The Height of Tom Cruise

The World’s Biggest Star

Tom Cruise, 2016, Yukie Tada, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

For reasons that are somewhat unfathomable to me, Tom Cruise, perhaps the last of the major movie stars, has become a byword synonymous with short stature.

He remains, at sixty, remarkably handsome and charismatic, his talent undiminished, and while he continues to perform his own stunts with grace and athleticism, the adjective that pops from many…