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V A L K Y R I E
Tom Cruise as Count Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Valkyrie is the historical thriller that tells the story about the fifteenth [and final] attempt to take down Adolph Hitler during WWII. The operation, designed by
Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg [Tom Cruise] was codenamed "Valkyrie", for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government.
The German conspirators carried out their heroic plan to assassinate Hitler, and members of his inner circle, at Wolf's Lair on July 20,1944. The Sun was in Tom Cruise's sun sign and moving into Leo range, the winged lion of TC radix Lunar placement.
This year Cruise had his progressed Sun conjunct Regulus; the power of the aspect reminds us of our honest hearts and better angels of our nature.
Regulus is one of the four key stars in the heavens, also called archangel stars, that once marked the two Equinoxes and two Solstices – pivot days in a solar year.
IMDb trivia count down says Cruise was attracted to the role after seeing a picture of Stauffenberg. He noticed a resemblance of his profile to the colonel's.
 There are two progressed power points in TC 2008 star chart
that apply a specific relationship to the Valkyrie story. The Sun conjunct Regulus inspires people who follow those in authority, especially titled members of the military; also an aspect that involves Mars that could be key to the level of intense commitment to the film for Tom Cruise.
According to Ptolemy, Regulus bestows an aspect of Mars and Jupiter, but most later authors liken it to Mars only… It gives fame… either through loss or conflict, military honor of short duration, with ultimate failure, imprisonment, violent death, or it bestows greatness, success, high and lofty ideals and strength of spirit. Makes its natives magnanimous, grandly liberal, generous, ambitious, fond of power, desirous of command, high-spirited and independent.
[Robson, p.195.]
Col. Claus von Stauffenberg: If I fail, they'll come for you. They'll come for all of you.
Nina Von Stauffenberg: I know.
TC has Mars in a precise conjunction with Polaris this year. The conjnction is considered perhaps more important than any star* other than the Sun; it will provide laser focus on the central military era question: can we test well for proper use of the Aggressive Urge and Mars-related blueprints.
The pole star is the main star of "the small Bear." Positioned in the star chart wit Mars, it will give spiritual powers to the bearer, and he will be highly respected. Polaris serves as a guide and indicator.
In astrological terms, Mars is a symbol for the vital energy of a ‘Superman’ or ‘Superwoman’ in an emergency situation that is generated as part of our physical response to a crisis. When Mars is combined with Polaris in a star chart, we wish to learn more scripts based on biographical and legendary records about the natural leader, pioneer, and explorer. Polaris has many names in starry lore that indicates the guidance it provides: "Pathway" " Pointer" - indicating the way; "Hub of the Cosmos", "the Ship Star" and Stella Maris "Star of the Sea". The interjection of the addition, "the right way" is representative of the Sanskrit ideal for Mars, aka the rule of "right action."
* Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar:
"constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament."
L I O N S FOR L A M B S
Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise star. time: 02:30
We also know that the greatest power is lodged in the fine, not in the gross. We see a man take up a huge weight: we see his muscles swell, and all over his body we see signs of exertion; and we think the muscles are powerful things.
But it is the thin, thread-like wires, the nerves, which bring power to the muscles; the moment one of these threads is cut off from reaching the muscles, they are not able to work at all. These tiny nerves bring the power from something still finer; and that again in its turn brings it from something finer still –thought; and so on. So it is the fine that is really the seat of power. Of course, we can see the movements in the gross; but when the fine movements take place we cannot see them. When a gross thing moves, we catch it, and thus we naturally identify movement with things which are gross. But all the power is really in the fine. - Raja Yoga
Cruise Becomes Movie Mogul
Friday, November 3, 2006
Tom Cruise has bought his own movie studio. The 'Mission Impossible' star and his producing partner Paula Wagner have teamed up with MGM to reform United Artists.
The old studio was founded 85 years ago by ["Doug" and the big four - see below] movie moguls.
The 'Top Gun' actor will produce and star in the company's films, though not exclusively so he will be available for other projects.
MGM CEO Harry E. Sloan announced yesterday: 'Cruise and Wagner will have substantial ownership of United Artists. Budget permitting they will have almost complete control over green-lighting and developing new productions.'
Cruise said: 'Paula and I are very respectful of the rich history and tradition of United Artists, and we welcome the opportunity to contribute to that legacy by providing a wide range of releases that appeal to all audiences.
'It's our desire to create an environment where filmmakers can thrive and see their visions realised.' full story at Metro
Ethan Hunt boxed on bridge. Click for large MI:3 image
United Artists
United Artists was the logical conclusion to the star system.
Douglas Fairbanks was the most conspicuous of the invading "Famous Players" who survived the camera test, but his survival was a near thing, almost an accident. He was signed by Triangle on the basis of his modest reputation as a minor star of polite comedy on the stage, and sent to Hollywood in 1915 to appear
in one of triangle's first releases, The Lamb.
