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Tom Cruise is still filming scenes for Oblivion at the foot of the Empire State Building, and I just couldn’t resist posting this photo of Tom gazing up at the building with a look on his face that just says, “Damn it, these lifts aren’t quite tall enough….” Naturally, Cruise is such an obsessive multi-tasker that he’s not only shooting a movie in NYC this week but also coasting through various promotional duties for Rock of Ages, and he’s now strategically revealed that he and Katie are not really trying for another baby. In fact, Tom says he’s happy to be the father of three children, and it sounds like a definite declaration that he’s not looking to have another at all, right?
Three is enough for Tom Cruise.
The Rock of Ages star, who is dad to Suri, 6, with wife Katie Holmes, and Conner, 17, and Bella, 19, with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, says he’s not planning to add to his family anytime soon.
“I’m so happy with three,” the he tells PEOPLE magazine in an exclusive new interview.
The iconic star, who turns 50 on July 3, plans to spend his birthday with his family while shooting the movie Oblivion in Iceland. For Cruise, time with his loved ones is all the celebration he needs for his major milestone.
“I’m enjoying every second with Suri that I have. And I’m enjoying the relationship with my older kids, and the way it is right now,” he adds.
[From People]
Seriouslly, I give Tom a hard time most of the time, but I do think it’s sweet that Tom acknowledges not only that one child is enough for Katie and himself but that three children are enough for him. The fact that he’s paying lip service to Connor and Isabella scores at least a point or two and makes them seem a little less … neglected.
Meanwhile, I find it slightly hilarious (and a little bit disgusting) that the NYPD was fawning over Tom yesterday as he shot his Oblivion scenes. I would think that police officers could be a little less visibly giddy while standing next to a movie star. Oh well.
After filming wrapped for the day, Tom was off to the Friar’s Club with Suri in tow, and you can see some photos of Suri wearing a princessy dress at the event here. The odd thing about this Friar’s dinner is that it wasn’t a traditional “roast” in the sense that people got up and made some good-natured but slightly tacky jokes about Tom. Nope. There was no joking about Tom to be had at all last night. Instead, the Friars Club was “honoring” Tom with an Entertainment Icon Award, and everyone who got up to speak only proceeded to relentlessly kiss his ass. Strange, right?
Suri Cruise stayed up way past her bedtime on Tuesday to see her father, Tom Cruise, receive the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award. The six-year-old and half-brother Connor were Cruise’s dates for the evening. “My wife couldn’t be here tonight. I have to thank her-she made this suit for me,” Tom told the crowd in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom. “She couldn’t be here. She’s in China, actually, working. And my oldest daughter, Bella, who couldn’t be here, she’s also working-the women are all working in my life,” he quipped.
Unlike the traditional Friars Club events, this was not a roast but a tribute, and Cruise is only the fourth person ever in the organization’s 108 years to receive the Entertainment Icon Award. (The others were Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant, and Frank Sinatra.)
Alec Baldwin, who co-stars with Cruise in Rock of Ages, out on Friday, hosted, and told the crowd that Tom Cruise taught him how to handle stress. “Here’s what Tom Cruise taught me: When you feel stressed, when you feel overwhelmed, when you are multitasking on a level you might not be capable of, pause and hum the tune to Mission Impossible. I swear to god, it focuses you. [Hums M.I. theme.] Coffee down. Hang up the phone. Pick up the dry cleaning. [Humming.] Head to the elevator. Put the dog in, drop off the dry cleaning, call Mr. Important back on the phone. Your wife’s out of the shower, the clothes are there. [Humming.] Back downstairs, coffee, close the deal, wife’s dressed, you’re a hero. It works every time.”
Other speakers included Cruise’s former co-stars Kevin Pollak, Bill Hader, and Cuba Gooding Jr., who admitted to us before the ceremony that he was just a little disappointed that it wasn’t a roast. “Not that I won’t say something funny,” Gooding warned us. (That turned out to be: “I have to say this: Connor-and he’s going to be mad at me-but I’m your real daddy.”)
