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Vanilla Sky Cocktail Recipe
- 1.0 cl Amaretto
- 4.0 cl Coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
- 12.0 cl Milk
- 3.0 cl Vanilla sirup
How to make Vanilla Sky Cocktail
Shake all ingredients well and serve on ice.
Everything you need to know about Vanilla Sky cocktail, and how to make one. It belongs to the longdrink drink category, has sweet taste, mild alcohol and creamy texture. You can find the recipe of Vanilla Sky above.
Vanilla Sky Drink Recipe
Glass to Use
Drink Colour:
Clear (no colour)
Ingredients
- 2 oz. Vodka, vanilla
- 4 oz. 7-up
- 1 wedge Lime
Mixing Instructions
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
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This drink recipe was submitted by one of our good-looking readers, stephlynnwebb!
Comments on Vanilla Sky:
Are you kidding me? You are suggesting to shake a drink that cointains 7-up. That is all wrong. Build it over ice and you will not embarrass yourself.
Serving size: this recipe
* : Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your diet needs.
New Age Vanilla Sky Cocktail
Muddle 4 Strawberries, 1/2 Bar Spoon of White Sugar in a Sling glass.
Ingredients:
- 2 parts Vodka
- 1 part Strawberry liqueur
- 2 parts Apple juice
- 1 part Strawberries
- 1 part Sugar
- 1 part Grenadine
4 2
The Vanilla Sky
Recipe by Izzy Knight
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 ⁄4 cup fresh cranberries or 1 ⁄4 cup frozen cranberries
- 1 1 ⁄2 ounces vanilla vodka
- 1 ⁄2 ounce Amaretto
Directions
- In a cocktail shaker, muddle cranberries with the back of a spoon.
- Fill the shaker with ice and add the vodka and amaretto.
- Shake sharply and stran into a Martini glass.
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Nutrition Info
Serving Size: 1 (67 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 1
Amt. Per Serving % Daily Value Calories 107.2 Calories from Fat 0 0% Total Fat 0 g 0% Saturated Fat 0 g 0% Cholesterol 0 mg 0% Sodium 0.9 mg 0% Total Carbohydrate 2.9 g 0% Dietary Fiber 1.1 g 4% Sugars 1 g 3% Protein 0.1 g 0%
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Vanilla Sky
Just like in the movie, this one here, has a lot of elements that come together to make one amazing concoctions for a festive season.
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Vanilla Sky rooftop: tasty cocktails galore
It’s obvious where the name comes from: in about an hour the typical daylight sky painted the horizon with countless beautiful colours, and it looked incredibly soft and smooth, to a point where we wanted to touch the sky! So here we were: Vanilla Sky rooftop bar.
Once you step inside the Compass Sky View hotel, walk through the extravagant lobby (where you would like to stay by the way) and take the lift to the 35 th floor. If there’s no number 35, you’re in the wrong one. Did it twice. Listen to the people with experience! Well, unless you enjoy going up and down the elevator for fun.
If you have never been to a rooftop bar before, once you step foot on the roof terrace you’ll be pleasantly surprised with a warm gentle breeze and panoramic views of the city above and beyond. And if you have been before, you know exactly what I mean!
To experience the best sunset (that’s where you can get your money’s worth!) come right when they open, at 6 PM. For about an hour we didn’t even notice that our drinks had arrived, and there were different snacks on the table!
First, we tried the signature Mojito: a very refreshing mix of fresh mint and lime, which wasn’t too strong or laid with sugar sediment at the bottom. It was a good choice for the first drink, to watch the sun hide behind the tall buildings.
Next stop – Honey Spice. It is actually a Gin and Tonic, which I wouldn’t have been able to tell by myself. I love spicy stuff, and trust me, I don’t mess about when I order a Som Tam. For a cocktail, the chilli was not overpowering, but if you can’t handle spicy, I wouldn’t recommend it for safety reasons. It was nicely balanced with a tad of sweetness, I guess, from honey!
Buena Sera, Senorita! I’m not a fan of Margaritas… I’m thinking of the reason, and I may have just found the answer. I like to take my time with something as elegant as a cocktail, but when you drink something from a wide and shallow glass, you drink it very quickly! But our friend loved it, you just have to take it slow! Good news – the rim of the glass wasn’t too salty either!
Vanilla Sky – this was Auste’s favourite. It was smooth and easy-drinking, with a good balance of vanilla sweetness and sourness of the pineapple. I secretly sense that it was Auste’s favourite because she will drink anything with pineapple!
