
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: CRUISE, HOLMES TIE THE KNOT
Actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes exchanged vows at their wedding Saturday in a 15th-century castle north of Rome.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2006/11/...ise-holmes.html
I was following the news on different magazines (I was curious about how her wedding dress would look like) They said it was a beautiful wedding, the ceremony was in a Castle in Italy. It is interesting that they said they are now *officially* married but the truth is that they got married in LA prior traveling to Rome.
PINKETT SMITH: HOLMES-CRUISE RUMORS 'RIDICULOUS'
Jada Pinkett Smith says good friend Katie Holmes is an equal partner in her marriage with Tom Cruise.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/...h.ap/index.html
I understand that Germany do not recognize Scientology as a Religion but as a cult but to deny Tom Cruise to film his new movie in Germany because of his personal beliefs seem very unfair and ignorant to me.
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BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject. The decision drew a sharp response from Cruise's film producing partner, Paula Wagner, chief executive of United Artists Entertainment, who said Cruise's "personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie's plot, themes or content." The U.S. actor will portray Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, leader of the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the Nazi dictator in July 1944 with a bomb hidden in a briefcase. Defense Ministry spokesman Harald Kammerbauer said the film makers "will not be allowed to film at German military sites if Count Stauffenberg is played by Tom Cruise, who has publicly professed to being a member of the Scientology cult." |
EXTORTION CHARGES LAID IN CRUISE WEDDING PHOTO CASE
Police in Los Angeles have charged two men with plotting to extort more than $1 million US from Tom Cruise in a case involving stolen photos from the actor's wedding to Katie Holmes.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/07...-extortion.html
Well, well, this is certainly going to raise many questions including and of course if Tom was involved in anyway:
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MAN WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO CRUISE PHOTO EXTORTION FOUND DEAD A man who agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor's stolen wedding photos has been found dead in his home, authorities said. Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2007/09...-extortion.html |
What is going in between Kidman and the Cruise family? Just publicity or some issues not resolved?
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Tom Cruise's press campaign against ex-wife Nicole Kidman takes a nasty turn this weekend. Cruise lets new wife, Katie Holmes, tell Parade magazine that his two older children with Kidman, Connor and Isabella, call her "Mom." For Kidman, who's working in Australia wrapping up an epic film with director Baz Luhrmann, this had to sting. It's bad enough that she has more or less acknowledged in interviews that the children, whom she and Cruise adopted as babies and whom she raised until the couple's 2001 divorce, live full-time with Cruise. At the time of the divorce the boy was 8 and the girl 6. They certainly knew who their mother was. Kidman is a devout Catholic but has been forced to let Cruise raise the children as Scientologists - another blow, sources say. Cruise's sister home-schools Conor and Isabella in the works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Holmes also was raised as a Catholic, but Cruise refused to let their baby, Suri, be baptized in the Church. "You can be a Catholic Scientologist or a Jewish Scientologist," Cruise told Diane Sawyer in an interview. "We are just Scientologists." The Cruise-Kidman divorce commenced unexpectedly in February 2001, when Cruise swiftly filed just a few weeks after the couple's 10th anniversary. On his divorce petition, Cruise claimed the couple had not been married for a full decade, which was untrue. It was thought this was to avoid paying Kidman extra alimony. What followed was bizarre: Six weeks after the filing, Kidman announced that she"d had a miscarriage. A mystery ensued: Why would Cruise have filed for divorce when his wife of a decade was six weeks" pregnant with their baby? The couple previously had been unable to have children and instead adopted Isabella and Connor. This latest jab of Cruise's through wife Holmes is made even more bitter because of comments Kidman recently made about the children. She told interviewers last month that the children often call her "Nicole" and not "mommy." But that may have been taken out of context. As parents of teens know, they often are disrespectful or glib just to get attention... |