Profiles in Marriage: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
Via the NYT:
HOLMES: "When I met Tom, I was completely in love and, yes, I admired him growing up — he’s Tom Cruise! And, yes, I followed his movies and maybe had his photo up on my wall. I thought, How does he do what he does? And when I met him, he was so warm and I thought, Wow! You can be a superstar and a human being. He made me feel so amazing."
CRUISE: "As a young girl, Kate said she dreamed of marrying me. And I said I wouldn’t want to disappoint her. I knew I wanted to marry Kate when I met her. After our very first date, I was sure. So I bought the ring shortly after that first date. At one point, I thought she was going to ask me to marry her first and I put her off by changing the subject. I wanted to ask her."
Additional video, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted Dec. 5,2008 at 10:56 AM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, News, Tom Cruise | Permalink
um...yuk.
Posted by: Carmen | Dec 5, 2008 11:14:31 AM
I nearly vomitted when he said that he learned how to dance watching Soul Train and then followed that gem up with "you know, back in da day!" Gross.
Posted by: Brandon | Dec 5, 2008 11:15:16 AM
Is there any reason to feature this business transaction/sham marriage?
Cruise and his cult are homophobic short-sighted dangerously misinformed individuals. He is not a friend to the gay community and his acting doesn't lend one to believe that Olivier's legacy is threatened.
Posted by: Nick | Dec 5, 2008 11:16:25 AM
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Akh, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Secondly, Cruise looks like Michael Rennie's kid - after a farm accident. Strange...
Posted by: David B. | Dec 5, 2008 11:17:19 AM
Well, they're all right, I guess. Unlike so many others on this blog, I think Cruise is a great movie star and a damn good screen actor---he's just looney...but that aint my business.
Well, they're not Bogart & Bacall, no. Hell, they aint even Sinatra & Farrow.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Dec 5, 2008 11:20:21 AM
GAG
Posted by: mike nyc | Dec 5, 2008 11:24:18 AM
So has anyone see the previews of his new movie? Everyone in the film has an accent except him. He sounds like, well, Tom Cruise. Its odd as hell. And the get up -- the only thing missing is the infamous malfunctioning mechanical arms of movies past: Dr. Strangelove (how ironic), Young Frankenstein, the Pink Panther... and now Tom.
Posted by: Cruising | Dec 5, 2008 11:31:26 AM
It's all a bit odd. Forget the fact he could be her father and the whole religion thing....I just don't see what they could even talk about!
Posted by: vardis | Dec 5, 2008 11:35:46 AM
It floors me how transparent this guy is. His laugh, his posture, his hair is all so perfectly orchestrated. This guy appeared in a play off Broadway when he was just starting out and fell in love with a male actor and was outside his apartment building not once but twice screaming up to him to let him know he loved him. Why aint the press outing this character is everyone in Hollywood afraid of him? Has anyone noticed that the book about him was squashed like a bug and really nothing was in it just to slam Scientology. This guy needs to be outed so that he can stop this rouse. Katie is paid each year she stays with him. Did anyone notice how her Dad has been so quiet? Notice the house now that they are living in the 2 new cars in the driveway?
Posted by: Joe | Dec 5, 2008 11:41:24 AM
Who cares?!?!?!?!!?
Posted by: bandit | Dec 5, 2008 12:03:05 PM
He has got a slew of lawyers with their hands "on their holsters" at the ready if anyone on planet Earth or maybe even Uranus, slanders his self...it just keeps on getting more sicker with that Thanksgiving gift he gave the Beckhams & don't forget the carriage ride through Central Park as part of the ROMANTIC DAY???...as Chelsea Handler said, the girls are probably talking baby talk and the Cruise & Beckham are in the closet, trying on each other's clothes!..his alien wife screaming,"get out of the CLOSET!"..I can not even LOOK at his face anymore..and they put him on the cover of the NYTimes magazine..that's publicity POWER baby!
..and then I have to add, after 9/11 what he did for the firefighters etc. that were at the scene...he promised a "cure"...so he pumps them with niacin,steam baths(probably in there with those great fireman etc) on a daily basis...a miracle worker at work in his alien mind!..*****NOT a religion ..it is a CULT!!!
Cheers...happy holidays to all!
Thanks Andy for a great blog!
