I agree with you Irish, Tom Cruise is not all that popular in Australia because of the way he dumped his Australian wife who is well loved here. The kids will probably live mainly with her in Australia. But I can well see the point that he has helped create in part the vision of violence. To an outsider, the USA is a scary place with all the things you see in the newspaper and on TV.

But I have got to know some ordinary americans and know that in the main they are just like us really. Just everything is bigger and faster.