You can actually view the menu HERE.
Many visitors who come to Bangkok incorrectly assume there’s a happy hour everywhere. I guess this influence comes from all the “lady” bars downstairs, and they’re not the fanciest by any means… It almost makes sense that with every floor of the building the drinks price goes up by 10 baht. Most of the drinks are priced between 320 and 350 baht.
Luckily Vanilla Sky rooftop is pretty generous with their 25% off regular cocktails! (all the drinks we had were from the regular menu). As with most rooftop bars, there will be the 10% service, and 7% govt.tax added on top of the bill.
All in all it’s a brilliant place to watch the sunset, but make sure you grab a seat on the right hand side just around the glass entrance, as that’s the side where the sun goes down. Just don’t overdo it with the classy drinks, as we all felt the aftermath the day after!
For more rooftop bar suggestions, you can read our other posts: (click on the name)
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Vanilla Sky Daiquiri
Vanilla Sky Daiquiri
What do you need for a Vanilla Sky Martini?
Dark Rum (1 part)
Licor 43 (1 part)
Passionfruit juice (2 parts)
lime (juice of half a lime)
Fresh vanilla stick
For this cocktail we are going to use a shaker. First fill it up with ice. Now add the licor 43, passionfruit juice, vanilla monin and fresh lime juice into the shaker. Now add half of the egg white of 1 egg into the shaker. Give it a good shake for about 5 to 8 seconds. The egg white gives the cocktail a foamy look and feel. Pour out the cocktail into a martini glass. For the dramatic effect we now pour in the dark rum straight into the glass. Don’t put the dark rum into the shaker. Garnish the Vanilla Sky Daiquiri with a slice of lime or the vanilla stick.
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Being Tom Cruise
At 10 A.M. on a Monday in October, the office of Vinyl Films, Cameron Crowe’s Santa Monica production company, looks just like what you’d expect from the creators of Almost Famous. Classic movie posters line the walls—Sabrina, Jules and Jim, Carnal Knowledge. There are Razor scooters in the corner, bagels stocked in the kitchen, intelligent conversations going on about pop culture, and no shortage of beards, baseball caps, and way-too-long shorts. Until 10:15.
It’s not just that Tom Cruise, the world’s biggest movie star, is entering the room. It’s that he’s entering it like Tom Cruise. Wearing a snug brown sweater, tapered black pants, and a precise two-day stubble, he takes off his sunglasses, cranks up his smile, and with a simple “Cameron around?” appears to make Gloria, the receptionist, feel like the most important woman working in film today. In fact, over the course of the next few hours, he will make everyone feel a little more important, a little funnier, a little sexier, a little more like they should be in pictures. He will affectionately roughhouse members of the Vinyl Films team; he’ll give out mini-massages just because; he’ll tease people about what they’re eating; he’ll find it hysterical when a baby squirrel that’s been rescued by a staffer leaps onto his sweater and clings for dear life. Never one to disappoint or give any less than 110 percent, he’ll even answer his interviewer’s questions (well, most of them at least) as clearly, and as cheerfully, as possible.
What does your face look like in Vanilla Sky?
He begins to respond, then jumps up and excuses himself, mysteriously. He re-appears a few minutes later and beckons, smiling knowingly, from the doorway. “C’mon.”
He has just persuaded Cameron Crowe, the director, to show a few scenes of the movie.
So what, you ask? Since the project began, those surrounding Vanilla Sky (which Cruise is also co-producing, with Paula Wagner) have been in Delta Force stealth mode. Partway through the movie, there’s some major facial disfigurement of its hero, and during filming, Cruise kept his appearance secret by using a cordoned-off path between his trailer and the set. Even Pat Kingsley, his trusted publicist, who usually knows what happens to Tom before Tom does, hasn’t seen the footage we’re about to screen, Cruise reports.
At the top, Vanilla Sky looks deceptively familiar. As in Cocktail, Top Gun, The Color of Money, All the Right Moves, Days of Thunder, and Jerry Maguire, Cruise’s character, we learn immediately, is the Best in the Business (in this case, the business is publishing), skateboarding through life on his easy talent, charming patter, and fantastic teeth. Needless to say, the ladies love him, and his ego is radioactive. He needs to be taken down a notch, but it will require only the right lady—the unimpressed one, naturally—to do it. (In this case, that woman is played by his real-life girlfriend, Penélope Cruz.)
