Cruise Threatens Baby Shop Over Leaks

Suri Cruise, A-Rod's daughter embrace trend

(NEWSER) - Just 4 years old and already a trendsetter, Suri Cruise literally stands out—when she wears high heels. The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was on the cutting edge of the polarizing footwear trend, which some find cute and other consider dangerous. "Some people see it as part of the sexualization of young girls," says an editor at Parents magazine, but one shoe exec tells the New York Post : "Little girls simply want to look like big girls." More»

Diamond earrings, a pony, princess gown, etc., etc.

(NEWSER) - All Suri Cruise wants for Christmas is $130,000 worth of swag. And pals of doting parents Toms Cruise and Katie Holmes say she's probably going to get it. Topping the list of the 5-year-old apple of her parents' eye are diamond earrings, a pony, and a dress that "makes her look like a fairy princess." Tom and Katie "love the holidays and always go overboard," a source tells In Touch . "They are buying Suri absolutely everything she asks for." The proud parents have already found a stable for the pony near their Beverly Hills home, notes Hollyscoop. More»

This can only lead to bad things...

(NEWSER) - Raise your hand if you think Suri Cruise is going to end up worse than Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian combined. The latest tale of extravagance in the 5-year-old’s life: Parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes paid $5,000 for exclusive use of a VIP-like area at New York’s Rockefeller Center ice skating rink (skaters usually pay $75 to get access to the area ... which they have to share). As if that wasn’t enough, a source tells the New York Daily News the family also had gourmet hot chocolate and treats made by "Mr. Chocolate" himself delivered “especially for Suri,” because God forbid she be subjected to normal ice skating rink snacks. Click to be further horrified by the $130,000 worth of Christmas gifts the tot is asking Santa for. More»

Apparently there's a lot of clay, and perhaps some grade inflation to boot

(NEWSER) - They grow up so fast: Suri Cruise’s first day of school—Scientology-flavored school—was last week. So what’s it like at the New Village Leadership Academy in Calabasas, California, which uses L. Ron Hubbard’s “study technology” educational system? Well, for one thing, there’s a lot of clay. Sculpting is apparently big at schools like this, Slate explains, because Hubbard said students are frustrated when they have no access to “mass,” or the physical presence of whatever object they’re studying. According to the official study technology website, without mass students feel, among other things, “sort of spinny” and “squashed.” Therefore, Suri will probably be encouraged to use clay to sculpt concepts she’s learning about. More»

Holmes calls hubby 'an incredible human being'

(NEWSER) - Katie Holmes never really went away, unless you count her 2008 stint on Broadway , but she's coming back nonetheless. The actress, who just completed four films and is shooting her role as Jackie Kennedy for a History Channel miniseries, talks to New York about her family:

• On Suri the fashionista: "She picks out all of her own clothes and has since she was 1½"—and sometimes Katie's, too. "I had this beautiful red gown and these royal-blue shoes that I wasn’t planning on wearing, but Suri made me put them on and so I was like, 'Okay, I trust you.'"