Tom Cruise
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: New York, USA, 03 July 2020
- Associated with: Katie Holmes, Nicole Kidman
Among the strange things Tom has done in the last 18 months include the now infamous couch-jumping incident on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show, publicly proposing to fiancée Katie Holmes at the top of the Eiffel Tower and speaking out against the use of anti-depressants to treat post-partum depression in accordance with his Scientology beliefs.
Tom’s representatives attacked Paramount Pictures - Aug 25, 2020
Tom Cruise’s representatives have attacked Paramount Pictures - the Hollywood studio that dropped the actor this week. Sumner Redstone - the head of Viacom, the company which owns Paramount - ended their 14 year deal with the star on Wednesday (23.08.06) blaming Tom’s conduct.
Redstone said: "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal." Sumner’s comments are believed to refer to a string of headline grabbing antics including Tom’s couch-jumping display on ’Oprah’ and his controversial views on the use of antidepressants, based on his Scientology beliefs.
Now Richard Lovett - the president of the Creative Artists Agency which represents the 44-year-old actor - has hit back. He fumed: "That a mogul like Sumner Redstone could make a statement so vicious, so pompous, so petulant as that he didn’t want to make a deal with Tom Cruise because of his personal conduct - it tells you more about Sumner Redstone and Viacom than about Tom Cruise."
The ’War of the Worlds’ star’s lawyer, Bert Fields, has also got involved, branding Redstone’s comments "disgusting". Fields also suggested 83-year-old Redstone had "lost it completely" or had been given "breathtakingly bad advice."
Paramount Pictures have ended the 14 year deal - Aug 23, 2020
Hollywood bosses have become so infuriated with Tom Cruise they have ended his 14 year production deal with Paramount Pictures. The studio’s chairman Sumner Redstone said the reason for the split was the ’Mission: Impossible III’ star’s public outbursts.
He fumed to the Wall Street Journal newspaper: "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal." Sumner’s comments are believed to refer to a string of headline grabbing antics including Tom’s now infamous couch-jumping display on ’Oprah’, his very public engagement to Katie Holmes and his controversial views on topics such as the use of antidepressants, based on his Scientology beliefs.
Meanwhile, Tom’s business partner Paula Wagner has hit back at the comments calling them "offensive" and "undignified". She blasted: "Whatever remarks Mr. Redstone would make about Tom Cruise personally or as an actor have no bearing on what this business issue is. "There must be another agenda that the studio has in mind to take one of their greatest assets and malign him this way." Paula - who is Tom’s partner in his movie company Cruise/Wagner Productions - also insists that it was their decision to part-company with the Paramount studio.
Tom Cruise has invited Victoria and David Beckham to meet baby Suri.
But the ‘Mission Impossible’ star and fiancée Katie Holmes have issued their British friends with a list of instructions of how to behave around their daughter. A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper: “David and Victoria are honoured that Tom and Katie have asked them along.
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Born in Syracuse Tom grew up in relative poverty following his father’s departure from the family, the actor has since claimed that he suffered abuse before the split. While Thomas III refused to pay child support, Tom’s mother Mary Lee Pfieffer moved her son from city to city, eventually settling in New Jersey where Tom, who once aspired to become a Catholic priest, then a Wrestler, took up acting. His first role was as lead in a High School production of Guys and Dolls.
1981 saw Tom take his first acting role, alongside Brooke Shields in Endless Love. He followed this up with increasingly important roles before in 1983 appearing in Risky Business, the underpanted lip syncing scene of which brought him to the attention of movie goers worldwide as well as to Director Jerry Bruckheimer who asked Tom to star in his next project. Rumour has it that the actor turned down the role of fighter pilot Maverick in Top Gun but in 1986 there he was on our screens, ready to become a cinematic icon.
As the 80s rolled on The Colour of Money, Cocktail and Rain Man ensured Tom’s place at the top of the Hollywood A list, taking him in to the nineties able to demand huge pay cheques for his work and earning him Academy Award nominations (for Born on the Fourth of July). In 1990 he met Australian actress Nicole Kidman on the set of Days of Thunder who he would soon work with again on the less successful Far and Away. Fresh from his divorce from Mimi Rogers, whom he had married just three years earlier, Tom whisked Nicole up the aisle before embarking on a roll call of more ’serious’ film work from The Firm to A Few Good Men and Interview With The Vampire.
1996 proved a successful year for Tom. He began a long relationship with the Mission:Impossible franchise and earned himself another Oscar nomination for the unforgettable Bruckheimer release Jerry Maguire. But this time seemed to mark a turning point for America’s most personable lead man. In 1999 he and Nicole took on the bizarre and controversial Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut which he closely followed with the Oscar nominated Magnolia which saw a further move away from his usual ’arrogant nice guy’ roles.
In 2001 the Cruise/Kidman van screeched to an unexpected halt. The couple, who had two adopted children - Isabella and Connor - were divorced just before their tenth wedding anniversary. Nicole, three months pregnant, later miscarried. Tom was soon in love again, this time with Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz with whom he was linked until 2004. He continued to create box office successes, from a second Mission Impossible movie to Collateral and Minority Report.
Following his split from Penelope Tom became ever more vocal about his beliefs as a Scientologist. The controversial religion was expected to affect his 2005 outing, War of the Worlds, however whilst the film still managed to net millions, Tom’s religious ramblings coupled with his unexpected relationship with Dawson’s Creek and Batman Begins actress Katie Holmes, sixteen years his junior, saw his own popularity wane.
Tom’s pro-Scientology and anti-psychiatry comments, a very public battle with Brooke Shields and some truly over the top, overacted protestations of love signalled the end of Tom’s relationship with Paramount pictures with whom he had worked as a Producer. Paramount weren’t the only ones to go off the actor either. The newspapers and magazines who not so long ago loved him and his movies turned against him, branding him a laughing stock and turning up the volume on the gay rumours which have plagued Cruise for so many years.
Tom and Katie carried out their fast forward relationship under the glare of the press - first bringing baby daughter Suri in to the world in April 2006 just a year after they first met, then marrying in November of the same year.
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