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Cruise terms Katie an ‘extraordinary mum’

Tom Cruise has nothing but praise for the way his wife Katie Holmes keeps their daughter Suri happy.

Insisting that Katie has “extraordinary” talent as a mother, Cruise said that the way the actress had taken to motherhood was helping shape the little girl’s friendly personality.

“She is such a happy girl and I think Kate is an extraordinary mother and very calm,” the Daily Express quoted him as telling GMTV .

Katie had given birth to Suri in 2006 and she had taken time out from her acting career to bring up her daughter.

(source:indiatimes.com)

Tom: “To work in the West End would be a joy”

Holmes recently starred in a production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” on Broadway and she is keen to take on more theater work, according to her famous husband.

Cruise is eager to follow in his wife’s footsteps, by taking on the challenge of a stage show, and he is adamant that London would be the perfect place for them both to work.

He says, “It would be a fantastic move. Katie was absolutely brilliant on Broadway and to work in the West End would be a joy. It is something to consider for both of us. I think we’d love it here (in England) even if it is so, so cold!”

(Source: SFGate)

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Cruise talks about his parenting style

Actor Tom Cruise has spoken about raising his young daughter Suri, while in the media spotlight.
Speaking on ‘GMTV’, Cruise said: “You just do the best you can.”

“It’s something where we’re raising her to – you know… protecting her, but also you don’t want her to be sheltered in any way, and to be able to be engaged in life, and I think that’s like any parent.”

“And just keeping things calm and you find that as long as we’re not worried about anything – you know, you just do the best you can with it,” he said.

Speaking about Suri and his wife Katie Holmes, he said: “[Suri] is such a happy girl, and I think that Kate is an extraordinary mother and very calm.”

(Source: RTE Entertainment)

Valkyrie director Bryan Singer praises Tom Cruise

VALKYRIE’S director Bryan Singer acknowledges that his leading man Tom Cruise will always draw attention, but he says he has nothing but praise for the A-lister.

He might be best known for comic-book movies X-Men and Superman Returns, but Bryan Singer has been preparing to make an historical thriller such as Valkyrie ever since he was a child.

The director spent his school holidays making 8mm war movies in the back yard with his friend Christopher McQuarrie (who went on to write Singer’s breakout hit, The Usual Suspects).

‘‘One summer he got into a little trouble and he had curfew,” Singer recalls.

‘‘He wasn’t allowed to leave the house at night so I would come over and we started writing
projects together.”

Looking back, Singer says he can see little evidence of nascent talent in the films they made at the time.

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Cruise: ‘Obama brings hope to America’

Tom Cruise has said that new President Barack Obama will bring “absolute hope” to the American people.

Speaking at the UK premiere of his new film Valkyrie, the Hollywood star claimed that Obama has the capability to rise to the challenges ahead.

“Hope – absolute hope,” said Cruise when asked about the new leader’s effect on the US. “He has a challenge ahead and it’s up to us as a country, it’s not just up to him. We have got to support him and I believe he is going to do it.”

Cruise will appear as a guest on Jonathan Ross’s chatshow tomorrow night, the first since the lifting of the host’s suspension for his involvement in ‘Manuelgate’. Valkyrie also arrives in cinemas Friday.

(source:digitalspy.co.uk)

Tom Cruise Nominated for West Point “Academy” Award

Rogers and Cowan announces actor Tom Cruise has been nominated for the annual Cadet Choice Award by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for his role in his latest film, the WWII thriller “Valkyrie.”

On January 20, 2009 — Tom Cruise has been nominated for the Cadet Choice Award, or the “academy” awards of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The awards recognize movie characters that exemplify the leadership of West Point cadets.

Tom Cruise ValkyrieCruise’s nomination comes from his role as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the film “Valkyrie.” The movie portrays the true story of a group of high-ranking German officers, lead by Stauffenberg, who set in motion the last known plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

This year’s nominees, apart from Cruise, including Bruce Wayne in “The Dark Knight,” played by Christian Bale, Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” played by Harrison Ford, Harvey Milk in “Milk,” played by Sean Penn, Lohn Hancock in “Hancock,” played by Will Smith, and James Bond in “Quantum of Solace,” played by Daniel Craig.

