Wouldn't you just HATE to admit Tom Cruise is right?
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Lenny
Lovin' being Texican
morganj614 said:
Most interesting on the slideshow of his career is that when I click the "Entertainment pictures" nothing happens!
BlackSheep
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Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone cited the actor's offscreen behavior, which has included the Scientologist's public criticism of antidepressants and his very public courtship of star Katie Holmes, with whom he has an infant daughter. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Redstone told the Journal. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."morganj614 said:
Oh please! This from the same co. that put South Park on film and bankrolled Angelina Jolie.
Cruise's films have grossed more than $2.5 billion for Paramount-for once, it's not about the $$$.
BlackSheep said:
Hear, hear! You can be a falling down drunk deadbeat drug addicted wife beater - but jump up and down on Oprah's couch and make fun of Brooke Shields (as if nobody does that) and you're suddenly untouchable? I don't believe it. Hollywood has no problem with most of its worst offenders - it's just a smokescreen for something else.
BlackSheep
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Right on Sam! Hoist the BS flag!SamSpade said:
tirdun
staring into the abyss
Except he hasn't been box office gold lately. He's been in 6 movies in 5 years (not counting cameos). Three of those (MI3, Minority Report and Vanilla Sky) were essentially break-evens in the theater after cost. Paramount will certainly make it up in TV licensing and DVD sales, but the cost of retaining Cruise versus some other actor isn't worth it.
Cruise makes headlines, but never movie headlines. When you see Tom Hanks on Oprah it puts butts in theaters and DVDs in walmart bags. He moves product, he sells his work, not his life. Cruise moves tabloids and his TV time centers on "he's so weird" moments in the news. Nobody buys MI3 because they think Cruise is odd.
For 20-30M a picture, Paramount can find somebody better.
Cruise makes headlines, but never movie headlines. When you see Tom Hanks on Oprah it puts butts in theaters and DVDs in walmart bags. He moves product, he sells his work, not his life. Cruise moves tabloids and his TV time centers on "he's so weird" moments in the news. Nobody buys MI3 because they think Cruise is odd.
For 20-30M a picture, Paramount can find somebody better.
Tom Sawyer
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Tom Cruise is a High School drop-out, so unless he has self -educated himself in psychiatry I dont consider him an expert. he belongs to the Church of Scientology. A church mind you that was started as a bet by L. Ron Hubbard, who said he could start a religion and make millions. The church by the way uses an alien named Xenu as its diety. It costs approximately $300,000 dollars to reach the stage in the church where they tell you about Xenu. This is the man who is a self proclaimed expert on Post-partum depression? I think not.
His physical attributes, besides a cute smile, are that he is a short man who couldnt or didnt have his own children with two separate wives. Suggesting that the one he has with Kate was possibly a petri dish child.
Cruise's big mouth and big salary placed him in the unemployment line, but he certainly isnt the only fool in hollywood. John Travolta and Kirstie Allie are two others who are believers in the spaceman Xenu.
His physical attributes, besides a cute smile, are that he is a short man who couldnt or didnt have his own children with two separate wives. Suggesting that the one he has with Kate was possibly a petri dish child.
Cruise's big mouth and big salary placed him in the unemployment line, but he certainly isnt the only fool in hollywood. John Travolta and Kirstie Allie are two others who are believers in the spaceman Xenu.