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July 2008
- Cruises Welcome Kidman's Kid
  
  newser | People | Jul 11, 08 11:34 AM CDT
  
  Tom Cruise’s clan sent a huge baby gift basket to his ex-wife Nicole Kidman in celebration of the birth of her daughter Sunday Rose, People reports. Contrary to reports that Cruise filled Kidman's Nashville hospital room with flowers, he and his brood—including their two kids together—sent the tot luxury chenille blankets and items from the Hermes baby line. More »
- Holmes' Sept. Broadway Debut Already a Bust?
  
  newser | New York Post | Jul 2, 08 11:41 AM CDT
  
  Katie Holmes is not drawing the tickets sales for her Broadway debut producers had hoped for, the New York Post reports. "I bought 1,000 tickets to the show," one broker says of the September revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons . "I still have them." Some had predicted Holmes' turn would rival Julia Roberts' box-office success with Three Days of Rain in 2006. More »
June 2008
- Cruise's Lawyer Rips Dr. Drew
  
  newser | Radar | Jun 13, 08 11:20 AM CDT
  
  Celebrity psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinksy's armchair diagnosis of Tom Cruise in Playboy has riled up Cruise’s lawyer, who compares the doc to a Nazi, Radar reports. The host of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew said Cruise’s attraction to the “cultish kind of environment” of Scientology is “a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood—maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect." More »
May 2008
- Katie Cruises to Broadway
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | May 20, 08 7:35 AM CDT
  
  Actress Katie Holmes is headed for Broadway, where she'll make her theatrical debut in the fall in Arthur Miller's Tony-winning play All My Sons , reports the Los Angeles Times . It's a risky step for Mrs. Tom Cruise, who hasn't appeared onstage since high school. She'll star alongside two-time Tony winner John Lithgow and two-time Oscar winner Dianne Wiest. More »
- Another TomKitten?
  
  newser | E! Online | May 9, 08 10:05 AM CDT
  
  Tom Cruise had better watch it: E! Online reports that wife Katie Holmes has the baby-making "itch." "Now that Suri is more toddler than baby, she said she misses having an infant in the house. And, of course, she thinks Suri would make a great big sister," a friend to the power couple dished. "She said she's got the itch." More »
April 2008
- Not Again! Cruise Back to Oprah
  
  newser | MSNBC | Apr 25, 08 10:13 AM CDT
  
  What hopping mad announcement does he have now? Tom Cruise will return to the Oprah Winfrey Show for the first time since his notorious couch-jumping, Katie-Holmes-crazed fiasco in 2005, MSNBC reports. In addition to a studio interview, the two-part show, planned for May sweeps, will tour his Telluride mountain getaway, People notes. Read: possible cameos by Holmes or daughter Suri. More »
- Suri's Birthday Tab: $100K
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 23, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes certainly upgraded from last year's piñatas-and-pizza party for daughter Suri's first birthday, spending $100,000 to celebrate her second last Friday. The event's 24 guests each got their own designer cake (shaped like a hat, with a butterfly and a daisy on the brim), the Daily News reports; TomKat also shelled out for 1,000 live butterflies. More »
- Cruise Kid Lands Gig in Will Smith Flick
  
  newser | People | Apr 22, 08 11:17 AM CDT
  
  Which gets you further in Hollywood: having Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as parents or having Will Smith as your close family friend? Either way, Connor Cruise, the famed actors' adopted 13-year-old son, has scored himself a big screen debut in Smith's upcoming drama, "Seven Pounds," People.com reports. The younger Cruise will play a minor role as a young Smith. More »
- Take a Toke of 'Tom Cruise'
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Apr 4, 08 3:56 PM CDT
  
  Wonder what it's like to be as high—on life and on couch cushions—as Tom Cruise? Head west, where licensed California medical-marijuana dealers are hawking a bud called "Tom Cruise Purple." The vials reportedly feature the actor's maniacally laughing mug—and aficionados say it'll have you hallucinating in no time, the New York Daily News reports. More »
March 2008
- Katie May Be Heading to Broadway
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | Mar 29, 08 10:09 PM CDT
  
