Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Tom Cruise on Oprah’s couch w. Willa Paskin
Willa Paskin (of Slate's Decoder Ring) brings Sarah back to 2005, when Tom Cruise jumping on a couch became the talk of the town.
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Tom Cruise on the couch notes
Oprah episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=930BhfJxFxU
Tom Cruise Kills Oprah meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbhE3GRiUE
Amy Nicholson's revelatory piece reframing Tom Cruise and the couch jump: https://www.laweekly.com/how-youtube-and-internet-journalism-destroyed-tom-cruise-our-last-real-movie-star/
Rich Juzwiak piece on the meaning of the couch jump: https://www.gawker.com/5912665/gone-and-back-tom-cruises-couch-jumping-remembered
New York Times hand wringing about the event:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/movies/how-personal-is-too-personal-for-a-star-like-tom-cruise.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/fashion/sundaystyles/i-love-you-with-all-my-hype.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/opinion/two-top-guns-shoot-blanks.html
A few other interesting, what it all meant pieces:
- https://www.laineygossip.com/looking-back-on-tom-cruise-maniacal-couch-jumping-on-oprah-fifteen-years-later/66337
- https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/8/1/17631658/tom-cruise-oprah-couch-jump
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