No matter how you feel about Tom Cruise, he does one helluva lip sync. But Jimmy Fallon, as genial as he seems, is also very competitive. So their lip-sync battle on Monday's Tonight Show really feels like a battle, a rarity on Fallon's jovial Tonight Show. "This is so ridiculous," Cruise said, smiling. "I love it." He then attacked the contest as intensely as he does everything else.
Cruise started things off by nailing "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weekend, but Fallon came back with a more-than-respectable Stones song. When Cruise countered with both sides of an old Meat Loaf duet, it was pretty much over. At the end, it looked like the two performers might go for love, not war, with Fallon throwing in the towel and inviting Cruise back to do a duet to the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," a throwback to Top Gun, but they just ended up fighting for the attention of a woman in the front row of the audience. You can watch the entire face-off below. Peter Weber
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