Sometimes I confuse John Travolta with Tom Cruise, usually at upscale cocktail parties when the conversation turns to disecting the pop-culture relevance of Pulp Fiction vs. Top Gun. This is indeed “Risky Business” and not a mistake easily reconciled when wooing the model-types with my discussion of science (believe it or not, invoking the good name of scientific enterprise rarely carries much weight).

It’s a particularly bizarre conundrum nowadays, what with the Tom-Cruise-off-the-deep-end / Travolta-post-”Phenomenon” era that we now live in.