Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF <a href="http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/articles/_a/paramount-cuts-ties-with-tom-cruise/20060822191909990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001" target="_blank">http://news.aol.com/entertainm ent/movies/articles/_a/paramount-cuts-ties-with-tom-cruise/20060822191909990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001</a> >>"As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone told the Wall Street Journal in an interview posted online. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount." Paula Wagner, the actor's longtime partner in his movie company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, struck back at Redstone, calling his comments about the three-time Oscar nominee "offensive" and "undignified." "Whatever remarks Mr. Redstone would make about Tom Cruise personally or as an actor have no bearing on what this business issue is," she told Reuters. "There must be another agenda that the studio has in mind to take one of their greatest assets and malign him this way."<<
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I heard about this one the news today. Not sure what they mean by "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount." Not being pluggin into the goings on in Hollywood, I have no idea what all this was about. My only advise to Tom Cruise is "welcome to the 21st Politically Correct World".
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire Tom Cruise is GLIB! I am sure someone else will pick him up, but I see why Paramount dropped him. If everyone in Hollywood, though, was so open and dedicated to their religion, maybe they would be deemed "crazy" too. However, Scientology is just so...cult-ish. And its not just the Scientology bit, its the jumping on couches, being the butt of all hollywood jokes, and his insisting on knowing "the history of psychology" and all about postpartum that has plummeted Tom Cruise's image.
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire by the way, I dont know what "glib" is. Just something he called Matt Lauer and I never quite got it lol
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Not sure what they mean by "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount." >> If you click on the link there are photos of his recent bizarre behavior.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda glib (glb) adj. glib·ber, glib·best 1. 1. Performed with a natural, offhand ease: glib conversation. 2. Showing little thought, preparation, or concern: a glib response to a complex question. 2. Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Greta Garbo quit movie-making at her peek. It's time for Mr. Scientology Wacko Cruise to do the same!
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 <<"His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.">> Puh-LEASE!!! I can't believe I'm siding with an egomaniacal, largely-talentless movie star and a Hollywood publicist, but... Since when in post-50's history have film studios concerned themselves with a star's off-screen morality or behavior? Since when have they been concerned with morality at all? Redstone's statement is hypocritical, false, and offensive, in my opinion. If Paramount indeed dropped Cruise -- and not the other way around -- I would have found it perfectly acceptable for Redstone to state, "Paramount has spent the equivalent of one-half the production budget of a quasi-snuff film sequel to conduct surveys and make projections related to Tom Cruise's audience appeal. Our research indicates that, due to his recent bizarre behavior, 40% of the movie-going public is more likely to avoid a Cruise vehicle than previously. We are all about money. Heck, every one of us execs here would sell our mothers into slavery if it would make money for the studio. So, for purely business reasons, we have dropped Cruise." But, "his behavior is not acceptable to us"?! Give me a break.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Since when in post-50's history have film studios concerned themselves with a star's off-screen morality or behavior? Since when have they been concerned with morality at all?<< That's actually so true. Since the end of the "Studio System" years, Hollywood has devolved into "We don't care what you do in your private life, as long as you make us money" town. You know .. there was a day and age when moguls like LB Mayer and Zanuck who went out of their way to keep celebrity's image in check. Those days are over. It's a "free for all" Hollywood now.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Watching MSNBC last night, the reasons are definitely everything you stated, I57... They just put it out there the other way to 'get at' Cruise. Not sure what happened behind the scenes with this whole thing, but they also announced a new two-year contract with Trey Parker and Matt Stone for "South Park" on the SAME day... And we all know how Cruise feels about "South Park" *LOL* He's turned into a freak show... *Shrug* He's got plenty of money and his own production company - he'll survive. There's no love lost there for me, nor is there for a lot of people, I imagine. It'll be interesting to see what comes next... Don't we all love strange surprises? ;-)
Originally Posted By peeaanuut maybe he is doing all this to kill connections so when the aliens come he will have no loose ends.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder >Paula Wagner, the actor's longtime partner in his movie company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, struck back at Redstone, calling his comments about the three-time Oscar nominee "offensive" and "undignified."< My first reaction to any of this is "who gives a rip." Cruise does absolutely nothing for me as an actor or a person. I never saw the appeal. Kevin Costner is a better actor, and Costner can't act. I don't blame Paramount one bit. Cruise has turned into a freak show, as said elsewhere, and if they're going to invest untold millions into his movies they have every right to expect he won't gratuitously insult post partum depression mothers like Brooke Shields or make himself look like an ass on the Today show or act like a monkey in heat on Oprah or turn Katie Holmes into a Stepford girlfriend or make up stories about saving people on the road for publicity's sake. I think Hollywood's past practices of covering up the private lives of actors and actresses, while understandable from the standpoint of protecting a contractual investment, has also contributed to the subsequent personal problems and scandals for the principals involved and their families when they're inevitably ultimately revealed, either during their lives or posthumously. Paramount likely has enough polling data or surveys or just some plain common sense via the accounting department telling them that they're no longer getting the bang for their buck with Cruise. Let someone else indulge the egomaniacal self-destructive manipulator.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>Greta Garbo quit movie-making at her peek. It's time for Mr. Scientology Wacko Cruise to do the same!<< Peak? That was over a long time ago, if there was one!
Originally Posted By barboy Tom Cruise is a fine person who is polite, patient and very generous. Let us see why people take issue with him: Being a wealthy and powerful Hollywood scientologist. Disagreeing with the western philosophy of medicine and psychiatry/psychology jumping on a couch in excitement marrying a noticeably younger and very pretty woman I don't see anything wrong with who he is or what he has done.
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire There are plenty of wealthy and powerful Hollywood Scientologists, but none of them act in the manner that Tom Cruise does. And I never saw an issue with him being with a much younger Katie Holmes. The issue was his crazy ideas with scientology and "recruiting" her. I used to love Katie Holmes when she was on Dawson's Creek and popular then, now she seems like a different person. One that has grown up, but one that doesnt seem to be very sure of herself either.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I used to love Katie Holmes when she was on Dawson's Creek and popular then, now she seems like a different person. One that has grown up, but one that doesnt seem to be very sure of herself either." It's a known fact around town that she goes nowhere without a "handler". Nowhere. We've seen her twice around L.A. There's no life in her face, no expression, no anything. She literally is a Stepford girlfriend.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 So the studio whose next release is Jackass: Number 2 is now passing judgement on people's behavior -- that is pretty hilarious...and they expect whom to take them seriously ?? I am not a Tom Cruise fan, although I will say I enjoyed his performance in War of the Worlds because I didn't think he acted like Tom Cruise...and thought it was his best role since The Color of Money which I actually liked him in ( a long timein between) -- but having a movie studio in Hollywood call out your character is just laughable.....
Originally Posted By BlazesOfFire Maybe there is more to it than that. Maybe Tom was pushing Scientology a bit much? <<It's a known fact around town that she goes nowhere without a "handler". Nowhere. We've seen her twice around L.A. There's no life in her face, no expression, no anything. She literally is a Stepford girlfriend.>> A handler who is a Scientologist to make sure she does what she is suppose to do. My mothers ex was a scientologist. His mom would push that stuff onto my mom, even giving her a bookt o read called something like "The many hats of women." She said it was all about the role women should play, which was basically shut our mouths and do what pleases our man.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder For those who aren't aware, this website is very popular here in L.A. and absolutely skewers Cruise every single chance it gets. <a href="http://www.defamer.com/" target="_blank">http://www.defamer.com/</a> The site covers other Hollywood topics as well, is often very funny, sometimes risque, but almost always entertaining.
