Here are photos of Katie Holmes on the set of her new movie, Mania Days. Katie looks thrilled to be back at work (and remember, Katie’s career is on fire now – ha), but I am not thrilled to see that fug booties are in tow. Not THE fug booties, mind you, but a pair very much like them. Fug booties must be Katie’s answer to “the lifts.”

You might notice that even without the new fug booties, Katie looks rather unkempt in a frumpy sweater, plain white tee, and Lee cutoff jeans. Her decidedly non-glamourous appearance here is likely a result of her character, who is a manic depressive. Who’s the dude? His name is Luke Kirby, and he also plays a manic depressive who falls in love with Katie’s character in a psychiatric hospital … because that always works out. He’s kind of cute though, right? And he and Katie look good together from behind too. I bet the tabloids will be setting them up in no time. It looks like they had fun while the cameras weren’t rolling as well.

Katie’s also rocking some grey strands of hair here (which are decidedly different than the grey that Tom Cruise gave her) for her character, who is a poet in addition to being bipolar. This is going to be quite the depressing romantic dramedy, isn’t it? Oh well, at least Katie’s branching out a bit and doing different things, unlike perma-action-mode Tom.

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Before I get to the main part of this post, I wanted to briefly mention that there’s an odd puff piece about Katie Holmes that popped up a few days ago in the New York Observer. The article talks up Katie’s impact on the popularity of her apartment building, the Chelsea Mercantile, which has supposedly gone into huge demand in real estate circles after Katie and Suri took up residence there last summer in the wake of the TomKat divorce. The piece goes on to talk about how Katie’s career is on fire, and it’s no big deal that her big return to Broadway in Dead Accounts closed two months early because Katie’s already back at work playing a bipolar poet in Spike Lee’s new project, Mania Days. We shall see what happens.

Now for the weird, out-of-left-field story about Suri Cruise’s supposed new fashion line for children. I’m labelling this an unexpected story because Suri has been keeping a low profile of late. She’s been busy with school and both Katie and Tom Cruise (that is, if he’s seeing Suri at all) have been keeping their child under wraps. I suspect that Katie is taking advantage of the Avenues school’s underground parking garage, and the paparazzi in general have shown a lot less interest in Katie and Suri since the divorce story has cooled. That’s a great development for Suri, by the way, since she seemed to be quite frightened of all those shouting men with flashbulbs. Anyway, the Sun has posted an odd ditty about 7-year-old Suri launching her own fashion line, and this tale is complete crap (Katie’s rep has already denied the story to Vogue UK). But it’s still worth a read if only for the excellent dig the Sun takes at Tom:

Suri Cruise is bringing out her very own fashion line – at just seven years old. The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has just inked — or maybe crayoned – a £1.5million deal and her label has been imaginatively named Suri.

The fashion-conscious schoolgirl, who regularly tops lists of most stylish celebrity child, will launch her first collection for young girls this autumn in a New York department store. If successful, the Suri brand will be rolled out in shops across North America next year.

A source said: “Suri is only seven but she is incredibly interested in clothes. She has been through a very difficult year and adapted amazingly to her new life in New York, including the upheaval of starting normal school.

“This is a nice hobby for her, it’s certainly not going to take over her life. Most girls dream of being able to make their own clothes, this just means her drawings will now become a reality. It’ll be interesting to see how it pans out, there’s nothing around quite like it.”

Given her age, Suri’s rough sketches are likely to be similar to our one on the left. So you can understand why mum Katie and her stylist Jeanne Yang are also on board. The line will cover everything from dresses, tops and jeans to shoes and accessories. Plans for a fashion range have been in the pipeline since last year, after several firms approached Katie.

The initial idea was for Suri to have a fashion blog, but the concept was extended after she started to talk about special designs for her clothes.

The move is good news for her film star dad, Tom. If all goes well, Suri will be encouraged to bring out a boys’ range – and that’ll mean plenty of free clothes in his size.

[From The Sun]

Here’s the thing — Suri doesn’t need a piddling $1 million or so in US dollars, and it seems like Katie is doing everything possible to keep Suri in childhood mode while, you know, she’s still a very young kid. Obviously, this story would sound fake even if Katie’s rep hadn’t issued a denial, and thank goodness there won’t be a Holmes & Yang influence in the children’s style department. Can you imagine what an utter mess that would turn out to be? If anything though, I do hope that Suri continues her fashionista ways (although she may grow out of it like my daughter, who used to love dresses but can’t stand them as a tween) and eventually convinces her mother to forever give up those fug booties.

