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We have two videos today:
I suggest using Right-Click “Save File As…”. The Ellen video you will need WinZip or WinRar to unzip the file. Any trouble, post here. Please remember that your comment won’t show immediatilly, it takes a few hours until I approve 🙂
Scans are coming tomorrow or sunday (many pretty things!). Keep checking 😀
Before jetting off to Monday’s big premiere, Tom opened up to “Extra” about his real-life “Mission: Impossible” — giving those pesky paparazzi the slip to get Katie and Suri safely home from the hospital.
“You think I’m going to let anybody mess with my girls? Come on, man, I make ‘Mission Impossible’ movies,” Tom laughed. “Think I can’t get in and out of a hospital in my town? I mean, it’s just not going to happen.”
Tom told us that even his screen alter ego, secret agent Ethan Hunt, would have been proud of the stealth operation. “There was no paparazzi there, and when we left we got in our house,” he revealed. “It’s been really calm, actually.”
“Extra” was among the first to congratulate the superstar dad. We surprised him with a gift basket full of baby goodies for Suri. And Tom revealed a curious romantic secret that only he and Katie had shared: “Suri was born exactly one year to the day that I met Katie for the first time.”
Meanwhile, Tom’s still walking on air after the birth and reminiscing about the first time he held Baby Suri. “I keep replaying it over and over in my mind,” he admitted. “You never forget that moment of holding your child for the first time. It’s powerful because of how much I love Kate.”
As for Tom’s other big arrival, “Mission: Impossible III,” he revealed that it almost didn’t happen. “I wasn’t going to make another one until I felt I could take it to another level,” Tom said.
But Tom went full steam ahead after getting Hollywood’s hottest new director, J.J. Abrams, on board. JJ was more surprised than anyone. “I thought I was being ‘Punk’d’,” he confessed.
You can see the spectacular results of their teamwork, when “Mission: Impossible III” hits theaters on May 5 and a video and slide show at Extra’s site, click here.
Video’s!! ABC has some on Suri (of course!):
– Cruise’s joy over different experience; click here
– Tom discusses the birth of Suri; click here
and USAToday makes us happy with another M:I-III video:
– Tom on doing stunts; click here
Two more video’s from ETOnline: One where Tom thanks ETOnline and the other one about Tom’s excitement for the movie!
An example of how ridiculous the media can be in copying “news” without putting it in the right context:
Cruise was only kidding
News sites take placenta-eating comment out of context and report it as fact
The Web is buzzing with the shocking “news†that Tom Cruise plans to eat the placenta after his girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth. Cruise’s comment – a joke he made during an interview with GQ – is being taken out of context and reported as legitimate news. Some sites are going so far as to quote medical experts on the topic of placenta-eating.
Cruise, 43, told GQ: “I’m gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.” When it was pointed out that it would be a big meal, Cruise replied: “OK, maybe I won’t.” But most sites aren’t making note of the fact that Cruise was kidding.
“Tom Cruise is reportedly planning to eat the placenta and umbilical cord after fiancée Katie Holmes gives birth to their child,†reports mtv.uk. iAfrica.com declares: “Tom Cruise is intending to eat Katie Holmes’ placenta after his fiancée has given birth to their baby.†“Hollywood actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is planning to eat Katie Holmes’ placenta,†reports Ireland’s rte.ie. Britain’s itv.com says: “Sofa leaping father-to-be Tom Cruise has revealed his latest bizarre plan – to eat Katie Holmes’ placenta.â€
At least one online news source “gets†it. At the Info About News site, the placenta remark merits only a passing mention deep down in a story about Cruise. “Oh, and he made a pretty nifty joke about eating the placenta,†reads the site. “Really, it was funny.â€
(Source: Canada.com)
Fortunately there are still some reporters left with brains who think and listen/read first! Also ElitesTV:
The story circulating that Tom Cruise plans to eat the placenta of girlfriend Katie Holmes after she gives birth to their child is not true. The 43-year-old actor made the comment in an interview with ‘GQ’ magazine but it was meant to be taken as a joke. Many media organizations made note of the comments and treated them as serious.
‘I’m gonna eat the placenta,’ Cruise told a reporter from ‘GQ.’ ‘I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.’ When it was pointed out that it would be a big meal, Cruise replied, ‘OK, maybe I won’t.’
The ‘Mission Impossible’ star’s comments were taken seriously on such diverse Web sites as MTV.uk and iAfrica.com and many of the British tabloids.
This follows intense media speculation about the term ‘silent birth,’ something practiced by Scientologists and initially widely misunderstood in the media. Initial reports said that Miss Holmes would have to be completely quiet during labor which is not true. ‘Silent birth’ simply involves keeping the atmosphere around the mother as calm and quiet as possible.
