The Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Factor
May 23rd, 2005
Did you happen to catch Oprah today?
Tom Cruise (42) showed up to talk about War of the Worlds which doesn’t open until the end of June, but spent most of the time acting like a total lunatic jumping on the couch and kneeling on the floor and laughing and smiling and getting all googly-eyed over his girlfriend of one to two months, Dawson’s Creek’s Katie Holmes (26).
It has convinced me that every single thing Cruise is doing right now is all a means to an end. All in an attempt to hit Box Office Gold this summer. All to try and rise above those who are now making more money in the movies than he is.
Basically, it’s all a huge big stinking ruse.
Here’s some background on Cruise’s gaydom: information came to me years ago through reliable sources when Cruise was married to Mimi Rogers — the word off the street (i.e., in small and intimate friendly circles) was that Cruise was at least bi-sexual if not totally gay. But at that point in his life, his mega-huge Public Relations firm P.M.K. (Pat Kingsley’s firm) felt that in order to maximize his success and get more women to see his movies, that getting married would add to that allure.
It was only the beginning of the hijinx.
Since then, it’s been aluded to but never confirmed that each of Cruise’s girlfriends and/or wives have been more or less “engineered” in an attempt to continue making money for his Hollywood persona. But don’t get the women wrong — they’ve all benefitted in a huge way.
Take Mimi Rogers, first. Before she married Cruise, she was working but not in as many mainstream movies. Her marriage to him raised the level of buzz for her, but in the end didn’t work out as well as she’d hoped. Tom’s PR firm was quick to get him out of that relationship and into one that would “really have legs.” That next PR stunt was none other than marrying Aussie Nicole Kidman.
At that point, Nicole Kidman had only done one half-successful film called Dead Calm. It was her appearance in Days of Thunder which allowed her to “fall for Cruise” in the film and off-camera, and which began Tom’s 9 year 11 month marriage (at 10 years, Cruise would have had to split everything 50/50) to the red-headed Aussie. What followed, of course, was a string of box office gold for both sides of the equation. From Nicole Kidman’s Oscar status to Cruise’s box office boffo, the two continued the charade and adopted a few kids into the mix. Everyone, on every side was making out like a bandit.
And then, Cruise’s box office mojo started to slide.
It was around 1996, after Jerry Maguire’s success, that Cruise and Kidman made a huge financial mistake. By locking the two up in a three year UK nightmare, filming Eyes Wide Shut for Stanley Kubrick, they disappeared off the face of the Earth, and away from prying eyes. The lack of success the movie had, once released, didn’t help Cruise’s follow-ups — which included Mission Impossible 2, a small part in Magnolia, and the confusing and unsuccessful Vanilla Sky.
With other actors making more money in the movies than Cruise, something had to change. Again. Behind the scenes a deal was struck with Penelope Cruz, whose latest movie Women On Top gained her a smattering of success (about the same as Dead Calm had done for Kidman), and got her some first parts in American films like Blow and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Suddenly she was signed on by PR firm P.M.K. (Cruise’s PR firm) — and soon thereafter, a big role in Vanilla Sky opposite Tom Cruise appeared.
And that was about when the “marriage” between Kidman and Cruise was ended in a very contractually-mutual, business-like scenario. Kidman was already getting bigger than Cruise, had already started to win awards that Cruise had always dreamed of. And so Cruise’s PR firm did what was necessary to bring this male-star “back on Top.” They found an up and coming starlett, who had just started to get American movie roles, and they put the two together. Because, you see — any actress who is already a huge success would never agree to a “fake relationship” with Cruise. It’s the ones desperate for success that know, just like the unpopular kid who dreams of dating the head Cheerleader in high school, if you align yourself with someone famous — your fame will soon follow as well.
It’s enough to make you sick.
Today — we’re seeing the same kind of scenario but in an even more over the top way. Now no longer with P.M.K., Cruise’s sister represents him in all media situations. And with the Church of Scientology looking for their cruise-control meal ticket to keep on paying off — everyone is trying to do what they can to bring Cruise back to the top when it comes to box office gold.
