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War of Words over Cruise Site
Wed Oct 19, 2005

The end is near for ScienTOMogy.

The owner of a Tom Cruise-skewering Website that came under scrutiny from the Church of Scientology for its too-close-for-comfort URL has agreed to change the Web address.

"He said he would change it, so, we're waiting for him to do that," Helena Kobrin, an attorney representing the Church of Scientology, said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday afternoon, ScienTOMogy.info was still a valid address, and according to the site, a more popular than ever destination, thanks to recent headlines over its engagement with Scientology lawyers. But changes appeared to be in the works. A new URL, registered on Oct. 13, also was bringing users to ScienTOMogy's vault of Cruise parody videos.

The new Web address? PassionofCruise.info.

In an interview with One News in his native New Zealand, the site's Glen Stollery was not exactly admitting defeat. Stollery said he planned to hold onto the ScienTOMogy moniker (the church had requested to be transferred ownership of the URL).

"There's nothing wrong with what I've done," Stollery told One News. "It makes it very clear it's not a Scientology site."

The matter of Scientology versus ScienTOMogy began in September, when a lawyer for the church informed the site that its domain name infringed on the Scientology trademark.

That ScienTOMogy.info featured pictures of Cruise, arguably the world's most prominent Scientologist, in a straightjacket (that's bride-to-be Katie Holmes in matching restraint-wear), and a video of Cruise "kill[ing]" Oprah Winfrey with a powerful electric current, wasn't an issue, the Scientology camp maintained. It was all about the "m"--the lone letter distinguishing ScienTOMogy from Scientology.

"You can't use somebody's trademark, regardless of what you're saying, if you haven't been given permission," Kobrin said.

What Kobrin called a fairly "routine" trademark issue became a fairly big news story this week when ScienTOMogy went public with the battle.

ScienTOMogy.info was launched in July in the wake of Cruise's couch-jumping declarations of love to Holmes and dead-serious dialogue about the dangers of prescription drugs. According to the site, it's dedicated to "exposing Tom Cruise's moronic behaviour [sic] in his relentless crusade to promote the cult, Church of Scientology." Mostly, it features clips of Cruise's most controversial TV talk-show stops--Oprah Winfrey, The Today Show, etc.--and several short parody videos.

No word on how Mel Gibson is taking to PassionofCruise.
 

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The actress, who recently revealed she is carrying fiance Tom Cruise's baby, has pulled out of the Dennis Quaid drama Shame On You in order to focus on her pregnancy, People magazine reports.

If they would have done that in the first place she wouldn't be pregnant

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Cruise Caught in Sonogram Squabble
Yahoo Entertainment News
Wed Nov 30, 2005


Tom Cruise hasn't made many friends within the medical community lately.

First the American Psychiatric Association slammed the actor for referring to psychiatry as a "pseudoscience," calling Cruise's remarks "irresponsible." Now the American College of Radiology is up in arms over Cruise's admission that he purchased a sonogram machine and uses it to perform at-home ultrasounds on fiancee Katie Holmes.

The ACR issued a statement warning that Cruise and Holmes could potentially harm their unborn baby by performing ultrasounds without the benefit of a doctor's supervision

"This is a patient safety issue. Untrained people, even if they have the financial means, should not buy, or be allowed to buy and operate, ultrasound machines which are, in fact, medical devices and should not be used without a medical indication," said Dr. Carol M. Rumack, chair of the ACR Ultrasound Commission.

Cruise gushed about his purchase to Barbara Walters during an interview for her special Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, which aired Tuesday.

"I bought a sonogram machine," Cruise told Walters during the interview, which was taped Oct. 30. "I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done."

Somewhat startled, Walters replied, "Wait, you are going to do your own sonogram?"

"Yes," Cruise replied, chuckling.

The couch-jumping thesp told Walters that he did not know the sex of his offspring, but that he saw "a little baby" when he performed the ultrasound.

Cruise's purchase is estimated to have set him back anywhere from $15,000 to $200,000. However, the ACR is not convinced that the War of the Worlds star fully understands the complexities of the device.

"The ACR is concerned that Tom Cruise has been badly advised regarding the use and potential abuse of ultrasound," Dr. Rumack stated. "There are many abnormalities that may be missed by the untrained eye. Also, if it is not medically necessary, the use of ultrasound raises unnecessary physical risk to the fetus."

