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These are some photos of Tom Cruise last night in Los Angeles. Tom was spotted leaving Madeo restaurant just hours after it was announced that director/producer Tony Scott committed suicide. Ordinarily, this is the moment in a post where I’d superficially wonder what’s going on with Tom’s Paranorman-esque hairdo, but not today. Tom worked with Scott on Top Gun and Days of Thunder, and the two were said to have a great working relationship. So I’ll cut Tom a break here for his appearance and move onto the topic at hand.
These photos are noteworthy for a non-snarky reason, which is that Tom’s been largely invisible to the world except for those precious moments when he’s been reuniting with daughter Suri and working hard to earn the “best father in the world” title. Meanwhile, Katie’s been teaching her daugther to enjoy simple pleasures, and they’ve spent a lot of time at zoos and museums. Also very important is that they’ve visited Katie’s hometown of Toledo, Ohio not just once but twice since the divorce went down. At one point, I cracked a joke that Katie didn’t get to visit home (which includes visiting with a bunch of Suri’s cousins) hardly at all, if ever, while married to Tom. Now Tom’s team is now taking offense to that (apparently somewhat common) sentiment. So there’s a newly-planted story in People from Tom’s team that says Katie visited Toledo “many times” while married to Tom. Do we buy it?
Despite his recent split from Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise remains focused on his family. Before preparing for role in the action film All You Need is Kill (set to start production in a few weeks in the U.K.), Cruise, 50, spent several blissful days vacationing at Disney World with daughter Suri.
Meanwhile, Holmes recently returned from a trip to Toledo, Ohio, where the actress, 33, and Suri visited Holmes’ family and even made time for a visit to the local mall.
Contrary to reports that this was the first time 6-year-old Suri met her cousins, a source close to Holmes says, “Katie visited Ohio with Suri many times” while she was married to Cruise.
The notion that Cruise kept Suri from her cousins is far from the truth, says a source.
“To say Tom prevented anything is a gross lie. He not only didn’t prevent [Suri having a relationship with Holmes' family] but encouraged it and paid for it!” the source explains. “The first several birthday parties Katie and Tom threw for Suri had the family and cousins come to town – all expenses were paid for by Tom.”
Holidays were always a family affair for the couple, the source says, no matter where their filming schedules took them. Holmes and Suri spent one Thanksgiving in Toledo with Cruise’s teenage children, Bella, 19, and Connor, 17, while the actor was in Austria shooting Knight & Day and couldn’t make it home in time to join the family.
“Her entire family spent at least two Christmases with Tom and Katie in Telluride,” the source adds. Besides celebrating holidays together, Cruise also invited Holmes’ family to a number of other activities. “[He] also invited the family — cousins included — to New Orleans this past [spring] for the Final Four.”
[From People]
I don’t think it’s true that Katie and Suri were always hopping on the private jet to Toledo because there were never sightings of them like there are now. Maybe they visited once or twice over Suri’s lifetime, but these trips will definitely be more commonplace now that Katie’s broken free of Tom’s grip. What I do buy is that Tom was willing to have Katie’s extended family come and visit them in Telluride and New York City, and Tom probably feels all righteous about it because his team has clearly pointed out that “all expenses were paid for by Tom.” What the story doesn’t include is that the cousins and their parents were probably creeped out when they were handed gift bags full of Scientology literature, and they were never seen nor heard from again in the presence of Tom. Now Katie is free to visit home whenever she pleases, and the CO$ is not invited to the party. Win!
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News
Written by Bedhead
Posted in Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise, Tom Cruise
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Just…the hair: dude?!
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turn him upside down and I can scrub my dishes with that hair.
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Mehehehe
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Nice hair, Beaker.
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Meep!
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His PR is so odd sometimes. I hadn’t even heard the “first time with the cousins story”, and suddenly he goes nuts with a People exclusive?
Side-eyeing the hell out of you Tommy-boy!
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I know, I don’t remember that being a big accusation either. Overreaction!
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Just went back to check, but on 8/17 ROL had a story about it being the first time Suri met her cousins. That’s if you can believe everything your read.
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Oh, please….just….PULEEZ.
Tommygirl might want to think about getting a new PR team (cough, religion) because the one he currently retains if just making him look like a reactionary douche.
Seriously, little man…do you HONESTLY think you can make us believe that you EVER put the Holmes on equal par with you sister Cass (i.e. the Gestapo), Miss Cabbage or any of the other friendly CO$ bots and family members? I remember a FEW photo ops with the Holmes visiting a couple of times during the holidays. Both with grim faces and somber-seeming attitudes, because they were aware that you were holding their daughter hostage and destroying their grandchild by raising her in a way guaranteed to rob her of a normal future.
