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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes on Good Morning America

by leora on January 14th, 2008

Katie Holmes on GOod Morning America

Watch this clip of Katie Holmes on Good Morning America where she talks all about Suri Cruise. Apparently she’s talking a lot now and her first word was mama. Also in the video are some adorable flash back clips of Katie when she was young including video of her singing in a play!

Tags: katie holmes, good morning america, video, suri cruise

ng
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:35 pm

I am CONVINCED without a doubt that money was the primary motive for Katie to be with Tom. This link is what defines what this relationship means to her: EXTRAVAGANCE.
Here she is carrying a $10,000 Berkin bag which
means “I have money to burn.” Only it makes her look so obvious.

http://www.splashnewsonline.com/

I knew they (Tom, Katie, and of course Suri) would make joint appearances with Suri looking cute as a button. This is damage control to the nines, to the hilt to counter Morton’s book. Their message “how can it be true when look at the loving, beautiful, happy, perfect family we are.” Poor Katie.
ng
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Here is beautiful Suri in her nice red dress with her bottle.

http://photo.wenn.com/index.php?ref=cruise%20dinner%20140108&version=int

I think she sucks on the bottle harder when she is being asaulted with so much flashes and an army of strangers are calling out her name.
ng
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:51 pm

This Berkin bag looks ridiculous. Its says “look at me I have money to burn.”

http://popsugar.com/gallery/207593?page=0,4,0
ng
Jan 14, 2008 at 11:59 pm

http://www.splashnewsonline.com/?s=Suri+Cruise

This bag is HUGE. Even the commentator thinks its ugly. But its what it means “I’ve made it.”
This girl is funny.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:08 am

NG: The problem with this image is everyone, except PEOPLE Mag., is calling them on being media w h o r e s, especially with Suri being photographed half blinded and clinging to KH for dear life while her mom poses and smiles for the paps. If that were my kid, I would be after the press and comforting my kid, not smiling and posing.
Normal celeb mothers are all over the press and they don’t use their kid for their image/damage control. Jolie-Pitt didn’t and they had a ton of nasty things said about them and their family this year.

Screw KH, She is exploiting her kid to the nines!!! Mother of the year, my foot. A mother does not subject her kid to these things. (Pardon the language, ladies!!)

Dlisted has a pic of Suri next to L. Ron’s face…I don’t know, could be, couldn’t be?

By the way ladies, the book is out!!! Just in time for KH’s movie premiere. I feel sorry for Keaton and the Queen to have this silliness going on when their show is coming out.

What is the story going around about KH starting filming next month in a movie with Aguilera? Is it just gossip since Aguilera just popped out a baby?
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:14 am

Someone has yet to explain to the sunglasses to me!! Is that part of the ‘I am rich and you are not, now serve me’ look?
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:28 am

Look at this link. I believe this article, it says that Katie SIGNED an agreement that she would be a Scientologist and their kids would be raised as Scientologists. I believe it. After Nicole, who I think he came to love, he wanted to make sure the next wife knew what she was getting into. And Katie might have had a crush on him but the money, private planes, clothes, handlers, stylists, servants, etc. seduced her and he knew she would fall, no problem.

http://www.usmagazine.com/tom_cruise_its_a_privilege_to_call_yourself_a_scientologist

Battlemama: Your husband was right when he told you they resemble a bumble bee. They are not pretty sunglasses but they probably were expensive and she is drawn by the pricetag that’s why she’s LUGGING that HUGE Berkin bag around. I mean she took to the GMA and the Regis and Kelly. It doesn’t look like it has a lot of stuff in it but its says “I cost $10,000.”
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:00 am

The problem with this drastic transformation is that there is that powerful forum that is the Internet that lets one search for previous pictures of celebrites and videos. Clearly, there has been a change in Katie’s life. She is like a little girl that has been let loose in a candy store with a black American Express card.

She is also not consistent. One day she looks nice and glossly, sometimes wearing clothes that are too grown up for her and the next day she looks really tired and very, very casual like she did on that Fred Segal outing. And so its comes across like a little girl that is putting on a show, an act. When she went to Maxfield’s wearing the big pocket skirt, white blouse, and carrying that big Berkin bag, she looked like she was putting on a show for the public, “this is the new me.” It is NOT a natural state for her to be dressed up like that.

She like when X17 online videotaped her returning back to Germany from Paris and she’s walking on the tarmac in the airport towards the plane, walking akwardly with those high heeled boots.

Her mom spoke volumes when in this morning’s GMA interview she said that Katie was very head strong when she was young. She probably was spoiled and her parents let her do what she wanted. She met someone that will not let her do what she wants, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology.

I’ll never forget an interview I saw with the cousin of Princess Caroline of Monaco. He was referring to Princess Caroline’s first husband Phillipe Junot who was 17 years older than her when they got married. He (Christian de Massey) said “If Caroline would not have been so egotistic she would not have married Phillpe, but she could not dominate him and that (the hunt, the conquest) was what actually attracted her to him. She had guys falling all over for her but she could not control this playboy Phillipe Junot and so she thougth she was in love. He broke her heart when he had affairs left and right. Two years later they were divorced and it took YEARS to get this marriage annulled.