The ACR isn't the only organization concerned about Cruise's personal sonogram machine. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the actor may even be violating the law by possessing the device.

"Persons who promote, sell or lease ultrasound equipment for making 'keepsake' fetal videos should know that FDA views this as an unapproved use of a medical device," the FDA stated. "In addition, those who subject individuals to ultrasound exposure using a diagnostic ultrasound device (a prescription device) without a physician's order may be in violation of state or local laws or regulations regarding use of a prescription medical device."

Cruise's representatives did not respond to requests for comment on the sonogram issue.

Meanwhile, Cruise and Holmes have been taking a break from their at-home ultrasound project while spending time in Shanghai, where Cruise has been filming scenes for Mission: Impossible 3.

At a press roundup Wednesday, Cruise grabbed a cell phone from a reporter who dared to take a call during the event and began chatting to the surprised party at the other end.

"Put her on the phone. I want to talk to her," Cruise demanded, asking to talk to the female caller, whom he presumed to be the reporter's girlfriend.

"Hello. Xiexie. Ni hao. Are you good?" said Cruise, throwing out the Chinese words for "thank you" and "hello" like a natural.

"Are you good? Are you working?" he asked. "Are you going to get engaged? Soon? Maybe?"

After a translator stepped in to assist, it was revealed that the caller was actually the reporter's wife.

"Tell her I wish her happiness," Cruise said.

On the subject of his own wedding, Cruise remained teasingly elusive.

"You want to know where we're gonna get married? The exact date? The exact place? The color dress, designer?" he quizzed reporters. "You know, we haven't set a date...It will happen next year."

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Brian in Mesa said:
"I bought a sonogram machine," Cruise told Walters during the interview, which was taped Oct. 30. "I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done."

Somewhat startled, Walters replied, "Wait, you are going to do your own sonogram?"

"Yes," Cruise replied, chuckling.
Why, why, why? What a flippin' idiot!
 

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If they would have done that in the first place she wouldn't be pregnant

:D

Are you saying that it was Katie who was inside Tom... because that would make more sense
 

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Cruise Caught in Sonogram Squabble
Yahoo Entertainment News
Wed Nov 30, 2005

I got to say I watched this show and the way I took it he was completely joking. He and Barb were laughing the whole time. This is a big deal about nothing IMO. Especially knowing just how hard it is to get one of those things, my sister is a nurse and the doctors themselves have to jump through hoops just to get one.
 
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Tom Cruise makes an addition to our society...via slang. :D



Tom Cruise Creates New Slang: 'Jump The Couch'
Runners-Up Include Floodweiser, Spokesweasel

NEW YORK --
When Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, a new slang term was born.

And now, "jump the couch" has been named the Slang of the Year by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

The dictionary defines "jump the couch" as exhibiting "strange or frenetic behavior."

"Jump the couch" began popping up just a few weeks after Cruise excitedly professed his love for new flame Katie Holmes by leaping onto the guest couch during the May 23, 2005, Oprah Winfrey Show.

The phrase has since appeared in The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and innumerable blogs around the world.

Runners-up for Slang of the Year include Floodweiser, which is the canned water Anheuser-Busch donated to hurricane victims, and Spokesweasel, which is a public relations representative.
 
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Tom, Katie Put Kibosh on Breakup Report
Feb 14, 2006

Tom Cruise's new Mission: Impossible: To convince tabloids that he and Katie Holmes are legit.

Reps for Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes were in super-spin mode Tuesday, furiously issuing denials after Life & Style published a "malicious" Valentine's Day story, claiming the entity otherwise known as TomKat was kaput.

In a press release and brief report on its Website, the glossy touted its Feb. 27 cover story, which bears the headline "SPLIT! And Katie's 7 Months Pregnant."

"Life & Style has learned exclusively that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have agreed to call off their wedding--and, ultimately, to split," the story says, attributing two unnamed "friends" of the couple. Visit for more:

The report continues, saying parents-to-be Cruise and Holmes "plan to keep up the charade of a romance until after their baby's birth this spring. In the meantime, the couple will live in his Beverly Hills home--though sleeping in separate bedrooms--through the summer," presumably after Mission: Impossible 3 reaches blockbuster status. (The sequel comes out May 5.) The report concludes by saying Cruise will buy Holmes a house nearby so she can visit their child whenever she wants and that the stars will have joint custody. The issue featuring the story is due on newsstands Friday.

The story and press release went out shortly after noon PT. By 1 p.m., Cruise and Holmes' joint denial was in circulation.