Hey, Tommygirl…your new hair style makes you look like scary, aging Japanese anime…and no matter how much you pay for your lifts, you always look like the guy on stilts at the county fair.
Tell your PR people to STOP trying to sell you as normal, fair and balanced. That ship sailed long ago.
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LOVE it!!
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agree 100%
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Gen – Hee-hee-hee @ “normal, fair and balanced.” He’s on the Good Ship Faux News!
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Absolutely agree with this,well said! All this rushing to People is just so ridiculous and off putting.See your daughter,don’t invite the apps to witness what a great father you are,and maybe people will believe you once in a while .Oh! And stop getting ‘sources’ to plant all these sound bites every week. Sickening!
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I have no doubt he orchestrated visits to his home by her family; where his Scientology slaves could spy on them and report to him. And the fact that the only real holiday she spent in Toledo was when he was out of town is telling.
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Agree, and he probably paid for it all just so he could be in control of everything.
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BINGO!
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^ +1
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Yeah, visits on Tom’s turf to an environment completely controlled by him and CO$! With CO$ spies and possibly listening devices everywhere. I bet the Holmes family felt, well, right at “holme” in Katie’s Scientology prison. Give me a break.
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He looks like a little kid in the back seat of Daddy’s car.
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So true!
With all the money he invests in his lifts, you’d think he’d spring for a booster seat.
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Or at least hire a shorter/smaller driver. The guy in the front seat makes Tommy Girl look so tiny. And yeah, the booster seat is a good idea!
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Ha! Yes. His head looks freakishly and hilariously small.
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Tommy Tommy Tommy
It may be time to take your narcissistic ass on a spaceship, spacepod, whatever it is you believe will transport you to your salvation, and exit us now. Your bullshit planted stories are “out of this world” believable anyway, so why not do the literal and give the rest of us salvation from tedious celeb gossip.
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He looks haggard and his face looks thinner. He does not look like his usual “self”. I bet thats what he looks like when he was bitchin at Katie.
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Right? Remember how “freshened up” he looked a few months ago after his latest foray into plastic surgery?
Tom is so manipulative with the press. I’m thinking that he wanted this Haggard Sad Tom picture out there to help get sympathy votes.
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His long-term game for Suri-control scares the heck out of me. Katie just better not relax next year, or the year after that, because Tom will never stop playing his game.
I’m sort of surprised there hasn’t been an ostentatious Conor/Isabel-Nicole reunion, because that would be the only real way to refute those “he alienated the other kids from their mom and Katie is running scared” stories. The fact that we haven’t seen any Kidman-Cruise family time tells me that the stories about Tom’s cultish brainwashing are 100% true.
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There was a story out not too long ago about Isabella visiting her mom. She said they talked regularly. I remember other stories over the years about the kids spending vacations on location with her. So they haven’t been completely isolated from her.
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The fact that “Isabella visited Nicole!” was even a story in the first place ought to tell you something. She visited her once and it’s news.
These guys clearly have no idea how to spin this. I really hope that The Master coming out increases media interest in the Co$ (I always really want to write it like so: “C”o$ but that is too much typing. It’s not really a church though, so my shorthand might have to change somehow…)
I give props to Bedhead for not mocking Tom’s hair when he has just received some tragic news. I actually feel a bit sorry for him as a person after seeing that French docu that someone posted here recently (it is in 4 or 5 parts on youtube). He was clearly recruited (Mimi R may have even been a sham marriage plot to draw him in) and has been worked hard by them ever since. He’s said to be very dyslexic so his chance of reading up on $ci and seeing the light is incredibly small. (He does appear to be looking at a smartphone in the car, but maybe he’s just playing Angry Birds.)
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I don’t think Isabella is stalked by the paps ordinarily, so the story probably came out because of the TomKat news unless I’m misremembering the timing. Someone at the time was speculating that Isabella was a messenger from the Co$ reminding Kidman to keep her mouth shut, so I’m probably right about when the story appeared. Kidman herself has talked in interviews about visits from the kids, which is mainly how I know. They live in different areas of the world now, which isn’t exactly conducive to frequent visits, although with modern technology rich people can chatter with video phone connections all the time and nobody would know it.