What better way to get the young ladies interested again in Cruise than to put him together with a 26 year old up and coming star, who also has her first big American movie releasing this Summer?
On Oprah today, it was ridiculous. Cruise was smiling and laughing in an overly-actish way to try and “guard” his feelings. A man with not even two months clocked in a relationship is alluding to “talk of marriage” and “loving this wonderful woman.” Don’t get me wrong — I’m not one to shit all over a happy relationship, but this thing is engineered to the point of ludicrousness.
And it all makes total sense because Tom Cruise needs to steal back the young females of America from the other male stars of today. And what better way to do so than to:
1. Hook up with Katie Holmes.
2. Go on Oprah and mention getting married to her.
3. Pose half-nude in Details, with water dripping all over his chisled body.
4. Get Spielberg to agree that “this time it’s for real.”
Oprah asked Cruise why, this time, he was acting this way. Previously, he had been very private about his love life. He hadn’t been over the top or vocal about romance. And while Cruise said that he had “never been in love like this before” (which is insulting to those other women, unless of course they were all paid for the “acting role of a lifetime”) — the reality is more stark than that.
Tom Cruise is finally no longer represented by PR firm P.M.K., who controlled his media appearances like a governmental coverup. Today, having shed the firm, it’s a family affair, with his sister at the reigns.
Can’t you tell?
Personally, it makes me want to hurl. It is so fake and so over the top and no one like Cruise falls in love in 6 weeks, and then shows up for every possible photo op he can as often as he can with the new girlfriend. He is in a rush, people. He’s got a movie opening up at the end of June and if he doesn’t get the World to realize that he’s a happy, in love, heterosexual man who wants all women in the world to know that “he likes to treat his women right” and that he’s “a hopeless romantic” and that “sex is only amazing when it’s in an intimate relationship” and that “he took Kate (Katie Holmes) on a romantic motorcycle ride” and so on and so on — then his box office career may only be luke warm.
And for a guy like Cruise, luke warm ain’t gonna pay the rent.
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By the way, the above was not a funny post.
(Picture courtesy of Defamer.)
I was really, really looking forward to “War of the Worlds” when I first read it was being remade. But now, after the whole Tom and Katie stunt, I’ll most likely boycott it. Same with “Batman Returns”, which is too bad because I really wanted to see Bale play Batman.
Comment by groovebunny — May 23, 2005 @ 10:22 pm
Whooops! “Batman Begins”…my bad.
Comment by groovebunny — May 23, 2005 @ 10:27 pm
I saw Oprah. It was sad and insanely over the top. I remember hearing him say “I’ve never felt this way before,” and thinking that was a jerkish thing to say about his ex-wives, especially since it’s all pretend. As long as he’s pretending, couldn’t he keep up the pretense that he once loved them, too?
Comment by srah — May 24, 2005 @ 5:57 am
Man — I missed the Oprah show today. But thanks for the rundown — I haven’t had it “spelled out” this way before (many industry magazines “allude” to “rumors” but don’t iterate the rumor/s).
Comment by C(h)ristine — May 24, 2005 @ 7:36 am
It seems Cruise and my most recent ex have a lot in common! They had both miraculously found the love of their loves in a much younger woman in a matter of weeks after dumping their last partner. Hrmph! Ergo, I feel your rant.
Comment by casey — May 24, 2005 @ 8:06 am
Even Regis and Kelly Ripa mentioned the Oprah interview — and contrasted his more guarded apearances on their show versus his frenetic, manic appearance on Oprah.
Which brings something new up — maybe he’s not so much bisexual as he is bipolar?
Comment by C(h)ristine — May 24, 2005 @ 1:53 pm
I hope that Tom is not google-sexual.