I think Tom Cruise will also break her heart. I am sure he is HARD on her and in some ways Suri. There is a video on TMZ where they are walking, returning the Caryle Hotel in New York City, its the night BEFORE the maraton run. This video was taken at night and Suri is wearing a long smock and a black turtleneck blouse. Katie is holding her hand and Suri is (surpisingly walking, not being carried), Tom Cruise puts his hand on her head and she steps away from him like saying “don’t touch me.” You can tell he seems embarrassed because this is being videotaped. But clearly, he either corrected her for doing a “wrong action” or something because Suri does not want him touching her. And so I believe that he is the discipliner in this relationship even though US magazine says they don’t give Suri too many rules.

Just wait till she gets older, the Church of Scientology will have a lot of rules for her to follow. I think Tom Cruise is thinking of using her as some kind of spokesperson for Scientology but for kids, youth, etc. That is why from day 1 she is going to be taught the Scientology way.

I am certain there is no Bible in that house. If there is one, its only to compare the Bible to the Book of Scientology. This is not a good trade off on so many levels. Suri is the victim here.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:05 am

People magazine is definitely pro Tom Cruise because they only write positive stories about him and his family. Unlike Britney Spears, the headline says “Mental Illness.”

Tom probably owns stock in People magazine or has friends there.
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 5:20 am

I watched katie on three different shows and during each interview, she now uses the word “magical”. The word “amazing” is not used anymore. SHe sounds stupid, nervous and tries to cover up her nervousness with her fake, big, smile. She also looks different all the time. One day, she looks flawless, and the next, she looks like a tired, aging woman, who cannot be without makeup, if she wants to look pretty. Also, is that a wig that she is wearing? Sometimes her hair is groomed around her face, other times, her hair looks longer, down her neck. Also, why does that 2 year old (big long kid now) still have a bottle? Why doesn’t Katie let us hear these “magical” words from the kid’s own mouth?
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:01 am

I also looked at many photos that were taken of Suri, and I must say, that she is starting to get cute. Anyway, I noticed that her left thumb looks rather odd - as I zoomed-in, I noticed that this thumb looks like it was re-attached, is very elongated, and the nail is quite smaller than her thumbnail on her right hand. Also, there is a huge scar on the thumb. ANyone else see what I see?
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:29 am

Here’s what I’m talking about:
http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-03.jpg

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-07.jpg
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:30 am

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-07.jpg

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-03.jpg
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:30 am

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-03.jpg
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:31 am

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-07.jpg
New York
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:28 am

The interviews yesterday were insightful. I found myself being very uncomfortable watching all of them. She tries to hard, and I’m not sure what she’s trying so hard for. Katie is just very boring to watch. She is not engaging at all. Tries so hard to “engage.” Kept asking David Letterman personal questions to divert the attention away from herself so she could waste time and get the hell out of there. Just shut up! Nothing interesting ever comes out of her mouth, ever.
New York
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:34 am

I also have a bit to draw on. When I was 24, I married a successful businessman who was 16 years my senior. I wanted so desperately to “appear” mature, his equal. I desperately lost myself in that relationship. Katie is doing the exact same thing. Tom is most definitely not her peer and could care less about Katie’s wants or needs. It’s all about him and his wants and needs. Katie acquiesces for many reasons. She’s enchanted by the lifestyle. I do get that. It took me a very long time to regain my identity. I would imagine she really doesn’t get it yet, but she will. She is most definitely out of her league. And Tom is insane, which just adds to the horror.
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:57 am

I agree. I watched the Good Morning, America video, and I couldn’t watch it through it’s entirety. Katie looked tired here, not attractive at all, and is extremely stupid. Her answers are not engaging at all. Why the F___ do they even have her on for interviews? It’s a pure waste of time and money. Everything is so “magical” for her. Well, Katie, for your sake, don’t let that magic ever leave, because when you do, it’s awfully devastating when you fall straight down to the bottom. And it’s a long fall. Oh, got to go out now and buy the book!
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:10 am

Few thoughts about the video. Yes, it will be long-winded. First, NG, thanks for posting and explaining all those stupid terms.:
1) He is such an ego maniac!!! This must be just food for his ego. Cruise, we pretty much guessed that you and your honey cut out all those who don’t agree with you.
2) What was he blathering about? The only thing I can think is that he is smoking something on the side.
3) I remember when President Bush gave his speech about how if you don’t support the war on terror than you are against us. Many people got angry about that speech.
Well, Cruise said the exact same thing. “If you are not in the game, get out of the arena because there are no spectators allowed.” Talk about a major turn-off.
Also, sorry, but what is their stupid part of the truth. He dithers about nothing. And the crap about how he can’t relax and take vacations because he has to convert the world–CRAP!! We have enough photos of that one. Just like he lied about not owning expensives gadgets–I think camcorders count as a fancy gadget!!
4) If I am in an accident, sorry, but I think I would prefer the EMTs. I think they might know just little more than Cruise, Scientologist!!
5) When is Katie Scientologist coming out of the woodwork? She is one, isn’t she? I guess her contribution is caring for PR girl so she can be there for the photo ops.
Please don’t tell me that she is lukewarm about it. She is a big part of the PR machine for Cruise and the Church and she lets them use Suri.
6) How fitting this is making the rounds with Morton’s book coming out? Also, my deepest sympathies to Keaton, Danson, and the Queen that their movie will suffer for hiring Ms. Holmes.
I really hope this makes these two pariahs and they are only photographed for the same reason Britney is these days!!!

