Posted on 07/01/2012 7:16:50 PM PDT by 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.
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Interesting. Jesus died when he was 33.
Tom Cruise makes good movies but he ain't right in the head.
I recall seeing pics in the grocery store tabloids of her being followed by his mom and other Scientologist handlers She also had purple fingers from some diet they are required to endure when she first entered the cult. Just another empty soul who plays pretend and reads other peoples written words for a living.
LOL... I cannot imagine what Mac users think about the comparison:)
There’s an article about the fact that the three exes (Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes) were divorced from him when they all reached age 33, a sacred number for the cult. I wonder if each of them was asked to do something when they hit that age but they all refused.
Why does he keep on married Catholic women that will eventually wake up?
Trying to convert? A fetish?...
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Tom was baptized Catholic. I don’t think he had a good father, the problem with most of the world.
I wish I could tell him, God the Father is the best Father, and come home to the faith.
B5000? System 38? i432? Symbol? 4004? 1802?
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Tom himself attended seminary when he was young
Now he his mother and sister- all scientologists, crazy as loons, and richer than Croesus..something about selling your soul? Or something about horribly fallen Catholics trying to drag (no pun intended) others down with them?
Now the long knives will come out for Ms Holmes, rumors of drug use in order to take away the child?
She shoulda listened to her mama and daddy.
Mama and daddy didn't object enough.
Katie and Suri are being stalked by creepy Church of Scientology crew:
You are so right. However, Tom is totally brainwashed in this cult and I kinda think Katie was too. She had that robotic look about her for so long. Scary.
I’m not a fan of Macs (hated using them in college with those toy tiny b/w screens; I think they were the first Macs with an HD, luckily I had a copy 2 PC board) but this Mac design is pretty kick ass. You have to have failed at wire management to have your Dell end up looking like that though. What do you do when the monitor dies and don’t say it can’t happen, my left LCD display is showing a lot of noise on the screen after it gets warm and if I switch connections to the video card or swap the cable, the problem is still there and it’s not a generic POS but a Viewsonic, wait, maybe I’ll amend my remarks, Viewsonics don’t seem to be so great these days.
The downside to the Mac is, how do I change the video card, where’s the network cable or is it wireless and no matter how many times people tell me you can get a better mouse for your Mac, why does it ship with such a crappy one? Although they might have improved this since I last had one and it had a funky semi clear round thing with only one button. Is it possible for the end user to install a new hard drive and more memory? I can’t imagine it not but who knows, maybe you need to go to their geniuses. That monitor/CPU stand doesn’t look too adjustable either.
And my big beef with Macs, I know their user base isn’t composed of idiots but it seems like Apple thinks they are. I’ve got an Iphone (it was free, I ‘d never buy a product from a company with Algore on the board) and while it is very sleek, you can’t change the battery although I’ve seen kits that void your warranty but my problem is it tries to anticipate what you want to do and that drives me crazy.
I had a Cosmic Elf computer with an 1802. Wasn’t the 4004 designed as a buffer?
I still remember when I first went to college and we were lucky to get time on a PDP1170.
How about Datapoint DOS?
“Now he his mother and sister- all scientologists, crazy as loons, and richer than Croesus..something about selling your soul? Or something about horribly fallen Catholics trying to drag (no pun intended) others down with them?”
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Oh no! Stop and say a prayer for their conversion/reversion.
Katie did have a look about her, she seems like herself
now in current photos.
Remember, Andrea Bocelli declined to sing at the wedding
but sang at the reception.
I was thinking of the little Intel primitive 4-bit micro, a forerunner of the 8008.
I still remember when I first went to college and we were lucky to get time on a PDP1170.
What OS? Ours ran a variant of Unix PWB/6.5 called IS/1. Special Perkin-Elmer terminals with custom firmware and keycaps for efficient editing.
Ah, you know how to Pick 'em.
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