I Love It, Just Love It. Woo Hoo!! (Katy Wildly Jumps On Furniture). (Tom Cruise: Unfairly treated by the media or not?)

Member Name: katygriff

Product:	Tom Cruise: Unfairly treated by the media or not?
Date:	05/09/06 (235 review reads)
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Disadvantages: How Mad Can It Go?

I love a good media story especially when it involves ‘A’ list celebrities. I am the kind of person who is so jealous of these people and I love to see interesting stories and ones that show them to be absolutely mad are even better. Imagine my absolute pleasure then when we found out that Tom Cruise was dating Katie Holmes and this was the hottest bit of celebrity gossip we had seen for ages. I mean how this man in his forties dare date a girl in her twenties? Now I personally do not have a problem with it but the media had a filed day and put so much press out suggesting that he was way too old to date her and also speculation that the pair had been holed up for days when she was supposed to believe in sex before marriage and had been preaching it for years. so here is my review on exactly how I view the Tom Cruise saga.

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Tom Dates Katie:

She was seen as a girl next door in America who believed in sex before marriage and followed the Catholic religion. Katie had had a long relationship with Chris Klein and it was said that she was following her no sex rule. Tom Cruise was seen as a bit of a wild cad in America, a top actor who had a long marriage with Nicole Kidman and had dated many high profile celebrity women.

When they got together it was shocking because of the age gap but mainly because they were such an unlikely pair of celebrities to get together. Suddenly their relationship was professed as a shambles by many of the media with just a few saying it was for real.


My verdict on their actual relationship is that at first I thought the same as most people and that is that I was not sure what I was seeing and I didn’t believe it. As more pictures came out though I still believed that it as all a publicity stunt and that it was just to promote both of their films that were due out a month after they had confessed to being in a relationship.

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Tom Loves Katie:

So the Tom Cruise story continues and just when the shock of him and Katie was dying down he manages to make a complete fool of himself doing one quick and rash thing after another. Professing his love for Katie at every opportunity, proposing to her on the top of the Eiffel tower and then going on the Oprah Winfrey show and physically jumping up and down on her sofa. It was at this point that everybody believed Tom had gone a little crazy but this was nothing as the most shocking news was still to come.


When I saw him doing these mad public displays of affection I still believed that it was all for publicity. The excitement of two major blockbusters coming to the screen had still not died down so I thought it was a last ditch effort for them to get more cinema ratings. I thought it was quite sweet of Tom though as I am sure if it is real that he would be that happy. I mean I don’t think he is good looking and never have because he has a strange face and I can’t stand to watch him in films. For him to be that age and actually be dating a woman who is as beautiful as Katie who is half his age then I cant blame him for wanting to tell everybody.

I actually think the media did treat him a bit cruelly at this point because I am sure most people would be happy if they were him and they seemed to have labeled him as a crazy loon at this point which is a little bit harsh. The person I was worried about at this point was Katie because Cruise seemed to be getting full on pretty fast and I was thinking to myself that this relationship seems to be moving awfully quickly so I was wondering if Cruise was putting her under pressure with all of his antics.

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Tom, Katie and the Bump:

Who would have thought that we would so soon hear the words Katie Holmes is pregnant with Tom Cruise’s baby? But this we did and the press kept a watchful eye on them closely after the announcement which was good as we got to know what was going on. So the pregnancy bloomed causing considerable stress to Katie fans and I am sure her parents that this devout Catholic girl who believed in no sex before marriage was now standing here pregnant by a guy twice her age. The media begins to treat Cruise a bit worse now and people were slowly beginning to disrespect him a little thinking he was stealing Katie’s innocence away. It was not a good idea at this point to ask a Katie fan if they liked Cruise as you would fear for your life.


What I found a bit funny at this point was that this relationship was moving so fast and although we were hearing lots about Cruise and his undying love for Katie, we were not hearing much from Katie. For a relationship that was progressing quickly and moving into areas that usually take more than a matter of weeks, the mother-to-be was very quiet. Throughout the pregnancy instead of Katie looking like she was enjoying it she always looked quite moody and as if she did not want to be pregnant at all.

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Tom and his Aliens:

Now people like me who are keen readers of celebrity of gossip will have known for a long time that Cruise is into Scientology which means he believes in aliens and strange goings on. I think it is a pretty strange thing to believe in but I quite like it because you know if people were all the same then life would be pretty boring wouldn’t it? Now Tom is their most high profile member of the church of scientology and everybody knows it. He has been preaching it around everywhere including apparently pushing Katie into it and planning to teach his child hot to follow the religion.


My verdict on this bit of the now famously known as TomKat saga is that Tom should not be preaching his scientology to everybody. I even heard that he has fallen out with actress Brooke Shields because he went mad at her as she does not believe in what he does. I think everybody is entitled to their own thing and I find it fascinating what people believe in but I never think it should be preached to everybody and if they don’t believe in it, Cruise takes it personally.

Of course the media have loved Tom and Scientology because it has filled up so much column space for months because everybody finds it interesting. I mean seriously how could you not?

The fact that he was trying to make us all think it is right to make Katie give birth in silence and then not touch her baby for a while afterwards as told in scientology was absolutely absurd. Then again we can’t really say too much as Katie has been silent throughout all of this so we have no idea how she feels at all. I can’t imagine she was pleased about the silence thing though.

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Where is the Baby?

So Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have now given birth to a wonderful baby girl named Suri. The only thing is nobody has even seen her so how do we know she even exists?


What I think is that the media have truly rolled with this story and that they have made it seem a lot worse than it really is. If I had a baby and I stayed cooped up in my house for a few months just having the occasional family and close friends then nobody would find that strange at all. The fact that they are famous should not change this but with the trend for celebrity parents to sell photos of them and their new addition has made us all go mad with wonder about little Suri.

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Tom and Paramount:

As if Tom Cruise does not give us and the media enough to talk about, his now split with Paramount has caused even more embarrassment and confusion from the star. So what are we to believe? The media are running two things on this, the first is that Paramount have dumped the actor because of his latest crazy antics and the second is that Tom came to a mutual agreement with them to leave.


My opinion is that the media have been fair with this part because they have tried to show that both parties are practically blaming each other. I am not sure who I agree with but lets just say I think Cruise has been acting strange and because he is apparently losing quite a few of his fans I think it is a good move for Paramount in the long run. It is a shame for Cruise but then again he is acting oddly and to be fair he has got millions in the bank I am sure so I can’t feel too guilty for him.

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Overall:

Tom Cruise is a strange celebrity case but he one of the most entertaining around. He is this actor who is so well-established and he seems to have just been attacked by an extreme case of puppy love and going mad with it. In a way I find myself endearing to him as I think it is quite sweet but as a celebrity I don’t think he can moan too much about the media as the way he is acting, everybody wants to know and also we anticipate what is coming next as each step of the way I sit here and think can he get any stranger?

With respect to the media I am of the opinion that they are being quite fair to him. In life if you act strange you do get strange looks from people around you and it is no different for the celebrity. I am sorry celebrities but you chose that lifestyle knowing that people will be interested in whatever you do. I do not agree with the media hounding him to get a story but Cruise is one of those people who you do not even have to chase as he throws it right out there for everyone to see.

In conclusion I am going to give this topic five stars because I think the media are being fair on Cruise because over the past year he has been fascinating to watch and as long as he keeps doing strange things I will want to read about them.

Thanks for reading.

xxx

Summary: So Entertaining!