How Katie was cast to play Tom Cruise's wife

NY Post ^ | July 1, 2012 | ANDREW MORTON

[opentalk]

On Friday, TomKat jumped the couch. Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise after 5 1/2 years of marriage. Best-selling biographer Andrew Morton, author of "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" (St. Martins Press), explains why it was a true Hollywood romance --because from the beginning, Holmes was playing a part.

When Tom Cruise turned 42, his best friend, controversial Scientology leader David Miscavige, threw a lavish birthday party, costing an estimated $300,000, on board the church’s cruise ship. He flew in singers, dancers and even Tom’s favorite sushi chefs for the bash, where the actor was serenaded with the medley of songs from his box-office hits.

“It’s the best birthday ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, and I mean ever,” he said, with typical understatement.

Tuesday, Tom’s 50th birthday, will lack some “evers.” He will be in his trailer in the wilds of Iceland, where he is filming the aptly named “Oblivion.” Instead of the expected cards and presents from Katie Holmes, she sent him a confetti of legal papers and correspondence marking the end of their five-year marriage.

...“Katie doesn’t want Suri getting deeper into the cult,” sources tell me. Suri is now at an age where she will face frequent formal interrogation about her behavior, what Scientologists call “sec checking.” In the fight for the heart and mind of Suri, her future religion —Katie was raised a Catholic —will be critical.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Sec checking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientology_Security_Checks
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/seccheck1.html

[Lx]

These guys have a lot of info but a lot of it is humerous:

Xenu

Something is seriously wrong there, 99 questions for your kids and the parents consent to this?

[FrdmLvr]

I think it was $3 million a year, so probably $18 million by the time it’s all done.

[Revolting cat!]

Huh? More like...

[Fledermaus]

Why does he keep on married Catholic women that will eventually wake up?

Trying to convert? A fetish? Of course, it’s not like Nicole and Katie are true practicing Catholics or I’d think they’d never have fallen for this crap to begin with.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Is there something about Rush L. that I’ve missed?

[Ace's Dad]

MAC or PC? Give me a UNIX box hard-wired to the super compututer of your choice. Ha!

[SaraJohnson]

How could she not have know about Tom’s obsession with Scientology before she married him. Everyone knows about him. Geesh.

[razorback-bert]

I wonder, who is the next victim er bride?

[Revolting cat!]

Well, isn’t a Mac a UNIX box?

[Revolting cat!]

Is there something about Rush L. that I’ve missed?

I dunno, I don't listen to the man. Does he lisp?

[Revolting cat!]

Is there something about Rush L. that I’ve missed?

I dunno, I don't listen to the man. Does he lisp?

[Revolting cat!]

There is a third category that this graphic somehow misses: the humourless fans of either computer architecture. The Mac=gay meme is so old and so ridiculous from the getgo, that it's become a joke in and of itself. Some other FReeper observed a few days ago that these fanatical loyalties to this or that architecture must attract people who had never used more than one architecture. He, this observer, had used several, so have I, and if I'm loyal to any architecture it would be to one that no longer exists or exists somewhere on the margins. If then you are offended by the Mac=gay jokes, it is your and only your problem. Cheers.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I guess so. She squandered a pretty decent acting career for nutjob Cruise and 6 years of being a tabloid caricature. Scientology is the biggest crock ever, I don’t understand how people get mixed up in a cult that makes the Hari Krishnas and Moonies look respectable. That’s a lot to overcome but I actually hope it works out for her.

[pops88]

I introduced my 18 month old to “Jump Start Toddler” computer software in 1997. She won’t touch an Apple product. Her rabid hatred is amusing. I know what button to push if I want a rant. And evil mom- I sometimes make her answer my Iphone. Bwahahahahaha. (Sorry for the tread drift.) Of course she had to listen to me a few days ago ranting about over a decade of trying to find a linux disto that worked with all my computer components. And I so face palm that I went to CMU in the 70s and didn’t choose computer science.

[jocon307]

“Why does he keep on married Catholic women that will eventually wake up?”

Good question. Of course I have to doubt the veracity of much of this article, I don’t think Andrew Morton is a reliable person.

But yes, if his beliefs are so important to him, why doesn’t he find a woman who shares them?

And whatever happened to the baby Kidman was having when they broke up? Did she lose it? The pregnancy is mentioned, but then just the two step-sibs of Suri.

[pops88]

“Why does he keep on married Catholic women that will eventually wake up?”

I was sitting in church one Sunday next to a very wise, Godly woman. She pointed out a young couple and said that the man was “sent” to derail her walk with God. I took it with a grain of salt until decades later I realized my born-again mother ended up married to a secular humanist and an aunt married a “Progressive.” Thankfully one aunt married a minister. It became a lot clearer.