Tom Cruise has taken it upon himself to find the perfect action scene location for his upcoming Mission: Impossible IV.
The actor jetted out to Prague, Czech Republic, to scout for locations alongside director Brad Bird.
The men took a trip out to the city’s Vrsovice train station while Tom tried to stay incognito with a Yankees cap and aviator sunglasses.
The 48-year-old actor is staying in the Old Town of Prague, where he came in 1995 to shoot the first film, directed by Brian De Palma, according to London’s Daily Mail.
Czech local tabloid, Aha!, has also claimed that Cruise is working on a TV commercial while in the country’s capital.
Cruise, who plays secret agent Ethan Hunt in the fourth installment, is expected to be reunited with Simon Pegg, who’ll reprise his role as Benji Dunn from Mission: Impossible III.
Jeremy Renner is cast as Hunt’s sidekick, and the female lead role has been given to Paula Patton.
Mission Impossible 4 is set for release on Dec. 16 2011.
Actor Jon Hamm, who plays the dapper, suave Don Draper in “Mad Men,” says he battles chronic depression, relying on antidepressants and therapy to beat the illness.
Hamm, 38, said he was hit hard by the deah of his father when he was 20.
“I was … unmoored by that. I struggled with chronic depression. I was in bad shape,” he told the U.K. magazine The Observer. Hamm’s mother had died of stomach cancer when he was 10, and he went to live with his father. His parents had divorced when he was just a toddler.
He has told Vanity Fair that his character Don Draper is partly inspired by his father. The actor, currently a hit in Ben Affleck’s movie The Town, says work also helped him recover: “I knew I had to get back in school and back in some kind of structured environment and … continue.”
At the time of his father’s death, he was a student at the University of Texas, and “was very fortunate to have really good friends in my life whose parents sort of rallied,” he tells The Observer.
As far as therapy and antidepressants are concerned, he says, “It gives you another perspective when you are so lost in your own spiral. It helps. You can change your brain chemistry enough to think: ‘I want to get up in the morning; I don’t want to sleep until four in the afternoon. I want to get up and … go to work and …’ Reset the auto-meter, kick-start the engine!”
Just a few months after the mother of former INXS pop star Michael Hutchence pleaded with Sir Bob Geldof to let her see her granddaughter, Tiger Lily, she has died at her Queensland, Australia, home.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail at her apartment, which was decorated with photographs of the late leader of INXS, 84-year-old Patricia Glassop claimed at the time that Sir Bob had ‘treated her cruelly’.
‘I’ve begged him and pleaded with him to let me see Tiger Lily again, but he’s turned a deaf ear to me,’ claimed Glassop. ‘He’s treated me shabbily.’
The last time Patricia saw Tiger Lily was in April 2006 when Geldof came to Australia and allowed Tiger to see her grandmother for a few days.
Tiger Lily wrote a note to Mrs Glassop at the time thanking her ‘granny’ for a wonderful holiday and promising to visit again soon.
During that holiday, Tiger spent five days with her grandmother, accompanied by Tiger’s nanny.
Mrs Glassop told a magazine later: ‘I played her some of Michael’s old music videos and she asked me who it was.
‘I told her “It’s your daddy”. She smiled and followed all the moves, dancing along with Michael.’
Tiger Lily is the only child of Michael Hutchence – who a coroner found had hanged himself in a Sydney hotel in 1997 – and Paula Yates, who was found dead of a drug overdose in her London flat in September 2000.
Friends of Hutchence claimed that he hanged himself over battling with Geldof and Yates over where Tiger Lily should live – and who with.
Although Glassop had seen her granddaughter a few times following her birth in July 1996, she always maintained it was not enough.
Paris Hilton canceled her Asia tour and returned home when she was denied entry at Tokyo’s airport Wednesday following a drug violation in the U.S. — running afoul of strict Japanese laws that have tripped up celebrities from Paul McCartney to Diego Maradona.
“I’m going back home, and I look forward to coming back to Japan in the future,” a smiling Hilton told reporters before departing on her private jet.
The 29-year-old celebrity socialite had arrived at Narita International Airport, outside the Japanese capital, two days after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge in Las Vegas. Japan has strict immigration laws that bar entry to those convicted of drug offenses, although exceptions are occasionally granted.
Hilton was to appear Wednesday at a news conference in Tokyo to promote her fashion and fragrance lines. She arrived Tuesday evening, but was stopped at the airport and spent the night at an airport hotel after being questioned by officials.
“I’m really tired,” said Hilton, wearing a black baseball cap and a navy sweat suit.
Hilton also abruptly canceled planned appearances in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Her publicist, Dawn Miller, said Hilton plans to make the trips at a later date.
Just before taking off, Hilton tweeted a message to her fans.
“Going home now. So disappointed to miss my fans in Asia. I promise to come back soon. I love you all! Love Paris xoxo.”
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
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