Tom Cruise has some new film coming out where he plays a Nazi, or likes Nazi’s, or just acts like a Nazi. Something about Nazi’s with a crap title that isn’t going to do anything for his career. He’s not worth $20mil for new films, because he really isn’t able to carry a film anymore, so he’s going to turn to what he know will make cash – a sequel to Top Gun

Tom Cruise is preparing for take-off - after he was reportedly approached to star in a sequel to 1986 hit movie Top Gun.

The actor has been asked to reprise his role as cocky fighter-pilot Maverick, 22 years after the first film.

A source tells British newspaper The Sun, “The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor - and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot.”

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Maverick would be around 45 years old now, so I’d really like to see a more dramatic sad tale of mid-life crisis. I’d like to see young Maverick drop Charlie and hook up with some new recruit 16 years his junior who starts dressing like him.

Then Maverick, whose reflexes aren’t what they were in 1986, tries to pull some kind of stunt in a flash looking plane, and winds up crashing to his premature death.

The new wife then snaps out of the strange waking coma she’s been living in and marries some young hot guy…while giggling all the way to the bank.

I can totally see Hollywood stealing this idea. Death = Oscar. Go for it, Tommy!

Note by Celebitchy: I think this article is pure bunk by The Sun and that there’s little chance of a Top Gun sequel. Maybe now that they’ve put the idea out there someone will pitch it - with a more bankable lead than Cruise.

Stunt casting sure is seeing a resurgence lately. Since Britney Spears absolutely dazzled the masses in her pivotal role in How I Met Your Mother last spring, absolutely everybody who’s anybody has been eager to jump to the small screen. Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham – the list goes on. And now master thespian Katie Holmes is shooting an episode of ABC’s Eli Stone, to be aired this fall.

“She was fabulous at the table read. There’s some singing and dancing that she does – its exquisite,” ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson said at the Television Critics Association in Beverly Hills Wednesday.

The executive producer of the ABC show, Greg Berlanti, also worked on Dawson’s Creek, which made Holmes a star in the late ’90s. “It’s a great reunion for Katie and Greg Berlanti,” said McPherson. “He and Katie wanted to get together.” Berlanti explained that Holmes will play an attorney but she won’t be practicing law in the episode [sic].

“I begged her” to appear on the show,” Berlanti said. “And she said, ‘I’d love to.’” Holmes has been shooting her scenes in L.A. The show returns October 14. Eli Stone star Johnny Lee Miller revealed that Holmes has been working “extremely hard. We did 17 hours yesterday, most of her time was spent dancing,” Miller said. “She was fantastic. A really really great person.”

[From Us Weekly]

Well we know they didn’t hire her for her legendary acting skills. And though one of the show’s other producers raves about Katie’s film acting, Greg Berlanti admitted that they “really wanted to bring eyeballs to the show and do anything we could to get people talking about the show.” And that they did. The acting may be far too quiet and a little flat, but God knows people will be talking about it.

Here’s Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise and daughter Suri leaving Union Station after Katie filmed a cameo appearance on ABC’s ‘Eli Stone’ yesterday. Images thanks to WENN.

Katie, Suri and Tom on 11/4/07. Credit: Doug Meszler for WENN
Katie Holmes was said to have sprayed down nearly an entire playground with sanitizer before letting her two year old daughter, Suri, set foot on it. She made Suri stay in the car while she sprayed and wiped swings, benches and a jungle gym with both a spray bottle and gel sanitizer:

Hubby Tom Cruise was reshooting scenes for his long-delayed film “Valkyrie” on the grounds of a Pasadena, CA church in late June when Katie and Suri dropped by to visit, according to an insider.

Katie agreed to let Suri play, but not before she gave the nearby swings, benches and small jungle gym the once-over with spray and squirt bottles of sanitizer and disinfectant, said the source….

