A Thousand Word

Prashant Shah comes to Benaroya Pictures with a number of UK, US, and India-produced features and TV shows under his belt including Bollywood box office hits Ra.One and My Name Is Khan. Prashant founded his Bollywood Hollywood Productions, Inc. in 1999 and in 2010 received Congressional Producer of the Year award honors for creating thousands of US jobs on local productions. Ernst & Young nominated him Entrepreneur of the Year and he also sits on the Board of Directors for Film Florida. In his new role as Head of Physical Production at Benaroya, Shah will work with founder Michael Benaroya, one of Deadline’s Cannes 2013 Producers To Watch, on budgeting and scheduling as well as the on-set supervising of productions. The company is currently at work on Brian Horiuchi’s Parts Per Billion starring Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, Teresa Palmer, Penn Badgley, Frank Langella and Gena Rowlands. Recent Benaroya Pictures films include Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe, The Words starring Bradley Cooper, Lawless starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy, and the Oscar-nominated Margin Call from J.C. Chandor.

Back in the 1980s, before Tom Cruise was the hottest young thing in Hollywood, he went on a date with an actress. One date. And then she dumped him. OK! News: Tom Cruise's Son Grows Up and Gets a Job! See Why He's Paid to Party Heather Locklear tells Chelsea Handler that her brief encounter with Tom quickly turned sour after they decided to go dancing. "You know in Risky Business where he does that dance in his underwear? We were dancing in a club and he went into that," Heather says on Chelsea Lately of Tom's slick moves in his iconic 1983 film. Watch: Chelsea Handler Doesn't Want Kids—See Why Not Heather definitely didn't buy what Tom was selling. "You just kind of stand there and don’t know what to do," she explains. "Do you dance around him? It was weird. I just sat down." Just think, if Heather had hung in there, maybe the words TomKat and Suri Cruise wouldn't even exist… Photos: Can You Still Recognize Hollywood's Cutest Kids Now That They're Older? What's been your worst date disaster? Tell us in the comments section or on Twitter @OKMagazine. Photo credit:  The Geffen Film Company