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