MOVIES - March 15, 1990

Cruising Speed: Tom Cruise took his latest movie role too far and it cost him $125. Cruise was fined after getting caught driving 66 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone on March 2 in Darlington, N.C., where he is playing a race car driver in the movie “Days of Thunder” at Darlington Raceway. The fine would have been worse had not Judge Dan Causey reduced the speeding count to the lesser charge of careless operation of a vehicle. Darlington Mayor Ronnie Ward said city officials had even discussed dropping the charge altogether but were concerned about possible adverse publicity.