Oh me, oh my-does baby Suri really exist???update now aka "The Suri Challenge"

[RC Fan]

Suri who? Never heard of 'em.

Regards,

Xenu

P.S. Please send more money!

 

[Daxx]

P.S. Please send more money!

For crying out loud - I just sent $1K and haven't received my Thetan certificate, membership card and patch. I'm not sending one red cent until I get them. Call Tom Cruise ... wait ... maybe not now that he's unemployed.

 

[RC Fan]

For crying out loud - I just sent $1K and haven't received my Thetan certificate, membership card and patch. I'm not sending one red cent until I get them. Call Tom Cruise ... wait ... maybe not now that he's unemployed.

Hey!

Don't make me 'audit' your ***!

Xenu

 

[Daxx]

From TMZ:

Tom Cruise clearly displeased Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone enough to get himself axed this week, but he evidently also committed one of the biggest cardinal sins for any employee: He pissed off the boss' wife.

Paula Fortunato, Redstone's wife, was "incensed" by one of Cruise's rants, and told her honcho husband that she was boycotting Cruise's product forever.

Indeed, as Page Six notes, one of Redstone's justifications for severing ties with the Scientology-obsessed star was that his behavior had alienated female fans. One of those fans who wouldn't come back, apparently, was Fortunato, a former school teacher almost 40 years Redstone's junior who married the mogul in 2003. She was outraged by Cruise's inexplicable digs at Brooke Shields, and told her husband that she would never "see another Tom Cruise movie again!"

A Viacom spokesman says, "It is true that Mrs. Redstone disagrees with Tom Cruise's views, but she and Mr. Redstone see every Paramount film."

The moral of the story? Don't piss off the boss' wife or your butt will be in the frying pan!!!!!

 

[CathrynRose]

From TMZ:


The moral of the story? Don't piss off the boss' wife or your butt will be in the frying pan!!!!!

You got that.

So, I emailed my g/f asking if she'll go up to a Scientology center this weekend with me, so I can check out the situation.

She hasnt answered yet. She could be very worried.

But - In any event - Ill need a fake name.... How about: Suri Cruz. Yeah - with a *Z* so they wont be on to me.

No?

Katie Cruz? Ummmm....

 

[KristiKelly]

Im having fun making fun of Frank!

Frank =

Scary thing is, Frank looks like my 7th grade math teacher. Yes, he was hot and I know you're all jealous because I got to look at his back side everyday while he wrote on the board.

 

[Daxx]

But - In any event - Ill need a fake name.... How about: Suri Cruz. Yeah - with a *Z* so they wont be on to me.

No?

Katie Cruz? Ummmm....

How about Xenu Travolta Cruz?

 

[CathrynRose]

Scary thing is, Frank looks like my 7th grade math teacher. Yes, he was hot and I know you're all jealous because I got to look at his back side everyday while he wrote on the board.

Mmmmm - YUM!

I wouldnt mind a piece of Frank! YEAH! Who's your Mommy?

How about Xenu Travolta Cruz?

So subtle - I like it!!!

 

[my4kids]

From Yahoo news - Bolding is mine:

["His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount. As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," said Redstone.

Sumner's comments are believed to refer to a string of headline grabbing antics including Tom's couch-jumping display on "Oprah" and his controversial views on the use of antidepressants, based on his Scientology beliefs.

Now Richard Lovett-the president of the Creative Artists Agency which represents the 44-year-old actor-has struck back.

"That a mogul like Sumner Redstone could make a statement so vicious, so pompous, so petulant as that he didn't want to make a deal with Tom Cruise because of his personal conduct - it tells you more about Sumner Redstone and Viacom than about Tom Cruise," fumed Lovett.

The "War of the Worlds" star's lawyer, Bert Fields, has also gotten involved, branding Redstone's comments "disgusting." Fields also suggested 83-year-old Redstone had "lost it completely" or had been given "breathtakingly bad advice."]


OMG!!!!! They think they can just act like everyone else is crazy! Hey - were are not all crazy koolaid drinkers - we see it the way it is. TC is the one that has lost completely.

Redstone for president in '08!