Pre-dinner we also spotted Rock of Ages choreographer Mia Michaels in a quiet corner, polishing up her speech. She too had wanted to poke fun at Cruise, but didn’t. “For me and my relationship with Tom, I think it’s much more about a toast than a roast, for sure. He affected my life in a most profound way as an artist, so I really can’t say anything bad about him. It was my first feature, and it was quite a journey. It was so great.”
[From Vanity Fair]
You know, I’d hate to think that Tom’s camp orchestrated this entire event and told the Friars to “honor” him instead of “roasting” him because if it’s a roast, that’s the entire point — to affectionately poke fun at the subject in question. But does this mean that Tom can’t even handle that sort of joking about himself? Tom also seems very sensitive about Katie not attending the dinner either, but maybe he was just warding off more questions about why Katie’s been conveniently away at work lately while he promotes his movie. I can’t say I blame him for being defensive about that.
Photos courtesy of WENN
Written by Bedhead
Posted in Alec Baldwin, Cuba Gooding Jr., Suri Cruise, Tom Cruise
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Of course they don’t want more kids, her contract only stipulated 1.
Glad he did mention his older children too. Everything was all Suri there for a while.
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Speaking of that contract, I wonder if it’s longer than Nicole’s?
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Nah, I think it’s shorter. Her time is up.
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@JustBored – Who do you think will be his next beard?
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@JustBored : Turns out you were right on the money!!!
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Maybe they couldn’t get the real father to give up anymore sperm.
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Although being roasted by the Friars Club, and receiving the very prestigious Entertainment Icon Award is quite an honor, an honor that had been only bestowed 3 times in the 108 year of the club’s existence, Tom had very much negotiated to not be roasted, and how the evening must go on. Every step. This according to Lainey.
Maybe we can give him a roast here on CB?
Someone cares to start with a TommyGirl joke?
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Tom Cruise, The King of Liliput!
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LOL!
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Didn’t we believe she would be contractually obligated to appear at his side promoting Rock of Ages? Why is she AWOL?
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Why does Tomfoolery deserve the Entertainment Icon award above (fill in the blank)? I’m confused. Is it April Fools Day again? Don’t tell me he’s also the Hottest Man of All Time.
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Look what you’ve done!!!
You made George Clooney cry.
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Whether we take issue with some of Cruise’s personal choices, I think it’s hard to deny that he is one of the biggest movie stars of all time.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000129/
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With all due respect, unless you only started watching films in 1981 Tom Cruise is not the most iconic entertainer, even for that time span. I am not talking about his personal choices.
Tom Cruise being compared to Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks who are the previous recipients of this award is really quite ridiculous.
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Maybe it’s because Suri was there? They may have toned down jokes because his 6-year-old daughter was in the audience.
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Good point his kids were there
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I bet he angled that one to avoid being roasted! You can’t roast someone with their 6 year old daughter in the audience…obvious but well played!
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He was told much in advance of his nomination.
Anyone knows the level of snark at a Roast and would never bring a child over. I believe Lainey on this one, Tom had complete control on the non-roast roast.
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Ahhh Xenu, the great and powerful!
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It looks like Tom is taking a risk with his role in OBLIVION and wearing flats. Does someone want an Oscar???
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Oh my, thank you! Brilliant comment.
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Because his cult threatens everyone.
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I think you got a winner here.
I was watching South Park reruns the other night, and the classic Scientology episode was on. I still laugh my stupid head off when they put the big letters up that THIS IS WHAT SCIENTOLOGISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE while Xenu is doing his evil laugh and frozen alien space bodies are being dumped in the volcanoes.
Anyway, poor Stan at the end gets all these threats: “You are so sued! You’re gonna get SUED!” That’s totally why Scientology hasn’t been laughed out of existence already.
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Kids or no kids, Cruise would never consent to being roasted, made fun of, being the butt of a joke–nevah, nevah, nevah!
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Agree. The things that would probably come up most are “couch jumping, Scientology and his height”, none of which are laughing matters to him. I don’t think his children in attendance was the issue, his hyper sensitivity to those issues is much more important.