Both kids seem deep into Co$ so yes, they could be spies. But who really knows? We know Co$ did a number on them early with the audits and sec checks, but they did have time with their mom regardless so rules were bent just as they’re being bent for Suri. Noncustodial parents struggle to maintain a relationship with their kids every day, and custodial parents have a tough time undoing the aftermath of visits with the other one as well. A friend’s kids were afraid she was going to hell because that’s what her ex-husband’s dipstick church was teaching them when he took them there on his days. His church was one of those with a very sparsely populated heaven.
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Oh, Bedhead…how can you resist the hair?! It looks so stiff and spikey.
I’m calling BS on Tom allowing Katie & Suri to visit Toledo all the time. BS! He allowed the Holmeses to visit Katie when and where he allowed it. That much is obvious by the lengths she had to go through to escape his midget ass.
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And no “break” from me on the hair. He looks like he stuck his tongue in a socket while his feet were wet.
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He looks like somebody having a midlife crisis to me. When will guys stop with the silly stickup hair? This looks good?? To whom?? Somebody his age really ought to know better.
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Ah Tom, you crazy little man, the gigs up. We all know you are enslaved in that cult. They decided the who, what and where of everything you and Katie did. What a sad life to have been a part of.
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That article only mentions one visit to Toledo and that was with Bella and Connor, who were obviously stand-ins for the usual minders. I agree that if there had been visits, there would have been more photos published.
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Is Tiny Tom going for a new look to catch the younger ladies…..Yuck. “Look I can be young and trendy with my spikes ” LOL
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I resent him saying he paid for visits. Barring pre-nups, isn’t family money, family money? Since when does Katie not have family money? She was his wife. He lost points with me there.
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+1
Caught that too, totally agree. It’s ALL about TOM!
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He actually looks like a real man here.
Not like the movie star trying to show all of us how happy he is (jumping on couches)…but, a real man living the battle like the rest of us. True Emotion?
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uh guys? isnt it possible that he’s just learned of his friend & colleague’s gnarly suicide, and he prolly had his head in his hands for a minute or to… ? like how guys do? they put their hands to their face then just swoop it all back, etc? thats what this looks like to me honestly. i doubt its some new spikey hairdo – come on now.
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that’s what I was thinking. And maybe he is slumped down in the car for the same reason. Seems odd to have sunglasses on to look at your phone at night, but it’d also be odd to have people taking your photo in a car. How do they do that? Seems like it’d need to be a very strong flash, hard on the driver.
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Maybe he was crying or at least visibly upset and didn’t want people to see? I’m giving the man the benefit of the doubt here.
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Yeah, I was surprised to see people dissing his hair. That looks like someone who was upset and putting their head in their hands.
His cheeks look a little pink too… mine get like that when I cry. Perhaps that explains the sunglasses as well.
He looks miserable. And while I am no fan of his, I think if he is grieving over that, he shouldn’t be made fun of.
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Yeah I’m with you. Give him a break this time. Plus I kinda like his hair like that. Not a big fan of coif.
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Yeah, he looks bummed. When was the last time he was photographed not smiling at the paps? I’m sure the Tony Scott news was shocking and painful for him.
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Yeah, I agree. I’m no great fan of Tom’s but I’ll give him a pass on his looks. He probably just learned about Tony Scott’s suicide and as somebody else pointed out, he just looks vulnerable and human and real.
This on top of whatever stress with the divorce, Suri and Co$, and I almost feel sorry for the guy.
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but Sci-bots believe this is just a meat body and they live for billions of years so if he is a true believer death is nothing to him.
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yes grnmtngrl, i agree. hadnt seen your comment till after mine.
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Tommy, the Brian Glazer-esque spikey hairdo does not suit you. Did you style it that way to try and look an inch or two taller? BTW, don’t get too close to anyone with it, you might poke an eye out.
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Tom. Spiking your hair does not make you look taller. Saner. Or younger. You look crazy because you are. So gross.
Also, how controlling is that PR piece? It sounds so tightly wound. Tom paid for the family to come to him, when and where he decided. Oh how generous. You may come see your daughter at Christmas for two days under CO$ supervision.
Who wouldnt jump at such an offer? ugh.
Also the harping on him paying for things is getting old. He makes millions upon millions of dollars. He was married and had a baby (sort of) with his wife. Boo hoo, you paid for her family to come see her in captivity.
I bet he is keeping a running tally in his head of how much he paid for over the years and is furious she doesnt feel grateful.
What a loser.