 

[arminnie]

Cruise Not a Popularity Contest Winner By Sarah Hall
Thu Aug 24, 11:25 PM ET

It seems Sumner Redstone is not alone in his distaste for Tom Cruise's couch-jumping conduct.

On the heels of Paramount Pictures' decision not to renew Cruise's production deal comes word that the Mission: Impossible star's popularity ratings are down. Way down.


According to Marketing Evaluations Incorporated, the company that calculates the Q scores which measure a given celebrity's likeability factor, the public's positive perception of Cruise has fallen by 40 percent, while the negative perception of the actor has jumped a whopping 100 percent.


How did this happen? Let's revisit some of Cruise's most memorable moments over the last year and a half.



The birth of TomKat, April 2005: Cruise jets to Italy to pick up a lifetime achievement award; much to the world's collective confusion, Katie Holmes accompanies him and the two engage in plenty of public canoodling.


The passion of TomKat, May 2005: Cruise uses Oprah Winfrey's couch as a platform from which to trumpet his love for Holmes.


The wrath of TomKat, May 2005: Cruise criticizes Brooke Shields for her "irresponsible" use of antidepressants to treat her postpartum depression.


The wrath of TomKat, part 2, June 2005: Cruise calls Matt Lauer "glib" for suggesting that drugs such as Paxil and Ritalin might be beneficial in some cases, and calls the TV host out on his lack of knowledge about psychiatry, a subject in which Cruise claims to be well-versed.


The engagement of TomKat, June 2005: Cruise jets to Paris with Holmes in tow; they scale the Eiffel Tower, where he pops the question; Cruise then announces momentous event at press conference.


The aftermath of the wrath of TomKat, July 2005: Shields rebuts Cruise's remarks by penning an op-ed in the New York Times slamming his "ridiculous rant" against psychiatry.


The reproduction of TomKat, October 2005: The betrothed couple announce that they have conceived an offspring.


The OB/GYN skills of TomKat, November 2005: Cruise tells Barbara Walters he has purchased a sonogram machine to perform at-home ultrasounds on Holmes. The American College of Radiology objects and a California lawmaker is inspired to author a bill banning the use of such machines by anyone except trained professionals.


The birth of TomKitten, April 2006: Cruise and Holmes announce the birth of their daughter, Suri, whose name supposedly means "princess" in Hebrew and "red rose" in Persian. Not to mention "pickpocket" in Japanese.


The box-office effect of TomKat, May 2006: Mission: Impossible III opens below industry expectations, though still going on to gross a respectable $393 million worldwide.


The power of TomKat, June 2006: Forbes magazine touts Cruise as the world's most powerful famous person.


The privacy of TomKat, July 2006: Some four months after her birth, Suri has yet to make her public debut, though an elite few can claim to have laid eyes on her.


The downsizing of TomKat, August 2006: Paramount Pictures decides not to renew its production deal with Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner. Viacom head honcho Sumner Redstone tells the Wall Street Journal that Cruise's "recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."


So, what's not to like? Nothing, according to Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields.

"What was his personal conduct?" Fields asked in an interview with the New York Post. "Jumping on a couch on Oprah Winfrey because he's in love with Katie Holmes? That really deserves the death penalty?

"Or speaking out against mood-altering drugs for children? That's a real reason for the [Viacom] shareholders to be deprived of billions of dollars?"

Perhaps not, but it does provide insight into how Cruise could have become less appealing in the eyes of the general public.

Meanwhile, Wagner has also spoken out in defense of her business crony (whom she likes, anyway), calling Redstone's remarks "graceless," "undignified," and "not businesslike."

"I ask, what is his real agenda? What is he trying to do? Is this how you treat artists?" Wagner raged to the Los Angeles Times. "If I were another actor or filmmaker, would I work at a studio that takes one of their greatest assets and publicly does this?"

Cruise has yet to speak up on his own behalf. However, Wagner stated that the producing partners would be just fine without Paramount and had already secured $100 million in independent financing from two hedge funds.

Even so, the question remains of what will happen to the projects Cruise/Wagner Productions had already developed for Paramount.

The producing partners had stockpiled a number of scripts for the studio, many as potential starring vehicles for Cruise. Negotiations over the projects could get tricky, given Paramount's relatively new conditions for pictures put into turn-around, including the requirement that the studio be fully reimbursed and receive coproduction rights.

