Tom Hanks Spills Details On The Christmas Gift He Gets Every Year From Tom Cruise

Tom Hanks spilled the details on the Christmas gift he said he gets every year from superstar Tom Cruise and said both his family and entire staff looks for it to arrive in the mail starting after Thanksgiving.

During the 66-year-old actor’s recent appearance on the YouTube show “Mythical Kitchen.” the superstar actor revealed to the host that the gift from the “Top Gun” star would be part of his ultimate “last meal.”

“And my last meal would be challah bread French toast with Carey’s sugar free syrup, an In-N-Out double double with a Diet Coke,” Hanks explained as he went on listing several other items before sharing that he would top it all off with a white chocolate coconut bundt cake.

“This cake is so great,” he added. “You can really only have it once a year. Which works out perfectly because I don’t order it. It arrives as a gift at Christmas.”

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“Now, I’m gonna drop a name now, and I don’t want you to go berserk, but this is a big name,” Hanks continued. “Not everybody gets this white chocolate coconut bundt cake. This is a Christmas gift that we get every year from Tom Cruise.”

The “Forrest Gump” star said he’s not the only one who eagerly waits for the cake to arrive, but the entire staff at his production studio does as well.

“Now, what’s interesting is the folks now at the office, the Playtone World headquarters around, starting about Thanksgiving, they start eyeing the, you know, ‘what mail has come in today,'” the superstar actor shared. “You know, ‘is the big box coming in’? Are we getting what is essentially being called the Tom Cruise cake? Because this is just off the scale, fantastic.”

The “Cast Away” star said the staffers start out with big slices of the cake after it arrives, but over time the slices get smaller and smaller as everyone tries to make the cake last as long as possible.

“As time goes by, we realize these, the days are numbered on the survival of this cake,” Hanks shared. “So everybody starts slicing thinner and thinner slices, you know, and it’s a mathematical proof that you just keep cutting everything in half. You will never run out of Tom Cruise cake.”

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Florida Democrat Defends Controversial HS Class: Teach ‘Black Queerness,’ ‘Black Lives Matter’

A Florida Democratic lawmaker in favor of teaching a controversial AP African American Studies in high schools blasted the state on Monday, arguing that students shouldn’t be shielded from BLM or “black queerness.”

The Florida Department of Education recently informed the board that the course’s content lacked educational value, taking special issue with sections on “Queer Black Studies,” the reparations movement, and “movements for black lives,” among others. But State Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, suggested to NPR that those topics should be embraced, not shunned.

“Some of the things that they were speaking about in it were talking about the black struggle, it was talking about the Black Lives Matter movement, it spoke about black queerness. … These are not issues that we should be shying away from, or shielding away from students,” said Jones.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who signed legislation last year preventing the state’s government schools from teaching discrimination on the basis of race, color, or sex, detailed a number of his concerns on Monday. Among them is the way the curriculum shoehorns esoteric academic theories into what has been dubbed in legacy media as a history course.

“Now who would say that an important part of black history is queer theory? That is somebody pushing an agenda on our kids, and so when you look to see they have stuff about intersectionality, abolishing prisons, that’s a political agenda. And so, that’s the wrong side of the line for Florida standards,” he said.

The Department of Education said it would reconsider its decision to block the course if the curriculum were changed.

While proponents of teaching African American Studies have argued that the courses encourage holistic thinking about American history, skeptics note that the curricula primarily emphasize narratives of left-wing advocacy and grievance. The College Board’s website suggests that a major in the subject can prepare a student for only one career field, community organizing and activism, even as the organization says a history major can prepare students for a multitude of careers, including anthropology, law, and foreign service.

Currently, the course is taught in several dozen schools as a pilot, according to The College Board, which develops curricula for high school students to receive college credit before they attend university.

The College Board has so far declined to publicly release the African American studies curriculum, asserting that the material contains proprietary information. The course is expected to undergo changes before any nationwide implementation.

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