I don’t know about you guys, but I would boycott any movie these two freaks are in. I don’t believe we should support their child exploitation and their cult.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:11 am

I’d like to see Leora post that video of Cruise on this web site. It is who he and his family are!!
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:37 am

How do I know the Church of Scientology is a SCAM that copies ideas from Christianity, there is a biblical scripture that says God says the following:

So, because you are luke warm-neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Revelations 3:16

So basically this means you are with me or not. And that’s what Tom Cruise is also saying, you are with us or you are against us. No gray area. And so yes, Katie is DEFINITELY a Scientologist and that’s where Suri is headed.

The more I HEAR Tom Cruise discuss Scientology the more turned off I am about him and his family.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:38 am

Ok, I know it is hard to believe but I am going to say something mean about TC and KH respectively. First, I just watched most of that video on YouTube where Tom is blathering on about his religion. All I can say is….he has gone off the deep end. I don’t know for sure how old that video is but it only confirms for me that the man has lost what he had left of his mind. There is a moment when he talks about being a Scientologist and driving past an accident and having to stop because only a Scientologist could really help. Wow…how big is your ego? Also…”we are the authorities on getting people off drugs…we are the authorities on the mind”. Give me a break! It was disturbing and disgusting to watch. I think he needs a HUGE wake up call and needs to take his head out of his a s s and maybe just shut up for a while.

Now for Katie…I watched the David Letterman interview from last night online today. Dave asked her something like would she encourage Suri to go into acting and or would she like it if she did or something like that. And Katie said YES, that she would love it or something to that effect. I couldn’t believe that! I mean..ok…support your child if that is what they choose and is their passion. But to encourage it knowing what the life of an actor can be like? I don’t think I understand that mentality. It seems a little irresponsible to me.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:46 am

Lili:
I think it might be a psychological thing. KH has to know that what she has done is okay or she will feel uncomfortable and that healthy guilt one should feel when they are wrong. So, by saying that it is fine for Suri, she is also affirming the decisions that she herself has made. That is also what is going on with Cruise. She is playing the charade to make her decisions in the past two years, including having a baby right away, look okay.

Think of it as an abused woman who stays and then tries to convince everyone around her that it is ‘not really that bad’ or ‘He’s fine or wonderful, except when…’ They are justifying thier mistakes to the world, but mostly to themselves.

This is just my humble opinion about the whole mess.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:58 am

Mama…I know that it is often hard for people to face up to the truth of their life and to look at things with any kind of honesty because to do so is to realize how awful your life really is. And then to have to acknowledge how you got there. So sometimes it is just easier to bury it because to do otherwise is too painful. I do feel bad for Katie in some ways because she was really quite young when she met TC (at least in my opinion) and given the big age difference and his so called star power I think she was really overwhelmed. I don’t think she intended for any of this to happen or that she had any idea it even would. I think she probably really did love him. The only thing is how could he love anyone when he loves himself and his religion so much?
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:01 am

By the way, that video I mentioned is no longer available. They took it off pretty fast.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:18 am

Stranger and stranger. That same video is posted at People.com in a story about the video coming to light and you cannot see it there either. Isn’t that kind of like trying to put the egg back in the shell after you have already cracked it open? Someone from the Cruise camp probably threatened to sue if it wasn’t taken off the internet.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:22 am

I just googled the video and found this Defamer websit and it says the video has been removed due to a copyright claim by the COS. And there was this interesting little entry from the blog there–Fun fact: my friend attended a Scientology info session at the Church (saw the video and everything) and got the lady scientologist to admit that they do not accept drug addicts or the mentally retarded. It’s easy to get people off of drugs when you don’t actually take addicts!.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:37 am

That was why Nicole left Scientology because she knew Cruise would dump her if they told him too.

Lili: Part of my does feel bad for her, but I have read too many stories of moms ‘who loved their man’ and then let their kid get abused in the process and the media portrays them as a victim of the guy too. You know how people find out about these situations, the family intervenes or the kid ends up dead. You can’t tell me that mom did not hear the kid screaming and crying.
I am sorry, but mom is just as guilty if not more so in these cases as the perpetrator. As a mom, our main job is to protect our children, with our lives if necessary.

I did feel bad for Katie until I saw Suri plastered on US mag as the poster kid for Scientology. Then we see pics of KH smiling and posing for cameras while Suri is scared/clinging to her mother and blinded by the lights. Sorry, but that is child exploitation and not only is KH letting TC do it, but she is as well. I have almost no sympathy for her now. She has gone from bystander to perpetrator in this situation. Why she is doing it? MONEY AND FAME!! WOuld you sell your kid for TC’s credit cards? We don’t live in the Middle East here and her daddy is an attorney. Not many have that ally on their side.