Comment by justin — May 24, 2005 @ 2:29 pm
You didn’t have to tell me that this isn’t a funny post. Um, that is to say that you obviously feel that you have no voice on the internet, and therefore your readers can’t tell whether or not you are being sarcastic. I, however, didn’t really need the disclaimer. You are one of few that can really project his outrage in blogging.
That was a complement, in case it wasn’t obvious.
Comment by Will — May 24, 2005 @ 2:46 pm
he reeks of desperation. his sister should tell him to just chill the F out.
Comment by em — May 24, 2005 @ 5:47 pm
The thing that bugs me the most about all of this is the time and energy devoted to stories like this in the media as if they were truly “newsworthy”.
I guess, though, that the media is just giving the people what they want, but my question is this- when did we become a dumbed-down society of celebrity-worshipping lackeys?
Comment by Kristi — May 25, 2005 @ 6:20 am
All that being said, Tom Cruise is still a schitzoid freak.
Comment by Kristi — May 25, 2005 @ 6:24 am
Well Kristi - I believe we became a dumbed down society of celebrity worshipping lackeys around March 16th, 1972.
Check the calendars and you’ll see why.
Comment by Pauly D — May 25, 2005 @ 6:24 am
Aah- I always suspected the Kentucky vs. Marquette NCAA Mideast Regional Final was responsible for this cultural shift! Damn those Wildcats!
(like you didn’t think I wouldn’t try and google that date?!? Puh-leze! This was the first thing I came up with)
Comment by Kristi — May 25, 2005 @ 7:37 am
I usually enjoy most of Tom Cruise’s movies and in spite of not wanting to, I like him. But this latest schtick with Katie Holmes, a fairly gifted young actress who has a ways to go,
is bizarre.I feel embarrassed for him and Katie looked very uncomfortable and very vulnerable. I can understand her being smitten with a megastar. I can’t understand him! I don’t necessarily agree with those who think this is a publicity stunt to promote two movies. I also don’t think Tom Cruise is gay and in the closet. I think it has more to do with the ego of a man with several failed relationships who wants to appear viable. Maybe someone told him he was too much of a control freak and he had to loosen up and this is how he interpreted the suggestion!
I just can’t figure it! He has his pick of a lot of younger women. Why her? He doesn’t need this kind of publicity to boost interest in a movie he collaborated with Spielberg to make. The film will be fine.So while I reject a lot of the speculation as to why this is happening, I agree it’s bizarre but the puzzle has yet to be solved.
My prediction is that Katie will eventually “crack” under the strain of too much too fast and this thing will run its course in about six months. They will either go into ‘deep cover’ mode or the relationship will end with a bang not a wimper.Cruise is no dummy.He had to have seen the Bennifer Lofleck mess and realized that he does not want to be perceived as an object of ridicule…and yet….
Comment by Boopsey — May 25, 2005 @ 8:05 am
It so obvious he’s using her by the look on her face and body language. Isn’t Penelope Cruz gay with Salma Hyak? That would make sense for Tom to pick her as his pretend girlfriend. It made no sense for Tom to leave nicole after 10 years for Penelope, yours is the only logical explaination. Are you sure about 50/50 at 10 years? That is too strange.
Comment by rhyssa — May 25, 2005 @ 8:17 am
This is the best recap of the whole thing that I’ve seen yet. (Good job.)
Comment by Marcia — May 25, 2005 @ 8:56 am
We are responsible for creating Tom Cruise.
He wouldn’t be doing any of this if he hadn’t become the biggest movie star in Hollywood by following this exact formula. Witness the reaction he got from the Oprah audience if you need any evidence.
The former Thomas Mapother’s fatal flaw is not being gay, its his desire to be the biggest star in Hollywood and doing exactly what he needed to do to make that happen.
A lot of people would do the same.
Comment by Jim — May 25, 2005 @ 2:11 pm
While I do believe that your assessment of Cruise has merits, my one thought is I’m not certain if all the women in his life have known and agreed to the deception. Mostly I look at Nicole Kidman who seemed genuinely surprised and hurt by Tom wanting a divorce. That’s not to say, that some acuity of the situation wouldn’t be there, but we are talking Hollywood up and comers, most know that there’s always a game to be played.
