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Tom Cruise Helped Ray-Ban From Bankruptcy Boosting Its Sale From Selling Just 200,000 Pairs/Year To 4.5 Million In No Time

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When Tom Cruise Saved the Ray-Ban Brand by Wearing Its Wayfarers & Aviators In Films
Did you Know? Tom Cruise Is Credited For Saving the Ray-Ban Brand – Here’s How & Why ( Photo Credit – Facebook )

Tom Cruise is without doubt one of the prime actors in Hollywood. The star who started his performing profession in Hollywood with Taps in 1981 (he had a cameo in Endless Love additionally 1981) can nonetheless give youthful actors a run for his or her money with action-packed movies like Top Gun and Mission: Impossible. Today, because the Golden Globes winner turns 60 (are you able to consider that!), we inform you of the time he helped save a model.

Are you questioning which model are we speaking about? Well, it’s the American-Italian model of luxurious sun shades and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb – Ray-Ban. How may an actor – who was at the moment simply beginning in Hollywood, assist a model that was many years older? Well, scroll all the way down to know all of it.

While Tom Cruise could now be recognized for giving action-packed performances in high-octave movies just like the Top Gun and Mission Impossible franchises, one among his most iconic scenes comes from his 1983 film Risky Business. In it, we see Cruise dance around the home in his underwear to Bob Seger’s ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’. While many suppose he additionally wore shades on this scene, it’s unfaithful – however he sported Ray-Ban’s sun shades throughout the remainder of the film in addition to its posters.

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As reported by MentalFloss, at a time when the Ray-Ban model was promoting simply around 200,000 pairs yearly (this boosted from 18,000 after GQ used it for one among their options) Cruise sporting the Wayfarers in 1983’s hit Risky Business noticed the eyewear’s gross sales elevated by roughly 50 p.c (to around 360,000 pairs) in 1983. By 1988, Bausch + Lomb was promoting 3 to 4 million Wayfarers a yr. This was as a result of moviegoers wished to put on what Cruise was carrying within the film.

But that wasn’t the only time Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban sun shades and helped the model promote hundreds of thousands of pairs. In 1986, Cruise’s Top Gun character Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell donned Ray-Ban’s aviators all through the film. This was as soon as extra beloved by the audiences and so they headed to shops to choose up their pairs of aviators too. This need of the viewers to emulate Tom’s look noticed gross sales going up around 40 p.c. By 1988, the model was making around 4.5 million aviators as orders for a similar saved coming in.

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Isn’t that candy!

While the Ray-Ban Wayfarers and Aviators could fall out and in of favor regularly, Cruise nonetheless loves them. In 2013, when the star was greeted by journalists on the premiere of Star Trek: Into Darkness and requested if his smooth darkish sun shades had been 3-D glasses for the film, the actor mentioned, “No, man. These are Ray-Bans.”

Well, we guess Tom Cruise’s love for Ray-Ban glasses remains to be sturdy as ever.

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Kendall Jenner Is All Set To Be A Mother Through Surrogacy, But It’s Not A Human Baby!

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Is Kendall Jenner Expecting Her First Baby Through Surrogacy, But It's Not A Human? [Reports]
Kendall Jenner Is All Set To Welcome Her First Baby Through Surrogacy ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Kendall Jenner is one of the sisters of Kardashians, who rose to fame after the web show Keeping Up With The Kardashians started to air. However, Kendall started modelling when she was 14 years old, and now she is quite a pro at it. Apart from all of these, she is also an internet sensation and a fashion enthusiast. Her looks often get discussed among the fashion mongers. However, do you know Kendall is expecting her first baby?

Yes, that’s right. Kendall Jenner is expecting her first baby, but it’s not a human one, rather it’s a horse baby! Wondering what is happening? Scroll below to find the scoop.

Kendall Jenner is an animal lover. She has horses, dogs as her pets. As reported in Page Six, in the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kendall found out that one of her horses is pregnant via a surrogate mare. In the video, Ken can be seen getting ready for her Met Gala 2022 look when she exclaimed “Oh my God, I’m having a baby!” and explained it’s a horse baby. She further mentioned, “I just got the news it took. They just texted me that we have an embryo!”

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Apparently, Kendall Jenner wanted a foal for her last birthday and had asked her hairstylist Jen Atkin for horse ‘sperm’. In a conversation with Jen Atkin, Kendall can be heard asking, “Remember when I asked you for sperm? Jen was like, ‘I really wanna get something great for Kendall for her birthday.’ And I was like, ‘Sperm. Horse sperm.’”

In the same episode, Kendall further explained that she had to buy the sperm from a ‘stud’ (a male horse) and that she was very picky during the selection as she wanted an ‘Olympian’, referring to her Olympian blood from Caitlyn Jenner. She further joked, “Do you think I didn’t think this through? Only Olympians around here.”

Among all the Kardashian sisters, Kendall Jenner is the one without a baby. In the previous season, Kris her mother had tried to push her for having a baby, but the supermodel shared her hesitations in not having one. She was heard saying to her mom, “You keep telling me, ‘You’re not getting any younger,’ but guess what? It’s my life. I don’t know if I’m ready yet. I’m still, like, enjoying life on my own. And I’m OK with that right now.”

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Well, now it seems she is gonna be a mom to a lil horse baby! *wink!*

For the unversed, Kendall Jenner has been dating Devin Booker since 2020. What are your thoughts about Kendall’s horse baby? Let us know in the comments!

