The first performance that earned Cruise an Oscar nomination was 1989’s Born of the Fourth of July, where he played the ...

A lot of people were moved by Bruce Springsteen's political songs, but Frank Zappa wasn't convinced, as he thought something deeper was happening.

EXCLUSIVE: I caught up with Carolco co-founder Mario Kassar, who had two recently deceased artists on his mind, and how they ...

My friend Bob Muller was heading it up and we did a benefit for them on The River tour [1981]. I remember going to see The Deer Hunter with Ron Kovic, who wrote Born On The 4th Of July, and he was ...

EXCLUSIVE: I caught up with Carolco co-founder Mario Kassar, who had two recently deceased artists on his mind, and how they helped shape his highest-flying foreign sales company of the ‘80s.

He won a Golden Globe Award for portraying Ron Kovic in the latter. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. As a leading Hollywood star in the 1990s, he starred in ...

Born on the Fourth of July After bringing the legendary character of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell to life, Tom Cruise played real-life Marine and Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic on the silver screen.

Vietnam veteran and antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s memoir (which Oliver Stone later adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise). Springsteen purchased the book at a gas station in ...

It’s one of Cruise’s most memorable roles. Based on a book of the same name, this biographical film tells the story of Ron Kovic (Cruise), a Vietnam War veteran turned anti-war activist. Paralysed in ...

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic ...