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That was interesting to read, but the question that I kept having was, “Who was around to overhear all these conversations to report them?” The writer mentioned several supposedly private conversations between Spielberg and Cruise. If they were truly private, only one of two people could have reported them to the gossip columnist.
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The working theory is that this was a Princess Di move by Kate Capshaw. In other words, Di wanted her story told, but she couldn’t just tell it herself, so she passed the word around to friends that it’d be ok for them to talk to Andrew Morton, so she was able to let the public know what was going on with her, but indirectly. The working theory is that Capshaw doesn’t particularly take kindly to some dickhead threatening to sabatoge her strong and happy marriage, and doesn’t take kindly to scienos picketing her children’s doctor, so gave the ok to people who were around to talk to this person in London.
It’s been months since I read the whole thing so I might get these IDs wrong, but that would include not only Spielberg and Capshaw themselves, but participants such as Business Partner (who had to have been either David Geffen or Jeffrey Katzenberg), Movie Executive (most likely Kathleen Kennedy), “Mr. Ocean Lover” (Brad Pitt?), and “Mr. Hard to Catch” (either George Clooney, or Leo DiCaprio), and “Mr. Moviestar 2” and “Mrs Moviestar 2” who are almost certainly Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. I’m sure there were several others at that Hollywood party who would talk as long as they were not identified. The confrontation happened out on the smoking balcony, which is always packed full of people, so dozens would have overheard and saw what was going on. Also, that confrontation behind the scenes at the “film festival” happened at the Chicago International Film Festival. There would have been a lot of people behind the scenes nearby who would have overheard all this bullshit going on too. Also remember the power of invisible assistants and household staff. There are so many different ways for this info, even the private conversations info, to leak, ranging from Speilberg himself to the maid, that it doesn’t strike me as bizarre.
It all makes sense to me. Hollywood types are sick and tired of Cruise’s bullshit, and Capshaw and Spielberg are a VERY popular couple. No one’s going to speak out against Cruise out loud, he is still a Hollywood power player (especially now that he owns a movie studio with one of the few working contracts with the writers guild so he can use striking writers), but back door gossip? That’ll work. This hasn’t gotten any media play though, because of course none of the people involved are going to confirm it for the record. It’s just gossip, and unless something happens to cause it to blow up in the public eye, it’ll stay just gossip. I’m passing it along because I think it’s plausable, and fascinating. Cruise is acting exactly by the scieno playbook in his dealings with Capshaw. She’s an enemy. You’re not supposed to leave scientology, and she did! She’s an SP, and anyone who saw that rant by Cruise a few days ago knows what he thinks of SPs.
It might be a slog, but if you read through both threads at Operation Clambake and Gossip Rocks, there are several fascinating tidbits (yes, even in the Gossip Rocks thread, which segues into Tom’s recent bullshit and has some fascinating info about it). I’d never read a gossip web site in my life until I read that thread, but it was worth it.
I’m still waiting for the promised last installment of the story, which seems to have gone missing. I don’t know if the London magazine was threatened and they didn’t print the last bit or what.
