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LOOK. Ohio State marching band enjoys private screening of Top Gun: Maverick

Looks like #TBDBITL enjoyed its private screening of Top Gun: Maverick. #GoBucks

USA Today Sports Media Group · May 27, 2022

Why Val Kilmer’s brief cameo is the most powerful moment in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Val Kilmer’s lone scene in “Top Gun: Maverick” is strikingly powerful — not only because it successfully projects decades of close friendship between his character, Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, and Tom Cruise’s, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, but because it also draws on the actor’s own experiences. The combination lays fertile ground for…

Los Angeles Times · May 27, 2022

Harry and Meghan forced Kate Middleton to 'kickstart her star quality', say experts

According to royal experts, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's departure from the Royal Family now means that Prince William and Kate Middleton have stepped up their glitzy appearances and are a Prince and Princess of Wales in waiting

Daily Mirror · May 27, 2022

How to run a hotel at Cannes, and host celebrities?

The general manager of iconic Hotel Martinez, which played host to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Naomi Campbell, and many more, shows us. P.S.: He has a Chennai connection

The Hindu · May 27, 2022

17 ‘Top Gun’ callbacks to watch for in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

If you feel the need — the need for nostalgic callbacks galore — worry not. “Top Gun: Maverick” has you covered.

Los Angeles Times · May 27, 2022

Kenny Loggins rides into the ‘Danger Zone’ once more (and he can still hit those high notes)

Kenny Loggins had already established himself as a pop star — first as half of the rootsy Loggins & Messina, then as a yacht-rocking solo act — by the time he became the unofficial king of the movie soundtrack in the early 1980s. There was “I’m Alright,” from “Caddyshack.” There…

Los Angeles Times · May 27, 2022

Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American power

The film reflects anxiety over the US’s relative decline in the face of China’s high-tech military might

Financial Times · May 27, 2022

'Top Gun: Maverick's' F-18 flights cost new Tom Cruise film $11,374 an hour

The U.S. Navy lent Tom Cruise F/A-18 Super Hornets for the new “Top Gun” movie. The only catches: The studio paid as much as $11,374 an hour to use the advanced fighter planes — and Cruise couldn’t touch the controls.

Tribune News Service · May 26, 2022

Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

Film-makers get to borrow expensive bits of kit on the cheap, but the Pentagon uses movies as a propaganda machine

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022

Top Gun: Maverick's age shouldn’t stop him as a test and fighter pilot, but his lifestyle might

When Rolls Royce Test Pilot Phil O’Dell (POD to his friends and colleagues) broke the world electric flight airspeed record last year, nobody remarked upon his being in his late 50s. At 51, no one challenged me about my age when I recently made the first flight of the British…

The Conversation · May 26, 2022