The portable electric drill is an U.S. invention, first made in 1917 by Black & Decker, which was then based in a small Baltimore machine shop. Now owned by Stanley Works, the company still has roots in Baltimore and operates a few production facilities in North America. In fact, in 20...
American Madecasts Cruise as Barry Seal, a commercial airline pilot who’s recruited by the CIA to assist in covert operations in Central America, only to become aprolific drug smugglerfor Pablo Escobar’s infamousMedellin Cartelin the 1980s....
In American Made, Tom Cruise plays a highly fictionalized version of Barry Seal, a U.S. airline pilot who become notorious for his involvement in the South American drug trade in the 1970s and early '80s. According to most accounts, Seal was a pivotal figure in helping to establish cocaine...
"I fly there regularly, and I would have stayed on the ground that day. You have to have experience to fly in Colombia. You cannot fly here like you fly in Miami, where there’s not a mountain anywhere. If you fly in South America, you have to be very trained in the conditions."...
On Wednesday night, Boeing employees who help make the F-18 plane got a sneak peek of the film and sat in a simulator to fulfill their need for speed. Tom Cruise takes to the skies once again in the new film “Top Gun: Maverick,” taking the highway to the danger zone and flying ...
“Yeah, whatever, we’ve had Tom Cruise here – I’m sure we can handle it!” Literally hundreds of desis turned up and the shoot could not be finished. Says Hossain, “All it probably took is one call: ‘Rani and Shah Rukh are in Grand Central shooting.’ We couldn’t technically...
Of wait, that was Tom Cruise! He continued walking down the hallway to the scene. By this time, I’d been on set for Alvin and the Chipmunks, Captain America: Civil War, and The Founder. But, this was the first time I was with a small group and set where I would directly ...
Luther Lassiter, Jimmy Moore, and Jim Rempehave all been known to shoot with a Joss. Joss cues were also featured in the film“The Color of Money”and the Model N7 is actually a replica of Vincent’s (Tom Cruise) stick, though the character claims “it’s a Balabushka” in the movi...
His work in South America eventually caught the eye of the Medellín Cartel, associated with Pablo Escobar, who needed a man with his skill set. Barry became a drug trafficker, gun smuggler and money launderer. Soon acquiring the title, 'The gringo that always delivers'. —Viir khubchandani...
Seal is basically an opportunist who leaps into things without taking the time to look where he might be landing. When the mysterious Schafer comes his way asking him to clandestinely take aerial photographs of communist guerilla camps in countries throughout Central America for the CIA? Sure. Gr...