My brother Mark just flagged something very interesting indeed up for me. According to this Guardian article, Tom Cruise will appear in the Closing Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. ‘[The] Actor will drop 42 metres from Paris stadium roof before prerecorded footage shows him bringing the games’ flag to 2028 host LA, via a series of death-defying stunts.” That sounds a lot like some kind of Top Gun-themed answer to Happy And Glorious. Cruise et al obviously saw how James Bond was involved in London 2012, and decided to steal some of his thunder by trying to do something similar. The problem is, Top Gun doesn’t have a fraction of the cultural cudos of Bond, and I suspect pretending it does might just look lame. Either way, I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see if it actually works.