A HANDS DOWN HIT!

IN 1980, at just 18, TOM CRUISE was waiting tables as a struggling actor in New York City! But a move to Hollywood got him noticed, and soon — after several small roles — he established himself as a superstar in the 1983 teen comedy Risky Business, in which he plays a sex-obsessed rich kid. Co-starring REBECCA De MORNAY as a stunning prostitute, the flick pulled in a whopping $63 million after having been made for $6.2 million, and Tom moved on to other superhits such as Top Gun, The Color of Money, Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July — and for a while was the highest-paid actor in Tinseltown!