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Jennifer Lawrence is under contract with Christian Dior now, so it’s no surprise that she wore Dior on the red carpet at the Met Gala last night. Upon very close inspection, this gown is practically a confection in its lovely attention to jewel-encrusted detail with a slim, classy little belt, and the strapless look is one that JLaw can pull off well. The birdcase veil is the perfect accessory here, but the look overall doesn’t match up well with the “punk” theme of the event.

If one throws the theme out the door, however, Jennifer is utter perfection in this dress except that the dark color disappears a bit on the red carpet. Her makeup is gorgeous and appropriate with bold red lips, soft eyes, and a pop of color on the cheeks. Those diamond earrings are very classic too. She’s gorgeous!

Amanda Seyfried went very brash in Givenchy (of course) with a bold print that she was working like crazy. The draped back of the dress is more interesting than the front, and the train of the gown is just right without going overboard. Amanda wisely toned down the makeup, and her slicked-back hair knew not to distract from the overall look. If this dress and jewelry combo didn’t match the event’s theme, it would have been too much, but Amanda wins this one.

Katie Holmes gave it her all when gliding into camera view with this flowing Calvin Klein halter gown in the purest of whites, and she looks quite beautiful here but not very punk at all. There’s just too much dress here! Further, the gown doesn’t flatter Katie’s figure and makes her look a little bit frumpy, which is odd when one considers the bit of side boob on display. Her hair and makeup are quite dramatic and nearly appropriate to the event though. Nice effective smoky eyes.

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These are photos of Tom Cruise at the London Battersea Heliport after he and Olga Kurylenko did the Marchesa walk of shame at the UK premiere of Oblivion. I love the above photo simply for the vantage point involved. It’s like Tom’s lifts are walking him around and not vice versa. Tom’s still doing some hardcore international promotion for this movie, and I don’t know how well it will fare in theaters, but it does have Morgan Freeman’s authoritative voice to help reel in viewers. People might not want to see Tom when he’s not jumping off skyscrapers, but they love to hear Morgan’s boom, so the movie will probably fare decently, and Tom will get all the credit for it because he’s such a “movie star.”

Some interviews from Tom’s recent promotional tour of Germany (we didn’t get those photos, which is just as well since you people aren’t showing the love to Tom posts lately) are still filtering out. In particular, Tom has admitted to a German television show that he was very surprised when Katie filed for divorce last June. The message here? Tom thought everything was just fine with him and Katie in their marriage. Because to high-profile Scientologists, everything is always fine — great even. Look at how John Travolta and Kelly Preston put on a happy-happy-joy-joy show for the cameras. There’s nothing to complain about! Nothing is ever wrong. Unless, of course, you’re an awful suppressive person who is necessarily a beacon of negativity. Let’s catch up Tom and his sudden confessional move:

Mum’s no longer the word. Tom Cruise has been mostly silent on his 2012 split from Katie Holmes, but as he tours the world to promote his sci-fi film Oblivion, he’s finally opening up a little about how he felt after their much-publicized breakup. In a new interview with German TV network ProSieben, the actor admits he was surprised when Holmes filed for divorce on June 29, five days before his 50th birthday.

“I didn’t expect it,” he confesses of the end of his five-year marriage to the star, with whom he shares daughter Suri, 6.

Afterward, he says, he “had an unbelievable amount of time to think about it” as he threw himself into his work. The takeaway from all that thinking? “Life is a challenge.”

“To be 50 and to have experiences and to think you have a grip on everything, and then it hits you — this is it, what life can do to you,” he tells ProSieben. “Life is a tragicomedy. You need to have a sense of humor.”

[From Us Weekly]

Naturally, Tom’s camp (the CO$) has already crawled out of the woodwork to deny this story, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. According to Gossip Cop, Tom’s quotes were not only taken “out of context,” but his rep also say that parts of the interview were “made up.” Nice try, Tom.