The regular studio personnel were in the first flush of resentment of the high salaries paid the stage favorites; perhaps it is too much to call it sabotage, but certain it is that Fairbanks was murk-photographed in this first film, and that he had been given an ashen make-up which made him look ten years older than his thirty-two years. Perhaps he was oblivious of this, perhaps he was retaliating in his own way, but throughout the making of the picture he was the hail-fellow-well-met, giving his colleagues mighty slaps on the back and indulging his private penchant for athletics and acrobatics all over the set, often at the expense of the shooting schedule. These antic so pained D. W. Griffith, who was supervising the picture, that he told Fairbanks that if he had any future with the movies it would be with Mack Sennett. But two observers intervened. Anita Loos, a script writer hardly out of her teens, but who had won Griffith's confidence in their three years of association, pointed out to the great man that this jolly, jumping-jack, off-screen Fairbanks was a far more interesting personality than the polite comedian they had signed. Miss Loos proposed that she and her husband, director John Emerson, be turned loose to see what could be done with the private personality of Douglas Fairbanks in pictures made for the public screen.
Douglas Fairbanks married Mary Pickford in 1919. The union of Doug, the all-American male, with Little Mary, America’s Sweetheart, had a sentimental logic which thrilled the fans of both, which was nearly everybody. And why not form – with Charlie Chaplin and D W. Griffith, who was also getting too expensive for his own good – a company to produce and distribute their own pictures, enabling them to keep all the profits for themselves? In 1919, the United Artists Corporation was formed.
Source: THE MOVIES, by Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - legend on stage at Westport Country Playhouse
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
Power List 2006
It's been twenty-five years since TAPS, ten since JERRY MAGUIRE, and light years since Tom Cruise first became the object of adoration, accolades, and endless tabloid scrutiny.
Yet after all this time, the star of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE III is still the most powerful movie star around. There's a reason for that...
Says Steven Spielberg, who postponed his own
Munich as Cruise put off M:I:III so they might make War of the Worlds together: "Tom and I share an insane work ethic, which is not unlike those classic cartoons where the brake comes off in your hand as you are hurtling down a mountainside. Over the years, my experience with Tom tells me he only knows one direction to go, and that's full speed ahead, and for me that's half the fun of working with him."
by Fred Schruers
PREMIERE June 2006
No one would have believed
in the early years of the 21st Century
that our world was being watched
by intelligences greater than our own…
War of the Worlds official site
* War of the Worlds @ TDN
STAR MENU IN HONOR OF TOM CRUISE
T R O P I C T H U N D E R
Ingredients
1 (1-lb) ripe papaya, peeled, seeded, & chopped [2 cups]
1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted, and chopped [2 cups]
5 Tablespoons fresh lime juice
1/3 cup water
2 teaspoons choppd peeled fresh ginger
1 cup coconut sorbet
1 cup ice cubes
Preparation
Blend together papaya, mango, lime juice, water, and ginger in
a blender until smooth. Add sorbet and ice, and blend until smooth.
serve in 4 chilled glasses
BREAKFAST IN A GLASS
Ingredients
1 Cup skim or whole milk
2/3 Cup strawberry ~ wash, remove unusual stems and leaves
1/3 Cup pear ~ peel, remove stem, core
1 Tbs sugar
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 cup crushed ice  dash of grated nutmeg
Directions
Put all ingredients into blender, cover and process on Stir
until smooth. Top with grated nutmeg when ready.
It's 2054 and Pre-Crime law enforcement has prevented all murders in Washington for the last six years. Using the premonitions of Pre-Cogs - three psychic humans - Chief John Anderton (Cruise) and his team are able to foresee crimes and arrest the perpetrator before harm is done. Read the full article: BBC Review -
go to The Minority Report International Home
THE LAST SAMURAI
Tom Cruise! Up to date as well as back page morsels
~ Samurai Ken Watanabe pages on The Last Samurai, set during the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
Note ~ There may be a subtle suggestion about the WWII spiritual/diplomatic complexities that pertain to the Divinity of the Emperor at the close of the war.
History buffs with an eye for between-the-lines blueprints can find several clues about the vows in back of and underneath the reason Japan would not have surrendered.
THE FIRM
Millionaire Pie
Delicious any time, Millionaire Pie is especially prized by the summer cook
who doesn’t want to heat up the kitchen.
Promotional Line: "Power can be murder to resist."
Ingredients
8 oz. Package of cream cheese, softened
1/2 C Sugar
8 oz. Can of crushed pineapple, undrained
1 C Grated coconut
1 C Chopped pecans
8 oz. Carton of whipped topping; thawed (OR 2 cups
whipping cream, whipped and sweetened with 3 tablespoons of sugar)
Prepared 9-inch pie shell
Directions
Cream together the softened cream cheese and the sugar with an electric mixer,
letting the mixer run for 3 or 4 minutes on high speed.
Stir into the cream cheese mixture the crushed pineapple, coconut and pecans, and mix well.
Carefully fold in half of the whipped topping until filling is blended well. Reserve remaining half for top (see below). Pour filling into a prepared curst, and chill for several hours.
Notes: Millionaire Pie can be garnished with a dollop of the whipped topping when served, or you can spread the remaining half of the topping over the whole pie and garnish with a sprinkling of chopped pecans.
"At the Protocol School of Washington, director Dorothea Johnson minds and molds the manners of government officials, ambassadors, chief executive officers and even the occasional celebrity." --The Washington Post
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July 27, 2006
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