"It should be known that the story is 100 percent false," publicist Arnold Robinson said in a statement. "Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes are still engaged and are moving forward with their wedding plans, as well as planning for the arrival of their child."

Cruise, 43, famously announced his love for the 25-year-old Holmes while hopping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's furniture. Within two months of their initial hook-up, he proposed atop the Eiffel Tower in June. By October, they announced Holmes' pregnancy, with Cruise monitoring the fetus' progress on his own sonogram machine to the chagrin of OB/GYNs everywhere. About the only thing the couple hasn't shared is their wedding date.

"Despite the malicious fallacies put forth by Life & Style magazine, the couple is looking forward to a long and happy life together as a family," said Robinson.

Life & Style, meanwhile, calculated its accuracy a bit differently, announcing, "We stand 100 percent behind our story."
 

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Brian in Mesa said:
Tom Cruise makes an addition to our society...via slang. :D



Tom Cruise Creates New Slang: 'Jump The Couch'
Runners-Up Include Floodweiser, Spokesweasel

NEW YORK --
When Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, a new slang term was born.

And now, "jump the couch" has been named the Slang of the Year by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

The dictionary defines "jump the couch" as exhibiting "strange or frenetic behavior."

"Jump the couch" began popping up just a few weeks after Cruise excitedly professed his love for new flame Katie Holmes by leaping onto the guest couch during the May 23, 2005, Oprah Winfrey Show.

The phrase has since appeared in The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, and innumerable blogs around the world.

Runners-up for Slang of the Year include Floodweiser, which is the canned water Anheuser-Busch donated to hurricane victims, and Spokesweasel, which is a public relations representative.

:biglaugh: Or how about referring to those type of people as couch jumpers!!!??
 

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Wow, this just looks weird...


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Pictures are worth a thousand words, well the look on her face is only telling me 2 words, "HELP ME".
 

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Tom Talks 'Great Sex' Cruise makes us cringe -- again

Memo to Katie Holmes: Please, we're begging you, get that endlessly baking bun out of your oven pronto, because Tom Cruise desperately needs a safe subject like poopie diapers to discuss while promoting "Mission: Impossible III." On the heels of last week's ultra-personal revelations about his abusive father, the "Dianetics"-devoted star is now discussing -- please put down your lunch -- his views on sex.

Cruise declares in the May issue of GQ that getting intimate with someone you're not in love with is "really horrible and pathetic and lonely. And yech."

Sex, he says, "is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just ... free. And that's how it should be. It's spectacular. If you're not in good communication with your partner, it sucks."

The communication between Tom and the about-to-blow Katie must really be "amazing," because he claims he knew she was carrying his progeny before she did.

"Oh, I -- I looked at her. And I went, 'You're gonna tell me if you're pregnant, aren't you?' It was a moment where ... It was one of those things," he (sort of) explains. "I just picked something up. And I knew at that moment she was pregnant. 'Cuz I notice things in people."

And what does the awesomely intuitive Cruise notice in the glassy-eyed, glib-free former starlet, for whom he's wantonly abused furniture while proclaiming his endless love?

"She's just cool," he nonspecifically enthuses of his fiancée. "She's kind, she's smart, she's fun. She's a woman who's not afraid to be a woman."

He adds, "I taught her how to ride a dirt bike in an hour and a half. She'd never done it before. She got her scuba license -- and the kids scuba dive so we all went down scuba diving in Mexico and swimming with the whales. Sometimes people freak out when they see the stuff I do. But it's like, 'Look, this is who I am,' and people who know me know I'm very safe about it. I'm not crazy ..."

Speaking of people freaking out about his not-craziness, Tom is once again touching on the sensitive subject of the sonogram machine he purchased and supposedly learned how to operate.

"I'm a filmmaker -- I need to see the rushes!" he attempts to joke to the mag (we assume there was an explosive laugh accompanying this quip). "At first we did it a lot. I don't know how many times, but I did not exceed FDA regulations!"

(The FDA, for those wondering, recommends using sonograms only to obtain medical information about the fetus and encourages limited exposure.)

As for the Scientology-sanctioned silent birth, the proselytizing pop-to-be says the lip-zipping is misunderstood. "It's really about respecting the woman," he insists of the hush-hush delivery technique put forth by L. Ron Hubbard, who as far as we know never pushed a human being out of his body. "It's not about her not screaming."