Comment by allgood2 — May 25, 2005 @ 2:15 pm
My only hope is that he has the courage to come out one of these days. It would put an end to the senseless gossip and he would be a helluva lot happier. Big sigh…
Comment by john — May 25, 2005 @ 3:48 pm
I really love Tom. He is really nice, I met him on Master class in Paris (I’m french) and premiere as a journalist.
I always said: people gonna abuse of this little naive boy.
You get it:
1/ Hollywood
2/ Scientology (the harrassing recrutement they did on him is terrible and sad)
3/ Family and “friends”
4/ nasty person from gay guys claimin having sex and finally no, other actors and actress, entertainer…anyway
I wish Tom the best, he’s one of us, no?
Comment by helene — May 25, 2005 @ 6:09 pm
thx for overview. despite all this, I always hear that Tom is a nice guy. everyone’s got their dichotomous topics in life: his may or may not be a struggle with sexuality, but it certainly is getting stuck on the “Seeking Fame & Fortune Treadmill”. Mine is that I find all this sad and disgusting, but I still wouldn’t kick him out of bed.
Comment by wackyjackycat — May 26, 2005 @ 7:09 am
You were born the day John and Yoko were handed deportation papers???
Comment by Laurie — May 26, 2005 @ 12:32 pm
Obviously cool and calculating. But didn’t Garth Brooks just pull a marriage proposal publicity stunt in Bakersfield? Now THAT’S calculating.
Comment by Ontario Emperor — May 26, 2005 @ 10:40 pm
I agree with some of your post but Penelope Cruz did NOT get the role in Vanilla Sky because of Tom Cruise. She played the same role in the Spanish movie Abre los ojos, wich Vanilla Sky was based on.
Comment by corie — May 27, 2005 @ 3:45 pm
That’s a strange logic, corie.
Just because Farah Fawcett was in Charlie’s Angels didn’t guarantee her a job in the movie version. Just because Tatum O’Neil was in The Bad News Bears didn’t get her a role in the new version.
And even foreign film wise — Jean Reno in the foreign version of La Femme Nikita didn’t get a role in the American version Point of No Return. Or, any of the actors in The Vanishing for that matter…
Nobody gives anyone a role because they already did one in the foreign version. Cruz got the role, primarily, because her PR firm struck a deal with Cruise — who was Exec Producer on the movie along with Cameron Crowe.
Comment by Pauly D — May 27, 2005 @ 3:49 pm
There is a bizarre parallel between the Katie Holme and Tom Cruise romance and Tom’s upcoming “War of the Worlds” and the character of Dawson on Dawson’s Creek.
Dawson was absolutely enamoured with the screenwriting of Steven Spielberg as much as he was enamoured/obsessed with Joey played by Katie Holmes. Movie posters of Spielberg were plastered all over his room and he was alway rearranging them. He even slept with a furry Shark reminisecent of “Jaws”.
Joey (Katie Holmes) was the love of his life in equal obsession with Spielberg.
Fast forward to what is happening today and what was witnessed on the OPRAH SHOW.
Now Katie Holmes (aka Joey) is supposedly with Tom Cruise who is “acting totally obsessed” with her in the same way Dawson was with Joey.
The same- Tom Cruise- best buddy in real life of Spielberg and starring in his film coming out in two weeks.
Hurray for Hollywood!
