Who is Tom Cruise from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and what is their importance?

Tom Cruise is an American actor who plays in the film Vanilla Sky. He is part of popular culture, and Klosterman generally dislikes most things Cruse stands for. In Vanilla Sky, however, Cruse's character plays a handsome man forced to choose between a fake life that is happy but unsatisfying, and a real life that is miserable, but real. Cruse's characters chooses the latter. It is Cruse's portrayal of the character in the film that he finds entertaining, and he points out later his dislike for the man himself. Additionally, Klosterman does slam Cruse for his Scientology beliefs.