TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Tom Cruise and our au pair

By TigerHawk at 7/07/2005 12:15:00 AM

In her year in the United States, our Aussie au pair has managed to hustle up encounters with more celebrities than you can shake a stick at, and come back with photographic evidence. A few months ago she cornered Christian Slater, but last week when we were in California she snagged the big cahuna: Tom Cruise.

We had dropped her off on Hollywood Boulevard so she could enjoy a night off (we had no idea why she wanted to go to Hollywood, but who were we to argue?). As we pulled away we noticed that the road was closed, so we cut over to Sunset and proceeded west through Beverly Hills and Bel Air to Pacific Palisades, where we had a wonderful dinner with some old friends. Well, it turns out that Hollywood Boulevard was closed to accomodate the opening of War of the Worlds, and Tom himself arrived just as the TigerHawk au pair walked up. Apparently he paused for photographs from fans and the press, and then turned to go in. Janelle yelled out "I'm from Australia," and that was enough to catch Tom's attention. He grabbed her hand, and his publicist snatched her camera for the big picture. So here it is, a TigerHawk exclusive: Tom Cruise, our au pair, and some dolt who got through security, last Monday, June 27.