Cruise's Pete “Maverick ... to the Top Gun franchise in 2022. Cruise played the titular role in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick as Kilmer reprised his role with a brief cameo.

The film is dedicated to him. Charlie's "older man" date at the officer's club is the real-life "Viper", Pete Pettigrew. He is a retired Navy pilot and TOP GUN instructor, and shot down a MiG during ...

The film is dedicated to him. Charlie's "older man" date at the officer's club is the real-life "Viper", Pete Pettigrew. He is a retired Navy pilot and TOP GUN instructor, and shot down a MiG during ...

The “SNL” episode in question would have featured an iconic cameo from Tom Cruise that the audience wasn’t expecting.

The 2000 sketch's co-writer, Michael Schur, joked that "30 Rock would have crumbled to the ground" had the cameo worked out.

Tom Cruise held a moment of silence for the late Val Kilmer while on stage at Cinema Con. Cruise, who appeared at the convention to introduce the trailer for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, ...

The actor, 62, was supposed to appear on “Saturday Night Live” alongside his former “Top Gun” co-star in a sketch written by Michael Schur and Robert Carlock in the early aughts.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing growing scrutiny over his use of the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss U.S. military operations, including operational details about strikes in Yemen.

Pete Crow-Armstrong has bridged the 2024 and 2025 seasons in a mightily impressive way. So impressive, in fact, that one strong metric says Crow-Armstrong is a top-three outfielder in all of baseball.