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Tuskegee Airmen recognized with Top Gun honor 73 years after winning
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Members of the Tuskegee Airmen are some of the most highly decorated military pilots in U.S. history. But there was one honor that was overlooked for more than 70 years — until now.
In 1949, a team from the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen won the first Top Gun contest, a gunnery competition among pilots from across the Air Force. But the record book listed the winner as “unknown.”
“They knew who won, but they just didn’t want to recognize us,” said Retired Lieutenant Colonel James Harvey, a 98-year-old former fighter pilot who was part of that winning team.
Harvey said the trophy “mysteriously got lost” — until 2005, when a historian found it in storage at an Air Force museum.
“She says, ‘Why isn’t this on display?’ The guy said, ‘We can’t display everything, but this item will never be on display,’” Harvey said.
The trophy is now on display, and last week a plaque commemorating the first Top Guns was unveiled at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, where the original competition was held.
Harvey said the recognition “means an awful lot.”
“We proved that we were the best,” he said. “Well OK, let’s show it.”
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ will feature ‘Danger Zone,’ Kenny Loggins confirms
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Get ready to fly back into the danger zone, as the Keny Loggins classic song “Danger Zone” is officially confirmed to be part of the long-awaited Tom Cruise Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. The song by Loggins is one of the most recognizable features of the classic ‘80s movie, so fans are sure to be happy to hear that it will once again play as a de facto theme song for Maverick as he soars through the air.
Loggins confirmed the exciting news when he recently was on Rob Lowe’s podcast, Literally with Rob Lowe. Lowe asked Loggins if he was involved in Top Gun: Maverick, to which the Grammy-winning musician said he was “finally” able to say that “Danger Zone” would play in the sequel. Though apparently, he has known for a while.
Loggins told Lowe that a few years ago when he and Tom Cruise were both on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (surprisingly the only time the two have ever met, per Loggins) he asked Cruise straight up: “So, yes or no? Is ‘Danger Zone’ in the new movie?” To which he said Cruise replied, “We can’t do Top Gun without ‘Danger Zone.’”
In case you need a quick refresher, Top Gun starred Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a hotshot Navy pilot who attends the best flight combat training school, known as Top Gun. Featuring multiple aerial sequences, “Danger Zone” was played during a number of these. Check it out in the music video below.
Top Gun was nominated for four Oscars when it was released, including one win for Best Original Song. However, “Danger Zone” was not the recipient of that award. Instead, it was the love song “Take My Breath Away”, by Berlin, that took the trophy. All due respect to “Take My Breath Away,” a memorable song in its own right, but “Danger Zone” has stood the test of time in the culture, including being part of a long-running joke on the hit animated series Archer.
“Danger Zone” won’t be the only bit of nostalgia in Top Gun: Maverick. In addition to Tom Cruise reprising his leading role, Val Kilmer is slated to return as Maverick’s frenemy Iceman. New cast member Miles Teller’s character also has a connection to the past, as he plays Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s copilot Goose.
Here is the synopsis of Top Gun: Maverick:
“After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.”
Top Gun: Maverick, after a couple of pandemic-related delays, is scheduled for take-off only in movie theaters on May 27. And we can’t wait.
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Premiere Impossible? Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ delayed yet again
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The next two “Mission: Impossible” movies are delayed again, with the film’s production citing problems stemming from the ongoing pandemic.
NEW YORK — It will be another year before a new “Mission: Impossible” movie hits theaters. Paramount Pictures and Skydance announced Friday that the release of “Mission: Impossible 7” will be pushed from Sept. 20 to July 14, 2023.
“Mission: Impossible 8,” previously set for July 2023, will instead open June 28, 2024.
It’s the latest setback for a pair of blockbusters that have been much-delayed by the pandemic. Shooting on “Mission: Impossible 7," starring franchise lead Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell of “Captain America” fame, was put on hiatus in early 2020 because of COVID-19. After filming resumed in the summer of 2020, principal photography ultimately concluded by September 2021.
Paramount and Skydance attributed the postponements to pandemic-related delays.
“After thoughtful consideration, Paramount Pictures and Skydance have decided to postpone the release dates for Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 in response to delays due to the ongoing pandemic," said the film companies in a joint statement.
Another blockbuster Cruise sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” has also been hit by repeated postponements. It’s now set for theatrical release on May 27, 2022, nearly three years after its original premiere date.