One more note about Tom Cruise, I recently found an anecdote that somehow I never knew before where Christian Bale claimed he based his character in AMERICAN PSYCHO from a Cruise appearance on Letterman. (Of course if you all remember, he played a serial killer in AP.)
That false public face of thinly-concealed fake-niceness and condescending sincereity Bale would later put to good use as Bruce Wayne the "playboy" in the last few BATMAN movies.
