Tom.... Tom. Tom. Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom.... Tom.

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True - I believe there could be other life forms - but I don’t believe that some cranky alien warlord stuffed a bunch of other aliens into a volcanos several million years ago. Nor do I believe that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance, and I have never (for the record) jumped up and down on Oprah’s couch (as to my own, well, I ain’t sayin nuthin).

I don’t know what it is about this whole Tom meltdown thing, but it’s rather fascinating. I’ve never been terribly interested in celebrity gossip (no, really) but this story is kinda compelling. But yeah, I have much more important things I should be doing. <looks guilty>

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I used to think Tom Cruise was a fair actor, and all around fairly normal human being - when I didn’t hear anything from him at all. Now he’s started opening his mouth, and I’m not thinking he’s so normal any more. Maybe there was a reason he used to keep his mouth shut.

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And I am stupid. :smiley: Oy, I don’t think I’ve ever correctly guessed someone’s sex on this board.

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That’s because their mission is to boldly go where no man has gone before.

25

Then wouldn’t Katie be the target?

[sub]Cheap shot? Me?? Never![/sub]

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After Douglas Adams’ death, his friend Richard Dawkins remembered a characteristic joke: “To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow preordained for us, because we are so well suited to live in it, he mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being exactly the same shape as the puddle.”

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I expect the reporter left it intentionally vague to allow Tom maximum amount of rope.

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What Cruise is saying, stripped down of all belligerent midlife-crisis attitude and general obnoxiousness, is probably valid. We can’t be the only ones around here.

It’s the attitude that’s worth pitting, not the statement itself.

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I hate to jump in against this particular Cruise bashing, since I do think he’s batshit insane, but I did read another quote from him regarding his belief in aliens, taken from a press conference w/ Spielberg in New York:

I doubt his “practicality” and I can’t abide by his media whoring, Co$'ing or screwed up views on psychology, but that’s not a bad quote, in context.

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Of course there are aliens. One of 'em is named Xenu. And we evloved from clams.
…what?

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Yeah, cause more men have been inside Tom than on the Starship Enterprise.

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I dunno. I think he’s so used to taking it that by this time he barely notices.

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Allow me to be the first to volunteer for that mission.

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IMHO this was an unfair criticism of Cruise, controversial or not it’s a pretty mainstream belief (and one I share). It’s only the inertia from his other wackiness made this news.

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I think the problem is the manner (or lack of manners) in which Tom Cruise answered the interviewer’s question. What if an interviewer asked him “Where did you live as a youngster?” And his stunning riposte were “Are you so lazy that you’d have to ask me for the answer instead of looking it up yourself” ? Wouldn’t you think his response was a “tad” harsh?

Remember his character in “Taps”? I don’t think that strayed too far from the truth did it?

As others have mentioned, the media LOVES to tear down the people they have built up. Just ask Burt Reynolds.

I can’t wait for Tom Cruise’s next flippant fiasco.

“People love it when you lose they love dirty laundry”

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Spielberg says the same thing over and over.
Did we need another Tom Cruise (or Cruse) thread?
Geeze, I miss Michael Jackson. We need another trial. Tom Cruise and sharks just don’t cut it.

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The first two deal with the possibility of contacting alien beings. The other two center on Earth and the assumption that only our planet’s conditions can harbor life. As you can see, that has nothing to do with the possible existence of alien beings of any kind (Earth-like or not) who may not be able to communicate with us for whatever reason.

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I live in Southern California, USA. From my perspective, a native of Mexico is an alien when he arrives in the USA (or some country other than Mexico). When he is in Mexico, he is not an alien. Similarly, an Irishman visiting the United States is an alien, but he is not an alien when he is in Ireland. Were I to travel to Europe, I would be an alien during that period of time when I was out of my native country.

“Alien,” then, to my way of thinking, implies a lifeform that has departed its native planet and traveled to a planet that is alien to it, or to which it is alien. Alien of extraterrestrial origin, that is, of course, as is clearly implied in the linked story.

I recognize that my reading of the term “alien” is likely to be a minority view, of course. But Mr. Cruise would do well to ask for clarification on the meaning of ther term as understood by his interviewer before answering questions such as “Do you believe aliens exist?”

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TYM said, “The chances are excellent that there is other intelligent life in the universe”. I read “other” in the sense of Merriam-Webster number 3: “additional”, as in “besides our own”. What you’ve zeroed in on seems both irrelevant and trivial. After all, how do we know that our own planet doesn’t harbor beings of any kind who may not be able to communicate with us for whatever reason. I mean, that describes rocks, doesn’t it?

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Why, oh why won’t Tom Cruise be a more benevolent leader to the people of Earth? Must he hurt people’s feelings in all these interviews he’s contractually obligated to give? It’s like he doesn’t respect the position of political and legislative power that he doesn’t have. Who is he to think he can answer questions posed to him in any fashion he sees fit.

First, he refuses to hide his relationship with his girlfriend. Then he calls a man who sprayed him in the face with water a jerk. A JERK! Can you imagine how much something like that hurts coming from a luminary like Tom Cruise! I’m so glad they stopped reporting on those boring news stories to run the clips of that guy getting his comeuppance 24/7. Otherwise we wouldn’t know what a jerk that guy was…cause he really was a jerk, a real big jerk.

Then he went and insulted Brooke Shields. I hate it when celebrities fight, and make the common people choose sides. It’s such a tough choice because I care about both of them so much. How could he say that about her? Suddenly Susan was a pretty good show. Doesn’t he understand he not allowed to talk about certain things in mixed company?

Then he belittled Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer, the man who works with Al Roker, the guy who hands it off to the local guy, who gives me my weather report every morning. Every fucking morning! Tom Crusie doesn’t tell me the weather every morning. At most, I get 3 movies a year. Then he goes back to taking care of his kids and living his own life like the selfish bastard that he is.

Matt Lauer, OTOH is there to enrich my life everday. Matt Lauer deserves some god damn respect. You can’t treat a fawning, shallow, parasitic celebrity whore like a piece of garbage. We need to appreciate him, and you do too Tom. His Carmen Sandiego-esque trips around the world are done for all of us. ALL OF US!!!

Mr Cruise’s behavior is really making me start to question his acting skills. I don’t know if could enjoy Risky Business anymore. It’s just not the same. I love the movie, but I’m not in love with the man. Our relationship has changed. I just can’t respect a man who doesn’t have to good sense to filter out all of the unpopular things he’s said. It’s as if he doesn’t care about the feelings of people he doesn’t know.

I just wish I could go back to when Tom Cruise only talked about adopting black kids, suing people who claim he’s gay, crappy soft-core porn movies with his wife, and invisalign braces. I used to think he was good guy, like his characters I remember from such films as Top Gun, Jerry McGuire, and Mission Impossible. But now I know he’s like the characters I remember from films such as Collateral and Magnolia. And I fucking hate Magnolia. Fuck you Tom Cruise! You’re the real jerk.