Posts Tagged ‘Tom Cruise’
Another Cruise Tries Acting
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Tom Cruise’s 13-year-old son Connor (seen here in 2006) is getting into the family business. His first film “Seven Pounds” debuts on Friday, six days ahead of his dad’s “Valkyrie.” The younger Cruise, whose mom is actress Nicole Kidman, plays star Will Smith’s character when he was young. How does his dad feel about having another actor in the family?
“Who knows what he’s going to do? He’s grown up on (acting). I’ve always had my kids there, in hair and makeup, just always around the sets. They’ve worked on sets.”
Wonder how the elder Cruise will react if his son’s film is a bigger hit than his?
New Cruise Film Blasted By Germans
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
It was bad enough when American audiences were laughing at the dramatic scenes at screenings of the new Tom Cruise film “Valkyrie” but now the German critics are chiming in with their own slams. The film critic for Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel stated:
“The only thing that can definitely be said about this cinema adventure is that Tom Cruise, who has been damaged by his bizarre talk show behaviour, may well continue storming the heights of the Scientology hierarchy as a Thetan, but his image as an actor has been finally ruined by ‘Valkyrie.’”
Ouch! Will audiences give Cruise any love when this film debuts Christmas Day? Probably not—Nazis and holiday fun just don’t mix.
Tom Has A Stalker
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Tom Cruise has been getting visits from an uninvited guest—and his security chief has gone to court to stop them. TMZ reports that Edward Van Tassel was arrested in early November after waving a gun and an American flag on a Santa Barbara freeway. He has spent the last month in a Veterans’ hospital pending a court hearing. At yesterday’s bail hearing, the judge was told that Van Tassel considered Cruise to be sympathetic to vets and had left the VA hospital three times to travel to the actor’s Beverly Hills home. Sounds like someone took “Born on the Fourth of July” a bit too seriously.
The judge has ordered Van Tassel not to attempt further contact with Cruise.
Why Katie Isn’t Reading This
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Hollywood power couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes get his-n-hers covers on this weekend’s T Magazine in the Sunday New York Times. Katie does the usual babbling about how much she loves Tom and how much money they spend on Suri (she has her own home gym) but also tells how she stays sane in a crazy business.
“I don’t go online. I don’t read about myself. I can’t. I know that if something really horrible happens, someone will tell me about it. I would get too upset and overwhelmed if I read or looked at what’s out there. And I have too much to do. I’m a mom and an actress with a play to do every night. I can’t pay attention to all that noise.”
Well, that’s one way to avoid the lousy reviews for Tom’s new movie.
Tom Cruise Makes Details Power 40
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The good news is Tom Cruise made the cover of the Power Issue of mens’ style mag Details. The bad news is he’s only #7. He’ll be lucky to make #40 after that “Valkyrie” movie bombs big time next month. So of course, the article’s all about pimping the film. Tom says of the film that will likely put the last nail in the coffin of his career:
“It’s about doing the right thing, but also about finding out what the right thing is. You know what I mean? I do feel that this movie was the right thing to do … I love movies. Yeah, man, I love movies!”
Too bad he doesn’t love the right movies—for him.