Here’s a photo of Katie chatting on the phone while she walked through New York City last week. It must be quite a relief to not have to use burner phones anymore.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

Good news everyone — these are brand new Tom Cruise photos! I’ve been jonesing for a few weeks as Tom has geared up for his Oblivion promotional tour because when it comes to the Cruise, I’m a lot like Kaiser with Tom Hiddleston photos, but very different too. I mean, it’s obviously not a sex thing (ha!) with Tom. I just need to see the lifts every so often because I see it as a sign of balance in the universe, so when I saw that Tom attended the Buenos Aires premiere of Oblivion, and we didn’t have access to the photos, I grew dispondent. Kaiser and CB thought my reaction was hilarious, but honestly, I started to whine pathetically like that heroin girl in the Evil Dead red-band trailer. I solemnly said to the internet, “You. Need. To. Get. Me. Those. Lifts. NOW.” Sadly, no dice.

As a close second (as in no lifts), here are some photos of Tom in Rio de Janiero on Thursday. His hair looks very Simon Cowell-esque, don’t you think? His eyes are especially crazy. I implore you to enlarge this photo and gaze into the madness.

Hopefully, we’ll see some actual premiere pictures soon. In the meantime, a story in this week’s Enquirer puts forth the amusing scenario of Tom being all upset with Katie Holmes for daring to sex it up a little bit in some recent jewelry ads and her oily, beachy Allure spread that (to quote Kaiser) made Katie look “like she’s been boning someone hot at the beach.” Allegedly, Tom is all kinds of angry that Katie would shame Suri by daring to be a little sexy instead of continuing to act like a perfect Scientology Stepford wife. Here are the details:

An irate Tom Cruise is upset with his ex Katie Holmes over her steamy poses in a series of eye-popping photos, sources say. The doe-eyed beauty let it all hang out in a sizzling new ad campaign in wich she’s made to look naked and barely covering her breasts with her hands.

Besides that, 34-year-old Katie got wet and wild on the cover of the April issue of Allure magazine, appearing to be topless and dripping wet with a sultry, come-hither look on her face.

“Tom is fit to be tied over Katie’s red-hot new image,” and insider told the Enquirer. “It is sure to burn him up because he thinks Katie is deliberately trying to rub his nose in her sassy single-girl persona.

“It seems as if Katie’s trying to get back at Tom for forcing her to live under his controlling ways for so long. The pictures might also be a way of Katie pointing a finger in Tom’s face and saying, ‘Eat your heart out, buddy — this is what you’re missing!”

Katie’s provocative poses made worldwide headlines, and the 50-year-old Mission: Impossible hunk read her the riot act for putting herself on public display like that, says the source. Tom is concerned about her sweet motherly image going to pot and their 6-year-old daughter Suri being embarrassed by the photographs, according to the source.

“The bottom line is that it galls Tom to no end that he doesn’t have the power to call the shots with Katie anymore,” says the source.

The former “Dawson’s Creek” cutie shredded her girl-next-door image by appearing in various states of undress in an ad campaign for the upscale Brazilian jeweler H. Stern. In one phot, she appears to be slipping out of her bikini top, while other shots show her flaunting her sexy body.

“The photos in the H. Stern ads are extremely hot,” noted the source. “If Katie were still married to Tom, there’s no way he’d have signed off on them. Katie had to know that releasing the photos now would drive Tom crazy.” Katie has posed for two previous H. Stern ad campaigns, but neither was as sex-sational as her latest photos.

“In the Allure magazine photos, Katie has tousled hair, wet skin, and smudged makeup,” said the source. “It seems as if she’s trying to recreate the look of a woman who’s just emerged from a wild lovemaking session.”

[From Enquirer, print edition, April 8, 2013]

Call me crazy (not like Cruise), but I honestly don’t think Katie did these steamy shoots to get back at Tom and show him what he’s been missing. I don’t think she puts that much thought into the dude other than to continually attempt to shake off the PTSD associated with six years of marriage to the tiny tyrant. I think Katie did these shoots to further her career and (hopefully) show Hollywood that she’s still capable of playing “sultry.” As for Tom’s feigned concern on behalf of Suri, I just have to say …. Tom-bitch, please. Katie wasn’t showing off anything improper at all. Tom’s just mad that he can no longer tell Katie what to do.

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Katie Holmes covers the April issue of Allure, and this photo shoot is way sexier than anything she ever did when she was married to Tom Cruise! It even seems like Katie might have gone topless for a few shots (or she was wearing a tube top, whatever). She’s all oiled up and damp-haired and clear-eyed, like she’s been boning someone hot at the beach. Does this kind of styling work for her? Not really, but it’s nice to see her mix it up a little bit. As for the interview… well, I’m not really sure what Katie is even promoting, except maybe “her new life”. Some highlights from the interview:

Her future plans: “I hope this is a peaceful year for a lot of people in the world. When you look back on the last year, there were a lot of tragedies—Hurricane Sandy, the Connecticut shooting. I…I just hope it’s a good year for everyone.” You included? Holmes smiles, then is quiet for a few beats. “A lot of people have gone through a lot of stuff.”

