Tom Cruise’s new movie, Rock of Ages, is an adaptation of the 2006 rock jukebox Broadway musical of the same name. In it Tom Cruise plays an Axl Rose (Guns n Roses) glam rock lead singer type. We’ve heard he’s very good in it - I mean, shouldn’t be too much of a stretch - he and Axl Rose are basically the same guy. Below is Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, the lead singer of a group named Arsenal…

Tom, or Stacee really - let’s honor the character - is wearing a navigator style frame. Check out the Anarchy “Signal” style for a similar frame:

You too can be Tom Cruise or Axl Rose, shirt off, chest bared, tattooed, girls on your shoulder, screaming at the top of your lungs, partying back at the hotel, limos, VIP rooms - all of that comes with the Anarchy Signal style…..in time. You have to wear em in first and then slowly the shirt will find its way off and your muscles will start expanding. It’s a process.

Here’s Axl Rose in his heyday - compare and contrast:

Tom’s head is tilted stage left, Axl’s is tilted stage right. See, an ac-tor makes it his own. “I’m gonna tilt my head left because I noticed a lot of the rock stars tilt their heads right and I don’t want to copy.” “Excellent idea, Tom!” - the director, Adam Shankman, who you might recognize as a judge on Dancing With the Stars….

Also in Rock of Ages are Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand, both in Aviators below…

Kinda refreshing to see Alec Baldwin with long hair, looking like a roadie. Russell Brand is looking dangerously close to Weird Al Yankovic here - compare and contrast:

Am I crazy - look again…

Anyway, the important thing to remember is that all of these people are either wearing navigators or aviators, two extremely versatile styles, and two styles that can be worn as sunglasses or as prescription frames. They look cool either way. It used to be that only nerdish types wore aviators as prescription frames, but then then the ’80s became big in the ’00s and then all the cool kids were wearing aviator and navigator frames as prescription frames again. Who better to exemplify this trend than Dov Charney, American Apparel founder…

See, we weren’t lying to you. Hip, rock, old, new, hollywood, bollywood, whatever your poison, some things never go out of style.