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Celeb / Breaking News Shaving the Beard
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:19 AM
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Not the celebrity beard couple I had first in the pool (that was John Travolta/Kelly Preston due to all the massages)
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So, I don't really follow celebrity relationships closely, and am looking for clarification. Their daughter is 6 years old but they've only been married for 5 years. Wow, I would've thought that a probably-contractual "marriage" (as this is rumored to be) would've had the kid AFTER wedlock, not before. Huh.
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The contract has expired. She'll walk away with a bundle - more than she'd ever get working. Besides, her career has been hurt because of her association not with Cruise so much as her surrender to and appeasement with the Scientologists - who, I'm sure, are all over this sweet little family. The cult wants to make sure they continue to get their cut of Cruise's cashflow. Suri's continued affiliation with the cult (or at least a guarantee that she'll be protected from negative influences) will be one of the conditions, has been one of the conditions.
Many attempts have been made to convince people that this is just an ordinary little family, but Cruise is one of their golden calves - and nothing...not one thing...is ever said or done before it has been filtered through the Church. Actually, instead of an ordinary little family, this is a rather sick (depending on your stand with Scientology) little situation.
Many attempts have been made to convince people that this is just an ordinary little family, but Cruise is one of their golden calves - and nothing...not one thing...is ever said or done before it has been filtered through the Church. Actually, instead of an ordinary little family, this is a rather sick (depending on your stand with Scientology) little situation.
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I thought she had to stick it out for a decade to get the cash...? Maybe Tom has decided she's an SP and kicked her to the curb.
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Good for her. Tom Cruise is a douchey, uneducated Scientologist nutjob who actually believes that chemical imbalances in the brain aren't real and that all psychiatric counseling is a form of abuse. Fuck that guy and the cult he rode in on.
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For a second I started thinking that Tom Cruise going through a very public divorce might inject some much needed humility into his enormous ego but then I remembered that we live in the real world.
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Maybe some day Drew Barrymore and Tom Cruise will get married...and drain the life out of each other instead of other people!
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@5,
What's the explanation for Kidman's marriage to Cruise? Or, for that matter, Penelope Cruz's brief relationship to him? Neither of those women needed a sham relationship to further their careers.
What's the explanation for Kidman's marriage to Cruise? Or, for that matter, Penelope Cruz's brief relationship to him? Neither of those women needed a sham relationship to further their careers.
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@24:
No, you're right. Kidman and Cruz's talent were enough to get them work, but if you remember neither one had worked much here in the States before Cruise. Kidman had gotten raves for Dead Calm and Cruz had a very respectable body of work with Spanish directors before Tommy came along. It was Tom who benefited from the association more than, I think, the women - although the women did get work here in the US (with Tom and then with others) when they were coupled with Cruise (btw, you can make a decent argument that he felt something for Holmes and Kidman and maybe even Mimi Rogers, but I never bought the Penelope Cruz relationship for a second). The interesting thing about both of those relationships (and even the relationship with Mimi Rogers for that matter) is how secretive both women still are about their time of association. With Kidman, there are children involved. I understand that. But from the others? Committed silence. That should tell you something.
No, you're right. Kidman and Cruz's talent were enough to get them work, but if you remember neither one had worked much here in the States before Cruise. Kidman had gotten raves for Dead Calm and Cruz had a very respectable body of work with Spanish directors before Tommy came along. It was Tom who benefited from the association more than, I think, the women - although the women did get work here in the US (with Tom and then with others) when they were coupled with Cruise (btw, you can make a decent argument that he felt something for Holmes and Kidman and maybe even Mimi Rogers, but I never bought the Penelope Cruz relationship for a second). The interesting thing about both of those relationships (and even the relationship with Mimi Rogers for that matter) is how secretive both women still are about their time of association. With Kidman, there are children involved. I understand that. But from the others? Committed silence. That should tell you something.
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