Goodbye, Crazy Tom.
Tom Cruise has fired his sister/publicist. For years Cruise had a sterling public image thanks to tightly controlled interviews from desperate/fawning media outlets. Tom’s sister took over in 2004, and she’s widely credited with encouraging Tom to be Tom—which didn’t turn out so well, as Tom quickly revealed himself to be a couch-jumping, crackpot-religion-pushing, young-actress-impregnating, beloved-morning-talk-show-host-accosting nutcase.
With Tom under new management, we most likely won’t be treated to any more Crazy Tom antic—which is too bad, really. It was thrilling watching one of the most successful, wealthiest actors in Hollywood destroy his career. We probably won’t hear anything off-message from Cruise until he divorces Katie Holmes after 9.5 years of marriage.