Tom Cruise: Batshit crazy; gourmet chef?

[Immortal Goat]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18042006/344/ll-eat-placenta-says-cruise.html

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is planning to eat his new baby's placenta.

It is the latest in a series of unusual revelations by the 43-year-old Mission Impossible star about the child he is expecting with fiancee Katie Holmes.

He told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there."

Cruise has also claimed he knew actress Holmes, 27, was pregnant, even before she told him.

A follower of Scientology, he has defended the religion's belief that women should give birth in silence.

"It's really about respecting the woman.

"It's not about her not screaming," he has told GQ.

Cruise recently also said he believes he can cure drug addicts.

The actor plans to marry Holmes in the summer.

He said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now".

Jesus Christ, this fucker just gets wierder and wierder.

[Geggy]

This is your brain on scientology, folks. Just say "no."

[mburbank]

As wierd as that is, eating the Placenta was hippie dippie before scientology got ahold of the idea.

But it's really chauvanist of him to eat it. He should let Katie eat it. She's the one who just went through labor and needs the protein.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

I heard he plans on conducting seminars for Katie and her family on "what the baby means" for their lives. :/

[mburbank]

Yeah, I read about that too. He said it would be a 'fun learning adventure'.

If I'd told my wife I expected her to attend seminars on what the baby was going to mean, she'd have put my teeth down my throat.

I hope there's a whole lot of pre-paid after divorce therapy money in her pre-nup. She gonna need it.

Anyone want to take odds on if they stay together as long as Michael jackson and his kids mom afetr the baby is born?

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Wow. I thought that first part was a joke, like those death hoaxes for Will Ferrel and Wes Anderson.

[kahljorn]

when my cat gave birth recently she ate the placenta afterwards. Also, she kind of had them out of nowhere(or so it would seem since she wasn't in her nest or anything) so it popped out of her butt and she dragged it around for a while and it looked like a big poopie was hanging out of her butt.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Nevertheless, I would aplaud any camera man that managed to get a snapshot of Tom eating the placenta.

[El Blanco]

I thought she wasn't allowed to see her family?

I'm taking odds that he wisks the child off as soon as its born to some scientology monastery. And she'll just be abandoned and forgotten.

Anybody see the South Park that made fun of them? I think that kid is going to be filling Stan's role.

[ziggytrix]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/South_Park_Xenu.jpg
PRAISE XENU!

[executioneer]

i really, really wish tom cruise would get hit by a bus

[executioneer]

john travolta, too

[Miss Modular]

The baby has been born.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-04-18-tomkat-baby_x.htm

It's a girl for Tom and Katie
Updated 4/18/2006 10:23 PM ET
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY

TomKitten has arrived! And it's a girl named Suri.

Tom Cruise, 43, and his fiancée, Katie Holmes, 27, delivered their first child together in Los Angeles.

"Both mother and daughter are doing well," the couple's publicist, Arnold Robinson, said in a statement issued shortly after People magazine reported the birth.

Suri weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces and is 20 inches long, and her name means "princess" in Hebrew and "red rose" in Persian, said the statement given to USA TODAY.

Cruise, who jumped on Oprah Winfrey's couch last spring to declare his love for Holmes, was equally enthused about this round of fatherhood. (Cruise has two children — Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11 — with his second wife, Nicole Kidman.)

He and Holmes were "very excited about it, about this new life," Cruise told ABC's Diane Sawyer in a Primetime Live interview that aired Friday.

There's no word on whether Holmes followed the silent birth guidelines of the Church of Scientology, which both she and Cruise espouse. Cruise clarified to Sawyer that "silent birth" was "basically just respecting the mother ... helping to be quiet. ... If she's going to make noise, she's going to make noise. But why have other people make noise? You know, you want that area very calm and to make it very special."

Cruise and Holmes took their romance public last April in Rome, where Cruise attended the David di Donatello awards. They revealed their great expectation in October, after getting engaged June 17 in Paris.