Will she have more kids? “I don’t know. I’m open to it.”

She is now the face & co-owner of Alterna Haircare and the face of Bobbi Brown cosmetics: “I’ve been a fan of her makeup for so many years, because I just feel comfortable putting it on. And I don’t feel like I can screw it up.”

She was into supermodels: “Growing up, I was really into the supermodels. I would listen to RuPaul’s ‘You Better Work.’”

Suri chooses her own clothes: Suri is picking the wee high heels and feminine dresses herself. “She’s got a great eye, she really does,” Holmes says, with a hint of pride.

The best beauty advice Holmes got from her mother: “She said, ‘You may be pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you’re mean.’”

Law school? When asked about a National Enquirer report that Holmes might be going to law school, she is tickled. “Well, my brother and father are attorneys, and—we’ll see. I like the practical thinking of attorneys.”

Doing the now-closed play Dead Accounts: “I was open to – well, to whoever wanted me. But it was always my goal to make it back to the stage.”

[From Allure]

“You may be pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you’re mean.” Well, I think people will remember you if you’re mean, they just won’t remember you kindly. But Katie does have the reputation as one of the nicest celebrities out there – literally no one (but Scientologists) has a bad word to say about her. Even the paparazzi like her. As for more babies… I would like Katie to find someone really amazing to just date. I don’t need her to get remarried (I would imagine she’s gun-shy about remarriage), but I think enough time has passed, and it would be great to see her with someone awesome, someone who wanted to be her life and Suri’s life, someone who maybe wanted to get Katie pregnant?

Photos courtesy of Tom Munro/Allure.

Here are some photos of Katie Holmes outside of the New York Observer 25th Anniversary Party at The Four Seasons in NYC last night. Katie is wearing Dolce & Gabbana, and I love everything about how she looks – her hair, her makeup, the dress – except for the shoes. The shoes are unfortunate. I think simple black pumps or heels would have been better, right? But I won’t let that distract me from how great she looks overall. I want Katie to do well – and while I think she’s enjoying her single-mom life in Manhattan, I am worried about her career. Maybe her new career path is a variety of side-projects. Maybe it’s on Broadway (doubt it). Maybe it’s on TV (please!). Anyway, Us Weekly had a recent update on the state of Katie, Suri and yes, even Tom Cruise.

TomKat is happily divorced. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ good friend Adam Shankman told Us Weekly Sunday, March 10 that the exes and coparents are doing very well after finalizing their headline-grabbing divorce last summer. Us chatted with the Shankman, 48, at the John Varvatos 10th Annual Stuart House Benefit in West Hollywood about his separated pals.

“They are incredibly happy,” the Rock of Ages director said. “I’ve just been emailing with him. He’s coming back. He’s shooting [All You Need Is Kill] in London and seems as happy as a clam. I know he sees his daughter,” Shankman explained of Cruise’s 6-year-old daughter Suri with Holmes, who filed for divorce last June after five years of marriage. (The duo finalized their divorce in July.)

“Katie seems really happy,” he added of the actress, who served as a guest judge with him on So You Think You Can Dance. “You just fight through all the noise. And it’s noisy!”

Late last month, E! News reported that Cruise, 50, enjoyed some father-daughter time with Suri in London, where he has been filming All You Need Is Kill.

“She spent five days with him,” a source told E! News. “He has been working quite long hours on the set, but he was able to have some time off to be with her. They had a really lovely time.”

While Cruise is working, Suri spends her time with Holmes, 34, in NYC. On Monday, the mother-daughter duo were spotted heading to Suri’s tennis lessons.

Holmes has also been focused on her career since separating from Cruise. The former Dawson’s Creek star returned to the Broadway stage in Dead Accounts and debuted her Holmes & Yang clothing line at NYC’s Fashion Week last September.

