so it was a long week and i’d an ear infection and wound up spending the majority of saturday in a swoon state watching far and away. which reminded me why i <3 tommy cruise (in spite of himself) and why tommy cruise and nicole kidman were my celebrity couple ideal. (kidman knows this… in 2013, she likened herself and cruise to brangelina- it’s just us who’ve forgotten.)
an easy thing to forget in all that came after the split in 2000- news so shocking that, as though it were my generation’s equivalent of the moon landing, i vividly remember sitting in a t-shirt and boxers in front of the brand spanking new dell XPS one 20 and first reading about it on cnn.com (which, fyi, looked like this then).
it felt, at the time, like a big deal. not just gossip-wise, but in real life. whether it actually was remains to be seen. this was spring of 2000. the century was young. there was a lot to happen yet. but i think we can say with some certainty that cruise and kidman were- once upon a time, for the briefest of shining moments, in the most 90s possible way (the long hair, the VELVET BLAZER!!!)- deeply so cool…
Filed under: kidman, tommy cruise, totally random gossip nostalgia trip