Cruise has said the couple plan to marry this summer. "I can't wait till we get married," he said on Primetime. "I can't wait till I can ... call and say, 'Hey, you know, put my wife on the phone.' "

As usual, Cruise's timing is impeccable. His film Mission: Impossible III opens May 5.

[Sethomas]

Just being a gelatinous protein fiber, my guess is that it'd just taste like egg whites.

[kahljorn]

"silent birth" was "basically just respecting the mother ... helping to be quiet. ... If she's going to make noise, she's going to make noise. But why have other people make noise? You know, you want that area very calm and to make it very special."

:lol at scientology common sense. So many people blew it out of proportion who talked to me about it. IF SHE ISNT SILENT HE WILL BEAT HER OR SACRAFICE HER TO L. RON HUBBARD AND HE WILL ET THE CHILD ALIVE.

[Command Prompt]

okay, I kind of ignored the whole scientology thing, and finally curiosity got the better of me and I looked into it.

So, this is a fucking joke right? People actually believe this horseshit?

[Emu]

So, did he eat it or not?

Also, I think MI3 is going to be completely deserted. I know I couldn't watch a movie starring a man who's teetering on the edge of hilarity/insanity.

[El Blanco]

I dunno. Brando was never playing with a full deck, and look at his best work.

I'm not usually one to comment on the relaionships of others, but holy fucking Christ, this is such a sham.

[mburbank]

Yeah, Crazy doesn't rule out being a good actor. Look at Klus Kinski, that dude was crackers! On the other hand, am I the only one who always thought Tom Cruise never rose above adequate in his movies? I mean, he never fell below adequate either, that's his gift, he never sucks as much as I think he will, but I've have never once left a Tom Cruise movie thinking 'Wow, what a performance!'

He says he was joking about eating the Placenta.

And the silent birth claims may be somehwat exagerated, but there are photpos of people bringing huge cue cards to the house that remind everybody to be quiet. Cue cards , in the delivery room, in your house, wherever (except on the stage of a show) and particularly in the contxt of a birth, strike me as VERY CREEPY!

[El Blanco]

And when was his last big movie that actually focused on his charecter?

Think about it. People saw War of the Worlds for the special effects. Same with MI:2 and probably MI:3. Ditto for Minority Report.

Last Samurai didn't do so well at the box office.

The last movie that was truly his was Top Gun.

And has the child been wisked away to begin her training for her apocolyptic battle with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby?

[kahljorn]

I saw minority report because it was an adaptation of philip k dick's work, and with classics like getyourasstomars and Bladerunner you can't help but want to see.

I thought he was good in magnolia. His character killed me. "TAME THE CUNT! RESPECT THE COCK!". But to be honest it made me laugh too much to really observe his acting talent. I liked vanilla sky, too, but I still can't say if he was good in it ;( For some reason all my memories of him in every movie he has the same facial expressions and pretty much the same character with the same voice and attitude. Maybe he is a mediocre actor.

[sspadowsky]

So, did he eat it or not?

Also, I think MI3 is going to be completely deserted. I know I couldn't watch a movie starring a man who's teetering on the edge of hilarity/insanity.

No doubt. Why bother watching his movies when his real life is far more hilarious?

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Magnolia was a character film, and I think he was alright.

He's one of those actors who is Tom Cruise in every movie. I think Tom Hanks falls into this boat often. Tom Hanks with AIDS, Tom Hanks on D-Day, Tom Hanks coaching baseball, Tom Hanks foiling the Catholic Church. etc.

Although he has had some exceptions, but generally, he's the guy in Big every time.

[executioneer]

i liked the part in war of the worlds where tom cruise beats the guy to death with a shovel for very little reason, it made me think "method acting :eek"

[El Blanco]

Actually, that wasn't in the script. He just happen to go ape shit on some poor PA while acamera was rolling and the footage managed to stay in the final cut.