Cruise and Holmes’ baby is due in the next few weeks. Mr. Cruise has said the couple plans to marry later this summer.
AccessHollywood open on their site with the message that they reveal parts of the interview never before heard, including a discussion of Tom’s childhood and his complicated relationship with his father. That parts we already know by now – nothing new – but the page also includes some video’s of Katie, her view on the baby preps, marriage and scientology. It’s not much but since they are showing it, I’m reporting it!
Today ABC published the interview Diane Sawyer had with Tom:
April 13, 2006 — Tom Cruise was just 19 years old when he starred in “Risky Business.” The fresh-faced kid from upstate New York was paid about $75,000 for his breakout role. Twenty-three years later, Cruise is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. In his latest film, he’s reprising his role in “Mission: Impossible 3.”
He is also half of one of the most talked-about couples in America. His sudden, and very public, romance with Katie Holmes took the world by surprise a year ago, and now Cruise and the 27-year-old actress are expecting a baby — due any minute now.
And every day it seems, a new headline tells a different story — they are breaking up; her parents, a Catholic family from Toledo, Ohio, don’t like Scientology; the saga of the “silent birth” rituals; even that the baby isn’t really his.
In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer on “Primetime,” Cruise confronts those rumors — telling Sawyer that he and Holmes are happy and in love, and they are looking forward to getting married after the baby is born.
From Katie to Nicole to the expectant baby on the way, Tom Cruise takes it all on in an incredibly candid interview with GQ.
GQ’s Lucy Kaylin sat down with the world’s biggest star, who told her he knew the second Katie was pregnant. “He just looked at her and he noticed something,” Kaylin said. “He said to me, ‘I notice things about people.’ And he said to her, ‘You’re going to tell me you’re pregnant, aren’t you?'”
As for the much talked about Scientology practice of silent birth, Cruise told GQ, “It’s really about respecting the woman. It’s not about her not screaming.” Tom’s thought was echoed by Kelly Preston at Monday night’s CMT Awards. “Well, it’s basically giving birth in the most quiet, serene, peaceful and loving environment as possible,” she revealed.
So did Tom personally tell his ex-wife Nicole about Katie’s pregnancy? After initially not commenting, Tom said, “It’s not like anything I had or didn’t have to do. I wish her well.”
The star also touched on his now famous headline-grabbing prescription drug debate with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. Kaylin revealed, “As he put it to me, he can get angry. And that wasn’t angry; it was just an opportunity that he welcomed to share some information. He thought it was a wonderful interview.”
Tom Cruise’s GQ tell all hits newsstands this week. (ExtraTV)
ET will air the interview, so keep an eye on the site for a video clip! If they will add a clip I’ll post it.
Also, Tom will talk to Diane Sawyer this Friday, April 14 at 9 p.m. on ABC News’ “Primetime”. He will open up to Diane Sawyer about his relationship with Holmes and her family, the birth of their child and how he deals with the constant rumors swirling around them. (ABCnews)
Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks have topped the latest Ulmer Scale, which annually lists the 10 most bankable actors in Hollywood.
Former columnist James Ulmer, who compiles the hot list every year, insists the Toms have kept the likes of Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and George Clooney off the top because film fans will pay to see them do just about anything.
Ulmer quips, “Tom Hanks could stand on his head and, in Swahili, quote the Koran (Islam’s holy book), and someone would pay $100 million for that movie – ditto for Tom Cruise.”
Ulmer insists his list is the most definitive way of tracking true star power because he spends 12 months looking at the form of over 1,000 stars. He scores the stars by surveying dozens of leading film buyers and sellers worldwide.
Cruise tops the list, with Hanks coming in second and Jim Carrey third.
Ulmer’s latest list also includes Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe, Jude Law, while Julia Roberts and Kidman are the only actresses gracing the top 10.
As Tom Cruise prepares to become a biological father, the 43-year-old superstar has finally opened up about his own troubled childhood, telling how his father bullied and beat him as a child.
In an interview with Parade magazine reported by the Evening Standard, Cruise discusses his father saying, “He was a bully and a coward. He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick. It was a great lesson in my life – how he’d lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!” Cruise, 43, says, “For me it was like, ‘There’s something wrong with this guy. Don’t trust him. Be careful around him.’ There’s that anxiety.”
When Cruise was only 12-years-old, his mother took the children and left her husband. The only time he saw his father again was 10 years later when he was dying of cancer.
When Cruise was 12, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sister Lee Anne with her. The actor tried for a reconciliation 10 years later, when his father “was in the hospital dying of cancer, and he would only meet me on the basis that I didn’t ask him anything about the past.”