  Katie Holmes may make a run for the door later this year—the stage door, that is. The actress known to some as Mrs. Tom Cruise is in serious talks to star in a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons when it opens on Broadway later this year, the Daily Mail reports. It would be her professional stage debut. More »
- Cruise Busts Moves in Birthday Video
  
  newser | Gawker | Mar 14, 08 8:32 PM CDT
  
  The lock on Scientology's media vault must be missing. Gawker has obtained "secret video" of a lavish birthday bash thrown for church booster Tom Cruise on board a cruise ship, in which the couch-jumper enters to theme music from Top Gun , and sings and dances through Old Time Rock and Roll from Risky Business . More »
- Internet Activists Target Scientology
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Mar 3, 08 2:10 PM CST
  
  Scientology is increasingly under attack on the Internet, where critics and dropouts are undermining the church's traditionally tight control of its public image, reports the LA Times . Three ex-Scientologists, including the niece of the church's head, launched ExScientologyKids.com last week. Its motto: "We were born. We grew up. We escaped." More »
February 2008
- Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Feb 4, 08 4:04 PM CST
  
  After the Church of Scientology removed a video of Tom Cruise calling his religion a “blast” from YouTube, the Internet world declared war. Hackers have been furiously shutting down and “Google bombing” Scientology's website while free-speech protesters gather and pranksters send white powder in envelopes to LA-area Scientology locations, the Guardian reports. More »
January 2008
- Figuring Out Tom Cruise Scientology Video
  
  CBS | Jan 17, 08
  
  (CBS) The Internet is buzzing with a video that shows a behind-the-scenes interview of Tom Cruise discussing The Church of Scientology. But the inside look has left many people wondering about the religion. The video can be found on Gawker and YouTube, and is the center of a legal battle between Scientology and Gawker.
- Tom's Medal for Services to Scientology
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jan 17, 08
  
  'It's rough and tumble, wild and woolly" and "a blast," according to Tom Cruise. But Scientology also confers some serious bling, none shinier than the Freedom Medal of Valour. The actor and proselytiser for the Church of Scientology was awarded this gold-coloured medallion by the movement in 2004 but an edited video clip of Cruise giving an intense spiel for the award ceremony has only just emerged on YouTube. The gong features two interlocking triangles on their sides with an "S" snaking through and the words "freedom medal" around the top.
- Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video
  
  newser | ABC News | Jan 16, 08 9:00 AM CST
  
  The latest Tom Cruise thriller is a Scientology testimonial video circulating online in which the weirdly intense actor promotes the faith as the way to save the world, and urges fellow Scientologists to "educate to bring a new reality" to non-believers. "When you drive past an accident," Cruise says, with the Mission: Impossible theme throbbing in the background, "you have to do something because you know you're the only one that can really help." More »
- Cruise Photo Case Man Sentenced
  
  BBC | Jan 11, 08
  
  A man who helped try to force Tom Cruise to pay $1.3m (£0.6m) for stolen photos of the actor's wedding has been sentenced to two years probation. Computer technician Marc Gittleman, 34, who had pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property, was also fi
- Scribes Cut Deal With Tom Cruise's UA
  
  newser | Variety | Jan 7, 08 7:14 PM CST
  
  Striking scribes cut a deal with Tom Cruise's United Artists today, their first with a major studio since walking out in November, Variety reports. Terms were kept secret, but analysts say they likely match a deal struck with David Letterman's WorldWide Pants last week, including new media residuals. “United Artists has lived up to its name," WGA West president Patric Verrrone said. More »
- Scientologists Blast Cruise Bio's Claims
  
  newser | Daily Mail (UK) | Jan 7, 08 9:45 AM CST
  
  The Church of Scientology is preparing a libel suit against an upcoming biography of actor Tom Cruise that calls him the organization's second-most-powerful man and says it influences nearly every facet of his life, reports the Daily Mail . The book, by Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton, says Scientology staffers from cleaners to nannies scrutinize and influence Cruise's every move. More »
- Tom Cruise's United Artists Cutting Deal With Writers
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jan 6, 08 5:00 AM CST
  
  United Artists, the independent production unit of MGM controlled by actor Tom Cruise, is expected to soon finalize a deal with striking Hollywood writers modeled on the one made by producers for talk-show host David Letterman, the Los Angeles Times reports. United Artists will likely grant some key demands of the Writers Guild of America. The union hopes getting independent producers on board will help push the big studios back to the bargaining table. More »