So, however young and naiive she was (and I will give you that one), she IS NOT now and she is harming that baby too!!! So, please stop boo-hooing about Katie the victim here. She is harming that child more than Cruise is right now!! TC can go out without Suri in tow and can pose without Suri. Katie, for the most part, can’t.
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:39 am

I just watched it on Gawker- this is a paragraph from the page-
This video’s been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise’s ties with Scientology. Most reporters have been wary of taking on the Scientologists, because they have a history of both litigation, and the harassment of critics. The publication of Andrew Morton’s biography of Tom Cruise, which claims he is the second most powerful person in the cult, has seems to have opened the floodgates. Several indoctrination videos were available on Google Video, on Sunday, and showcased on Gawker, before being removed by the person who had originally posted them. Yesterday, for a few hours, the clip of Tom Cruise discussing his beliefs as a Scientologist appeared on Youtube, and was republished by Radar and Defamer. That video is no longer available, most likely after the Church of Scientology sent in a copyright infringement notice. Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it’s newsworthy; and we will not be removing it.
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:44 am

wow- I knew he was a controlling psycho- but this comfirms- he’s just plain bat s h i t ! and his “wife” is in a friggin cult!! (as if this is news!)
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:44 am

I just watched the video on the us magazine site within the last 10 minutes and then it’s yanked! Hmmm…bet the Scientologists are squirming! If that wasn’t a true portrait of a mental case! It’s probably pretty good to be a Scientologist if you’re Tom Cruise - you’ve got a whole “church” of fellow zealots who kowtow to you and your family. How would Katie argue with this lunatic? He would railroad right over her. They must have an in-house auditor to treat her 24/7 - concentrating on the confidence-building and hero worship of Tom. Thier house must be a real loony bin.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:45 am

Lili: Sorry to be so forceful, but people should be when innocent children are involved and it is their so-called parents who are harming them. I, for one, will not be boo-hooing about KH being dumped. I will say, well too bad. The young and naiive claim only goes so far. We all have to grow up eventually.

When I was 19, I was dating a guy who very wealthy and did and had the things i really wanted. It took me two years, but I dumped him because I could not reconcile my beliefs with his attitudes. I also never dumped everything to be with him. I couldn’t. I realized I couldn’t dump who I was for MONEY!! KH dumped everything right away. She is a silly, selfish, stupid woman who is harming children!! She did it from the beginning of her relationship with Cruise.

I am only two years older than Ms. Holmes and she acts likes she is a silly immature 13 year old. She was what 27 when she made these choices. She is 29 now and is exploiting her ‘magical, strong woman.’ She was hardly YOUNG when she made and is making these choices.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:46 am

Lili, thanks for making me think and challenging me about my stance on things.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:52 am

What did I say: The proverbial crap is hitting the fan and none of their ‘friends’ are present because they don’t want to get soiled. I wonder with Smith being so outspoken about Scientology if he will start being black balled too
I wonder what will happen to bffs Katie and Posh, now that the conspiracy is out of the bag. I wonder if Posh is using her reunion tour to avoid KH. Maybe we will get lucky and Nicole will come out too. Although, with her pregnancy, she may lie low.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:58 am

Mama, I saw and read the US cover and article you refer to and I have to say that I do not personally regard that particular publication as being a “legitimate” news and entertainment source. The cover was clearly not one that was posed for as they used a candid snapshot of Suri and as for the info in the article there were a lot of “sources” quoted. I am sorry but I don’t hold any stock in stuff like that. There wasn’t an actual quote in there from either of that child’s parents. So I fail to say how it made Suri the poster child for Scientology. Don’t get me wrong…I think this religion is bunk ( to put it mildly) and I think TC is an absolute nutjob BUT I do feel sorry for Katie. However, I will not be “boohooing for her”. That is actually kind of a funny statement to me. I think it is interesting that you say that about me and then apologize for being forceful and thank me for making you think. Covering all your bases? It’s ok…I don’t really care what you or anyone here think of me or my opinions. I have lived a long time and I am older than you(since you revealed you are only a couple of years older than KH) and I have learned that it is ok for people to have differing opinions from me. It doesn’t make me wrong or feel I need to apologize for them.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 11:59 am

and the part of going out to help people in accidents as Tom Cruise repeating says he does, he rescues people who are stranded, etc. etc. There are many parables in the Bible
of the Good Samaritan who helped people.

This cult is trying to come across as “helpful” when that’s the last thing they are. As I predicted this week was going to be busy for them and the COS because two things are being released this week. And so its damage control and next week after the release if the movie and the book.
Lilianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00 pm

On that note, I have to go as I have some work to finish. I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon. Take care all.
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I’m tending to believe that Cruise probably had Katie sign a document, probably when she was drugged, and before her father even knew about how serious they were, regarding her legally promising to have children (not sure how) and that they must follow scientology. I wonder what the ramifications and consequences would be if she changed her mind. Would he then have complete custody over Suri and he would divorce Katie? Must be thick stuff if she is one-hundred percent a player.
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:22 pm

Interesting article in Men’s Vogue on Will Smith and Scientology. He sounds so much like Tom.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:23 pm

It is one thing to give what help you can, but to sit there and say that when you see an accident and you are ALL they need is stupid.

Also, with the CO rescue, there was a police officer already on scene helping the woman. She was not standing by herself as Cruise wants it implied.

