MOVIES - Feb. 5, 1987

“Top Gun” star Tom Cruise was the top box-office draw of 1986, according to a poll of U.S. motion picture exhibitors. Behind Cruise, who also starred in “The Color of Money,” were Eddie Murphy, Paul Hogan, Rodney Dangerfield, Bette Midler, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathleen Turner and Paul Newman. For Hogan, Dangerfield, Midler, Goldberg and Turner, it was the first appearance in the top 10. It was Eastwood’s 19th appearance, a record bettered only by the late John Wayne’s 25, and Newman’s first appearance since 1975. The exhibitors’ poll has been taken annually by Quigley Publications of New York since 1932.