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Comment by Manny — May 29, 2005 @ 12:57 pm
why has no one mentioned the fact that nicole kidman was pregnant, supposedly by Tom, when they separated? if he is so nice, how could he abandon his wife while she is pregnant with his child, show up soon after with another woman (penelope cruz), and state that he’s never been in love like he is with katie after a few weeks? I am now believing he is gay or bi and that maybe the baby nicole was having was not his (because mimi rogers said he was impotent, as have other sources). I too think it is interesting that all of the women he has been involved with were virtual unknowns before him. In nicole and penelope’s cases, it could have been a way to “break into” american films, since both had had great success in their own countries but no success in the u.s. until Tom. I did not see Oprah, but a grown man, behaving that way on national television is just idiotic. I saw previews of war of the worlds and had planned to see it, but I will definitely not see it now. No way am I throwing money to that goofball and his publicity seeking women.Although I do think katie had no idea that tom would behave this strangely since he hasn’t in the past. It is truly a sign of some sort of desperation. Very strange.
Comment by julie — May 30, 2005 @ 6:56 pm
Curiouser and curiouser. From Egypt Election (whatever that is):
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June 4 - Actress Katie Holmes has turned down the role of pop artist Andy Warhol’s muse Edie Sedgwick in forthcoming movie Factory Girl–because the character’s drug abuse reportedly goes against her boyfriend Tom Cruise’s Scientology beliefs.
Director George Hickenlooper had lunch with Holmes in Los Angeles last month to discuss the possibility of her replacing Jude Law’s fiancee Sienna Miller as Sedgwick, who died of an overdose of barbiturates in 1971.
But movie insiders claim the 26-year-old beauty decided against starring in the movie because Cruise–who has helped people fight drug addictions through his controversial religion–warned the part would be bad for her image.
Holmes’ publicist confirms, “Katie is not attached to that project.”
Comment by Ontario Emperor — June 3, 2005 @ 7:18 pm
Isn’t it possible that Cruise is being totally authentic, and that the weird behavior is just the result of his personality being fried by too much Scientology? I have read a few articles about that organization and they seem to be way off the deep end in a number of respects.
Imagine that you pulled one of those homeless guys who wear tin foil hats off the streets of New York, then gave him 100 million dollars, a new girl-friend half his age, and put him on television with Oprah, wouldn’t you expect him to act pretty much the way Cruise did?
I mean maybe it is all fake, but it seems to me he could just have likely overdosed on Scientology. I read they do mind links to Aliens and whacky tin-foil hat stuff like that.
Comment by Zenotter — June 4, 2005 @ 12:07 am
“KIT- Keep.It.Together!”
–from the movie “Bowfinger” (which mocks Scientology).
Comment by C(h)ristine — June 4, 2005 @ 5:03 pm
he’s having a mid-life crisis trying to act the age of his 20-something girlfriend.
she is not so innocent, either. there is no poor katie here as look what she gets out of it. oh, and she wasn’t uncomfortable or embarrassed on Oprah. she was playing it all up enjoying it all. there wasn’t even a spot heightened colour on her face for someone supposedly embarrassed/shy about it all…. she is neither. she is a smart, ambitious girl who sees how this will change her life.
Comment by havana8 — June 6, 2005 @ 6:13 pm
Katie has publicly commented about Tom’s antics on Oprah:
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The 26-year-old actress also said that she enjoyed Cruise’s profession of love on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last month. “I sat there and saw that and said, `I am the luckiest woman in the world.’”
A starry-eyed Cruise got down on his knees and repeatedly jumped up on the talk-show host’s couch, saying that his love for Holmes was “beyond cool.”
When asked if she felt hesitant about joining Cruise in front of the show’s audience when he went backstage for her, she replied, “I was excited. … When Tom calls for me, I’m coming.”
“I miss him right now,” she said, “and it’s been like one hour.”
At the taping of the 2005 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles Saturday, Holmes poked fun at Cruise’s “Oprah” appearance by dropping down on one knee and asking the crowd, “Should I go get him?”
Comment by Ontario Emperor — June 7, 2005 @ 12:35 pm
I know for a fact he is gay, I happen to know someone close to me, which tom cruise offered to give him felatio back in the early eighties before he was Mr. famous. Yuk!
