Tom was awarded with a Bambi award in a ceremony that took place yesterday in Dusseldorf (Germany). Tom went with Kate who looked glowing with her new hairstyle. Other winners of the night were Sophia Loren and Eva Longoria. Here you have the pics.{nl}Bambi Awards – November 29th 2007

BERLIN (Reuters Life!) – U.S. actor Tom Cruise has won a German film award for his willingness to take risks in his films, media company Hubert Burda Media said on Wednesday.{nl}The ‘courage’ award will be presented during the 59th annual Bambi Awards ceremony in the northern city of Duesseldorf on Thursday.{nl}The prize committee said Cruise has pursued brave projects that otherwise would not have been made, including his newest film, “Valkyrie”, which details the failed Operation Valkyrie plot to kill Adolf Hitler.{nl}Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler with a briefcase bomb on July 20, 1944.{nl}”Tom Cruise is making an international public familiar with a story that has never before been the theme of a major Hollywood production: the German resistance against the Third Reich,” the competition jury said in a statement.{nl}Some resistance to Cruise’s work in “Valkyrie” has come from inside German government ministries. The Defence Ministry tried to ban Cruise from filming at the “Bendlerblock” complex in Berlin where the conspirators were executed.{nl}They relented after filmmakers persuaded them the movie would honour Stauffenberg. Cruise filmed at the Bendlerblock and elsewhere in Berlin this autumn.{nl}Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung initially said he did not want Cruise to film at the site because the actor is a Scientologist, which the German government describes as a cult. The ministry later said they were concerned about preserving the dignity of the site.{nl}The German media awards are named after the deer statuette winners receive. The daughter of one of the first winners said the figurine looked like the children’s storybook character Bambi.{nl}Source:Reuters

The Spice Girls had some surprise visitors at rehearsals in LA recently when Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes along with baby Suri stopped by to wish them luck for the forthcoming tour. Tom and Katie enjoyed an impromptu audience with the girls and were treated to an exclusive performance, while Suri danced along to the music.“David and I are great friends with Tom and Katie,” Victoria told us afterwards “It was lovely of them to come down to rehearsals, a really nice surprise. Katie has told me before that she used to be a big Spice fan so it was great for her to meet the other girls.” {nl}Source: The Spice Girls. Com

Kenneth Branagh was on Parkinson last November 17th and had a funny story to tell about him and Tom. You can watch it here. (Thanks dare2dream89 for letting us know)

Today is the first anniversary of Tom & Kate’s wedding and from Tom Cruise Forever, we wanna congratulate the couple with all our love and wish them lots of love and happiness in the coming years!!!!{nl}HAPPY {nl}{nl} {nl}ANNIVERSARY!

Here you have a behind-the-scene picture of Tom shooting his cameo for Ben Stiller’s new comedy Thunder Tropic also starring Matthew McConaughey, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Bill Hader and Justin Theroux and scheduled for a July 11th 2008

Tom Cruise Age: 45 Pay: $31 mil After his falling out with Paramount last year, Cruise plotted his comeback (with longtime producing partner Paula Wagner) as head of United Artists, the moribund studio under MGM. This fall, Cruise stars in Lions for Lambs. Directed by Robert Redford, the film opened to a modest $6.7 million its first weekend in theaters. In production now is Valkyrie, a World War II thriller. {nl}Source: Forbes

Palo Alto Online: The scenes between Streep and Cruise feel ripped from reality. We could be watching an actual dialogue between a senator and a journalist and there would likely be little difference. The two accomplished performers feed off each other and nail their roles perfectly{nl}From The Balcony: Tom Cruise turns in the most notable performance, playing Irving as cunning, calculated, and a charming politician{nl}The Dead Bolt: On an acting level, Lions For Lambs is flawless. Redford has always been “an actor’s director,” consistently pulling brilliant performances out of his ensembles, and Lambs features some of the best work by Tom Cruise in years. Pena, Luke, and Garfield are all very good, and Meryl Streep takes an underwritten role and makes it fascinating. Cruise and Streep are so engaging that they almost merit recommending the film just as an acting exercise. If you’re interested in watching two masters at work, go see Lions For Lambs but don’t be upset if you leave talking about Tom and Meryl instead of who you should really be talking about – George and Osama.Ign: Cruise and Streep are both excellent here, with Cruise surprisingly giving Streep a real run for her money at many points{nl}EFilm Critic: When Roth begins to bring up the past mistakes of the war by insisting that it is important to understand how we got to our current situation, Irving brings up two very good points

Here you have a video of the ladies of “The View” talking about Tom (Thanks Myma)

Oliver Stone is eying Michael Pitt to play Lt. William Calley, the Army officer who was found guilty of ordering the 1968 My Lai Massacre, in his upcoming Vietnam War drama “Pinkville.” As an actor, Pitt is no stranger to the political turmoil of 1968; he appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers,” set against the ’68 student riots in Paris. Although United Artists, which is producing the film, and the actor’s reps — UTA, Carolyn Anthony and attorney James Adams — have begun discussions, it’s unclear how far the talks have progressed. In other castings on the film, Toby Jones has been set to play Lt. Andre Feher, the chief warrant officer who tries to convince Army Gen. William Peers (Bruce Willis) that U.S. soldiers were responsible for the atrocities committed at My Lai. Willis, Channing Tatum and Woody Harrelson already are cast in the investigative thriller written by Mikko Alanne. Production is set to begin in December, with MGM distributing. Jones, who next appears in MGM’s Stephen King adaptation “The Mist” and in “Frost/Nixon” for Universal, played Truman Capote in 2006′s “Infamous.” He is repped by UTA, Sue Latimer at ARG in London and attorney Carlos Goodman.{nl}Source: The Hollywood Reporter