Wait a few minutes and you’ll find yourself in uncharted Tom Cruise waters. The film was inspired by Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), a trippy Spanish melodrama which Cruise bought the rights to before producing Amenábar’s The Others (the stylish horror movie starring Nicole Kidman), and it is certainly the darkest project Cameron Crowe has taken on. (Friends of Crowe, a Billy Wilder nut, have joked that it is his Double Indemnity, Wilder’s classic film noir.) It’s also one of the most psychologically twisted for Cruise. After a near-fatal car crash, Cruise finds himself embarking on some major soul-searching and self-loathing, which leads him to a kind of madness. Known for doing concrete research for his roles—whether using a wheelchair or flipping martini shakers—Cruise went into hours of character analysis with Crowe for Vanilla Sky. Even today, he is still probing, prodding, putting questions out there about the inner life of his character, David Aames, who treats women like “fuck buddies” and lives out the consequences.
“What is the price we’re paying for having sex? Is there a promise that you make with sex? What is the responsibility of sex? Some people don’t feel it in their life. How does that accumulate in people’s lives? Do they do themselves in?” Cruise says, his voice nearing a whisper, his eyes boiling with late-night rapsession intensity. “You look at the World Trade Center. I think the World Trade Center has kind of ripped the social veneer off this country. I’m not comparing this character to the World Trade Center. I’m not saying it’s that extreme. But I think that you look at anyone in life, they have problems, they have things that are going on and things that don’t appear the way they seem.”
Those very words might be spoken about Cruise himself. As the world has recently learned, even Tom Cruise has problems. Not just movie-star problems, such as disappointing reviews or annoying tabloid reports, but normal-person problems. To wit, it’s been 10 months since Cruise filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, Nicole Kidman, and four months since the divorce was finalized. The news stunned everybody, even those who never really cared about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in the first place. After all, this was Tom and Nicole, who were never apart for more than two weeks at a time; Tom and Nicole, who groped each other like a couple of kids, at least when there were cameras around; Tom and Nicole, who starred together in Stanley Kubrick’s difficult movie about sexual jealousy, Eyes Wide Shut, and came out, they said, only more bonded to each other. Tom and Nicole, the one Hollywood supercouple, with two kids, who knew how to make it work.
As if the divorce weren’t tough enough, there’s collateral damage as well. A bitter legal battle has just been waged over the couple’s estimated $325 million fortune (which includes four homes, a Gulfstream, and two smaller airplanes) and the custody of their children, Isabella, eight, and Connor, six. (The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.) Cruise is now moving into life as a single father. For the first time ever, he appears to be getting some negative publicity: Kidman, said by friends to have been completely blindsided by the turn of events and eager to go into marriage counseling, has scored higher in the bid for public sympathy. Three weeks after September 11, there’s another nagging issue: being Tom Cruise in a world where, for now at least, Tom Cruise movies don’t seem as important as they once did.
After two decades’ worth of profiles on the man, only a fool could hope for Tom Cruise to start baring his wounds in public. Tom Cruise does not bare wounds. Nor does he sweat it, regret, kick himself, or kick others. It’s hard to imagine Cruise losing his grip, even having a fitful night of sleep. After all, you don’t get to be among the world’s highest-paid actors ($25 million per picture) and work with names such as Coppola, Pollack, Newman, Hoffman, Scorsese, Stone, Kubrick, Crowe, and now, with Minority Report, Steven Spielberg by behaving like a basket case. Famously controlled, the Platonic ideal of the “consummate professional,” as they say in the business, Cruise treats emotional challenges in the same way he does his latest character: he defines them, he does what he needs to do to master them, and he moves on. And so, when asked about his divorce, Cruise, while wanting to be the dutiful interview subject, also doesn’t want to dwell.
Why did you and Nicole decide to end it?
“She knows why, and I know why. She’s the mother of my children, and I wish her well,” he says curtly. “And I think that you just move on. And I don’t say that lightly. I don’t say that with anything. Things happen in life, and you do everything you can, and in every possible way, and there’s a point at which you just sometimes have to face the brutal reality.”
You make it sound as if there were some event, which I think only piques people’s curiosity. Or perhaps you’re just telling me to mind my own business?
“No. I mean, she knows why, and she is the mother of my children, and I wish her well,” he repeats. “I don’t care if it piques people’s interest. Honestly, people should mind their own damn business. And get a life of their own . . . . My personal life isn’t here to sell newspapers.”