I am sorry, but for post-partum depression and mental illness in general, Cruise and his ‘help’ are not needed!! Even his precious Kh, THE WOMAN, had to have an epidural. I am willing to bet she had pain pills afterwards too. Any woman could have a silent birth very easily with an epidural.

Is there a reason we are trying to compare the similarities and the BIBLE to Scientology?
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Carla, I took a closer look at Suri’s thumb. It does look like it has been re-attached. Strange.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Lili: I was honest about how you make me think. Sorry you couldn’t handle that. And, no, I was not covering all the bases. I just didn’t want you to think I personally attacking you.

Can we all debate without everyone taking it so personally?

Kh also could have said that it was not appropriate for them to do that to her kid. Other celeb parents have. I mean these people get upset over their wedding photos being released nano-seconds before they do it themselves and cry in the press about the bad things said about them.
In fact, her response was to bring PR girl out more for the paps. So, I am willing to bet the sources were their press agents: What better way to spread the message of Scientology.
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Vianne:

SO, it’s not just me. I remember, back during this past summer, when Katie was carrying out Suri from one of the restaurant lunches, that Suri had a split and towel wrapped around her arm, and she was crying. Does anyone remember that?
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Carla: do you have a reference for that pic?

I wonder if Smith is going to be the new Scientology poster Celeb and if they are going to dump Cruise, to a certain extent.
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:05 pm

OH
MY
GOD
I saw the letterman interview…….WHAT in the
h e l l was that!!!!! She looked extremely dazed and confused. WHat about when she stared blankly and out of nowhere she said “do you cook?” and stared off, wasn’t even looking at letterman……he totally ignored the question. he seemed really ANNOYED with the whole interview.

that’s seriously the most bizarre, embarrassing interview I think I’ve ever seen.

ALSO, apparently the articles on kh buying her way into the boston marathon have also disappeared (according to Defamer)
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Libraesque:

Do you remember those pictures of Suri coming out of a restaurant with her arm wrapped in a restaruant towel?
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:20 pm

If you have a moment, this article from foxnews is worth reading. It talks about the video clip we all see, but there is more in the article about the 2004 Sciento. video than the clip showed. The author admits he is no Cruise fan, but he says he feels sorry for Cruise because this video will doom Cruise’s, and even Holme’s, career as well as make Morton’s book plausible. He also says these interviews with Holmes were nothing but fluff. Even the Diane Sawyer one is fluff, and Sawyer was known for her good journalism.
Here is the link:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322854,00.html
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Here is the article:

“Tom Cruise’s consuming passion for Scientology is now evident in a most unprecedented way: promotional videos made in 2004 but not publicly seen until this weekend have started showing up on the Internet.

In the videos, Cruise expresses his disgust for psychiatrists — vowing to “crush” them with “no mercy” — spews Scientology lingo and addresses the group’s dead founder, L. Ron Hubbard, as if he were still alive. Hubbard died in 1986.

Cruise, who does not have a college degree, is also described in the videos by a voice-over narrator as a NASA spokesman and an expert on illiteracy.

The videos became available online in advance of a new unauthorized biography that cites Cruise as “the number two” in Scientology in the world. “Number one” would be David Miscavige, the Cruise-like leader who succeeded Hubbard two decades ago.

One of the videos is currently up at radaronline.com. Several others have come and gone on other sites. Some media outlets — like this column — have some of the videos but can’t host them because of concern over copyright issues. Since Saturday night, the videos have been appearing and disappearing on the Internet.

I am told the promotional DVD that contains all the videos started circulating a couple of months ago among anti-cultists and critics of Scientology.

As a regular critic of Scientology and of Cruise, I’ll tell you something startling: I feel sorry for him after seeing all of the videos. Cruise is impassioned but inarticulate and a little uncertain of what he’s saying. For all the “control” he’s supposedly exhibiting, he looks manipulated and programmed.

Janet Maslin wrote in her recent positive review of Andrew Morton’s book, “Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography”: “Mr. Morton is … in some larger sense an astute observer. His overall impression of Mr. Cruise makes sense. He provides a credible portrait extrapolated from the actor’s on-the-record remarks and highly visible public behavior. This book describes a controlling, fervent figure…”

The videos, along with the book, could affect what’s left of Cruise’s career. The actor is so consumed by Scientology at this point that he seems to have no awareness of the ridicule he’s subject to all over the Internet. It’s been caused by many things, not the least of which is his current, strange marriage and all its attendant publicity.

The Scientology problem has been harder to pin down until now. But one look at the videos and it all becomes quite clear. Cruise spouts “LRH” lingo by rote, using all their terms and acronyms like “KSW” (keep Scientology working) and something called “half-ack,” not realizing what the latter sounds like.

Cruise is totally subsumed into the Hubbard world. In one video, which played on YouTube, he says: “Being a Scientologist you know absolutely you look at someone and you know you can help them. It really is KSW. I don’t mince words with that…”

But KSW also has made Cruise sound like a megalomaniac. “Being a Scientologist,” he says, “when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it. Because you know you’re the only one that can really help.”

This sense of self-importance shouldn’t come as a surprise. In recent years, Cruise has sent out press releases from time to time in which he boasts of having saved people in feats of derring-do that have always come across as suspicious and have never been confirmed.