Cruise, who also chats up Diane Sawyer in a sit-down airing Friday, is unsure just where the TomKitten will make its debut ("At home, maybe. We're really going back and forth on that one") but reveals they've been attending "baby seminars" and "studying what a woman goes through." Say it with us: Fun!
Some other tidbits from the GQ interview, which hits newsstands April 25:

On Brangelina's impending (and competing) arrival: "Playdates! I've gotta give him a ring. I'm really happy for them. I am really happy for them. He's a good guy, Brad." (Said the still in-utero Jolie-Pitt offspring of the playdate invitation, "Thanks, but no thanks.")

On explaining the history of psychiatry to Matt Lauer: "I thought I was pretty restrained. I've been pissed off about things, believe me. I thought it was a terrific interview. I wasn't pissed; I just was intense on wanting to communicate."

On Katie's cravings: "She loves cupcakes, okay? I mean, the girl loves cupcakes."

On his hands-on approach to detox: "I have to say, I've always found the 'if it makes me feel better, it's okay' rationale a little suspect. I think it's appalling that people have to live a life of drug addiction when I have personally helped people get off drugs." Cruise claims he can get a person off heroin in three days.

On whether he told ex-wife Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two children, about the pregnancy: "It's not like anything I had to or didn't have to do. I wish her well."

On Katie's at-home pregnancy test: "Yeah, she did the whole stick test; I think she just touched the box and they all turned blue."

On commitment: "I'm the relationship guy. I'm not the dating, partying guy. It's not me, you know what I mean? I'm too serious. And I'm too intense. It means something to me."

On questions about the galactic overlord Xenu, a central figure in his religion: "You say this stuff to me and it's insulting. That's why I'm not even going to dignify what you're saying. There's always a lot of misinformation out there. I'm doing pretty good. Look at the things that have helped me in my life. You hear this other stuff -- come on, it's crap!"
 
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Ultrasound Ban Advances on Cruise Hoopla
Fri May 05

The California Assembly has voted to restrict the use of ultrasound machines for personal use, approving a bill that would allow them to be sold only to licensed professionals.

Democratic Assemblyman Ted Lieu introduced the bill after "Mission: Impossible III" star Tom Cruise bought an ultrasound machine to see images of his unborn child. The actor's fiancee, Katie Holmes, gave birth to the couple's daughter, Suri, last month in Los Angeles.

Doctors and technologists typically receive years of training to perform ultrasound exams, which help obstetricians check a baby's health.

Cruise was criticized by doctors who said improperly using the devices can harm a fetus.

Lieu said his bill was intended to prohibit copycats from using the devices at home. An ultrasound machine listed on the online auction site eBay was selling for $5,500 Wednesday.

"What we don't want is someone who unintentionally damages the fetus," Lieu said Thursday on the Assembly floor.

The chamber voted 55-7 to pass the bill and send it to the Senate.

The bill prohibits a manufacturer or person from selling, leasing or distributing an ultrasound machine to any person other than a licensed practitioner.

Some Republican lawmakers questioned whether the bill would prohibit the use of ultrasound devices by private companies that provide keepsake photos for parents-to-be.

Lieu said it would not, as long as the person operating the machine was licensed under a certain section of the state's Business and Professions Code.

Laboratory tests have shown that certain diagnostic levels can affect human tissue, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency has determined that keepsake fetal videos and personal snapshots are an unapproved use of a medical device.

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Damn she looks good.


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http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/29/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-divorce-custody-suri/

Katie Holmes is the one who filed for divorce and Tom Cruise was "blindsided" by Katie's legal move ... TMZ has learned.

We know Katie filed the divorce docs in New York on June 28, citing "irreconcilable differences." She is asking for sole legal custody and "primary residential custody" of the couple's 6-year-old daughter, Suri.
 

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Oprah better buy a new couch, because TC's probably hopping mad right about now.
 

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I wonder if this had anything to do with Scientology. There were reports early on that she felt the church interfered with their lives often and that it caused fights in the past.

Of course it doesn't. Most of that stuff (about Scientology) is completely made up.
 

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Of course it doesn't. Most of that stuff (about Scientology) is completely made up.

Nonetheless, Cruise is going to have an issue if Holmes make an issue about Scientology. She can make herself a PTS, which means Cruise can't have any contact with her. I doubt Cruise wants to allow the lawyers to do all the talking given the divorce laws in our country.
 

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