Crazy Like a Fox

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I've been avoiding any discussion of the crazy antics of newly-in love Tom Cruise and the hits his reputation has taken as a result. But here's the latest buzz on his mega-blockbuster War of the Worlds, from Jeffrey Wells' "Wired Column":

Yesterday's tracking figures on War of the Worlds (Paramount, 6.29) are through the roof -- awareness is over 90% and definite interest is over 50%. For a movie that's two and a half weeks from opening, this indicates something really big about to happen. This is almost Star Wars-level. Who knows? The Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise collaboration could do $90 to $100 million in five days time.

So get ready to eat crow, Hollywood. Cruise is about to have his first bajillion dollar-grossing movie in a while. Yeah, he's crazy all right.