“She even made an antsy Suri stay in the car until she accomplished her mission. Katie could be overheard telling her, ‘Hang on, honey. I’ll be done soon…’”

Katie’s rep denies the incident occurred.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 21, 2008]

This is extreme and it does seem like OCD behavior, but I have to partially defend Holmes if this is true. I am a mom who carries little hand sanitizers in my purses and I make my son clean his hands frequently. I would never clean an entire playground, but if that’s what Katie wants to do I don’t blame her.

There is an indoor playplace here in Berlin that I’m not going to mention by name. My son loves it there and has gone there twice, but each time he went he came down with that 24 hour puking bug that night. It could have been a coincidence, but I’m not bringing him back there.

I wouldn’t clean an entire playground at all - it does seem strange to others and there’s no point because there would always be germs you missed. Kids need to be exposed to germs and dirt for their immune systems or they’re more susceptible to allergies later on. But I have definitely been tempted to spray down entire grubby kid surfaces in public. Especially after cleaning up my kid’s bed after he got the stomach flu.

Somehow this endears Holmes to me. She didn’t send someone else to spray down the whole playground - she did it herself.

Tom Cruise, a wan-faced Katie Holmes, and their daughter, Suri, and son, Connor, out in Telluride on the Fourth of July. They later picked up the Beckhams from a private jet at the airport.

Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey switch bathing suits for a stroll swarmed by paparazzi on the beach in Malibu on the Fourth of July. Their friend Cheryl Burke of Dancing with the Stars was a guest at their beachside home.

Heidi Klum out with her children getting ice cream in the West Village on Saturday. She has daughter Leni, 4, and sons Henry, who turns 3 in September, and Johan, 19 months. That could be her father, Günter, and it looks like she also three nannies and/or babysitters with her.

Ryan Gosling looking fit in LA on 7/5/08. (Splash News claims to have an exclusive of Gosling out holding hands with a “mystery woman” in NY on Friday. In case you see those photos elsewhere, I’m pretty sure that’s not him.)

If you’re the new wife of a guy who unceremoniously dumped his old wife on the eve of their 10th wedding anniversary while she was pregnant with his kid, and that dumping contributed to her miscarriage, what do you do when you find out that the old wife is now pregnant with her new husband’s kid? Well, if you’re Katie Holmes, you send the old wife a pricey baby gift. Because nothing says “Congrats on the baby you’ve always wanted that my husband refused to give you” quite like a high-end present from Neiman Marcus.

Katie Holmes is making nice with mom-to-be Nicole Kidman by giving her baby gifts!

Katie shipped hubby Tom Cruise’s eight-months-pregnant ex-wife a deluxe gift basket filled with onesies, stuffed toys, a baby blanket and more from Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills, an insider tells Star.

“Katie wanted the best of everything in the basket,” the insider says. “It cost over $2,000.”

As we told you earlier this week, Nicole gave a new interview to Vogue in which she talks about finding love again with hubby Keith Urban, being pregnant with her first biological child and the photo that made her cry.

[From Star]

I don’t know how I’d feel about this if I were Nicole. On one hand, Katie had nothing to do with her split from Tommy Boy. On the other, this is the woman who has pretty much stepped in and become a de facto parent to her adopted children with Cruise–you know, the ones we never see because they’re in some creepy Scientology school. But for all we know, Nicole and Keith Urban and Tom and Katie are all one big happy family who wish each other the best and all see the same plastic surgeon.

After all the speculation and stories that Tom Cruise was setting up house in NY and wasn’t allowing his wide-eyed bride Katie Holmes any time to herself, Katie flew to NY alone ahead of her Broadway debut. It’s unknown if she’s still alone doing preparation for her play, All My Sons, but she probably had at least a day or two without her husband and daughter Suri, 2.

Katie Holmes is asserting her independence: She flew off by herself to New York to prepare for a play, say sources…

On May 19, said the pal, she left 45-year-old Tom behind and flew by private plane from California to the East Coast…

Tom had no problem with Katie, 29, taking to the stage - but he made it clear he’d be right by her side in New York.