They include a 2006 incident in which he claimed to have come to the roadside aid of a stranded motorist and several episodes in 2003 while he was filming “The Last Samurai” in New Zealand, including supposedly assisting a local family in changing a flat tire on a country road and helping a young girl catch her runaway horse.

Watching the videos, at first, you think they can’t be real. One person who saw them told me they looked like sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” They’re alternately funny and scary.

In all of them, the theme song from “Mission: Impossible” plays in the background. In one of them, the Scientology promo makers use unauthorized clips showing Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters and other media figures introducing Cruise as “the biggest movie star in the world.”

In one particularly jarring moment, Cruise and Miscavige appear before a cheering crowd of the faithful at what seems to be the Scientology center. It’s an ornate room with a full-size portrait of Hubbard. Cruise lavishes praise on the diminutive Miscavige as a great leader.

“And I’ve met the leaders of leaders, OK: I’ve met them all. So I say to you sir, C.O.B. [Chairman of the Board], we are lucky to have you and thank you very much.”

Cruise then addresses the portrait of Hubbard as if he were alive.

“To you, Mr. L. Ron Hubbard, sir, I take this as a half-ack.” The crowd laughs and cheers wildly. “I will be on my way. These are the times now people, these are the times we will all remember. Were you there, what did you do. I think you know I am there for you. And I do care so very, very much.”

But there’s a lot that Cruise doesn’t care for. While many of the videos simply show him spewing the party line and proclaiming his love for Hubbard’s work, there are more serious moments.

Certainly, the worst of these is when the movie star declares his “disgust” for psychiatry and psychiatrists. Scientology disapproves of the use of pharmacological drugs and requires all of its members to sign an agreement never to seek treatment for mental health.

“We have the ability to improve conditions to see the realities, to be able to fight and to have the courage to crush these guys.” A booming narrator’s voice then intones: “Specifically, psychiatric drugs at the core of all education failures.”

Cruise concludes, with absolute seething: “Psychiatrists, I’ve had it, I’ve absolutely had it. It’s disgusting to me.”

What will be the fallout from these videos and the Morton book? It’s hard to say. Cruise’s recent box office trend is downward, starting with a disappointing showing for “Mission: Impossible 3,” and then heading into the disastrous “Lions for Lambs.” He’s currently filming his movie about Hitler, “Valkyrie,” which already has cost $90 million or more and isn’t finished.

Meanwhile, many in the entertainment press were aghast Monday when ABC’s Diane Sawyer failed to ask Katie Holmes a single question on “Good Morning America” about the book, the videos or any of the other controversies that have swirled around her nearly three-year relationship with Cruise.

Sawyer, who prides herself on being a great journalist, managed to elicit from Holmes only that she liked wearing pink during her pregnancy.”
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:34 pm

so the only thing this fabulous journalist could think to ask kh was about her pregnancy over two years ago????

LAME!!!!

WOW…….I knew he was a delusional freak but I just didn’t know the extent.
This video IS, without a doubt, the final nail in his coffin
THANK GOD.
He will not recover from this, theres no way, and reading this vile terrorist-type mentality, he doesn’t deserve anything more than to immediately be black listed from hollywood and never return
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I DO remember the towel “bandaged” arm- can’t remember the date tho- I wondered why no one commented on it- then I forgot about it. I wil try to find it- it was on this site…
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Shiver-me-timbers…this is getting interesting…make that magically interesting!
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Is that when they are coming out of Patsis in New York? That is the only time I’ve seen something resembling a towel near her hand. I am interested in seeing that picture.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:43 pm

msn.com has an interview with Morton about his book. Here is the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22648664/

I guess if Morton turns up dead, it will be a no-brainer why.

I wonder if they are grooming Smith to be the new spokeman since he still on top.
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Carla, I definitely remember that picture where it looked like her hand was wrapped up.

I think it’s tc’s job to recruit WS because he’s essentially been fired as the poster child for the CO$, since he has done nothing but FAIL FAIL FAIL at everything he’s done over the past 2 years.
He couldn’t even maintain his A-List status in Hollywood, how is he going to be convincing as the #2 in a cult that preaches being able to have the perfect life, free from negativity

HA!!!!!! Nothing says SCAM like the poster boy doing a tobagoon ride down to the F-List

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I’M LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF THIS
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 1:57 pm

here it is- any guesses on what she did?
http://www.tomkatcrazy.com/katie-holmes-and-suri-cruise-at-pastis-in-nyc/
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Of course! recruit Smith- smith who is BIG money maker in hollywood, get smith in cult- be big shot in scieno circles for bringing in big money- cause with this cult- it’s ALL about the money.
wow- TC has shovel in hand and is almost done digging own grave- wonder if he can even still see daylight cause he’s about 5 1/2 feet down by now!
toledo fan
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:05 pm

just looked at towel pic again- once more- baby in sleevless sundress- mom in trench coat! WTF?
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Lili: I have been pondering what you have said. I understand why you feel sorry for Kh and I do to. It has to go back to basic compassion for someone who is hurting. I get that and at that level, I feel for KH, and to a certain extent TC because he is caught up in this garbage.