Comment by cleopatra — June 7, 2005 @ 8:19 pm
I agree that I think Tom’s behavior and comments
on Oprah were completely over the top and disrespectful to his previous wives. I think he definitely needs to get Pat Kingsley back in his corner. However, a short guy without family connections and marginal acting talent doesn’t make it big in Hollywood without street smarts and cool ambition. Everyone needs to remember that this man is one of Hollywood’s highest paid “actors” for a reason. And that’s what he
is: an “actor” first and foremost. In fact, most of the interview, he was probably rehashing his role from Jerry Maguire. I think this is all a shrewd publicity move to breathe new life into his career (and what better to help him with this than a fresh new love?) Do normal people go to Italy together and have themselves photographed constantly doing PDAs after knowing each other a mere two weeks? And is it just coincidental that the timing of this new love just happens to be around the time he has a lot of public appearances to make? The other thing I notice is that neither KH or TC ever wants to talk about exactly how they met-which is VERY strange for a couple basically cooing about everything else to the point of being nauseating. Why does this innocuous question cause so much evasiveness? Hmmmmmmm. I guess it just isn’t romantic to hear that they met at a “business meeting” which is what we all know this “deal” is. And KH should look at what happened to NK as she tries to picture her life when their “arrangement” isn’t enough to keep megalomaniac TC in the spotlight.
Comment by yoga girl — June 9, 2005 @ 11:18 pm
I think tom just wants to take holmes to his bed!
thats the main thing!
Comment by Janny — June 9, 2005 @ 11:40 pm
I find this fake romance sickening. I have never
cared for Tom Cruise, there was always something
about his marriage to Nichole that just seemed “off” to me, I don’t like Nichole either, I have never seen a woman her age act as giggly as a 6 year old in my life in all of her interviews, what is up with that? TC is fake, his bouncing around on a couch on Oprah, did not watch, but saw it on various TV shows, was just sickening. Tonite I saw Katie Holmes on David Letterman, and she is just plain DUMB, now I see the apparent attraction between Cruise and her! If I were Penelope Cruiz I would be insulted that he apparently did not ever like me, since now he is jumping up and down declaring his love for this girl (and I do mean girl) all over the place! Must mean his other marriages and romances were fake then? Plus, his stupid, stupid comments about Brooke Shields, that went WAY too far, he is too much like Prez Bush, trying to shove his religious beliefs down everyone elses throats! I came away from his comments about her believing he has just lost it, typical man in in mid 40’s going thru a mid-life crisis, instead of the fancy sports car, he gets the dumb as a box of rocks teen age girlfriend!
I really did want to see War of the Worlds, but will pass it by, not interested at all now, and I really like Bale, wanted to see Batman this summer too, did not like the other Batmans, but think Bale is one sexy dude, but not with her as a love interest, please, lets get grown ups for love interests, OK?????
Comment by Nani — June 10, 2005 @ 12:34 am
Tom Cruise is loosing charisma with the public. hence he has to result to drastic sudden romance and idiotic behaviour displays on tv to keep the tongs wagging on the tabloids….he needs to realize that his “time” has passed …..PR stunts like this are going to destroy him….I for one, feel so turned off by what he has done that I will never ever see any of his movies again or Katies, I rather burn the cost of the movie ticket than give it to him/her… yuck
Comment by Isabel — June 13, 2005 @ 12:13 pm
Tom Cruise is going through a mid life crisis people. Men in their 40’s fear old age and lose sexuality among women in their 30’s or 40’s. What does a woman in her 20’s provide? Youth, beauty, sexual stamina, excitement, and loads of natural testosterone for the old 40 something year old male. My husband called to my attention that Tom Cruise is always visiting Tokyo. Isn’t the city of Japan, Tokyo considered sin city due to their extreme fascination for the cherubic cheesecake? Yes! fascination for very young very cute women and girls. Tom was in Japan in 2002 filming the last samurai for a whole year. He has his relationship with Katie being compared with an old relationship that just split up. A very young actress by the name Yumi Adachi (23) and Arthur Kuroda (44). Back then she was 20 years old and he was 41 and the couple began dating in the summer of 2002. It was seen as a publicity stunt like Tom’s and the age difference was a huge problem with the Japanese people. The young lady Yumi did not see an age difference like Katie and she boasted of her happiness with Arthur like Katie is now doing with Tom. Katie Holmes and Yumi Adachi look like they can pass for sophmores in high school. Now that I think about it; Tom does look like he could pass for Katies Dad. My husband says Yumi can pass for Arthurs daughter. My husband also says Arthur Kuroda is as much a playboy as Tom Cruise. I think Tom Cruise is cuter and more handsome. Trust me. The simularities here seem to tell me that tom is facing a decision on now that he is older and dated 30 year olds and doesn’t want 40 year old women maybe there is an influence going on in how a 20 year old man makes a man in his 40’s feel. Just take a look at how Tom acts with Katie compared with his old flames. It is fact- men like younger women for lust not loving and compassionate feelings.