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‘Bones And All’ Director Luca Guadagnino On His Bond With Timothee Chalamet, “It’s A Very Intense & Beautiful Collaboration…”

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'Bones And All' helmer Luca Guadagnino 'very good friends' with Timothee Chalamet
‘Bones And All’ helmer Luca Guadagnino ‘very good friends’ with Timothee Chalamet ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia )

Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino weighs in on his collaboration with actor Timothee Chalamet. Calling it “very intense and beautiful,” the 51-year-old Italian filmmaker has directed the Hollywood star in the 2017 coming-of-age drama ‘Call Me By Your Name’ and this year’s ‘Bones and All’, a coming-of-age romantic cannibal road film, reports aceshowbiz.com.

As they challenge each other to produce their best possible work, Guadagnino shared that he loves working with the “Little Women” (2019) star.

Speaking to The Film Stage, Luca Guadagnino said: “It’s a partnership, and I’m very proud of working with him. It’s a very intense and beautiful collaboration that challenges one another to make the most precise thing out of it.”

The pair are also close friends off-set. Asked if they keep in touch, Luca Guadagnino replied, “Yeah, we’re very good friends.”

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The ‘A Bigger Splash’ helmer also has a longstanding relationship with Tilda Swinton having worked together multiple times.

Luca Guadagnino admits that it can become “quite intense” on set because he’s a “control freak” and things don’t always go to plan.

Asked what the atmosphere is like on his sets and if he has any ways of making it an enjoyable experience, he responded: “No, no, no. I’m a bit of a control freak. And being one, I need to have everything well-organised and very well done. But that’s something that doesn’t happen. Because everything is a mess. And, so I become quite intense.”

Chalamet recently said that all of the directors he’s worked with have had “very strong visions”. The ‘Dune’ star insisted that he’s never had an instance on a movie set where those in charge have been at loggerheads with their colleagues over their creative vision.

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He told SFX magazine: “I hope I don’t sound pretentious rattling off the list of names, but I think Denis Villeneuve (‘Dune’), Greta Gerwig (‘Little Women’), Luca Guadagnino (‘Call Me By Your Name’ and ‘Bones and All’) and Paul King, who I just worked with (on ‘Wonka’) … they have very strong visions.

It’s not my experience, but you kind of hear the horror stories from other sets where there’s a million opinions in the room.”

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Kim Kardashian Wears Barely There Bikini Flaunting Her Voluptuous Figure, Netizens Ask “Is It Cause She’s Jealous Ex Pete Davidson ‘Upgraded’ To Emily Ratajkowski?”

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Kim Kardashian In SKIMS Holiday Bikinis Gets Brutally Trolled, From “It Doesn’t Look Like The Right Size” To “Double Inner Thigh Muscle” & More Here’s What Netizens Comment About!
Kim Kardashian Gets Massively Trolled For Wearing “Too Small” Bikinis, Netizens Ask If It’s Cause She’s Jealous Ex Pete Davidson ‘Upgraded’ To Emily Ratajkowski ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

The Kardashian and Jenner sisters make the headlines way more than we can count all thanks to their fashion, relationships, and tons of drama. The latest sibling making the news now is Kim Kardashian. Why? Well, the mother of four recently welcomed the holidays by sharing pics in two sets of bedazzled bras and thongs from SKIMS’ Holiday Shop and netizens aren’t pleased with what they see.

Dressed in barely there two-piece ensembles, the billionaire is seen flaunting her a*s and b**bs while seductively posing in what some have called a ‘sleazy motel’ room. From calling her out for leaving nothing to the imagination but wearing a bikini that’s not the right side to commenting on her parenting skills, photoshop ability, and even ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson getting a new lady love – read on to know all that online users have to say

Sharing the pictures and video of herself slaying in the sparkly white and black bikini sets, Kim Kardashian wrote, “S K I M S holiday shop available now” Scroll below for the comments.

Commenting on the bikinis not fitting Kim Kardashian properly and being a size or so smaller, one user commented, “I think this bra is too small for you gal” Another added, “Are you ok? THIS. DOESN’T. FIT. YOU!!!” A few others wrote, “It’s nice, but it doesn’t fit properly 🤷‍♂️🤦” “When did we start making bathing suits too small” “I doesn’t look like the right size….” and more. One simply replied, “Looks so uncomfortable”

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While many commented on the bikini being small for Kim Kardashian, other eagled-eyed Instagram users noticed a photoshop fail – again. Commenting on her having a double thing, one user wrote, “Looks like this was photoshop! The left inner thigh appears to have an extra thigh behind it. 😂” Another – calling it odd, added, “So what’s up with the double inner thigh muscle? I just made it larger and it looks odd!” A third added, she needs to fire her designers. Look at the inner left thigh 😂”

Not just trolled for the new collection not fitting and the use of photoshop to make the pics more desirable, the reality star was also called out for posting sleazy pics. One user noted, “Might as well become a p*rn star now huh?” while another added, “Pretty much soft Porn Pics 🙄” Others noted, “Free Only fans 😂😂😂😂” “It looks like they are in a sleezy motel 😂😂” and lots more. One even compared Kimberly Britney Spears for posting so “leaving nothing to the imagination” picture writing, “And people talk crap about Britney…” while another added, “Wow what an example to your daughters!”

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A few even dragged Kim Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend Pete Davidson into their discussion as he now has a new girlfriend, Emily Ratajkowski. Commenting, one user wrote, “She said, ‘oh you have a new girlfriend?’” 🔥 Another added, “Kim are you jealous Pete upgraded you with Emily his new Girlfriend.”

What do you think of Kim Kardashian’s bikini look? Let us know in the comments.

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