Holmes is two inches taller than Cruise. I just love that fact, don’t you?
When Letterman brought up the height issue, Holmes got bent out of shape.
That’s what prompted me to look it up 
That interview with Holmes is a great example why some celebrities should never be allowed to talk off-script. She didn’t come across as being the sharpest tool in the box, to put it charitably.
For me, its the public displays of affection. Yes, he was head over heels with Nicole Kidman, and very public about it. I remember seeing them on…wait for it…Oprah…where they talked about how much in love they were.
Chances of a Hollywood marriage (or simple love) lasting are fairly slim. When people make a big deal out of it and doesn’t last, they leave themselves open. “exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hopes.” Perhaps its too much Jane Austen, but I prefer falling in love to be a discrete personal affair.
I’ve seen clips of both Tom and Katie and have also read some of the comments Tom has been making recently (like the one directed towards Brooke Shields, who had serious problems with post-partum depression and took drugs to ovecome it - Scientology is apparently against taking drugs for mental illness); I haven’t yet expressed my opinion on it. First, really, who cares about Tom? I mean, come on - frankly I don’t really care if he’s gay or straight or if the relationship with Katie is a publicity stunt or not (although the last Cruise “relationship” with Penelope Cruz did seem to pan out to be of the publicity stunt variety …). The nastiness about Brooke Shields, though, is below the belt, IMO. I honestly wonder if Tom himself might be in need of some Prozac, which of course he’d never take! Or maybe he’s just shagging on a crack pipe … 
Either way, some of his recent behavior has been just strange.
I saw an interview clip yesterday where Tom got really weird- told the interviewer and the crew “I care about each and every one of you and your children. I’m not just saying that, I really care about all of you!” or something to that effect. He was very intense about it, and it creeped me out. Personally, I think he’s losing it. His PR people have started to limit his appearances due to these unseemly outbursts he’s recently become prone to. I’ve also read that he’s got Scientologists escorting Katie everywhere she goes. Again, creepy.
There have always been celebrities claiming “wuv, twoo wuv” about their squeeze of the moment. Most of those relationships have soon fallen apart. There have always been suspicions that certain romances are either publicity stunts or covers for homosexuality. And some of those suspicions turned out to be quite true.
So why is Tom Cruise getting so much shit?
Because in the past 5-10 years, we’ve just had an overload of particularly noxious serial “love of my lifers.” Celebrities who have gone on talk show after talk show claiming endless devotion for partner after partner after partner. First there was Julia and her true soul mates Keifer & Jason & Lyle & Benjamin & Danny. Then there was Jennifer Lopez, who made Julia Roberts look like an emotional icicle. Add in a few other committed-for-life-or-at-least-for-this-fiscal-year fiascos like Angelina/Billy Bob and Liza/Creepy Troll…and you end up with an audience that is thinking “could you at least be together for long enough for milk to expire before you go out and publically declare your undying love that is stronger than any love that ever existed before?”
Now, Tom Cruise was already on the shit list before this Katie Holmes thing. He was married once. No big deal. He got married again. And it lasted a decade. But the marriage dissolved amid a bunch of weird rumors involving scientology, homosexuality, and Tom trying to screw Nicole financially. In the court of public opinion, in the case of Tom vs. Nicole, Nicole came out on top. Meanwhile, his popularity had declined precipitiously. Objective measures like box-office and q-factor still put him at the top, but it was quite obvious that he was no longer the It boy.
Suddenly, he had a new movie to push, and a new girlfriend. So in love! Cruise & Cruz! Awww. Except not. They appeared to have no chemistry whatsoever, and there was little evidence that they felt genuine romantic feelings for each other. The publicists tried to get the public to be happy about Tom & Penelope, and the public declined to cooperate. Somewhere along the way, they broke up.
Meanwhile, Tom Cruise has fallen even farther down the hot celebrity list. His cuteness has faded. The homosexuality and scientology issues have only grown bigger over the years, and more and more of the viewing audience is becoming quite certain that he is gay and/or brainwashed. The stunts on Oprah just confirmed the already existing suspicion that he’s become a total nutter. He’s still a serviceable movie star, usable in a variety of roles, and reasonably likely to bring the ticket sales. But at this point, he’s an A-lister because he’s earned a permanent spot on that list, not because he makes the moviegoers swoon.
So if you add the two factors together:
–A public who is sick and tired of celebrities erroneously swearing their everlasting love–
plus
–A public who sees Tom Cruise as a faded star at best, and a laughingstock at worst–
and you get:
Tom Cruise getting bashed for being happily in love.
Prediction: she won’t turn to the Dark Side and he’ll dump her.
IMHO, he’s picking them younger each time–probably till he finds one young and naive enough to actually go along with him on this Scientology crap!I’ve always wondered how anyone with an IQ above 50 would subscribe to a “religion” that claims that the galaxy was once run by an alien being–and STILL GIVE THEM MONEY after finding this out! :smack:
- Katie Holmes is 26, Tom Cruise is 42. Not in itself scandalous, but still a bit dodgy.
- They first met six weeks ago, and yet already he’s professing absolute love and leaping on couches like a hyperactive 14 year old.
- Katie Holmes is reportedly still a virgin, so going by her own rules Tom Cruise can’t have sex with her until they’re married. Males in that situation rush the relationship so they can get some.
I don’t agree that it’s to promote their movies, as they’re potentially the two biggest movies of the Summer already and they sure don’t need this to help them.
It’s all a bit suspicious. I don’t see this so-called relationship lasting even a few months.
I don’t buy the virginal Katie. Didn’t she confess to screwing with both of her Dawson’s Creek costars, Joshua Jackson and James Van Der Beek?
I don’t believe Cruise is gay-I think he’s just insane. Also, he does reportedly have ADHD, and since he’s a clam, he’d be unmedicated, and that’s what it looks like to me. That’s what I’m like when I’m not on my meds.
To Pace who started this thread:
Put yourself in the place of Cruise’s children. Your father is supposed to be acting like a responsible adult and a role model, not embarassing you in front of the whole world.
In addition, put yourself in Brooke Shields place, or anyone who has had to take drugs for a medical condition like depression or schizophrenia, etc. Imagine the colossal nerve of someone who believes in “Scientology” giving you medical advice.
That’s why he’s getting bashed.
You didn’t see her on Letterman. She doesn’t have enough grey matter to think her way through an interview, much less reason her way out of Scientology.
Actually, I did (see post #22).
I think her lack of multiple brain cells will block Xenu’s mind control beam.
LOL!
Sorry, I forgot post #22. I think one of my thetans was blocking it from memory. You know those darn thetans, always getting into everything…
Yes, because his inability to make himself grow taller proves that he’s less of a man. :rolleyes:
As far as I’m concerned anyone who appears on Oprah, and anything that happens on Oprah, deserves ridicule & derision.
The fact that it’s Tom Cruise is just frosting.
I’m completely with David Letterman every chance he gets to slam Oprah.
With the exception of his first wife, hasn’t Tom married/dated women who were in the mid twenties? Anyone else notice this?
I’d really like to see him fling a phone at a concierge.
After watching Tom go through his “this is the woman I will always love” act with Rebecca DeMornay, Mimi Rodgers, Nicole Kidman, and Penelope Cruz, it gets difficult to take it seriously. And when a middle aged man jumps up and down on the couch of a national TV show yelling about how much he’s in love with a woman he met six weeks ago, it’s even more difficult.
Just a quick question: Are scientologists allowed to be gay?