“Katie told Tom she was going alone right now because she needed to shop, check on plans for a family home and meet with producers,” said the source.

“But Tom said he’d pack up daughter Suri and they’d go as a family.”

That’s when Katie told Tom he could join her later, says the source, but for now she was heading out alone!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 2, 2008]

It’s hard to tell from that story if Katie brought Suri with her, because she’s not mentioned and they only say that she “left Tom behind.” Either way, it’s a means for Katie to strike out on her own without Tom and try to resurrect (or create, depending on your perspective) her career with hard work.

The show is due to premiere in September, with an official opening in October. Katie won’t be in NY for long. According to the print edition of In Touch, Tom and Katie are planning a huge housewarming party for their $35 million recently renovated and decorated mansion in Beverly Hills on May 31.

Photos are from the Costume Institute Gala on 5/5/08, thanks to WENN. We haven’t seen any photos of them in a while, so maybe it’s true that they’re apart for a short time.

The Cruise-Holmes at an LA Galaxy game with Suri and co. on 5/10/08, thanks to Splash
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes sent upscale baby boutique Petit Trésor a cease and desist letter asking them to no longer use their names in promotional materials or leak any alleged details of their shopping habits at the store to the press. The Holmes-Cruises took issue with an “on the record” quote from representatives of the store to Life & Style that they spent $350,000 to $400,000 there in the two years since Suri was born. Lawyers for the cult-loving couple say that claim is false and that it also violates their confidentiality. The letter demands that no further details be leaked to the press:

This firm represents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It has come to our attention that representatives of Petit Trésor falsely informed Life & Style - on the record - that Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes have spent $350,000 - $400,000 at your stores on their daughter in the past two years. Not only does this statement violate our clients’ confidentiality, but it is simply false. We also understand that you have informed other tabloids that our clients have purchased various items at your stores that they have not in fact purchased, and that they have shopped there at times that they have not.

It appears that Petit Trésor has “leaked” this false information to the tabloids for the purpose of enhancing its image and obtaining a commercial advantage. This conduct violates our clients’ rights of privacy and rights of publicity. Accordingly, we hereby request that you no longer use our clients as part of your public relations and marketing efforts.

Please do not say anything (whether true or false) about Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes’ shopping habits.

[Excerpt of letter sent to Petit Trésor from Cruise’s lawyers, posted on TMZ]

Although I hate to admit it, I have to side with the Holmes-Cruise Suri team on this one. How’s a girl to escape mind-numbing auditing sessions and hours spent holding metal cylinders if she can’t even shop in privacy for the toddler she fears losing? Stores should be content to have Katie and Tom spend tens to hundreds of thousands on clothing and accessories their child will wear for a fraction of a day in her well-documented life. Petit Trésor is just ruining it by getting greedy and trying to rope in more customers by using them for publicity. You think they would know better than to talk constantly about their celebrity customers, but maybe the resulting upturn in business more than makes up for the occasional nasty letter and one or two big-spending customers lost.

Suri is shown with a bottle on 1/14/08, thanks to WENN. Sippy cup photos are available at PopSugar
Ashlee Simpson got married, Heidi and Seal are getting remarried, Angelina Jolie showed off her pregnancy ta-ta’s– so what! The real story of the weekend was a photograph of Scientolospawn Suri Cruise, clutching both her trademark bottle and- wait for it- a sippy cup!

Looks like Katie Holmes is taking Usmagazine.com’s parenting advice!

Her two-year-old daughter Suri was spotted in Hollywood yesterday with both a sippy cup and a bottle!

After the tot was spotted sucking on a bottle in NYC last week, a pediatrician told Us that she was far too old for that habit.

“Most pediatricians recommend a bottle should be given up by age 1 — almost certainly by 18 months,” Dr. Charlotte Cowan, author of the Dr. Hippo book series, told Us.