According to Daily Variety, some of the most promising projects brought to Paramount by C/W include One Shot, a mystery about a homicide investigator; The War Magician, a true-life drama about a British magician who used illusions to mystify the Germans and protect British troops in North Africa; and The Few, a drama about American fighter pilots who fought for the British in World War II.

"We have not discussed what will happen with the projects," a C/W spokesperson told Daily Variety. "They all have separate contracts and agreements, and I'm sure they will be honored."

 

[CathrynRose]

Redstone for president in '08!

ROFL!

RED STONE - RED STONE!

 

[rhanditresmom]

Oh my gosh, I am SO behind. I have got to take some time and catch up on Suripalooza! I can't believe I allowed myself to get so far behind! What is wrong with me?

 

[bigmerle1966]

I have been so busy in the last couple of days and haven't been able to be here. I don't go to the mall very often so I don't know if we have a center here or not. Guess I'll have to look that up.

Tom got canned by Paramount because he wanted to follow in the footsteps of other great Hollywood movie stars and create an epic religious movie of ledgendary proportions. Trouble was the space ships cost too much money.

John Travolta already did that, it tanked!

 

[lindalinda]

Watch Countdown with Keith Olberman...its on now.....Tom Cruise info again...I'm sure it will be funny! (MSNBC)


I love Keith Olberman!

 

[andromedaslove]

Another article from MSN News regarding Tom Cruise:

© AP
Tom Cruise
Cruise Wins Sexist -- Not Sexiest -- Award
Aug 25, 1:53 PM EST


Zap2it.com

Paramount doesn't want Tom Cruise, and now it looks like Australian women aren't too crazy about him either.

The "Mission: Impossible III" star/Katie Holmes' baby daddy has received the dubious honor of being named one of the winners of the 14th annual Ernie Awards, given to public figures who make derogatory and sexist public statements, report news sources.

Cruise won for a past comment about his then-pregnant fiance: "I've got Katie tucked away so no one will get to us until my child is born ... [Katie's] life from now on was going to be about being a mother. I'm not giving her the chance to turn into another Nicole."

In the judicial category, lawyer Chrisovalantis Papadopoulos won the Ernie for saying a rape was only brief and "at the very bottom of the scale of seriousness," while the political prize went to Australia's Bill Heffernan who criticized his opponent, Labor MP Julia Gillard, for remaining unmarried and childless. "Anyone who chooses to deliberately remain barren ... they've got no idea what life's about," he said.

The big winner on Thursday (Aug. 24), however, was a different Cruise. P&O cruise liner snagged 2006's Golden Ernie for their ad campaign that included postcards featuring bikini-clad women and the caption: "Seamen wanted." The advertisements surfaced during the inquest into the death of Dianne Brimble, who died from an overdose of a date-rape drug the day after boarding the P&O cruise ship Pacific Sky in 2002. P&O has since apologized for the campaign and called it inappropriate.

The Ernie Awards are named for a guy named Ernie who was a leader of a trade union that also represented sheep shearers. His most infamous comment was: "Women aren't welcome in the shearing sheds. They're only after the sex."

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Yikes! Bottom of page 3!!

Here's the latest!!...Of course he has regrets now!! Is it possible that he is waking up from his his delusion that he not delusional!!??

Or, is this just another spin .....along the lines of (insert robotic voice here) "Suri is beautiful and normal".
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Cruise Regrets Bashing Brooke Shields
FRIDAY AUGUST 25, 2006 08:20AM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

Tom Cruise realizes he crossed a line when he criticized Brooke Shields last summer for her use of antidepressants, a colleague of the actor says.

"That, he deeply regrets," Kathleen Kennedy, who produced Cruise's War of the Worlds with Steven Spielberg, tells the New York Daily News.

In 2005, while promoting War, Cruise talked with TV's Access Hollywood about Shield's admission in her book, Down Came the Rain, that she'd taken medication to cope with postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter Rowan.

"When someone says (medication) has helped them, it is to cope, it didn't cure anything," Cruise said. "There is no science. There is nothing that can cure them whatsoever." Instead, Cruise suggested women take "vitamins and exercise," and warned that Shields had been "irresponsible." Still, he added, "I wish her well in life."