But, at the same time, and where I am coming from, is that KH is just as guilty of this charade and for all that is happening to Suri as Cruise is. Kh not only hurt her child by bringing her into and agreeing to raise her kid in this nuttiness, she is furthering the harm by making Suri a PR child for her, Cruise, and Scientology. I won’t go into what she has potentially done to Connor and Bella.

Part of being a good mom and a WOMAN, at least as I see it, is that you are mature enough to ask and honestly look at the person you are choosing as Dad. That is what I had to do at 19. The answer was NO to that guy and that money is not enough. KH is still behaving as a little girl who is playing the fantasy. She is not behaving as a woman and as women we should demand that women behave better towards themselves and especially their children.
Unfortunately for her, she did not learn from Nicole’s experiences and it is all crashing down with her in the middle of it. Yes, she should have pity for the crap flying around her, but she is to blame too, She thinks, and many do, that she is woman just because of her age and she can produce a kid. That is not enough!!! Any idiot can do that–look at the Spears family if you need examples. (Even mom is selling out the kids.) She did not honestly and maturely look at the situation she was getting into. She wanted the goodies, as little girls did, without the work and was willing to sell her soul and her kid to get them–very immature thinking on her part. She also is so oblivious to the pain she is causing others: her parents and especially the kids.

Yes, I do have problems with my view of myself, but I am tired of images like her smiling holding Suri and being told that this what I have to be in order to be a great mom and a WOMAN. Isn’t it enough that I chose a good man and he is honest and we can pay the bills? Do I have to literally sell my soul like KH to be ‘mother of the year’ and to be just be happy? This is why avoid Hollywood and celebs because they think they are better than the rest of us and that we are nothing in the world (hence me calling us peons). unless we emulate them. And then we will never be good enough. (I grew up with a Dad like that! So, that attitude just riles me up and makes me fight harder!!)

I guess that is another reason why I come here: to see the Princess falling off her thrown and into the crap and mud she has created!! And you know what, she is getting what she earned!! Too bad Nicole isn’t too, because she sold Connor and Bella to protect her image.
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:17 pm

I know none of you will believe this but I was so startled last night after I saw that interview that I got down on my knees and said a prayer for katie…..I really did
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Last thing and i am done today:
Quote from Morton when told about taking on Scientology from a (former?) member:

“It is safer to sandpaper a lion’s a s s than to take on Scientology.”

Thankfully Morton was willing to sandpaper the lion’s bottom for all of us.

He also said he became interested in Cruise after the couch-jumping incident. He said no mature man would do that, especially about someone he just met. Even Oprah publicly questioned Cruise’s and Holme’s love for each other.
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:39 pm

I have to say that it’s been one chuckle after another here. Anyway, earlier on this thread, I posted this picture and another one of Suri’s left thumb, that looks like it’s been re-attached. Now, that someone has bought up the picture of Suri’s arm in a towel, it shows the right arm, and not the left, with an injury. Maybe the left thunb is an old injury.

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2008&mon=01&evt=suri-blinded&pic=suri-cruise-blinded-03.jpg
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:46 pm

If you zoom-in at 200%, you really can see the oddly shaped and longated thumb that she has, along with the gapy scar. I’m really feeling sorry for this baby now. I’m wondering if grandparents Holmes’ can get legal custody of her, accusing them of abuse.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:46 pm

http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1378319528

Check out this video of Katie. Its on TMZ, she is BASKING, SALIVATING the moment. This is NEW for her. I am certain this army of photograhers not fans ever went after her like this. She probably thinking “It was worth it. Look at me now.”
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 2:58 pm

HAHAHAHAHA! Life can’t get better than this!
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Turned on tv while I was running on treadmill a short while ago - lo and behold, Inside Editition was running video clips of Tom at the Scientology awards - showed him saluting David Miscaviage and L.Ron’s picture hanging on the wall!
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:09 pm

ng: That TMZ video of Katie has me wondering how many days has she practiced posing in that short red coat? She’s been studying the Posh moves for sure.
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I thought I was about as giddy as I could get when tc was s h i t canned from Paramount….I have watched in utter delight at his absolute and very steady decline since….but THIS….this is truly a dream come true because he ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT recover from this EVER
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Battlemama: Your quote from Morton when told about taking on Scientology from a (former?) member:

“It is safer to sandpaper a lion’s a s s than to take on Scientology.”

No,, the Bible and Scientology are NOT the same but I can’t help but sense how THEY try to emulate things in the scriptures. But they are absolutely NOT the same.

It is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:24
Vianne
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:42 pm

Oooh, I wonder if the one hundred million dollar lawsuit is still in the works after that video of Tom makes all the rounds?
And will we be seeing Will Smith standing by his best pal?
Libraesque2007
Jan 15, 2008 at 3:50 pm

I would bet the farm that hollywood will be running away from tc faster than a three alarm fire.

trust.

I predict the next tragedy to strike the very deserving tc will be that UA will go belly up because they will not be able to secure anymore funding
couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 4:09 pm

“Tom’s amazing, and Suri is magical.” Nothing like being in the land of make believe.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm

I saw the Letterman show segment. She deflects a lot of questions and it not funny/enetertaining like that last one. The part that stuck out to me: When Letterman says that having a boy will be different for her because she doesn’t have one yet. I wonder what Connor is thinking about that comment. Doesn’t he count? Guess only DNA counts now for shallow Holmes and Cruise.

