The more details that come out about the Andrew Morton unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, the more it sounds like re-hashed Internet rumors that we’ve all heard before – with one exception. Tom is supposedly a love ’em and leave ’em type of guy, but the only evidence they have on the matter is the fact that he broke one high school girlfriend’s heart and moved on quickly after another dumped him. This sounds typical of guys that age and I don’t think we can make much of it apart from the fact that he likes women. The guy has been married three times. I agree that he gives off some ambiguous vibes about his sexuality, but apart from those rumored trysts that no one has found any evidence for there’s nothing to suggest he’s gay. (I truly believe this after a lot of investigation.)

One high school girlfriend told Morton: “When he was done with you, he was done with you.”

The first woman who slept with Cruise, then dumped him for an older man, agrees. “Don’t let that smile and those teeth fool you,” she recalls. “He could have a really nasty streak and was very mean.” Within days of their split, he was dating another girl.

But that was nothing new for Cruise. When a grammar school classmate refused his advances, he put the move on another 11-year-old and staged a make-believe wedding in the school playground.

And he was a terrific kisser, according to Laurie Hobbs, who attended Sacred Heart Academy in Louisville, Ky.

“I remember thinking how surprised I was that he could kiss like that. We just floated along clinging to each other. I even had to tell him to keep his hands to himself,” she told Morton.

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

So Cruise got dumped by a girl in high school and she’s complaining now that he was mean to her afterwards for dumping him? Add all that crap about how he staged a fake wedding when he was 11 and was a great kisser as a teen and it sounds like there’s not much new dirt in this book at all. I guess we’ll have to see what it says when it comes out, but nothing that has been leaked so far sounds like much of a revelation. Another woman who sings his praises is Melissa Gilbert. She says he was great at making out. There’s also a story that Cruise got uncomfortable when he had to watch “La Cage Aux Folles,” according to a girl he dated in high school who claims he’s homophobic.

His first Hollywood girlfriend, “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert, was just as smitted.

“I can honestly say that he’s a very sexual person,” said Melissa, who dated Cruise after he moved to LA at 19. “He gave me butterflies in my tummy, and there was a lot of making out on the couch in my mom’s living room…”

Despite his way with women, Cruise has been dogged by gay rumors for years. But even as a teenager, he seemed to display an aversion to homosexuality – bothered by gay themes when he took an old high school flame to see the Broadway musical “La Cage Aux Folles.”

His date recalled: “Men dressed as women, he couldn’t handle it. We had to leave before the intermission. It really bothered him. He was definitely homophobic.”

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

A lot of people are going to say that Cruise is homophobic because he’s afraid of his own urges, but really what proof do we have of that? As for whether he can reproduce or if he has that rumored mild genetic defect that could explain Kidman’s miscarriages, I have no idea. One thing we know is that he’s stupid enough to pour money into a major cult and personally endorse it. I don’t like the guy and I would tout real evidence that discredits him, but it also seems like this new biography doesn’t have any new stories about him based on what’s been leaked so far. That’s a shame, because we were really looking forward to it. We’ll have to see if Morton saved the real dirt for when it comes out, but it’s doubtful.