08/30/2005
Tom Cruise says he knew Katie Holmes in a previous life: "When I was languishing in prison before being sent to exile, she used to send me notes hidden in the collar of her pug dog. She's my eternal soulmate."
Martha Stewart's Apprentice catchphrase: "You don't fit in."
Posted 12:03 PM EST by Andy Towle in Elsewhere | Permalink
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You don't fit in?
That's way weak.
Posted by: Rob | Aug 30, 2005 12:38:35 PM
The Post actually reported that it's "You just don't fit in." Small difference, but I just thought I'd make the note.
Posted by: andy | Aug 30, 2005 12:44:59 PM
Yeah, I don't like the catch phrase at all. It should have been something a bit more bitchy...
Posted by: Roy | Aug 30, 2005 1:00:49 PM
"You don't fit in"? That's a great saying! I'm sure it'll be a big hit with any gay, lesbian, or racial minority slapped with it.
What rubbish. Sorry, but Martha is a felon, a crook, and shouldn't be held up as an icon like this.
Posted by: Jase | Aug 30, 2005 1:03:51 PM
Are you serious Jase? Martha is THE example for what it means to be an American! This woman is a bitch, a liar, a convicted felon who served time in prison, AND she's one of the richest women on the planet with more popularity now than before her conviction. Her Apprentice will do better than Donald's and her daily talk show has already lined up stellar names that even Oprah can't get. You can hate her all you want to, but she deserves, and has worked for, every good and bad thing that comes her way. My hat is off to her.
As for the Tom story...enough already.
Posted by: Wayne | Aug 30, 2005 1:12:43 PM
What we don't read about is Martha stating "You don't fit in" just before taking a meat cleaver to the rope holding the safe suspended above the head of the contestant.
Posted by: Rade | Aug 30, 2005 2:50:11 PM
As for Tommy Boy... he's out Shirly-ing Maclaine! At least with her, her past life ghost told her to write a book and make a movie. And she is still a great actress. He'll never rise above the schlock comic-book crud Cruise tends to gravitate towards.
At the rate he's going, his kids with Nicole Kidman will soon write a book titled "Postcards from another planet".
Posted by: Rade | Aug 30, 2005 2:56:23 PM
"You don't fit in!" Oh,God, I just had a high school flashback!
Posted by: tommy | Aug 30, 2005 3:07:58 PM
Speaking of reincarnation--Martha and Oprah both have been channeling Marie Antoinette too long. Both cows. Cash cows, but cows nonetheless. Moooooooo.
Posted by: Leland | Aug 30, 2005 3:12:59 PM
Martha did the crime (if that what it was) and she has done the time. This is America you can always start over and re-invent yourself.
Tom is a nut case and needs to go away for awhile.
Posted by: Donald | Aug 30, 2005 4:50:08 PM
"she used to send me notes hidden in the collar of her pug dog," ..... NEED I SAY MORE?!??!?!?
clearly, the pug is chosen!
Posted by: Jeremy | Aug 30, 2005 5:15:06 PM
How nasty can you guys get? Is the heat getting to you all in new York or is this just stereotypical bitchness that passes for wit. Guys, just a thought.....save the nasty energies and comments for the people who really deserve it, like Pat Robertson, George Bush, James Dobson.
Posted by: matt-chicago | Aug 30, 2005 7:45:43 PM
I'm surprised Andy linked that fake news story about Tom Cruise, especially without any disclaimer. Tom might have some strange ideas, but that is clearly tabloid fantasy. Read the comments on the link above.
Posted by: tennisfreak | Aug 30, 2005 11:25:01 PM
It's not about being nasty. Too often, we glamorize criminals in our society and sweep away their misdeeds. After the revelation of Deep Throat's identity, the network news shows had G. Gordon Liddy and Charles Coulson on to talk about Deep Throat. They both opined that Mark Felt was a terrible person. Few journalist, however, called either on the carpet for their sour grapes: both were convicted and sent to prison for their crimes that Felt exposed. Again, both are crooks.
It's this same hypocrisy that allows Bill Bennett, who blew $6million on slot machines, to tell the rest of us how to lead moral lives. It's also this same hypocrisy that allows Andrew Sullivan to pull the same shit even though he's out giving and taking loads while supporting the work of modern racist eugenicists like Charles Murray. Come on, Sullivan writes crappy books supporting gay marriage as a way to enforce monogamy in the gay community while he's an HIV-positive man having anonymous bareback sex? He proudly writes about his support of the widely debunked "The Bell Curve," which alleges the genetic inferiority of Latinos and African Americans. Yeah, a gay man who feels comfortable embracing his inner racist child enough to proclaim it to the world on his blog. What a loser. (What an idiot. Given that Latino is a cultural reference that applies to someone with cultural ties to Latin America, there is no genetic basis to discuss intelligence. Again, the same thing with African Americans, the majority of whom are mixed-race with Caucasian and/or Native American ancestry. Uh, Malcolm X. had red hair; Martin Luther King's grandma was from Ireland, etc.,etc.
Sorry to rage on but glorifying Martha is hypocritical when we our same culture stigmatizes most other Americans who have commited a felony. How many people with a felony conviction just out of jail do you think Martha Stewart Omnimedia or NBC has hired recently?
Posted by: Jase | Aug 31, 2005 2:41:19 AM
Applause for Jase! "You just don't fit in." I guess we should be thankful it wasn't "No Jews or Coloreds allowed."
Posted by: Leland | Aug 31, 2005 2:31:21 PM
It's amazing! I recall that in a past life, I was a pug dog. It's true. I was always being sent to deliver notes to a fat, sweaty prisoner. It must have been Tom.
I even remember what the notes said. They read; Baby, You just don't fit in.
Posted by: jay | Aug 31, 2005 4:36:13 PM
It's amazing! I recall that in a past life, I was a pug dog. It's true. I was always being sent to deliver notes to a fat, sweaty prisoner. It must have been Tom.
I think the notes said; You just don't fit in.
Posted by: jay | Aug 31, 2005 4:38:56 PM