[From Us Weekly]

It’s weird that Tom’s friends are being sent out to talk about how much time Tom spends with Suri, right? He literally didn’t see his daughter for like six months, which proved an alternate theory of Katie’s – that Tom wasn’t simply rolling with Xenu, but that he was and is a crazy workaholic who puts his career ahead of his family. Katie played it brilliantly, didn’t she? And looking gorgeous is the best revenge! Looking good and money. Money is a good revenge too.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of Katie Holmes last week at a photobooth event at Godiva Boutique where she promoted a sweepstakes and gushed over her love of Valentine’s Day. While this might seem strange considering her recent divorce from tiny Tom Cruise, I sort of get it. Like Katie, I harbor a fondness for cupcakes and chocolate and also love the color red, so I don’t mind VDay even though coupley stuff makes me want to hurl. Even when I’m in a relationship, I don’t like mushy stuff like that. So I can identify with Katie being excited about the holiday for reasons other than the obvious.

While Katie was at this Godiva event, she talked about her family traditions that were started by her mother, who specialized in making red pancakes during the month of February. She also says that she and Suri are fond of making their own flower arrangements (not suprising at all), and Katie gushed over the different types of truffles at Godiva: “There’s a truffle for every mood you’re in. So if you’re not really feeling chocolate, you could do the birthday cake truffle the pink one I really like that one. But then if you really just need a little hunk, there’s the praline brownie, which was amazing. And the cookie dough, which I also really love.” Does anyone else think that Katie should open her own truffle and cupcake shop?

In other Katie-related news, we’ve already heard that she’s having fun with male friends on platonic dates. Now that it’s been over seven months since she filed for divorce from Tom, Katie reportedly feels like she wants to date again, but she’s super worried about losing her newfound independence. Can you blame her for her concern?

Katie Holmes is feeling ready to cautiously dip her toe back into the dating pool again after seven months of living the single life, but she’s vowing to take things slowly as she continues to recover from the emotional scars left by the end of her five year marriage to Tom Cruise, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The Dawson’s Creek actress is worried about entering into a serious relationship with a new man, because she fears it would spell the end to her newly discovered freedom.

As we previously reported, a source told Radar that the mom-of-one was spurred on to divorce her high-profile hubby after becoming sick of his “controlling ways” and growing more and more irritated by Tom’s desire to control their relationship, their daughter’s upbringing and Katie’s every move — something she has vowed never to be subjected to again.

“Katie’s in a dilemma, because she wants to date but is concerned where it could lead to from there,” a family insider tells Radar. “She’s worried that if she commits herself fully to another man, she will have to give up the freedom she’s enjoying so much at the moment. As a single woman, she has no one controlling her nowadays, telling her what to do or who to see and she absolutely loves it!

“However, at the same time, she also misses being with someone special to share experiences with and she doesn’t want to be alone for the rest of her life. Katie’s got Suri for the time being, and she is her best friend, but she does eventually want to find a man she can be that close with as well. She’s just a little nervous and cautious about relationships still right now,” the insider reveals.

[From Radar Online]

We’ve already heard that Katie has been flourishing in her new life and that she hasn’t been ready to date until now, but she definitely doesn’t want to date an old “geezer” like Tom again. Certainly, being married to Tom for six years (and being with him for at least a year prior to marriage) has taken a toll on Katie’s psyche, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if she had a mild form of PTSD since she was so tightly controlled (by both Tom and Scientology) during the entirety of their relationship. No wonder she’s so hesitant to jump back into the dating pool again.

These are photos of Katie out an about in New York City over the past week or so. Her hair looks fantastic.

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Here are some photos of Tom Cruise on the set of All You Need Is Kill, and I really like this shot of Tom’s sheepish face as he’s caught wearing the most obvious lifts in existence. Also and at first glance, I was wondering why it these set pictures looked like reshoots for the scenes shot in London’s Trafalgar Square over Thanksgiving weekend. Then I remembered that this movie is supposed to be like Groundhog Day with an alien-invasion twist. That is, Tom plays a solder who is killed in battle and trapped in a time loop, wherein he is forced to relive the circumstances surrounding his death until he can figure out how to survive in battle against the aliens.

Of course, this movie’s theme sounds an awful lot like Tom’s other upcoming alien-invasion flick (Xenu much, Tom?), Oblivion, which has already arrived with a ridiculous trailer that involves Tom’s character being tasked with “the fate of humanity in his hands.” But in that particular movie, there can’t possibly be anything nearly as hilarious as what we’ve seen so far from All You Need, which has already bestowed us with a film still of Tom wearing a robot suit and crapping in his pants.

In this movie, Emily Blunt plays a highly decorated U.S. special forces soldier, and in a somewhat shocking move, Emily was photographed holding a gun to Tom’s head while the cameras rolled. Her character, Rita, is also supposed to be caught up in the same time loop as Tom’s so I am assuming that she’s helping the loop close yet another cycle during this part of the story. But I could be wrong.

