Brenton's work has previously appeared in Billboard, Pigeons & Planes and Complex. Getty(2) Michael Caine is looking back on his earliest encounter with Tom Cruise — when the latter was just a "very polite" young actor. In an except from his new book ...

Caine reflects on young Tom Cruise not wanting to be a "flash in the pan." I turned around and there was this young actor, very polite, asking questions about how not to be just a flash in the pan. That was Tom,

Michael Caine has shared that a young Tom Cruise asked him for career advice when the pair first met 40 years ago.