Who needs the Oscars erstwhile you’ve got friends – and cake? Tom Cruise was each smiles portion celebrating Sir Michael Caine turning 90 connected Tuesday (Mar. 14). Tom, 60, joined the Italian Job actor astatine London’s River Cafe for a star-studded meal successful Michael’s honor. British comedian David Walliams shared photos from wrong the intimate affair, including a fewer snaps of Tom with his limb astir Michael’s shoulder. One of the pictures included Tom laughing portion Michael looked astatine his day cake. Afterward, the Eyes Wide Shut star had an open-mouth grin arsenic helium departed the River Cafe, seemingly successful a large temper aft a nighttime of nutrient and friendship.
Tom and Michael person known each different since the 1980s since they starred successful Cocktail together. The party’s impermanent database included Mission: Impossible writer Chris McQuarrie and Michael’s wife, Shakira Caine. All that was missing was Quincy Jones, who besides turned 90 connected Tuesday. Michael and the legendary shaper forged a enslaved portion moving unneurotic successful 1969 connected The Italian Job erstwhile they realized they were some calved connected the aforesaid day, aforesaid year, and aforesaid hour. Both men arrived conscionable minutes isolated from each other.
“When it is real, you don’t person to effort to support anything…it conscionable happens,” Jones told CBS astir the relationship successful 2013. “I perceive his name, I spot his movies, I get a telephone from him, it ever touches maine from the bottommost of my soul.”
Tom Cruise’s sanction was connected everyone’s lips during the 95th Academy Awards connected Sunday. The show’s host, Jimmy Kimmel, kicked disconnected his opening monologue with a skit featuring him being ejected retired of Tom’s level successful Tom Cruise: Maverick but seemed irked that Tom skipped out. “You know, Tom and James Cameron didn’t amusement up tonight. The 2 guys who insisted we spell to the theatre, didn’t go to the theatre,” joked Jimmy.
Kimmel besides joked astir Tom’s engagement successful L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology, saying, “Everyone loved Top Gun – everybody. I mean, Tom Cruise with his garment disconnected successful that formation shot scene. L. Ron hubba-hubba – you cognize what I’m saying?” Kimmel’s woman (and Jimmy Kimmel Live! executive producer), Molly McNearney, told Variety they would person chopped the Scientology gag had Tom attended. “We had astir a three-minute chunk of the monologue dedicated to Tom Cruise, honoring him and his relation successful reviving the movie industry,” she said. “We were truthful disappointed erstwhile we learned a fewer days earlier the Oscars that helium wouldn’t beryllium there. Jimmy loves him and truly wanted to observe him.”
Top Gun: Maverick was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture, astatine the Oscars (it won 1 grant for Best Sound). Though immoderate reports claimed Tom skipped retired connected the ceremonial to debar a run-in with his ex, Nicole Kidman, Tom’s rep told PEOPLE that helium wouldn’t be due to the fact that he’s engaged filming Mission: Impossible 8 overseas.
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