Tom Cruise enjoys Shanghai sights, cell phones
From Doug Young

SHANGHAI—Actor Tom Cruise got a taste of Asian cellphone etiquette in Shanghai when a local reporter took a call in the middle of his press event on the city’s historic Bund on Wednesday.
Such chatter is common in much of Asia, where people routinely talk on their phones in the middle of news briefings and many other public gatherings.
But the American superstar, in town to shoot scenes for his latest “Mission: Impossible” movie, took it all in his stride, borrowing the phone from the surprised reporter to talk to the woman caller.
“Hello. Xie xie. Ni hao. How are you?” said an amused Cruise, dressed in black, exhausting his limited Chinese vocabulary before going on to ask if the woman — the reporter’s wife — was at work and about her marital status. Cruise and his crew were meeting the media after wrapping up two weeks of shooting for “Mission: Impossible III.”
The film was being shot in Shanghai and nearby Xitang, a town criss-crossed by canals, with other scenes in Italy, Germany and the United States. The visit to China by one of the world’s biggest stars, who is travelling with pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, has created a massive buzz in the local media, where the actor is known affectionately as “Tang Ge,” or “Big Brother Tom.” Cruise, whose credits include last year’s “War of the Worlds” and two previous “Mission: Impossible” movies, said during the briefing that he and Holmes, who plan to get married, have yet to set a date but that the wedding will happen next year. During his brief China trip, Cruise has been spotted at a number of trendy Shanghai hang-outs, including a swanky restaurant on the Bund, and a Sichuan eaterie where he reportedly paid more than 5,000 yuan for a meal — an astronomical sum by Chinese standards.