All members of the Corps of Cadets will vote and announce their choice mid-February. The winner will receive an invitation to West Point for a formal awards presentation of the Tarbucket, or the tall black-and-gold hat that cadets wear during their parades.

(source:prweb.com)

Tom on ‘CNN Showbiz Tonight’ (Dec. 16)

CNN Showbiz Tonight’s A.J. Hammer sat down with Tom to talk about regrets, Golden Globes and his film (December 16th):

Tom Cruise Bash: Invite Top Gun & they will come

What do you get when CAA throws a pre-Globes bash honoring Tom Cruise? An avalanche of stars, duh! Among Friday’s arrivals and departures at the Buffalo Club in Santa Monica where Zac Efron, Daniel Craig, Reese Witherspoon & Jake Gyllenhaal, Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Swank, Cameron Diaz, Gerard Butler, Ron Howard, Jaime Pressly, Zach Braff and a couple of dozen more. Go to the tape!

(Source: E!Online)

Carice van Houten: how I learnt to love Tom Cruise for Valkyrie

Times interviewed Carice van Houten on her performance of Nina and working with Tom. They don’t write much about Tom, more on her character and her work as an actress, but you might love to read about Carice a little bit more and get to know Tom’s latest on-screen ‘love’.

The Dutch actress’s performance in Black Book dazzled – so can kissing Tom Cruise be that hard?

It’s just after lunchtime in the plush split-level penthouse of an Amsterdam hotel, and Carice van Houten is “doing” Tom Cruise. “Carice!” she says, in that infamously clipped American accent, before giving her head a sudden bird-like tilt, and her face a focused frown of Cruise-like concentration, adding, “As long as you’re comfortable with it, let’s do it!”

The 32-year-old Dutch actress is remembering her big scene, including kisses and tears, with the Hollywood megastar on the set of Valkyrie, Cruise’s new Second World War thriller. Here she stars as Nina, the loyal and long-suffering wife of Cruise’s German colonel Claus von Stauffenberg – the mastermind behind the failed plot to assassinate the Führer in July 1944. In the scene in question she bids a final yet passionate farewell to Stauffenberg, outside their family home. It’s her big moment, she explains, and it ultimately required the generous coaxing of her hyper-vigilant co-star. Hence the titter inducing impersonation (“I had a lot of fun with him, I have to say,” she adds, chuckling to herself).

It is not, of course, normal media protocol to perform irreverent impersonations of your leading man, especially one of Cruise’s stratospheric status. But then Van Houten, kicking back on a white couch, with her softly pointed features permanently pitched for a wicked giggle, doesn’t do protocol. Continue reading

Tom Cruise keen to get down under

AUSTRALIA’S former “favourite son-in-law” Tom Cruise misses hanging out in Sydney and wants to return to make another film.

In an exclusive interview with The Weekend Australian’s Christine Jackman, the superstar American actor reveals he would “love, love, love” to return to make a second movie in Australia after shooting Mission: Impossible II almost 10 years ago.

“I couldn’t wait to shoot there,” he says in the interview, published today.

“I remember saying ‘You’ve got to let me put a helicopter in there. I’ve got to fly low so I can get over that city. Please, just trust me, it’s going to be magnificent.’

“I’d love to again. I’d love to take an airplane under the Harbour Bridge. I’d like to do that very much.”

Cruise, the star of a string of box office smashes such as Risky Business, A Few Good Men and Rain Man, was married to Nicole Kidman for more than a decade before splitting with the Australian in 2001.

He spent a lot of time in Sydney during the marriage and misses the town.

“It’s a beautiful, beautiful city, the Bronte to Bondi walk, running at Bondi.”

(Source: The Australian)

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