Tom Cruise to take the bullet train (Reuters) Updated: 2006-06-19 10:46

Someone had better warn him not to jump on the seats.
Tom Cruise is hoping to impress his Japanese audience by chartering an entire
1,300-seater high speed "bullet" train to take 150 fans on a trip from Tokyo to
Osaka on Wednesday.
The two-and-a-half hour train ride is part of the publicity campaign for his
latest film "Mission: Impossible III," which premieres in Japan next week.
But any repeat of the actor's couch-jumping episode from the television chat
show "Oprah" last year would likely irritate the hygiene-conscious Japanese, who
are careful to keep their shoes away from upholstery.
Cruise plans to chat with each passenger individually and have photographs
taken with them, according to a spokesman for film distributor UIP.
The actor topped Forbes magazine's annual list of powerful celebrities this
week, despite criticism of his occasionally eccentric off-screen behavior,
including jumping on a couch when telling chat-show host Oprah Winfrey about his
girlfriend, Katie Holmes.
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