He later told Today's Matt Lauer, "As far as the Brooke Shields thing, look, you have to understand, I really care about Brooke Shields – she's a wonderful and talented woman, and I want her to do well, and I know psychiatry is a pseudoscience."

Hollywood watchers have speculated that the resulting controversy was one of the reasons Viacom chief Sumner Redstone abruptly announced Wednesday that Paramount Pictures had severed ties with Cruise, citing Cruise's "recent conduct."

Producer Kennedy tells the Daily News that Spielberg had not, as was rumored last year, been upset by Cruise's actions while promoting War. "It's not true," she says. "(Tom) was a consummate professional. He's done nothing wrong."

Spielberg, head of Paramount-owned DreamWorks, was blindsided by Wednesday's announcement, his rep, Marvin Levy, says. "The story broke when Steven was on an airplane. He found out when the plane landed," Levy tells the Daily News. The director "had no advance knowledge of Sumner Redstone's position," Levy also said.

Adding to the chorus of voices weighing in on the Cruise-Paramount split, producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells the paper, "(Redstone) has the right to say what he wants," adding, "It's not what I would do."

 

[Beth76]

Hhhmmm. So TC didn't actually say anything about regretting it. Someone just said he did? Yep, sounds like spin to me.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Wow! Bottom of page 4!! There must be something new in the land of couch hopping, brain washing , career destruction , invisible yet perfectly normal babies , and interplanetary warfare !!!!!

 

[bigmerle1966]

From People Magazine this week

Cruise's Camp Fires Back at Paramount
THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 2006 03:45PM EST

By Stephen M. Silverman

Tom Cruise

Photo by: Albert Ferreira / startraks

On Wednesday Paramount Pictures announced the end of its business relationship with Tom Cruise – with Sumner Redstone, chief of Paramount parent company Viacom, blaming the actor's conduct. Now, Cruise's camp is firing back.

"Paramount has no credibility right now," Richard Lovett, president of Creative Artists Agency (which represents Cruise), told The New York Times. "It is not clear who is running the studio and who is making the decisions."

Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, told the paper that Redstone's comments about Cruise were "disgusting" and suggested that Redstone, who is 83, has "lost it completely, or he's been given breathtakingly bad advice."

Fields added, "That a mogul like Sumner Redstone could make a statement so vicious, so pompous, so petulant as that he didn't want to make a deal with Tom Cruise because of his personal conduct – it tells you more about Sumner Redstone and Viacom than about Tom Cruise."

Cruise, 44, has not commented publicly about the situation.

While some in Hollywood are speculating that Redstone sidestepped Paramount chairman Brad Grey and Viacom CEO Thomas E. Freston to spare them from having to break the bad news, Cruise's producing partner, Paula Wagner, told The Times that the move, in her opinion, put Grey and Freston in a "lose-lose" situation.

"If you didn't know anything about this, how effective are you at running a studio?" she said. "Would anyone want to work with management that's ineffectual? And if you're complicit in it, would anyone work with a studio that devours its own?"

(Wagner also told the paper she and Cruise were planning an equity-financing deal with two hedge funds for $100 million in credit. But Fields said, "I don't think Tom has raised $100 million in a hedge fund. And I know nothing about any such thing. I think that's just talk.")

Responding to Fields's claims about him, Redstone told The Times that "his opinion is in the minority" and that major Hollywood players such as David Geffen and Brian Grazer had called to congratulate him for his handling of the matter.

Alan C. Greenberg, a Wall Street big and longtime Viacom board member, defended Redstone, telling the paper, "Tom Cruise has gone nuts."

Paramount has no credibility, but TC is the one acting like a lunatic.

 

[Nancy]

So did anyone see the opening skit of the Emmy's? Conan had a little SouthPark skit in there that I am sure Tommyboy is not going to like! Conan walked through a door and became cartooned into a Southpark character. He went into the closet so of course they were saying Mr. O'Brian you need to come out of the closet. He pops out and says "someone else is in here" and then out walks Tommy. It was so funny and got a lot of laughs from the audience. Tommy is NOT going to be happy about that.