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Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 6011
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 6:14 am: | 
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Smart or Dumb move? Comments?
Paramount Cuts Ties With Tom Cruise
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Aug. 22) - Paramount Pictures has severed its 14-year-old ties to Tom Cruise 's production company because of his off-screen behavior, the chairman of the studio's parent company Sumner Redstone said on Wednesday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
The report signaled the end of one of the most lucrative production deals commanded by any A-list Hollywood star and followed other signs that Cruise's public stature had been damaged by his conduct during the past year.
Cruise's representatives and officials from Viacom and Paramount did not have any immediate comment on the report.
Days after his latest film, "Mission: Impossible III," opened to lower-than-expected domestic ticket sales in May, an opinion poll showed his star power in the eyes of the public had dimmed considerably.
And last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that Paramount Chairman Brad Grey had informed representatives for Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, that the studio planned to slash the amount it spends on their company, Cruise/Wagner Productions.
Months ago, Grey was one of several movie industry executives who publicly rallied to Cruise's defense to insist that his status and popularity were undiminished.
They were reacting to a USA Today/Gallup poll in which half of those surveyed registered an "unfavorable" opinion of the actor. Many cited his off-screen behavior during the past year, including his outspoken defense of his religion, Scientology, and his blunt criticism of psychiatry and actress Brooke Shield's treatment for postpartum depression.
Cruise also became the butt of jokes for his manic, couch-hopping appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last May to declare his love for actress Katie Holmes , who recently gave birth to Cruise's first biological child, a daughter they named Suri.
"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Redstone was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal report e-mailed to reporters. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
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Kibbegirl
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Username: Kibbegirl
Post Number: 721
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 7:24 am: |
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Hooray for Sumner Redstone! No one seems to have the courage in H'llywood to make stars behave and become accountable for their actions. Tom has become just plain creepy and if creepy doesn't sell tickets, there's a problem. I read this on the CNN crawl about 5:15 a.m. and it made my day! |
Just The Aunt
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Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 6014
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 8:40 am: |
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Kibblegirl-
I agree with you. I don't think I can watch some of his movies I liked again. While a lot of people in show business do stupid things, as all of us, for me Tom Cruise and his antics just rub me the wrong way. He's lost his wholesome image. |
Kibbegirl
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Username: Kibbegirl
Post Number: 724
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 1:38 pm: |
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absolutely! I give everyone's religious beliefs respect but when they start to become fanatical and rude about them, I'm outta there! He should know better than to come off that strongly, espeically with Matt Lauer who proved he could hold his own and was not intimated by Tom at all! BRAVO, Matt. |
Spanish Inquisitor
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Username: Sinq
Post Number: 85
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 1:44 pm: |
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Reality is Tom doesn't need them. |
Mrs. Cravits
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Username: Mrs_cravits
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 5:07 pm: |
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Do you think Katie has Post Partum depression? We know Tom can't handle that!! |
Carla
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Username: Elbowroom
Post Number: 108
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 - 7:47 am: |
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I could care less about his personal life & beliefs. He hasn't hurt anyone. If he appears in a movie that I want to see I would go see it - not because he's in it but because the movie has a story that I find interesting - or in the case of "War of the Worlds" a director who's work I admire. I would not not go see a movie because he was in it. All he has to do is make a compelling film and I'm there.
And when was Tom Cruise wholesome? Back in 1983 when turned his home into a whorehouse in "Risky Business? Or when he was losin his virginity in "Losin It"? |
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