Has your thinking changed about Eyes Wide Shut?
“The experience was the experience. I don’t feel that way. I don’t feel that way. I don’t. I’ve gone through everything. It was what it was.”
It’s not that Tom Cruise doesn’t have feelings. It’s that wallowing in them, he believes, doesn’t actually help—and help is the key word in the Tom Cruise lexicon. Not help as in charity or performing good works necessarily, although that’s part of it, but help as in contributing to the achievement of a given goal. When talking about virtually any topic that interests him—his movies, his family, his religion—he’ll eventually drop the word “help.” From his personal goals (“I’ve always just wanted to help people”) to the purpose of the entire human race (“I think people are as valuable as their ability to help”). In fact, as Cameron Crowe recalls, the now famous “Help me help you” scene in Jerry Maguire came about during rehearsal one day when Cuba Gooding Jr., “fucking with Tom,” decided to give him nothing. “Tom just got so frustrated,” says Crowe, “he started going, ‘Help me help you, help me help you.’”
There is, admittedly, something vaguely preachy about the word “help” upon its eighth or ninth mention. But ask anyone who knows Cruise and you soon learn that it’s more than lip service. Cruise is helpful, and everything else that implies—patient, generous, and nice to everyone around him. “He’s always had a sense of ‘What is this movie?’” says producing partner and former agent Paula Wagner, whose speech is as carefully measured as her designer pantsuit. “‘How can I best serve this movie? How can I help this movie? The director and the actors and I are in it together, and, you know, how can we make the best movie possible?’”
For Crowe, Cruise’s helpfulness while making Jerry Maguire simply set the gold standard for behavior on movie sets and has now spoiled Crowe for good. “It was really shocking to me after people said, ‘Oh, you’ve never worked with a really big staaar,’” recalls Crowe, going into a sing-songy “warning” voice. “‘You know what that’s liiike. They write books about this.’ And then I met this guy who said, ‘Every day I want to make your dreams come true.’ He always stood shoulder to shoulder with me and everybody else. . . . Then I go to make Almost Famous. I’m like, ‘O.K., I love this directing thing. Wait a minute! What happened to that guy?!’”
Among his fellow actors, Crowe adds, Cruise is “an ambassador of goodwill,” making everybody forget they’re in a Tom Cruise picture, and routinely letting others steal the scenes. “He made me feel like he was there to serve me,” says Cameron Diaz, whose performance as Cruise’s scorned, unhinged girlfriend in Vanilla Sky is a tour de force in fatal attraction. The film’s dramatic car scene (in which Diaz is driving) took two days to shoot, entailed ramming into branches and careening around pedestrians, and eventually made Diaz a little crazy for real. But, she says, “Tom guided me through my own hysteria. . . . Just by being so present, so dedicated, he was incredibly, I guess you could say, helpful.”
Cruise’s eagerness to help began when he was a kid, and the object, it seems, was himself. Growing up in a family of women (his parents divorced when he was 12), Cruise was dragged around to 15 different cities before the end of high school, making him, he has claimed, the permanent new geek, always wearing the wrong sneakers. His insecurity, he explains, was conquered by sheer feistiness. “I remember when I moved to Canada and I had figure skates and I wanted to play ice hockey,” Cruise recalls. “And my mother said, ‘Listen, you’re going to get your teeth knocked out,’ and just did not want me playing hockey. I ended up proving to her that I could. I would be out there at night, right after school, early in the morning, just teaching myself how to skate.”
By age 17, Cruise’s early determination to play hockey was replaced by the will to be an actor. Bagging high-school graduation to move to New York, he landed his breakthrough role in the 1981 military-school drama Taps, and that singular Tom Cruise zeal (or what Crowe jokingly calls Cruise’s “death march”) started taking shape. “I remember during Taps, I couldn’t sleep at night sometimes. I thought, O.K., I want to be an actor,” he says, taking a deep breath. “I want to learn about what acting is. I had this feeling of ‘Here I am 18 years old and this stuff is going on.’ This is what I wanted to do with my life.” Even with his next successes—such as Risky Business and Top Gun—Cruise never allowed one fiber of his being to sit back and enjoy the show. The only thing that got him jacked was the idea of bigger, harder, more difficult. “I thought, Do I have what it takes? . . . Am I up to this?” he recalls about making Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July back-to-back, in the late 80s. “I liked that, that test for myself. Can I do it?!” All the while, Cruise was obsessively seeking information from those around him—Martin Scorsese, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, even Curtis Hanson, who directed him in the 1983 sex comedy Losin’ It—and taking notes. “I’d sit down with these directors, like Sydney Pollack [The Firm]. I’d say, ‘What does this mean? The master shot? The close-up? How do you use these images to tell a story?’”