Cruise sums up the experience as a life lesson. “When I saw him in pain, I thought, ‘What a lonely life.’ He was in his late 40s. It was sad.”
According to the report, Cruise’s father died soon after the reunion.
(All Headline News.com, People)
Yahoo:
Actor Tom Cruise got a taste of Asian cellphone etiquette in Shanghai when a local reporter took a call in the middle of his press event on the city’s historic Bund on Wednesday. Such chatter is common in much of Asia, where people routinely talk on their phones in the middle of news briefings and many other public gatherings. But the American superstar, in town to shoot scenes for his latest “Mission: Impossible” movie, took it all in his stride, borrowing the phone from the surprised reporter to talk to the woman caller. “Hello. Xie xie. Ni hao. How are you?” said an amused Cruise, dressed in black, exhausting his limited Chinese vocabulary before going on to ask if the woman — the reporter’s wife — was at work and about her marital status.
(yahoo also has details:
It was “Mission: Unpredictable” for Tom Cruise when a reporter pulled out a cell phone and the actor insisted on talking to the person on the other end of the line. “Put her on the phone. I want to talk to her,” Cruise told the journalist, who sheepishly called someone Cruise assumed to be the man’s girlfriend. “Hello. Xiexie. Ni hao. Are you good?” said Cruise, handling the Chinese words for “thank you” and “hello” with ease. “Are you good? Are you working?” he asked. “Are you going to get engaged? Soon? Maybe?” Cruise was speaking to journalists atop the historic Bund 18 building as bells tolled and horns blared from ships passing on the nearby Huangpu River on Wednesday after wrapping up scenes for the new “Mission: Impossible” film, due in theaters next year. “Oh, you’re married?” asked the translator, who stepped in to help the conversation along. “Tell her I wish her happiness,” Cruise said. “Xiexie, bye-bye,” said the 43-year-old actor before handing the phone back to the reporter. Asked about his own plans to wed pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, Cruise replied, “You want to know where we’re gonna get married? The exact date? The exact place? The color dress, designer?” He added: “You know, we haven’t set a date. … It will happen next year.”)
Cruise and his crew were meeting the media after wrapping up two weeks of shooting for “Mission: Impossible III.” The film was being shot in Shanghai and nearby Xitang, a town criss-crossed by canals, with other scenes in Italy, Germany and the United States. The visit to China by one of the world’s biggest stars, who is traveling with pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes, has created a massive buzz in the local media, where the actor is known affectionately as “Tang Ge,” or “Big Brother Tom.”
Cruise, whose credits include last year’s “War of the Worlds” and two previous “Mission: Impossible” movies, said during the briefing that he and Holmes, who plan to get married, have yet to set a date but that the wedding will happen next year.
During his brief China trip, Cruise has been spotted at a number of trendy Shanghai hang-outs, including a swanky restaurant on the Bund, and a Sichuan eaterie where he reportedly paid more than 5,000 yuan for a meal — an astronomical sum by Chinese standards.
The producers of “M:I3” reportedly payed 100 million yuan for the use of Xitang, which was sealed off to the public during filming. Total production costs for the film are expected to exceed $150 million.
SPECTACULAR
Shanghai’s Gotham-esque Jinmao tower, the country’s tallest building and home to the Grand Hyatt hotel, and the city’s futuristic Pearl TV tower, will both feature in the movie. So will the Huangpu River, which snakes through the city before feeding into the Yangtze.
Cruise gushed about the city’s spectacular vistas and the general thrill of his brief trip, saying he planned to come back in the future to see more of the country. “It’s spectacular. It’s unbelievable,” he said. “It’s going to look extraordinary on film.”
The first two “Mission: Impossible” movies made a combined $396 million at the North American box office. The new film is directed by J.J. Abrams, the creator of hit TV series Lost. It is scheduled for release next summer, a year later than originally planned due to production difficulties. The movie’s makers are negotiating to simultaneously release “M:I3” in the United States and China, in part due to the high rate of piracy in a market where films often show up on pirated discs just days after their worldwide premieres.
TheAge adds: Speaking to journalists atop the historic Bund 18 building as bells tolled and horns blared from ships passing on the nearby Huangpu River, Cruise said he finished shooting the China sequences for Mission Impossible 3 a couple days early. Both said they were warned that filming in China would be difficult due to language barriers, but found that working with the local crew went smoother than expected. “They enabled us to work at a terrific speed,” Cruise said. “I’m going to tell our friends how terrific and skilled the workers are.”
Entertainment Online has 2 video’s of Tom in Shanghai, go here to watch them!
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