To help Suri move on, Cowan suggested the couple try “to “distract [her] with something that might be more appealing, like a sippy cup.”

Also possibly distracting Tom Cruise’s daughter? Dance lessons! Suri sported mini tap shoes after taking a class with mom on Thursday.

(Suri seems to be into performing: Holmes revealed she loves American Idol and her dad said Hairspray was her favorite video!)

[From Us Weekly]

We’ve been on “Suri Bottle Watch” for months now. We were nearing code red- it looked like we may have another Leah Remini situation brewing with the superstar toddler. Tom and Katie are rumored to be trying for another baby- which may explain the sudden interest in getting Suri weaned. As a mom of two daughters and a dtepmom to two sons, I have the following advice for Katie: the best way to get Suri off the bottle is to remove it completely. Out of sight, out of mind is the way to go- especially with little kids. As long as the bottle is somewhere accessible in the house, she’s going to keep asking for it. And when she drinks from the cup, praise, praise, praise!

Things looked pretty tense for the Cruise family as they sat in a box at an LA Galaxy Game on Saturday. It was the first time Tom, Katie, Suri, Isabella and Connor have all been photographed together at an event or by the paparazzi since December, 2006. In the fall of 2006, Katie and Tom were pictured sitting on the sidelines and cuddling at Isabella and Connor’s sports matches near constantly. After Suri was born Tom’s older kids pretty much dropped out of site. Connor was seen out on his 13th birthday having dinner with his dad in January, but that was a rare sighting.

There may be a good reason for the palpable misery and tension among the Holmes-Cruises - The LA Galaxy soccer team featuring David Beckham lost that game on Saturday 2-1 to the New York Red Bulls.

Three of David Beckham’s sons, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz, were in the box with them, but their mom was not at that game. Victoria Beckham caught a flight from LA to London earlier that day, which may have made it convenient for her to avoid being seen with the Cruises. Victoria and David recorded a tribute to Cruise that aired during the Oprah special, but it primarily focused on his films and they did not talk as much about their friendship with him.

Little Suri, two, held her ears when the crowd cheered. Her older sister, Isabella, 15, is shown handing her a doll to try and make her feel better.

Thanks to Splash for these photos.

In another desperate attempt to win back some of the public good will he gained when baby Suri was born, then lost when his non-stop Scientology blabfest culminated with a video of him singing and dancing like a doofus on a cruise ship, Tom Cruise is dropping hints all over the place that he and his programmed automaton wife, Katie “Her Name is Kate, Bitches!” Holmes are working on a sequel. Apparently he’s been wanting to plant yet another Scientoloseed in his young bride’s womb for quite some time, but she hasn’t been ready until now. Must have been that new software upgrade.

Do Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a joint production in the works?

We don’t mean the movie kind, either: We hear they want to have another a baby.

According to friends who schmoozed with the Cruises in New York earlier this week, Katie wants to have another baby soon, and she has been hinting as much to her husband.

“She said she’s got the itch,” said a friend close to the pair. “Now that Suri is more toddler than baby, she said she misses having an infant in the house. And, of course, she thinks Suri would make a great big sister.”

And what does Tom think? Read on for what our source told us…

Tom seems totally into the idea.

“He said if Katie wants to make another baby, she doesn’t have to ask twice,” said the pal of the power couple. “He always wanted more. It was Katie who has been holding off. Until now.”

[From E! News]

Well, since Katie pretty much wrecked her movie career by dropping out of the Batman franchise in order to star in a crappy bank heist chick flick with Queen Latifah, what else does she have to do these days, besides shop and have her hard drive swapped out every few months? A note to Katie: you might want to work on getting two-year-old Suri off the bottle before putting another bun in your oven. Maybe Rachael Ray can stop by Casa Crazy after she’s done weaning Leah Remini’s monster toddler.

Thanks to WENN for these photos from the Costume Institute Gala on 5/5/08.