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butt of a joke? you might want to rethink that phrase @DenG
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I only have a problem with cops being giddy around a movie star while they are arresting one or giving one a ticket – or letting one off the hook for being famous.
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I only have a problem with cops when they are giddy around Kim Kardashian! Shame.
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I have a somewhat unrelated comment on Tom Cruise. Does anyone here read Lee Child? Do you know that Tom Cruise has the rights to the books and intends to play the role of Jack Reacher, a 6’4″, 250 pound former MP who cruises the country kicking bad guys’ butts? This is supposed to be a very large and intimidating guy. And Cruise has cast himself. It’s pretty bizarre.
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I read one of the books. I don’t picture him playing the lead at all. Kind of silly.
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religious fanatics rarely have a sense of humour.
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No they don’t!
And there is no way in hell, Cruise is going to let anyone make fun of his crazy ass behavior.
Cause lets be real. It would have been nothing but jokes about “The Cult”, couch jumping and his special made boots with their 3 inch lifts.
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Of course Katie wasn’t around. The contract’s up, they’re just waiting until after RoA to make it official.
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In that 2nd picture he looks a lot like Rob Dyrdeck to me.
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“Strange, right?”
No, not at all when you consider that CO$ operatives were stationed outside, ready to chloroform anyone who deviated from the script, shove them in an unmarked van, and drop them off at the nearest Scientology re-education camp.
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LOL, from what I hear, not too far from the truth.
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Seriously did they do a casting call PRIOR to that police photo op stating “NO DUDES OVER 5 foot 8″?
Tom looks positively gargantuan next to those shorties.
And on another note, any read the Blind Item at DListed about the actress who is totally being held hostage by Co$? I don’t get it. WHY is this crazy cult allowed to operate in 2012, ruining lives, stealing, blackmailing and leaving a trail of carnage and destruction behind them?
WHEN is the US Government gonna grow some balls and shut it down and incarcerate those in charge?
*smh* It’s like freakin’ Nazi Germany.
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Katie didn’t show up for any of his promotion events for his film.
She doesn’t attend a dinner honoring him?
Sounds to me like she is out and either the contract is over or some other sort of separation is going on.
I would have been very surprised had she been able to get pregnant while with him.
I think she was already pregnant when they started “dating”. I don’t know if someone made him believe that he can father a child (naturally( or that it was arranged from the start to be this big hollywood secret and he knew all along this was not his child.
I might be wrong, but then, why not have more children?
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Is Suri wearing makeup in the pic of her in the dress? So bizarre. And why would you bring your kids to something like this? And Katie made that suit? Really?
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Friar’s club, Tom Cruise, no roasting, flaming, or otherwise getting the greatest comedy shot ever at Tom in person? Me thinks there was some “donation” involved in this, but why? Why did any comic participate in this travesty? Nice that Suri hung out in a bar all night too, that sounds perfectly normal, listening to men you don’t know say stuff about Daddy, and giving him an important nothing by nobodies, Fabulous! Taking the freakshow on the road.
The other thing I hate about this, he’s nothing compared to the other icons, he couldn’t hold their toilet paper. Making this Friar’s thing rather obscene in a way…
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it doesnt speak for a succesful person if he cant take some jokes. but in this case i’m blaming the club more. why do they even take part in this silly stunt? they could have told him “our award, our rules” but no they bent down and dropped their pants.
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It’s like his insecurity is ramping up. The plastic surgery, the over-the-top ROA, this award…I think Tom is having a genuine midlife crisis and Katie cannot take it. I mean, the child is always in NYC, but TC shows up and she goes to Japan to promote ice dancing?!?!!? While he gets a prestigious award? Something is very off.
I never believed the Chris Klein pre-pregnancy rumors but am starting to, now.
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Tom Cruise is not the one that neglects his older children or forgets they exist. He seems very much a present father in Connor’s life. It’s the MEDIA that ignores his other children and frankly Tom Cruise should not be blamed for that. He seems like a very good, if slightly controlling father.
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