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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I wonder how much he paid her to be his beard for 5-1/2 years?
Mom! Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet.
Smartest move Katie ever made, but she’s gotta have a screw loose to ever marry him in the first place.
I don’t get the Apple Mac allusion.
She’s gorgeous, he’s ridiculous.
was surprised from a quick search - one of the followers is Greta Van Susteren at FOX news
A good point was made on some show or other the other night.
Celebs will tend to divorce before enough years pass for the spouse to take half.
I mean ... I WANT to believe Katie said, “Dang ... I gotta get my kid out of this a little...” but it’s Hollyweird after all.
Tom Cruise is Rock Hudson with a nutty religious cult to boot!
I don’t know. I’m happy she wants to protect her daughter, but didn’t she know what she was getting into before she married the guy?
There were rumors of a five year agreement, involving millions when they were first married.
Even their prenup had, according to Scientology insiders, a series of mileposts where Katie would receive bonuses for how long she stayed with the actor. She received $3 million for every year of service, sources said — with a big bonus if she gave him children.Reminds me of a story.
Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"
Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"
Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price”
― Winston S. Churchill
Everyone's gotta pay the mortgage.
I can’t help it. I wonder how the child was conceived.
The Thetan Way. Everybody knows that.
This sounded like the same story as Nicole Kidman (also Catholic who didn’t want her children raised Scientologist), and I went out and found an interesting fact. He has been married three times, and each marriage ended when the wife was 33 years old.
Sec checking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientology_Security_Checks
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/seccheck1.html
Something is seriously wrong there, 99 questions for your kids and the parents consent to this?
I think it was $3 million a year, so probably $18 million by the time it’s all done.
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.
Is there something about Rush L. that I’ve missed?
MAC or PC? Give me a UNIX box hard-wired to the super compututer of your choice. Ha!
How could she not have know about Tom’s obsession with Scientology before she married him. Everyone knows about him. Geesh.
Well, isn’t a Mac a UNIX box?
I dunno, I don't listen to the man. Does he lisp?
I dunno, I don't listen to the man. Does he lisp?
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
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.
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