OREGON DAILY EMERALD, 1998.

In my first week on the job as Entertainment Reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald, I met Tom Cruise.

This is not a game of Two Truths and a Lie. This is real life.

Tom came to Eugene, Oregon (no, really) for the premiere of Without Limits, a movie about University of Oregon alumni and Olympian Steve Prefontaine. Cruise was a producer on the film.

Fortunately (or not), I had no idea Mr. Cruise would be at the premiere until less than an hour before it started. Imagine the nerves my already anxious self would’ve worked up had I known.