Given the young age at which Cruise achieved major stardom, and given the pitfalls that have plagued many of his contemporaries, it’s worth noting that Cruise has always been Cub Scout—clean. To the public’s knowledge, he has never had a drug or drinking problem, and never been treated for “nervous exhaustion.” He’s never made any embarrassing videos; he’s never bitten anyone, never publicly feuded with a contemporary about who’s the sellout and who’s the real deal. In fact, he’s never found himself in any remotely slimy Hollywood situation. But the jackals (and he won’t name names) were busy at work around him. “There are people out there who are so good at sucking blood that you don’t even realize it, you know?” says Cruise. “You think they’re your friends, and really they’re hanging on to your coattails, taking a ride. They can seem like the nicest people, but are they contributing to you as an artist? Or are they sucking off of you? . . . It’s subtle sometimes, the invalidation you get. It’s all done in the I’m just trying to be your friend,” says Cruise, going into his best Svengali. “I’m just trying to help you.”
How did you stay on the straight and narrow?
“Quite honestly,” he says after some time, “I have been a Scientologist for 15 years.”
Designed to make human beings more successful and spiritually evolved, Scientology has attracted a number of celebrities, including Cruise, his first wife, Mimi Rogers, John Travolta, Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, and Jenna Elfman. Reasonably or not, journalists are reluctant to go near the subject for fear of years of litigation and other uncomfortable consequences. Cruise brings it up himself, perhaps because he sees that any genuine discussion of himself must involve it. “I was 26 years old, 27 years old. I mean, I was right in the heat of everything,” says Cruise. “I started reading books on it, and I thought, God, this makes sense.” Breaking it down for the layman, Cruise explains, “Scientology means knowing how to know, and I think as an artist, as anyone who’s trying to survive in life, you want”—he pauses, looking for the right word—“How about some tools to help me?” As for those who say that his religion is, well, a little creepy, Cruise dismisses them categorically. “You hear things, and then you ask someone, ‘Well, have you read anything?’ ‘Well, no, I saw it on the news.’ Well, my God,” he says, betraying a bit of disgust. “Or ‘I read it in a newspaper.’”
For Cruise, Scientology has provided the means to fix virtually any difficulty he has ever had or might encounter in the future. Dyslexic, Cruise reports that Scientology “helped me with my rehabilitating my own education.” Estranged from his abusive father—an electrical engineer whom Cruise remotely describes as “a very different kind of guy”—until his death in 1984, Cruise seems to credit the religion with helping him handle adversity. “Life pounds you—you know what I mean?” Cruise says. “You come across losses. All of a sudden something happens and now you feel like you cannot go forward or it invalidates you. People die. Things happen in life that make it very difficult at times to be happy or to overcome certain problems. Scientology has helped me be able to figure out tools to understand exactly what a problem is, and how to overcome those problems.”
Scientology, he says, has also helped him become a better parent. Mention his kids and Cruise will invariably sigh, shake his head, and launch into a cute story about their latest obsession. (These days, it is the trampoline and the Top Gun soundtrack.) They have often accompanied him onto the set. When they are apart, they have even communicated via satellite television. His schedule is so hectic and touch-and-go, both he and his personal assistant explain, mainly because of his children.
“Children want to feel like they’re part of a family, and that they’re contributing,” says Cruise, who, in step with “Scientology technology,” has set up an elaborate chart system that involves the checking off of duties, weekly rewards, and daily dialogues about helping. “When you’re around the house, they want to help. . . . Yes, I paid for everything, but you can contribute to me. You know, you talk about it: ‘How can you help me?’ And they say, ‘Well, I don’t know, I can’t do anything.’ I say, ‘Does cleaning your room help me?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, I guess cleaning my room is going to help you. I put my plate up after dinner—that kind of helps you, too.’” His methodical questioning of his kids extends into touchier issues, too, such as the gossip they might hear at school. (Rumors have swirled that Cruise is gay, that the Cruise-Kidman marriage was a sham, that a sex counselor was called in to help on their love scenes for Eyes Wide Shut.) “You have to say . . . ‘How do you feel about people who say stuff like that? How would you like it if someone says something that’s untrue about you? Now, what do you think about those people that do that? . . . You don’t have to sit there and listen to it. You can tell them you don’t want to hear it.’” (However, Cruise himself hasn’t been entirely able to drown out the noise; he recently sued an L.A.-based tabloid publisher and a gay-porn star for $ 100 million each for alleging that he was gay. “Paul Newman said [to me], ‘Do what you need to do,’” he explains. “Hence the legal action I’ve taken. You have to draw the line.”) For these reasons and others, Paula Wagner believes that Cruise “defines the rule book of what a good father is.” In fact, his children, Cruise claims, are the reason he’s acting in the first place. “I think, What am I doing this for?” he asks himself aloud. “For my kids.”
