# Cruise, Kidman split **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259 "2001-02-05T21:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curious\_george](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@curious\_george](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious_george)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/1 "2001-02-05T21:34:38Z")
Meg Ryan & Dennis Quaid, Kim Bassinger & Baldwin, now Cruise and Kidman…why can’t Hollywood marriages work? [http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/05/kidman.cruise/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/05/kidman.cruise/index.html) Maybe Bassinger and Cruise will become a couple? Or Baldwin and Kidman? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/2 "2001-02-05T21:38:35Z")
In slightly-related news, celebrated SDMB couple **Montfort and Anniz** are splitting this weekend, as **Anniz** is flying home to Sweden. I’ll be waiting here for Nicole… (Sorry, **Anniz** , I had to do this! I love you! :)) ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/3 "2001-02-05T21:42:12Z")
Maybe she got tired of having to watch _Battlefield Earth_ and read L. Ron. Too bad, really. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/4 "2001-02-05T21:46:58Z")
That sound you hear is the heads of all the “People” editors exploding as they re-do next week’s cover . . . Hey, there have been long-term show-biz marriages: Lunt and Fontanne, Cronyn and Tandy, Pickford and Rogers, Bert Lahr and his showgirl wife, Ziegfeld and Billie Burke . . . umm, do they BOTH have to be stars? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/5 "2001-02-05T23:25:23Z")
Apropos of nothing, why do they both appear to have milk mustaches in their pictures on the CNN page? ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/6 "2001-02-05T23:36:30Z")
I find it sad. I was hoping that those two would be one of the couples who could last. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/7 "2001-02-06T00:11:10Z")
You forgot Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as well. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/8 "2001-02-06T04:20:28Z")
You also forgot Madonna and Sean Penn. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Clairmont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Clairmont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clairmont)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/9 "2001-02-06T10:02:32Z")
Since Liz Taylor and whatshisname split, I was hoping for a shot, but it’s not happening. Okay, I don’t work in construction, but still… Hollywood stars are so fickle. She doesn’t even know I exist. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/10 "2001-02-06T10:17:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by thinksnow \* > **You also forgot Madonna and Sean Penn.** As has most of the civilized world. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/11 "2001-02-06T10:49:10Z")
Kidman just got annoyed that she had to make a movie with her husband every time she wanted some sex. How else would you explain _Eyes Wide Shut_? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/12 "2001-02-06T10:58:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*How else would you explain _Eyes Wide Shut_? \*\* A great work by a great director that many people didn’t care much for. Well, you asked! ---
**Author:** ![Clairmont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Clairmont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clairmont)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/13 "2001-02-06T11:50:00Z")
evilbeth, Please don’t get mad. But “Eyes Wide Shut” wsa a disaster. I hope that Kubrick’s legacy will ignore this anomoly. I consider it a glitch on a master’s life work. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/14 "2001-02-06T11:59:42Z")
Maybe now Nicole will come public with her love for me… ---
**Author:** ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/15 "2001-02-06T12:17:20Z")
The rest of you won’t know who the hell I’m talking about… About 2 hours after the news of Tom and Nicole splitting up turned up on the SMH Breaking News page, [this](http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0102/06/A19795-2001Feb6.shtml) soon followed. He must be getting bored, don’t you think? Or maybe he believes that we’ve forgotten him… ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/16 "2001-02-06T14:31:14Z")
**Eve** : > [@](#): > > Hey, there have been long-term show-biz marriages: Lunt and Fontanne, Cronyn and Tandy, Pickford and Rogers, Bert Lahr and his showgirl wife, Ziegfeld and Billie Burke . . . Woodward and Newman. Now, this is SHEER urban legend, but… We’ve all heard the stories about Tom Cruise being gay. I’ve further heard that Cruise’s first marriage to Mimi Rogers was a sham constructed by the Church of Scientology, for keeping-up-appearances’ sake. And that it ended because Rogers couldn’t live a lie anymore. Assuming this is true (big assumption, I know), is it credible that history’s repeating itself with Kidman? I don’t think she’s in Scientology herself. Give us the Straight Dope, **Eve**. I trust you. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/17 "2001-02-06T14:41:22Z")
Eve: LOL! Oh yes, as a reader of People, I know this will top any other story. Peace in the Middle East? Forget it! The Cruises’ broke up! ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/18 "2001-02-06T14:42:40Z")
Its not really Hollywood marriages. All marriages have a (what?) percentage rate of divorce. It just seems like a lot cause you don’t hear about the not famous divorces. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/19 "2001-02-06T15:01:27Z")
I have it from my “Movieline” sources that Tom Cruise is actually straight. Nutty as a fruitcake, but straight. Of course, after 20 years of Scientology, I doubt he knows what or who is is anymore . . . Another long-term Hollywood marriage—as much as I dislike them—is Ronnie and Nancy. Oh, and Joel McCrea and Frances Dee. Ah—and how could I forget Burns and Allen? And Harpo and Susan Marx? Say, anyone else notice these glamorous Hollywood marriages always seem to split up when Ukulele Ike is “out of town?” Coincidence? I wonder . . . ---
**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259/20 "2001-02-06T16:07:20Z")
Uh…Who cares?\* More importantly, **WHY** care? \*[sub]well, a lot of people, apparently. It’s the “why” I can’t figure out.[/sub] Carina, happy to be an icononoclast. 🙂 xo [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cruise-kidman-split/53259.md?page=2)