Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Divorcing

Julianne Hough is named on a few gossip sites as a possible next wife. She’s in Rock of Ages with him and is Ryan Seacrests other half at the moment. She’s also 11 years younger than Katie, who is 11 years younger than Nicole, again in turn 11 years younger than Mimi.

The only such moment that comes to mind is that she once mocked his height, saying after the divorce that “at last, I can wear heels again”, or something to that effect.

Silent, faithful, devoted… pubes shaved into a tonsure…

Well, I guess that would be one way to get headlines. Not sure if he’d ever find work again though.

Does anyone here think that his getting dumped a few times and especially this time has nothing to do with Scientology?

It’s a cult that seems to bring out the worst in his personality; plus the cult itself looks intolerable to deal with.

Supposedly she said in a 1993 Playboy interview (although I can’t find the original interview online to verifiy this, but it’s widely quoted), “He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.”

Cruise has made some okay movies- Top Gun springs to mind- but hardly a classic. His on screen chemistry with Kelly McGillis was non existent.

He was never going to stay with Penelope Cruz after that flop of Vanilla Sky. He would not want to be linked to a loser.

Whatever his talents or lack there of, he has slept with some gorgeous women who we mortals just dream of.

Which is why it isn’t likely his next wife will be anyone nearly as up and coming as most of the starlets (or outright stars) mentioned. Penelope Cruz is probably thanking her lucky stars that Scientology didn’t run her career for the past five years and she was able to pursue the roles she wanted to pursue.

Jonathon Coulton has announced his is not intending to change the lyrics to Tom Cruise Crazy.

I suspect that if Katie is lucky and wise, she’ll get a great settlement, pretty much full physical custody, and retire from acting to concentrate on her kid(s) - the s attached in case she has more, which I think is likely. She isn’t a great actress, she’s an awkward age for a starlet, and I suspect that her trump card in court is “I can give her a fairly normal life.”

As of last year, this is no longer true. New York added no-fault divorce.

Yeah, because Catholocism is so much more logically fact-based and scandal-free.:rolleyes:

I remember that! Of all the things to make fun of the guy about…

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Kinda depends on what you compare it to. What was the last thing you saw Van der Beek in anything?

I’d say she probably would’ve disappeared pretty quickly after Dawson’s Creek, and the only reason anyone remembers who she is is her marriage.

He plays himself on “Don’t Trust the B— in Apt. 23.” But I haven’t seen Joshua Jackson in a long time.

Joshua Jackson is on Fringe, which is on Fox. But I think the big winner from Dawson’s Creek is Michelle Williams.

Sort of my point though, he has like fifth billing in a sitcom. Holmes is at least still in the movies, despite the fact that she’s mainly been in flops and in her one really big role (Batman) she got a Golden Raspberry for worst actress and got dropped from the sequel.

Oops. I forgot that was still on. So actually Katie is the big loser from Dawson alumni.

The waste of unfettered access to Mimi Rogers back in the day is what convinced me he 's gay.

She didn’t have long to wear them; Keith Urban is pretty short, too. At least he was too drunk to care.

She was also in a 5 year relationship with Chris Klein. They were officially engaged for the last year and a half.

I don’t think Donnie Osmond would have waited five years before going to bed with a girlfriend. Chris Klein is either gay, impotent, or a man of superhuman patience, or else Katie was either lying about the virgin part or else defining virgin by very liberal standards.

Her second miscarriage was while they were separated. (She claims to have had an earlier one.) While I know it wouldn’t be the first or last time that an estranged couple conceived a child, given the other oddities about Cruise I wouldn’t be floored to learn that one wasn’t his.

I have to say I’m surprised. Because the divorce has been predicted SO often, I would have thought they’d stay married out of sheer spite. “See? The 5 year contract is up, we’re still married, and we are more in love than ever! Bite it, haterz!” I do hope Katie comes to her full senses and gets custody and gives that kid a normal life. I didn’t mind the fake shennanigans between she and Tom so much, but it really made my stomach lurch to see Suri paraded endlessly in public, wearing weird inappropriate getups, lugged around (clutching that white blanket) like a small infant, hair all snarled, taken out to adult restaurants and to Broadway plays late at night, never seen playing with other kids…it was really disturbing.