Scientology has also been a comfort to Cruise since the terrorist attacks of September 11. While admitting that “Hollywood has stopped and taken a breath,” he has turned the event into yet another opportunity to contribute. Impressed by the volunteer ministers from the Scientology church who showed up at Ground Zero (they were the ones wearing the SCIENTOLOGY VOLUNTEER MINISTER shirts), he’s helping in his own way, too, he says. First, there is his involvement with the World Literacy Crusade, a secular, nonprofit organization that uses some of the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. “People come in free off the street, and the miracles that happen there every day are astonishing,” says Cruise. “I mean, the stuff you see—where within 90 hours people jump three grade levels. ”
He’s also helping, he believes, just by being an actor. At the September 21 telethon for the victims of the attacks, in which Cruise answered phones alongside Penélope Cruz, he witnessed a few fellow actors having mini existential crises. “I went up to a guy,” Cruise recalls, “and said, ‘You know what? It is a relief to people in their lives to be able to see what you do.’ . . . Whether it’s just you have a cry, you have a laugh, you identify with something, or it’s just pure escapism, there is that release, or that hope, or that dream of having something in their lives, or an inspiration to be better, to do better. Because it’s never static,” he adds. “You’re either going backwards or you’re moving forward. It’s either a disintegration of communication or you’re furthering yourself.”
Perhaps the most visible way in which Cruise has been moving forward these days is in his love life. During the filming of Vanilla Sky, he began to fall for his co-star Penélope Cruz, who played the same role in the original version by Amenábar. On July 6, four months after Vanilla Sky wrapped, they danced together at Cruise’s 39th-birthday party; a week later they took off for the Wakaya Club in Fiji, to the resort where he and Kidman had made reservations before they separated. (Though she was in Australia at the time, Kidman was reportedly “in shock” that Cruise brought Cruz.) The next month, Cruise and Penélope kicked back with the kids at his home in Telluride, Colorado. In a rare unguarded moment, Cruise sounds like a kid intoxicated with love, blurting out fragments of romantic thoughts—“I thought, My God, I’m your boyfriend. You’re my girlfriend!”or “Cruise and Cruz!”—that send him into hearty guffaws. Generally, though, he’s careful not to appear unseemly and overeager, and valiantly talks about the acting stuff, too. “As a person and on film, she invites you in, and she’s incredibly romantic,” he says, quietly and seriously, furrowing his brow. “And yet real, you know? She’s beautiful. She’s a very skilled actress, but has an effortless quality about her. You look at Audrey Hepburn. She had that kind of elegance and yet was accessible.”
Seamless as it all may sound, Cruise admits that the months spent falling in love with Cruz, and falling out with his wife, were trying. “When all this was going on,” he says, “I was producing and acting in Vanilla Sky. I was meeting with Alejandro Amenábar after shooting all day, 15 hours a day. I was at meetings, only getting two hours of sleep, working on The Others, for [Nicole], and for Alejandro.” In addition, there was the pressure brought on by the looming actors’ strike, and the fact that Cruise was due on the set of Spielberg’s Minority Report. If Cruise was stressed, it never showed. “Tom was always the first guy there, going, ‘C’mon,’ ” Crowe says, now going into his mock chipper-tourguide voice. “‘Let’s take a look at the car we’ll be traveling around Manhattan in. We call it the Vanilla Float.’ I think I only heard him use the word ‘tired’ once, and it was probably about someone else.”
Nor did the pressures prevent him from delivering what may be his most complex performance yet. Challenging as many of his films have been—such as Born on the Fourth of July or Magnolia— Cruise says Vanilla Sky has been his hardest film ever, chiefly because he wanted to “tip my hat” to Amenábar, who goes for a kind of elegant obscurity, while making a film by Cameron Crowe, a man whose creative sensibility is, above all, humanistic, and sweet in the best sense of the word. “You see the tone that Cameron is [going for]. You feel the emotion, the tension, the humor,” says Cruise. “You go, Well, I don’t know if it’s going to work. It’s definitely the trickiest thing I’ve ever worked on, and probably ever will work on.”