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“The first several birthday parties Katie and Tom threw for Suri had the family and cousins come to town – all expenses were paid for by Tom.” That says it all right there. The first several birthday parties. In other words the ones she has no memory of…
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sometimes when i see him its hard to imagine he’s 50 because he looks good (alien magic!) for his age and then u see his hands and hands don’t lie. meh. i hate when people feel magnanimous because they choose to pay for something. Im sure her family would rather have thrown suri a party in the holmes backyard
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Alien magic? Try plastic surgery. Just one of the many other things he’s lied about. He’s had tweaks and procedures here and there.
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” He not only didn’t prevent… but encouraged it and paid for it!”
The sentence structure throughout this piece is entirely CO$. Rhetoric. “Family and cousins”
At least the source is calling her Katie while mentioning Tom “paid for it” umpteen times.
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Second pic. Legs spread. Crotch seam. Holding his . . . Smartphone.
Too. Funny.
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got.
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Something about this story/these pics makes me feel (ducks for cover) kinda bad for TC.
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How sad for Bella and Connor. Wealthy, famous, privileged parents; neither of which make the effort. Birthdays, holidays, school daze must feel so isolating when your uber capable parents only bother to make the effort when promoting candid shots of a future spouse. Ie soccer games, Beckham’s in NYC, meet the Urban. How devastating must it be to be a 17 yr old girl shipped to Ohio with daddy’s gf while Dad holidays in Australia. Which, btw, happens to be where the other half of Bella & Connor’s “family and cousins” live.
What an incredibly stupid reference to cite People source.
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Boy!Tom is having a bit of a rough year,isn’t he?
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you reap what you sow
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Thanks to Bedhead for not buying this BS from Tommy’s press team! I was disappointed to see that Perez bought it hook, line, and sinker–to the point where he said that thanks to this press release he now realizes the Cruise-Holmes marriage was not as “strange” as it initially seemed. My first reaction to that was to wonder if the COS had paid Perez a little something to help rehabilitate Tommy’s image. When I went to comment my indignation about this, I noticed Perez had turned the comments OFF on this piece. Then it really looked like a buy-off to me: No negative or doubting words about Tom Cruise allowed now, apparently–a complete 180 from Perez’s position on Cruise during the divorce scandal. My question: did somebody get to Perez? Or is he just so naive that a single press release from the Cruise-COS camp can overturn years and years of solid evidence of COS-engineered Cruise-control in TC’s marriage to Katy Holmes?
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There has to be enough dirt on Perez to fill in all the swimming pools in LA! The surprising thing is that he would care… so maybe they did pay him off.
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I think Perez has spent time in the pockets of many celebrities, literally AND figuratively.
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You’re right, Boo, as is TrustMe, and that’s been common knowledge about Perez for years–but when it’s as egregious as this, and about an issue with the potential to cause such damage to a child and her mother, I think Perez needs to be called out on it. He may feel it’s a great career move for him to cozy up to Cruise, but it sends his waning credibility ever deeper into the sh*t swamp. One Cruise-COS press release with no documentation to back it up is NOTHING against the evidence of COS’s hold on Tom Cruise and its evil effects on innocent families–so there is no excuse for Perez’s sudden epiphany that the Holmes-Cruise marriage wasn’t so “strange” after all. I call his attention to Holmes’s robotic W Magazine interview early on, with her COS handler nearby, putting words in her mouth and claiming she and Katie were “best friends.”
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PS) Perez has hastily pushed his shameful Cruise-kiss up to page 3 by padding the front of his column the way some guys pad the front of their Speedos. So just in case anyone missed seeing the extent of his sellout, the opening line was, “Something tells us we may have been given a distorted picture of the relationship between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes,” and the closing line was, “You know, the more we find out about this marriage, the less strange it seems. It’s nice to hear Suri hasn’t been raised in some alien environment.” shame on Perez.
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Just the fact that Tom “let” her visit, or in reverse says enough about him. He “let” his adult wife do/not do stuff???
Second: I don’t believe that “many” is over 5 times, even. I’m sure she went some time or another with strict control from Tom and/or his handlers for her, and as far as inviting them over, classic Tom, nothing like bringing them to the lion’s den, where he, once again, can control the whole situation.
Oh and the 90′s and the millenium called, and they want their hair back.
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Amen re the ” letting” and the “many,” and to your point about his allowing the Holmses on his turf where he could control them. As for Tom’s electro-shock coif, I think he believes it makes him taller.
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“Let” is extremely telling language. It implies that some type of permission is required from the one that “lets”-and why should an adult woman need permission to visit her family???