Now for the amusing part of this story, which is about as likely as Brad Pitt boning that soldier/actress on the set of World War Z. According to the Mail, Tom has yet another mystery lady (see below), this time a blonde, on his current film set. The Mail even has a slightly different picture of what they claim is Tom going in for a smooch, but I think this lady is probably merely a production assistant or some sort of Scientology chick. Whatever the case, she’s definitely not Tom’s type because really doesn’t look like a 20-something girl that is into dirty dancing at clubs. Oh, that wacky Tom and his many mystery ladies.

Incidentally, Katie Holmes might have actually scored herself a real mystery man, according to Page Six. Katie was spotted bowling and enjoying some beers with a guy in Hell’s Kitchen. While the two supposedly looked like “just friends,” I’m rooting for Katie to score. God knows she’s overdue by several years on that end, and I do believe this story for one reason only: Katie was wearing “floral overalls.” She would totally do that.

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Here are some newish photos of Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise freezing their butts off in Manhattan last weekend. Suri’s panda hat is so damn cute, and it’s truly a testament to the disappearance of Tom Cruise that Suri now dresses for the weather. As much as Suri seems to love New York, I’d bet that that little girl would really enjoy an island getaway right now, don’t you? And Katie looks like she could use a vacation herself, especially after the new announcement that her Holmes & Yang line will not be showcased at the next NYC fashion week, which I guess means that last fall’s messy display officially didn’t go over so well. A few weeks ago, the January 21 edition of the Enquirer wrote that Katie is shopping for a television show based in New York City. That’s a good plan and one that we’ve already suggested for her. The small screen loves Katie Holmes.

In the meantime, Tom apparently has designs on giving Suri some warm time away from New York. Remember how, after Katie filed for divorce last summer, Tom initially put on a huge show to prove he was the best daddy in the world by holding Suri and smiling at the paps and swimming with tabloid reporters? Then after several months of radio silence, Tom realized the error of his ways because we were able to track his four-month absence from Suri’s life, so he then decided to announce his Thanksgiving visit with Suri but kept her well-hidden from the paps so that we couldn’t reset our calendars. Well, Tom is still biding his time and working on the “long-term plan” (i.e., his “full-court press“) for getting Suri away from mean old, Scientology-hating Katie. His $24 million weapon? A new Hawaaiian compound. Seriously:

Aloha! Tom Cruise has falled in love with the tiny, secluded Hawaiian island of Lanai and plans on buing several acres of waterfront real estate to build a world-class compound. The superstar spent the fourth week of January in the tropical paradise as a guest of his pal David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire who recently purchased the entire island.

“Tom was just blown away by Lanai and right on the spot decided to buy property there,” a source tells Star. “He wants to make it his own tropical paradise, to share with Suri and his other children.” Tom toured several properties, including a $4 million residence on exclusive Hulopoe Drive. Built in 2003, it has a breathtaking view of Manele Bay. He also looked at a home right next door, built in 2004, for $4.2 million. “Tom plans on buying the two adjoining properties and putting them together into one mammoth $8 million playground,” said the source. “He’d demolish the existing houses and buld one big structure.”

He’s also considering four additional $4 million-plus lots, making the total for all his properties more than $24 million! In fact, the source says that despite holdings in Beverly Hills; Telluride, Colo.; and New York City, “Tom’s planning to make his new home in Lanai the corwn jewel in his real estate empire. A place he and Suri could clal their own!”

[From Star, print edition, February 11, 2013]

Now you’re just picturing Tom in a hula skirt, right? Yes, he’ll still be wearing his ridiculous lifts at the same time. Amusingly enough, Star claims to have an exclusive story here, but the Enquirer has printed an almost identical (but wordier) version that also implies Tom wants to have a Hawaii compound because “Lanai is about as far away from Katie’s home in New York as any place in the country.” That sounds about right. Hopefully, Katie will be able to keep Suri in NYC for the entirety of the school year, and then Hawaii won’t be as much of a lure once summer temperatures hit. One can only hope.

Incidentally, here’s the brand new poster for the 3-D, IMAX version of Top Gun. Yes, this is really happening. The most unintentionally homoerotic volleyball scene in the entire universe will be enhanced by 3-D glasses. Those balls are going to be flying everywhere.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN, and Paramount Pictures