But Crowe, who recently sat down with Cruise and watched Jerry Maguire, was floored—both by how far Cruise has come since their first movie together and by the balance he was able to strike. “He has really gotten these even richer, darker colors, along with light comedy as well,” Crowe says. “He’s the kind of guy Billy Wilder would have loved. Like William Holden in his prime, he could be light but also take you to that dark place.” And as in almost every Tom Cruise movie, in which he either masters some impossible physical feat (like rock climbing or flying F-14s) or spectacularly loses control, Cruise never forgets his No. 1 responsibility: the audience. “With Tom, the movie is anchored. You’re never going to get confused,” says Crowe. “It is the story of this guy. And even if you can’t see it because he’s making you feel comfortable on the set, you look at the dailies later that night and go, Holy shit. That’s Tom fucking Cruise.”
Just days after finishing Vanilla Sky, scenes of which were filmed in the offices of Vanity Fair, Cruise appeared on the set of Spielberg’s Minority Report. Based on Philip K. Dick’s futuristic story about policemen who arrest murderers before they kill, the movie casts Cruise as an officer who finds the system turning against him. Friends since the mid-80s, Spielberg and Cruise had long wanted to collaborate, but it was not until 1998 that they found the right project. Despite having worked his way through the roll call of A-list directors, Cruise is still wide-eyed when the occasion calls. “For me to say he’s a brilliant filmmaker is kind of redundant,” Cruise says about Spielberg, chuckling and flashing that familiar grin. “‘He’s brilliant.’ ‘Oh really? Tell us what he’s like.’ You know, he’s Steven Spielberg.”
Given the magnitude of Cruise’s résumé, not to mention the universal praise that’s heaped on him by his colleagues, it’s reassuring to discover that Cruise still feels he has things to learn as an actor. It has little to do with the fact that the Oscar so far has eluded him. He says, “If it doesn’t happen, I won’t be disappointed,” and he sounds sincere. Rather, it’s that somewhere, deep down, Cruise still seems to feel like that kid, studiously picking things up from the artists around him, rather than plotting his own masterwork. “I wish I had that great story of Clint Eastwood with Unforgiven,” Cruise admits. “He had this script, and he put it away for 10 years, and then went and directed this movie, and starred in this movie. And just had a culmination of an entire career.” He pauses, and thinks some more, his eyes far away. “How smart of him to recognize that, and have that there. That was just perfect for him. And so I don’t have that Unforgiven. I don’t have it.”
And then, being Tom Cruise, he makes a correction to that: “I don’t have it yet.”
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Vanilla and Fresh Cherry Bourbon Cocktail
A fresh and delicious cherry bourbon cocktail that muddles fresh cherries with vanilla extract and bourbon, topped with bubbly soda water. Perfect for a lazy summer afternoon!
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For the first time in a loooong time, the song stuck in my head is not sung by The Wiggles. No more ooples and banoonoos. Instead Mungo Jerry:
“Chh chh-chh, Chh chh-chh, in the summertime when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky!” And lucky for you, this blog has no audio 😉
I love that song, it always makes me happy, and is the perfect song to get me out of my basement-thesis-writing-funk. The sun is shining…the weather is hot…and it’s Friday!
It’s time to go get my deck lounger positioned, and make a happy hour cocktail to sip on. And I have just the cocktail…this cherry bourbon cocktail!
Now I know I like bourbon in my blondies, and my pumpkin pie and on my turnovers and donuts. But when it comes to actually drinking bourbon, I’m a total wuss. To me, I find it a bit harsh and overpowering.
But I think I’ve found the perfect solution: add a dash of vanilla!
This cherry bourbon cocktail has the perfect blend of vanilla, fresh cherries, and bourbon. You can definitely taste the bourbon, but the vanilla, a touch of sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice mellows it out just enough for me to actually enjoy the flavor!
This cocktail was inspired by Nielsen-Massey Vanilla. Nielsen-Massey has been in the vanilla business since 1907, so you can be sure that they know their stuff when it comes to vanilla, and have some pretty high standards. In fact, each vanilla bean is examined by hand to ensure the highest of quality.