Taylor.
Comment by Taylor — June 15, 2005 @ 2:13 pm
Fascinating isn’t it? How far will a falling superstar go?
When the Penelope Cruz mix didn’t go as well as they hoped, they dumped her and latched onto the next flavor. They most likely had a list of actresses “most likely” to play ball and hers was at the top. He obviously called her the first time with the express purpose of setting up a buzz-friendly relationship. Cruise and Holmes first date was designed to knock her off her feet and spiral into infatuation. Once they had her locked in (assuming she’s the unwitting victim of this plan), it was just a matter of ramping up the publicity machine.
They may get married, but the tabloids will follow their relationship to it’s inevitable falling arc.
My guess is if “Batman Begins” soars, but “War of the World” bombs, Katie will be quietly shuffled away into Cruise’s back-window.
Comment by Mauricem — June 16, 2005 @ 12:23 pm
Heey, look at me. I’m just plain stupid. I’m not gonna see a movie that gives me a reasonably good time cuz I’m just as ignorant and friggen idiotic as they are. To get involved in hollywood and take a stand on a personality in retrospective to how they act is like saying I don’t want water because I hate it when it rains. Or something like htat…god Im mad. I fee llike pissing in the wind.
Comment by andy robertson — June 20, 2005 @ 1:48 am
Wow cool. This message is in response to Taylor. After looking through blogs and comments to see what my friends were talking about when it came to engagements between Katie and Tom, I couldn’t help but notice Taylor knowing Yumi Adachi. My sister is a huge fan of the young lady. We are American of Japanese descent. She was pissed as hell when she found out about Yumi dating a guy 21 years older. She burned all Yumi’s albums and crushed and burned every video and DVD Yumi was in. Mad as hell you might say? Yes. Guess what popped up just recently? My sister complaining what is going on with men in their 40’s these days? This whole Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes thing brought back memories of her anger with Yumi dating Arthur. And even she questions the simularities. Is it just a coincidence? I think so. I told her Tom is going through a mid life crisis. Katie is possibly very much in love and very naive. They are getting married right? Or is this engagement a hoax too?
Comment by Jahmal — June 20, 2005 @ 5:21 pm
Tom cruiz is right on the money when he dised the psychiatric/medical industry. As a medicolegal associate for 16 years, having worked in 6 area hospitals, having worked in various nursing homes, been a sub teacher, and done home health work, which is the ground zero of the med. profession, I know that psychiatry an psychiatric drugs are toxic. Read anything by Dr. Peter Breggin and many other physicians who are coming out with the truth about psychiatric drugs–especially ritalin, zyprexa, zoloft–all the so called “treatments” of the pmaramceutical industries warehouse/arsenel.
Comment by nancy baltinsky — June 25, 2005 @ 11:34 am
Do you think Tom Cruise is taking these psychiatric drugs? Cause he sure acts like it. In all my life of knowing the man, I have never seen him in this kind of behavior. Or is he really suffering from menopausal midlife crisis psychiatric personality breakdown!? Katie is very young to be dating a 42 year old isn’t she? I always thought that woman was a ditz. She don’t see no age difference cause she sees only her blind selfish way to having her childhood crush. But I bet if her 25 year old friend was dating him, she would definately see an age difference and try hard as hell to break them up.