Emotionally abusive for sure.
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Is this why Cali’s on fire, because Tom’s pants started all these?
“The first several birthday parties”? Suri’s not even “several” years old yet. Did they throw multiple parties, a la lots of other 1%ers?
“Many times”? I don’t remember seeing any word on Katie visiting her family as many times in 6 years as she has in the last two months or less.
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+1. exactly right.
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I am not classy enough to refrain from mocking him in that first photo.
OMG, he looks so tiny and wee! I know it’s just the perspective, but compare the size of his head to the driver’s head in that photo. And Tom’s all scrunched down so there’s an ocean of space over his head, while the driver’s liable to thump his head on the ceiling if he goes over a speedbump.
I honestly thought someone had photoshopped Tom’s teeny head in there when I first looked at the photo.
Leprechaun-Tom photobomb!
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There is just no way Tom can be Reacher. No Way. However. Since I saw he was filming One Shot I have read all 17 Reacher books. I’m like totally addicted and will be right there in line when the movie comes out. Unless it gets really bad reviews. One Shot isn’t even a good Reacher story. Hardly any fisticuffs.
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“I wear my sunglasses at night…” Creepy.
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Now you all have done it.
All these comments about how tiny Tom Cruise looks in that car…..
Shame on all of you for the fate of his scientology slave force.
Now Tom is going to hire his slave crews to customize all his limos with hidden backseat booster-chairs.
Haven’t those people endured enough??
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Tom is SO SO creepy looking! That’s what years of idiotic Scientology training does to you.
Tom is a lost cause. Seriously, so he paid to have her whole family in Telluride and in New Orleans? They’re married! Isn’t that what most married people do if they can afford it.
The difference is Scientology people were ALWAYS present. His creepy Sci lords are finally out of the picture, or at least I hope so!
Katie better be on the lookout for Sci plants from Tom, like forever!
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he looks fine. I don’t understand the hate. He has a religion that he follows and believes in so why is stg crawling up your u knw what. Even Christians can be thought as retards who worship a corpse on some stick.
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How is no one talking about that look on the drivers face. Geez, that man has a severe case of crazy face!
That is the kind of face that you would not want to encounter in a dark alley! He creeps me out even more than Cruise.
And I bet he is wondering how much time he would get, if he ran a few of those paparazzi down.
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aww, don’t pick on him you guys…he just forgot to put up the windows while driving down…
wait 4 it…
the HIGH-WAY. TO. THE. DAN-GER-ZONE.
ahthankyou.
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RHONYC
SNORT!
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He would never let Katie and Suri go to Toledo without him for long….and especially without their Scientology watchdog along! He would not allow it! He/David Miscavige wanted her under surveillance at all times, and she would have too much autonomy in Toledo by herself. Can we say control freak, and Scientology jailers?
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I think he is upset about his friend. Looks like he put his hands through his hair. He’s wearing sun glasses b/c jerks take his picture when he is just sitting in his car.
I don’t see anything wrong here – I do see a lot wrong with people making fun of a guy minding his own buisness.
Let him grieve in peace
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No. He is rewriting the history of his relationship with KH. shock
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Tommy is looking pretty scruffy and scrawny here. Post-divorce shock/depression setting in perhaps? The new wife auditions not going so well? He’s usually all about perfection… falling a bit short of course (heh heh!) but usually not a hair out of place. Now every hair is out of place.
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Andy Richter needs help. Abducting Tom Cruise? And forcing him to impersonate Conan O’Brien?? Only Conan looks good with that hair Andy.
Step away from Tom Cruise Andy. Free him, and free yourself.
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Sorry, but the first pic made me laugh. Tom looks like a child being taken to school by his dad. Poor Tom. He really is tiny. Maybe he should sit on a cushion in the future.
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I’ll preface by saying that I think he’s completely gone with the CoS stuff…and listening to him speak in public has been just painful from all the crazy for a good long time, now.
That said, the man’s wife just left him (however justified she may have been in doing so), and he JUST found out that someone he knew personally for a very long time had committed suicide right before these photos were taken. He looks tired, sad, angry, and generally upset. His hair is obviously like that from having held his head in his hands.
And…despite whatever flaws Mr. Crazy Man has now…he is still dayum fine. I like that there are some men over 35 to drool over. As long as it’s a photo and I don’t have to listen to him speak or think about his personal life at all, I can just enjoy the view. He is miraculously well-preserved. Surgery, lifts in the shoes, whatever…it’s working. Ha ha!
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