Tom Cruise taking up comedy

You heard right. Cruise's performance in tomorrow's movie release of "Tropic Thunder" has left critics raving and Cruise altering his career path. He is now rumored to be working with screenwriter Adam Brooks ("Definitely, Maybe") and possibly filmmaker Steven Brill in a new comedy called "Food Fight." According to the "Hollywood Reporter," Cruise would be playing the role of an A-list, New York chef whose career takes a turn for the worse, leaving him cooking at a school cafeteria.

It's also rumored that Cruise may be teaming up with Ben Stiller again for a 20th Century Fox movie version of the classic series "The Hardy Boys."