One little sniff of the Organic Fairtrade Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract, and this cocktail immediately came to me. The vanilla flavor is a wonderfully subtle creamy and slightly sweet after-taste, which goes just perfectly with bourbon and cherries.
And the best part about these cherry bourbon cocktails is the fact that there is NO simple syrup to make, which means that this cocktail can be in your hand in approximately 5 minutes, and you can park yourself in a deck lounger (or wherever your little slice of heaven may be). Easy and delicious.
Because Fridays are for easy, not slaving in the kitchen.
TGIF! Have a wonderful week-end!
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Vanilla and Fresh Cherry Bourbon Cocktail
Fresh cherries are muddled with vanilla extract, a touch of sugar and bourbon, then topped with bubbly club soda for this easy, fresh, delicious cocktail!
Ingredients
For one drink
- 1/2 cup fresh cherries, pitted
- 1/4 teaspoon Nielsen-MasseyOrganic Fairtrade Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1.5 oz (one shot) bourbon
- 3 teaspoons superfine sugar (called 'Berry' sugar in Canada)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ice cubes
- club soda (1/4 cup or so)
Instructions
- In the bottom of a glass, combine the cherries, vanilla extract, bourbon, sugar and lemon juice. Muddle together until cherries are broken and juices are released (you can use the back of a wooden spoon if you don't have a muddler).
- Top with ice cubes and a small splash of club soda.
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LOVING this drink, Denise!! It sounds so perfect for Summer! It’s the kind of cocktail my partner and I would really enjoy 🙂 I love that dash of vanilla as well! Pinning!
Fridays are definitely for easy drinks! Love the sound of this, Denise! Vanilla and cherry makes the best combination. Cheers and happy weekend!
Oh my gosh, I love the wiggles! But I don’t know this Mungo Jerry. Must not have been around when I was a babysitter, because back then it was allll about the wiggles. This cocktail sounds so delicious! Love that you added vanilla. Yum!
Oh Denise, what a lovely drink. Love it Love it!! vanilla and cherry amazing combo!!
Adding vanilla – what a fantastic idea! My husband loves bourbon. I’m going to try this so maybe we can both enjoy it 🙂
These look so refreshing and delicious!
I haven’t heard that Wiggles song in a looonnnggg time! I kinda don’t miss that show either. haha I don’t drink bourbon either, but you know what? I’d be all over this drink with the cherries and vanilla! Yum! I love the sound of this cocktail. 🙂
We don’t watch the show, just listen to it on Spotify…Kai is obsessed! As soon as I put him in his high chair to eat, he says ‘Widda? Widda?’ LOL!
Always looking for a new cocktail to try and this one looks great. Love the addition of cherries – isn’t it crazy how many cherries you can eat when they come into season!
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I always have kid songs stuck in my head too…thanks to Stella.
Can we just talk about this gorgeous cocktail for a second?! It is almost too pretty to drink…almost 😉
I am wishing I had one right now!
My kids have never much gotten into the Wiggles (perhaps because I never turn it on for them?), but I’ve definitely had other lovely kids’ show songs stuck in my head! 😉 The combination of cherries and vanilla sounds wonderful in this drink! It’s just perfect for summer!
You are really spoiling us with a drink this week!! 🙂
Very clever. How were the sugar levels?
Now I have that song in my head, haha! I don’t make nearly enough fun cocktails! In fact, I can’t remember the last time I actually drank one! It is summer and it is so hot, so I better get on that soon!
Lucky for you, this comment has no audio because I am just loving the name of this cocktail; cherry smash! 🙂 Gorgeous lighting too Denise!
A splash of vanilla in a cocktail really takes it to the next level!! I love love this smash!
Oh man, my hubby would love this drink! Bourbon is his fave and he’s always looking for fun ways to mix it up. I’ll have to make these for him! And that’s my favorite vanilla EVER.
Oh man this Cherry and Vanilla drink sounds so delicious! I could go for one right now. Great idea Denise! So making this asap!
Wow! Now that is a pretty drink. Your pictures alone make me want it. Not that you said Bourbon, I have never had it. You have made me want that camera, (I am waiting until I go back to Ca. in Dec. ) right now. Living in Costa Rica, so I have to wait. Good Job!! Deby
Ha, thanks, Deby! My camera is a canon 60D. I actually want to upgrade, but cameras are SO expensive, aren’t they? So fun that you’re living in Costa Rica! It’s on my list of places to visit…someday…
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