Cruise & 33 Again

Tom Cruise wore uniform #33 in All The Right Moves (1983).

In the comments on "Tom Cruise: 33° of Separation," Mike Clelland is to be credited with noting that the Synchromystic Forum mentions that Tom Cruise appeared in a uniform numbered "33" in the movie All The Right Moves, as shown here.

All The Right Moves (1983) was directed by Michael Chapman, and starred Tom Cruise; Lea Thompson; Craig T. Nelson. Stefan Djordjevich (Cruise) is a high school football player trying to win a scholarship to college and get out of this Pennsylvania mining town.

Michael Chapman, the director of All The Right Moves, is mostly known as an American cinematographer for his aggressive use of strong color and high contrast work on Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and on Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Chapman was also the cinematographer for the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Cruise apparently likes to be around people wearing significant numbers. Cruise is seen with his son Connor, 16, at the Los Angeles Lakers game on March 27, 2011. Connor Cruise's shirt has an intriguing number on it, (33 x 3 =) 99.

Would Cruise be a fan of Larry Bird, if he was still playing?

Meanwhile, let us not forget the mystical number 23, which pops up too in this synchromystic melodrama.

Victoria Beckham, her and David Beckham's son, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are seen at Beckham's soccer game in Madrid, Spain, on June 17, 2007.

David Beckham seems to have been touched by the number 23, because his wife told him 23 was the number of Michael Jordan's jersey.

Unfortunately, for Michael Jordan, the number would also haunt him. His father, James R. Jordan, Sr. was murdered on July 23, 1993, at a highway rest area in Lumberton, North Carolina, by two teenagers, Daniel Green and Larry Martin Demery.

A more positive event occurred on November 1, 1994, when Jordan's number 23 was retired by the Bulls in a ceremony that included the erection of a permanent sculpture known as The Spirit outside the new United Center in Chicago.

The number 23 lives on among basketball players and others, in reality and fiction.

Running Back #23 Meggett was played by Nelly in The Longest Yard (2005).

Meanwhile, Tom Cruise continues to bounce around and we've not heard the last of him.

Tom Cruise and Michael Jordan say goodbye to Oprah, 

along with Men In Black's Will Smith and Usher, as well as others.

Pascagoula's Critter

Recently, I discovered that in 2007, the late Mac Tonnies, author of The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and Aliens Among Us, (NY: Anomalist Books, 2010) wrote this: "A friend who's been sight-seeing in New York recently happened across a most unusual figurine in a toy store. After dropping me an excited message on my answering machine, he emailed me this photo:"

The carrot-colored apparition is none other than the "wrinkled robot" described by Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who claimed to have been abducted by apparent alien creatures in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1973. Needless to say, you don't see too many of these on toy shelves.... 

At the time, I was wondering, had anyone seen this unique collectible artifact of our popular Fortean culture, as expressed in this "wrinkled robot" item. I found one, and it is now a member of the International Cryptozoology Museum, not because it is a cryptid, but because it is not. It is in the developing "Fortean corner." 

Readers Allegretto Kassidy and Chris Savia had informed me this is art ("Project After Dark") by Michael Lau.  

The person who had seen this was Mike Clelland, and this photo above, is via Mac Tonnies, originally from Mike Clelland.