Tony(nyc)
Posted by: tony | Dec 5, 2008 12:13:06 PM
Yeah Cruise is a great actor; I’ve never seen anyone play Tom Cruise like Tom Cruise. He was wonderful as Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” and then he really stretched taking that role of playing Tom Cruise in “Top Gun” and he completely transformed himself by playing Tom Cruise in “Born of the 4th of July”. Then as 18th Century Vampire Tom Cruise in “Interview with a Vampire” he really proved he could play Tom Cruise like no one else.
Posted by: ggreen | Dec 5, 2008 12:39:13 PM
Creepy creepy creepy
Posted by: adam | Dec 5, 2008 12:43:33 PM
Katie Holmes - our generation's Phyllis Gates.
Don't know who Phyllis Gates was? She was Rock Hudson's wife.
'nuff said.
Posted by: steve | Dec 5, 2008 12:54:46 PM
I hope I see the day when this pathetic closet case and his sorry sham of a marriage are exposed to the public at large. Thank god for out and proud performers like Ellen DeGeneres and Neil Patrick Harris who make a mockery of Cruise and company's deceits.
Posted by: Joe Flyte | Dec 5, 2008 1:27:54 PM
Here's the real babydaddy --
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005098/
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Dec 5, 2008 1:42:23 PM
Eh, gay or not, he's just a freaking weirdo... All the celebrities who seem to really love their partners also don't talk about them at every turn. I mean, come on, even Brad Pitt shies away from talking about Angelina because he feels like it cheapens it.
But then again, they're both just freaking nuts.
Posted by: Cameron | Dec 5, 2008 2:26:23 PM
Why won't this guy go away already?! He's completely played out. Every time the commercial for his Nazi movie comes on and I hear TOM CRUISE intone in all seriousness "We have to kill Hitler" I burst out laughing. It's just so ridiculous.
Posted by: Ray | Dec 5, 2008 2:31:37 PM
Tony: "*****NOT a religion ..it is a CULT!!!"
Um ... could someone tell me the difference between a religion and a cult? That sounds flaky and sarcastic, but I'm being very sincere. When does one cross the line into the other? Because I suspect that it's all a matter of perspective ...
Posted by: Red Seven | Dec 5, 2008 2:48:48 PM
Look, a cult has to have secrecy, fancy robes, costumes, spells or prayers, bells, smoking lamps...wait that sounds like the roman catholic church. Ok, a cult has rules, dress codes, special underwear, secrecy, oh crap; that's the LDS church.. I give up.
1: formal religious veneration : worship
2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual ; also : its body of adherents
3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious ; also : its body of adherents
4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book) ; especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
Posted by: Rob | Dec 5, 2008 3:10:45 PM
Look, I and millions of others have enjoyed his movies. His movies have made hundreds of millions...maybe billions of dollars. He is what they used to call "name above the title" level of screen star. His being "in the closet" and belongs to a crazy religious cult has nothing...should have nothing to do with a critique of his career accomplishment. How many people rise to the very top of their profession?
You don't have to be a great actor to be a great movie star: Gable, Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor, John Wayne, Johnny Weismuller--for cryin' out loud: all great movie stars, not great actors.
Posted by: Derrick form Philly | Dec 5, 2008 3:18:41 PM
LOL @ Sally Field...HOT!!! More like he wanted to fantasize more about Burt Reynolds after coming across the infamous cosmo centerfold issue......
Posted by: johnny | Dec 5, 2008 5:32:26 PM
One for the history books. These are the exact words Kelly Preston used about John Travolta.
Tooth Clops' constant after each sentence self-amused chuckle is frightening to the point of being Bush-ian.
Posted by: Br!on | Dec 5, 2008 9:56:25 PM
First and foremost, jealousy has and always will be a curse. Thus, these people who have nothing better to do than criticize Tom for his career direction, clearly displays a group of bitter and selfish drama queens from any gender.
Tom, like any other actor has had his up and downs in movies, yet he does not look back but moves forward and picks up what he has done and embraces it as experience.
If the empty headed knockers have nothing better to do than try and bring down an actor because of his passion for acting as Tom has displayed, I suggest that you take a good long look in the mirror, and then take a walk outside. If you have nothing to say nicely about Tom, then say nothing at all!!!
Posted by: Merc Man | Dec 6, 2008 2:25:18 AM
Too easy.
Posted by: Derek Washington | Dec 6, 2008 9:12:33 PM