Comment by Diane — June 30, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
mood disorders are associated with bipolars disease , which is also known as manic depression.
Manic depression is actually a neurological disease than it is a psychiatric disease. In actuality, manic depressives are suppose to be under the care of neurologists and not psychiatrists.
Because the science of neurology isn’t advanced enough to care for manic depressives, then manic depressives remain under the care of psychiatrists.
Eventually in time, manic depressives will be directed to neurologists to be treated for their disease instead of psychiatrists. But this wont be in our lifetime.
Comment by sambo — July 1, 2005 @ 12:34 am
What is Tom Cruise doing on another persons google site? After reading the comments I now see why. Paul’s story on Tom cruise proves to the world a 43 year old man cannot handle the loss of intimate sexual feelings with women around his age unless he is with a very young lady like Katie Holmes. The way Cruise is acting about Holmes is true in every sense. If Katie was 35 he would look at her differently and not be so sexually hiped up. But she is only 26 and cute. Virgin ears too. Its funny, cause the same was said about Yumi Adachi. 20 year old virgin with very little sexual experience, super cute and sexy. The first thing that a 41 year old man did was charge with all his might as long as she was interested. And she was, and it all went down hill after that. Tom Cruise is cruising for a bruisin.
Comment by Pablo — July 25, 2005 @ 5:06 pm
Oh gee people. This has got to stop. Celebrities will always be celebrities. FOOLS. That is why these people are called celebrities. If you want to be a fool? Become an actor or an actress. I bet anything that if these celebrities were not celebrities, they would not be making a fool out of theirselves by dating women young enough to be their very own offspring. They would date women their own age or at least around their age.
Comment by Dan — August 16, 2005 @ 2:56 pm
I am a follower of men dating girls old enough to be their daughters and vice versa. The news about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was such a surprise. We may never truly know what their intentions are. Whether they are truly in love or whether all these love confessions are part of a scheme to make their movies a hit to the public, we won’t know. But personally, I see their situation as a hoax. Tom has just ended his relationship with Penelope and here he is crying out to the whole world that he is going to marry Katie.
I have an aunt who is dating a guy who is 9 years her junior. I can see that they really love each other. We can see it in their eyes. And that is something that I don’t see between Katie and Tom.
Comment by alissa — September 27, 2005 @ 12:03 am
Where does Tom Cruis get off giving out advise on people taking medications. Did he go to medical school for this, until then he needs to kept his big mouth shut on what others do. I would like to know who died and left him in charge of other peoples lives? And the way he bashed Brook Shields for taking medication, as if he has a right to tell anyone what they can or can not do regarding their children. I say good for you Brook for giving it right back to this idiot!!
And the way he acted on Opra show, was just nuts, maybe Tom needs to be on some type of medication, he has lost it. I feel really sorry for Katie Holmes, I hope she does not marry this opinionated, control freak. Since he joined this so called religion,which I call a cult, these people are freaks, and just plain nuts. The things they preach is crazy, they don’t believe in going to the doctors, taking pain medications, etc… there have been many kids and people who have died because of this so called religion, if you can call it a religion. Katie Holmes don’t marry him. I heard that her parents are not allowed to be there when she gives birth, and the mother can not make any noise during labor, be very quiet…
Comment by T.J. — December 21, 2005 @ 4:32 pm
I cannot believe this movie people. It is so sad for Tom and the woman he has cheated all his life and hope his fiction scientology god will show him the right way and wish him all the best. Hope God of any faith should help no matter what we call him. As an old Hindu saying God is one with different names and he always loves all people. Hope this young woman does not get hurt with this gay person and get bad disease. May God bless them and their lovely child. Is the child his or born by artificial insemination
Comment by Kusumi Sunaka — June 13, 2006 @ 5:02 am