Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine) announced the project [Eyes Wide Shut] in 1995, it merely stated that Kubrick was making “a story of sexual jealousy and obsession starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.” Officially, no one has added anything substantive to that press release in the years since–which is, of course, why the rumor that Cruise and Kidman play psychiatrists drawn into a web of sexual intrigue with their patients got started. And the one about the mad genius Kubrick making an NC-17-rated blue movie. And the one that has Cruise wearing a dress in one sequence.
None of these are remotely true.
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