# Cruise and Holmes engaged (to be married,obviously!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688 "2005-06-17T11:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688/41 "2005-06-19T13:15:27Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Well, no. I don’t think we get Letterman here. :smack: Must pay closer attention to Locations! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688/42 "2005-06-19T18:47:53Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > I’ll be generous and give 'em 120 days. > Any takers? Tom’s previous marriages lasted longer than that. I will give them five years. What the heck, that’s half a year longer than Pitt and Aniston. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688/43 "2005-06-19T22:58:26Z")
If they’re really in love, why haven’t they gotten each other’s names tatooed on their asses yet? ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688/44 "2005-06-19T23:03:17Z")
I was throwing away some old magazines this morning and came across an issue Vogue from September 2003. Nicole Kidman, glorious golden, feathered stauesque glory graces the cover. The headline reads "Nicole Kidman: On Beng an Icon. Below, in the bottom right corner is the title of an article, “Katie Holmes: Breaking Out of the Small Screen Box” Ha! Guess she found a way. Miss Holmes must have looked at that and hatched a plan to be the one in golden feathered glory on the cover. Either that, or this was on top of the reading stack in the john at the Church of Scientology the day they needed ideas on how to revamp Mr. Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688/45 "2005-06-19T23:37:01Z")
> [@Sleepy2](#): > > According to Howard Stern (now that’s a dodgy way to start a post) Tom Cruise had an excellent publicist for years, and Tom recently fired her, replacing her with his sister. The old publicist knew enough to keep him mostly under wraps and tight-lipped. The sister is letting him run loose, and we’re all getting to see what an odd duck he’s been all along. Makes sense to me. Bingo. Ex-Vanity Fair career train wreck [Toby Young](http://www.tobyyoung.co.uk/) (second item down) sees three distinct forces at work: 1) troubles surrounding **Mission: Impossible III** (as noted first by the NYT), 2) Cruise replacing PR ace Pat Kingsley with his own sister (yeah, that’ll work), and 3) an increasingly decentralized, web-based mediascape/blogosphere, whose independent bloggers could soon be serving as an effective counterbalance to the image control wielded by celebrities and their armies of publicists. [tinfoil hat on] I’m wondering just how erratic and mortifying Cruise’s behavior can get before the Sci-Fi church reels him into a retreat center for a “sabbatical” or somesuch, before his emotional instability completely discredits their official stance against the psychiatric establishment. Beginning, perhaps, with his wedding ceremony and honeymoon on the Hubbard Black Yacht…?[/hat] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-and-holmes-engaged-to-be-married-obviously/308688.md?page=2)