Also, very short dress!! I am sure Tc must have been very turned on by that one. I keep picturing KH in a year with short dresses and getting photographed with no panties on before they cart her off to the Scientology detox place.

From what i read, TC’s next movie is with Sony and a Scientology director. The same one doing Smith’s current movie HANCOCK! So, I think UA is going to be dumping Cruise soon because he has them.
Battlemama
Jan 15, 2008 at 4:16 pm

She agreed about the not having a son yet!
Carla
Jan 15, 2008 at 4:33 pm

The only way she can get pregnant is to have the butler do her, or have a fertilized implant. Next, they will be talking about adopting another baby, and it will happen to be a boy.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 6:06 pm

http://www.splashnewsonline.com/index.php?style=picture&id=58512&img=uploads/2008/01/splashnews_spl14487_007.jpg&title=Tom%20Katie%20&%20Suri%20Arrive%20@%20NYC%20Hotel

New pictures on Splash online. These two are too much.
smartgurl23
Jan 15, 2008 at 7:26 pm

I love Katie
lemon227
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:13 pm

The link that ng posted with Suri, Tom, and Katie is a little disturbing. The child is obviously frightened and her “mother” for what it’s worth is grinning from ear to ear. I’m wondering if she’s smoking or snorting something. Too crazy.
New York
Jan 15, 2008 at 8:15 pm

Smartgurl23, KATIE NEEDS YOUR LOVE RIGHT NOW! Oh, my God, I just saw the Scientology/Tom Cruise “interview” on Defamer. Actually, I think that was just Tom Cruise talking into a mirror thinking he sounded intelligent. FREAKY, SCARY, CREEEPY. He NEVER says anything substantive. Just that he KNOWS. He’s the ONE. ONLY HE CAN HELP. Who the hell appointed him Jesus Christ Superstar?! Katie’s parents, GET YOUR DAUGHTER AWAY FROM THAT CREEPY NUTJOB!!!!!!! That laugh. It’s not even real. I’ve never been so freaked out over a video in my life. Again, Smargurl23, Katie and Suri need your love very much right now. Hang in there!
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 9:16 pm

TMZ, the television show just announced tomorrow they will air the Tom Cruise YouTube video. Yes, we live in an age of technology and it is very hard to delete everything you allow to be filmed. I am still trying to view that YOUTUBE video to no avail. The websites I have visited have removed it from their website.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:03 pm

I just wanted to make a comment about the question that is on everyone’s mind but that was NOT asked, “How do you feel about the Andrew Morton?” Of all the shows that Katie appeared on yesterday, no one asked her that question. Not journalist Diane Sawyer, Regis and Kelly, Entertainmanet Tonight, or David Letterman among others. And I expected Diane Sawyer and David Letterman to ask that question but they didn’t. I think they didn’t because somehow the Scientologists are out in force using their influence to make sure Katie, Tom and Suri are seen in the most positive light.
ng
Jan 15, 2008 at 10:32 pm

As she begins to grow, Suri, like everyone is making the same expressions again and again:

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/27669/

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/43388/

But the really disturbing pictures are these
where this little girl has learned to defend herself
the only way she knows (covering her face) from the photographers as the photographers click away with their cameras:

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/43169/

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/43378/

http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2007&mon=10&evt=suri-carlyle&pic=suri-cruise-carlyle-hotel-13.jpg

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/43377/

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/celebrity_gallery/image_full/43376/
Lilianne
Jan 16, 2008 at 8:03 am

Mama, I wanted to let you know that I appreciate your remarks too, most of the time. I doubt it would be possible to agree with everything that someone says. I do agree with a lot of what you say and your observations. I agree with you in the sense that KH is now in the position to realize what she is doing and to make some changes. She really ought to learn to watch what she says especially concerning things like Suri going into acting or how she would like to have a son. It bugs me when people act like they live their life in a bubble and say and do things that are out of line and they do it like they think noone is watching or paying attention.

Mama, as women we just need to be proud of who and what we are. Some might look at me and judge because “all I am doing with my life is looking after children”. I never wanted a career. I just wanted to be a mother. I got to be that with my children and now I stand in for other mothers. Some people can’t understand how I could want so little for myself. But to me it was and is everything. There is no better thing to be. I am good at what I do. So…stand up and be proud of yourself Mama…don’t ever let anyone make you feel like you need to be anything other than what makes you happy.
Battlemama
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:35 am

Lili: We will stand together then. That is what I do: I am a MOTHER!! As far as I am concerned, we hae the most sacred calling/vocation in mortality. I keep telling myself that in 10 years when my kids leave home, I can look back and I won’t have to wish I had more time.

Thanks for the encouragement. I do need it sometimes, especially when I am sick and I would rather hide in bed.

It just irritates me that KH is photographed and posed for the cameras with Suri and all of sudden she is MOTHER OF THE YEAR!
valentinebride
Jan 16, 2008 at 9:45 am

This interview was just awkward to watch…