Kelly McGillis vs Tom Cruise, indisputable proof that Scientology works?

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Kelly looks great--I don't know what your issue is. However, people do age at different rates, based on genetics, exercise, foods they eat, and even attitude. My roommate died a month ago. She smoked, she'd had four heart attacks, she had high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, COPD, and diabetes. She didn't watch her blood sugar, which was often out of control (she was admitted to the hospital once with a blood sugar of almost 600). She was 49 years old. I am 53 in March, with none of those issues.

My roommate ate a lot of sweets and carbs. She would eat grits for breakfast and Bugles for lunch. She ate canned pasta for many meals, too. She did not care for most meats and she would not eat fish except for tuna. She did not eat vegetables. She did not drink water or milk. The only dairy she got was in ice cream or milk shakes. She also ate to excess. She wouldn't just eat one or two hot dogs for lunch--she'd have four, on buns, loaded with cheese and chili.

We weighed about the same, although her skin was pale and loose on her body, her face was wrinkled, and she had no muscle tone. She sat in front of the computer and chatted all of the time or she was on the phone with friends. I go outside and take the dogs for walks or train them. I have a part-time job on a goat farm where I lift hay bales and do physically-demanding chores. I also process venison during the fall and winter and garden in the spring and summer.

All of her issues ran rampant in her family--with the exception of high blood pressure, none of them run in mine (I don't have high blood pressure). The average age at which a person dies in her family is around 50 and often from diabetic complications. The average age a person dies in my family is in the late 80s, even with high blood pressure.

All of these things, not just make-up use, make a difference in a person's appearance. More than once I was asked about my "mother" when I visited her in the hospital. If she had taken better care of herself, then she might still be with us, but genetics played a large part in everything, not just her appearance.

Proof that whilst Kelly McGillis has grown old gracefully, Tom Cruise desperately holds onto his youth with hair dyes and airbrushes. The guy can't act, why does he have such a huge fanbase? Apart from 'Magnolia,' name me one classic Cruise film that isn't some piece of fluff action *beep*

1. McGillis is 5 years older than Cruise, and even looked older in Top Gun.
2. Women age faster and meaner than men; however, Kelly doesn't look a day older than her age (late fifties), and wears her years gracefully, including letting her hair grey.
3. ...Unlike Cruise, who has to be the vainest of all Hollywood actors, and clings desperately to a young(ish) look by means of makeup, hair dye, punishing workout, and plastic surgery.




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I don't know about Tom Skerritt's mother, as Tom Skerritt has looked like he's 90 for about twenty years. LOL. I was a bit shocked when I saw her though, but as an actress that isn't exactly in demand like Tom (Xemu, I mean Cruise, that is, not Skerritt) is, she doesn't really have reason to exercise constantly and have plastic surgery and such. Also, in this film, I think they made her look a bit older as well. It still was a bit shocked, though, as I said, thinking back to Top Gun.

I thought she looked old and Sara Paxton looked hot. So either I'm unrealistic, or a dirty old man. Perhaps both. LOL.


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Plus, I think you're all forgetting one thing ... Kelly is a mom. I know, I know, Tom is a dad, too ... but dads seem to be able to compartmentalize better and of course often have helpmates who take on the day-to-day raising of the children, dad gets to see them at night when he gets home from work and toss them in the air or throw a ball back and forth. I found myself shockingly comparing myself to Kelly ... thank you everyone for the kind words about her looks; I agree, in some views she didn't look so bad and she was absolutely perfect for the role, kudos casting ... and remember that after my daughter was born, my interest in myself formerly probably one of trying to attract men, went out the window. Unfortunately, it has only lately come back when it's an uphill battle to even think of getting back to where I was before.

My guess though is that in real life, Kelly probably never really cared that much about makeup.

just cause tom cruise appears to not have any grey hairs, people say he must dye it, ok, well i cant say in his case, he may well do, or he may not, some......some people don't grey just cause of their age

prime example being my father, he is late sixties and has his own, natural dark brown hair, no grey (and i know that he doesn't dye it, that would be far too metrosexual for him)

then there is me, 30 years younger than him, with streaks of grey and have had it since my twenties, it looks overall dark brown, but my point is i have more grey hair than my dad!!! it's crazy

so it could be, that tomothy cruizer has all his own hair, everyone is different

but just to stay on topic here, i have to admit i found kelly mcgillis distracting, because i kept thinking back to my boyhood lusting after her in top gun in the mid eighties, then looking at her in this film, too jarring, and sad, and scary, scarier than the actual film!



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I would like to put my pacifier in Adeles binky box!

Shes still gorgeous.
Shes aged normally without all the surgery and botex everyone else seems to get when they hit their 50s.

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