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Paramount's mission: get rid of Tom Cruise
It was a mission that didn't appear to be impossible.
Paramount Pictures dumped Tom Cruise because of the actor's purported flaky behavior. Australian news reports say: Cruise has become the butt of jokes for his manic, couch-hopping appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show last May to declare his love for actor Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to Cruise's first biological child, a daughter named Suri.
I'm guessing it wasn't so much the behavior as the money. Film studios have not been and are not now on a moral high road. Plus, flaky behavior is news and news is promotion. Despite Cruise helping the studio earn $2 billion in the last decade, the last film — Mission Impossible III — may only be a break even deal for Paramount. Okay. Who do you feel sorry for here? Paramount? Cruise? Suri? Posted by Steve E. Swenson 20 comments from 14 users
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posted by
randomfactor
on Aug 23, 2006 at 01:43 PM
I don't feel sorry for Suri. She doesn't exist.. Tom paid good money to get this bat-guano insane. No sympathy here. . Paramount ain't hurtin'. . Nope, not sorry for any of them. posted by
TomW
on Aug 23, 2006 at 01:47 PM
Yeah, I'm not overflowing with sympathy for anyone, except maybe Katie Holmes. She could have been a contender. As for Suri, hard to know the reality there. Maybe she is real but Tom thinks that taking a picture might steal her soul.
posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 01:55 PM
Tom Cruise is his own higher power, so I have trouble believing all his Scientology BS. Everyone in his life has been just another rung on his ladder to success. He better hope they're kinder to him on his way down. posted by
ProgressivePete2
on Aug 23, 2006 at 02:03 PM
Oh no. How is he going to eat?
posted by
ProgressivePete2
on Aug 23, 2006 at 02:06 PM
I've been wondering lately if Tom hasn't started going down the same path as L Ron Hubbard. That guy wasn't sober very often. My first thought when I saw him on the Today show when he freaked out on Matt Lauer was that it looked like he was doing drugs all night.
posted by
tchudilowsky
on Aug 23, 2006 at 03:04 PM
Tom Cruise looks so much like a talking rat that I can't stand to look at him. He "freaked" to get publicity for his War of Worlds film then as the attention hog he is he went to far. Doesn't surprise me, most actors are wierd :-) I also have no sympathy. posted by
randomfactor
on Aug 23, 2006 at 04:10 PM
Maybe they're all weird, Tina, but Tom *STUDIED* wacko long and hard. Comes from being covered in space cooties, no doubt. posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 04:16 PM
Pete: When was L. Ron Hubbard on the Mat Lauer show?
posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 04:20 PM
I think Tom Cruise was actually channeling L. Ron Hubbard on the Matt Lauer show.
posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 04:25 PM
Maybe he was channeling... when I saw Tom, I went channel surfing.
posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 05:41 PM
Just another liberal doing what they do best... LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by
nancyg
on Aug 23, 2006 at 09:42 PM
Anyone who advocates silent birth has to be a class A whacko. I wondered whose bright idea that was. Katie's? Or Toms? Easy for him to say..they weren't HIS contractions. posted by
anonymous
on Aug 23, 2006 at 10:20 PM
The only thing that Tom ever did in his career that was worth watching was Rainman. But it was Dustin Hoffman that carried the movie posted by
MyLefteFoot
on Aug 24, 2006 at 09:19 AM
His ego got so big it toppled over, killing his career.
posted by
goldiloxff
on Aug 24, 2006 at 01:30 PM
"Okay. Who do you feel sorry for here? Paramount? Cruise? Suri?" I could/would never feel sorry for anyone that has billions of dollars. They can still buy milk for their kid! (If that IS what IT drinks) ........Lord only knows! posted by
anonymous
on Aug 26, 2006 at 08:48 PM
I like Tom Cruise and I like his movies. I think most people like his movies and that is why he is the most famous living movie star.
And who cares what he believes? Man, how lame is that to attack someone for their beliefs? posted by
NancyII
on Aug 26, 2006 at 08:53 PM
Now I really have to laugh. People who post on this blog get attacked for their beliefs all the time. and they don't get paid nearly as much as Tom does.
posted by
goldiloxff
on Aug 29, 2006 at 12:53 PM
hahahaha - i agree Nancy,
i used to be under attack all the time, remember the good ol' days? :) as far as the freak-show Tom Cruise, I used to like him alot in the 80's... Top Gun, yadda yadda it's not "his beliefs" that got him this Termination, it's his FREAK'd - out attitude, his uncontrolled spasms, verbal diarrhea, and all-around-arrogance ! There are alot of celeb's that share his (weird) religious beliffs, but they aren't under attack - so there IS a reason he was targeted. I havent seen one of his films in years, and i dont plan to ! i also think he may have ruined katies carreer, she needs to dump him FAST, and run like the wind in order to re-coup! Len posted by
CurtDalton
on Sep 4, 2006 at 01:32 PM
I care for Mr. Cruse about as much as he cares for Bakersfield. posted by
anonymous
on Sep 8, 2006 at 03:36 PM
He should team up with Mel Gibson and create a movie together...!
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