In a related story, Carrot Top was missing during the same time period.
Coincidence?
Posted on 06/21/2005 8:05:23 AM PDT by FeliciaCat
The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family.
There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was.
Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere of "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway.
She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a couple of other friends. They were there to support Rebecca Gayheart, who was making her Broadway debut.
I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the play's intermission. She said she had just moved into her New York apartment and was looking forward to seeing the city.
I also know that on April 4, she had not yet made the acquaintance of Tom Cruise. She briefly dated Josh Hartnett after breaking up with actor Chris Klein.
Hartnett, Klein, Cruise: Which of these three is not like the others?
Klein and Hartnett are young and tall. Cruise is middle-aged and height-challenged.
On the other hand, he's the biggest movie star in the world. They are not.
Holmes was busy during that first week in April. On April 7, she was photographed at the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi event.
Four days later, Holmes was still in New York and was photographed at VH1's "Save the Music" concert. She still had not met Cruise.
Sometime that week, her friends say, she flew to Los Angeles for a meeting with Cruise about a role in "Mission: Impossible 3." The meeting took place after April 11.
The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, when she appeared in public as Cruise's girlfriend and love of his life.
Where was she during those 16 days?
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The manager, John Carrabino, also handles Renée Zellweger and is beloved by his clients.
Holmes also acquired a new best friend, Jessica Feshbach, the daughter of Joe Feshbach, a controversial Palo Alto, Calif., bond trader.
The Feshbach family, according to published documents, has donated millions to the Church of Scientology. Jessica's aunt even runs a Scientology center in Florida.
According to Richard Behar's now famous 1991 story in Time magazine about Scientology, the Feshbachs were the subject of congressional hearings in 1989.
Behar wrote: "The heads of several companies claimed that Feshbach operatives have spread false information to government agencies and posed in various guises — such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official — in an effort to discredit the companies and drive the stocks down.
"Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, testified that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with his loans. Sometimes the Feshbachs send private detectives to dig up dirt on firms, which is then shared with business reporters, brokers and fund managers."
The risk-taking Feshbachs, known the world over for making their fortune "shorting" stocks, and the level-headed, conservative Holmeses would be a difficult mix at a dinner table.
Katie's father, Martin Holmes, is the senior partner in a large and respected Toledo, Ohio, law firm. His son, Martin Jr., has recently joined the firm. He's a Harvard graduate. Katie's mom, Kathy, is frequently cited in Toledo for her charity work.
There is some fear among Holmes' close circle that her instant romance with Cruise is not as organic as portrayed.
For one thing, Holmes was raised a strict Catholic. Also, gone from the picture are two close Holmes friends who used to be with her when she did publicity for a film.
One of these is Meghann Birie, a childhood friend who has suddenly disappeared from Holmes' world. Another, a local TV producer here in New York, was too afraid to discuss the situation with me.
We know that Cruise auditioned several actresses for this role before settling on Holmes. This column reported a story about Jennifer Garner. There have been published stories about Kate Bosworth, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba being approached.
A newer one involves Scarlett Johansson, who ran for her life when presented with a fait accompli dinner at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.
And history has been rewritten since the April 27 unveiling.
Curiously, since the Cruise-Holmes situation popped up, we have heard over and over again that Cruise was the young actress' idol when she was growing up.
That's certainly interesting because all of the publicity that used to run on Holmes — still found all over the Internet — lists another Tom as her favorite actor.
That would be Tom Hanks.
THIS IS NOT NEWS!
I posted under "MISC". Anyway...if you dont like it dont read it.
Why should she have to account to anyone about where she was?
She's a big girl, she can do what she want can't she?
I fail to see why anyone cares about Katie Holmes...any missing days or Tom Cruise.
Its only news because Cruise is GAY and belongs to a weirdo cult.
Makes me like Scarlett even more.
Katie should dump Tom before he dumps her.
This THREAD is going to get pulled like the one on Jessica Simpson, which I liked.
She can't dump him. She has a 5-year, 5 million dollar contract (no sex).
Hmmmm. Sixteen days just might be time enough for the Scientology prep step termed purification rundown - large doses of niacin, steam baths, and infusion of propaganda.
I think this is interesting. It sounds to me as though Scientology is afoot. It sounds as though a young woman, in over her head, might be in personal and financial [not physical] jeopardy. This thread further highlights the fact that Scientology and its agents need to be put under a very public magnifying glass.
The fact the scientology practices a very aggressive and sophisticated form of mind control (ie, CULT) is "news" of a sort, especially when it seems to be being played out in the world media using a relatively young naive starlet to help rehabilitate and "juice up" the questionable macho image of a powerfully wealthy, ambitious, but short and aging actor.
Creepy!
And all done, using the MSM in the same way we used to have to read tabloids.
"Enquiring minds want to know"
In a related story, Carrot Top was missing during the same time period.
Coincidence?
Understandable, but this is turning into a story about scientology I think.
Hmmm- is Carrot Top known to hang out at gyms lifting weights while wearing sweaty thongs...???
I agree.
The "holier-then-thou-anything-with-celebrities-is-not-real-news" freepers will probably get this thread pulled. Oh well.
Its a cult. And a dangerous one at that. Poor girl.
Yes, if this story has any truth to it, this is indeed newsworthy. We need to start seriously looking at the Power of Scientology.
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