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You know how they say the way to a man's heart is through food? Well, when you're an actor who's fallen from grace, then the way back into the hearts of your audience is through comedy. AND ... if you really want to go berserk, you choose a film that combines food and comedy! Wham! Welcome back to Hollywood Mr. Tom Cruise. Yup, The Hollywood Reporter tells us Cruise is enjoying all the buzz surrounding his scene-stealing cameo in Tropic Thunder and is now "loosely attached" (ie: the Oscar wind can blow and knock him right off) to the comedy Food Fight.

Should he remain this film's star, Cruise would play a snooty New York chef who, for some odd reason, is forced to cook in a school cafeteria. Steven Brill was originally in talks to direct the film, but they've since gone on to other candidates (one imagines Cruise wasn't too keen on working with the dude behind Without a Paddle and Drillbit Taylor). As of now, Adam Brooks (Definitely, Maybe) is attached to pen the script. Food Fight is just one of several projects Cruise is "loosely attached" to, as the world is still waiting to see what the man takes on following his stint as an eye patch-wearing Hitler assassin in Bryan Singer's upcoming Valkyrie.

Who could resist a movie called Untitled Air Guitar Project? I know - you'd think most humans could. Sadly for all of us, however, that group does not include the acquisitions people at Dreamworks, because they just bought the movie. Steven Brill, whose resume includes such landmarks as Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, and Without a Paddle, will direct from a screenplay by Jay Martell and Ian Roberts. The script is a "broad comedy" (that's a surprise) that draws on an oddly copious pool of air guitar sources. Among them are a documentary about the exciting world of pretending to play guitar, and a forthcoming memoir about life in said world by fake guitar king Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane, whose moving rendition of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' is available at his website.

The people at Dreamworks are apparently over the moon about this one. Have they not seen any of Brill's movies?