[kahljorn]

I like how the press tries to make tom cruise out to be an overly crazy cultist when he says stuff like, "Silent birth" and "Don't take any pills", and people eat it up ;( lol all silent birth means is other people in the birthing chamber are quiet EVERYBODY told me that Katie Holmes had to be quiet and he was a crazy opressive husband for doing so. Then they told me he said she can't take any pain pills, and apparantly all he said is she should try not to take pills.
I don't know though it could all be PR shit.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Yeah, he's a victim of the liberal media. :rolleyes

[ziggytrix]

He is a victim of sensationalist media tho, even though there's no such thing as 'bad publicity' when your main marketable skill is 'being famous'.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Tom Cruise has been famous for roughly twenty years now. The media isn't just targeting him now because he's due, or because they just found out he's a Scientologist (which he has practiced for 16 years now). There's a lot of famous Scientologists, and none of them nearly draw the press Cruise does.

Around the same time he started saying really stupid shit he had also hired Lee Anne DeVette, his sister and fellow Scientologist, to be his agent. I've seen this linked in some places, and it makes sense that she may have set him loose and encouraged this batshit behavior.

I think he recently fired her though.

[ziggytrix]

Any time any scientologist does something crazy it will get lots of press attention, because most people think scientology is a wacko cult.

It is sensationalism no matter how you look at it, whether or not he and/or his sister wanted it. As far as I'm concerned the ONLY reason anyone should be talking about this dolt is if he's made a new movie.

[ItalianStereotype]

are you suggesting that scientology is anything BUT a wacko cult?

[kahljorn]

About as wacko as every other religion out there. I don't really know enough about it to condemn it in particular, though.

[Emu]

L. Ron Hubbard claimed humans evolved from clams, and that some of the problems clams faced still haunt us today. I think that's enough.

[kahljorn]

That sounds hilarious to me, though. Maybe it's like discordianism and they fuck with people then enlighten them. That's actually the process for every form of initiation I can imagine.

[ziggytrix]

I don't know enough about Scientology to dismiss it as a wacko cult, but it certainly gets a lot more attention than any wacko cult should.


Then again, a celebrity cult would say there's no such thing as bad press, right?

[Girl Drink Drunk]

And when was his last big movie that actually focused on his charecter?

Think about it. People saw War of the Worlds for the special effects. Same with MI:2 and probably MI:3. Ditto for Minority Report.

Last Samurai didn't do so well at the box office.

The last movie that was truly his was Top Gun.

And has the child been wisked away to begin her training for her apocolyptic battle with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby?

Oh god. I think he still is a great as an actor, but Top Gun was a joke.

[Abcdxxxx]

scientology tapes these confessionary sessions people give while hooked up to a machine that's supposed to measure their enzymes. then they blackmail anyone who gets into the inner sanctom of the organization, and tries to leave. i know a couple who were like scientology mansion swingers, who hung out on the boat and stuff, but they were threatened, and found a rattle snake in their mail box when they started asking too many questions. lucky for tom cruise, the scientology peoples can cure homosexuality, because hollywood is filled with rent boys, and gay porn stars with detailed accounts of long term sugar daddy relationships with tom cruise. one even self published a book about it. the media has been pretty kind to him, considering.

[ziggytrix]

i dunno, A Few Good Men was pretty good

[Girl Drink Drunk]

Seconded whole-heartedly.

[El Blanco]

Yes it was.......because of Nicholson.

[Ant10708]

About as wacko as every other religion out there. I don't really know enough about it to condemn it in particular, though. Every other religion doesn't charge money for you to move up in order to find out their actual beliefs. Every other reilgion wasn't made a few decades ago by a science fiction writer who claimed the way to get rich was to invent a religion. Every other religion doesn't have special celebrity centers. Most religions have long histories and shared cultures among them. I'm pretty sure scientology came all from L Hubbard's mind. Every other religion doesn't use threats to keep you a member of their group. Every other religion isn't banned in Germany for being a dangerous cult.

Believe whatever you want about other religion's teachings but to compare the craziness of a 'religion' invented for the sole purpose to create money for a science fiction writer a few decades ago to ones that share hundreds of years of culture and were most likly created and written down by people who actually belived, or at best were trying to find a way to explain things they couldn't explain other ways, in the things they were teaching and writing down unlike L Hubbard. I hate when people who compare real cults to established relgions. Established religions don't force you to pay them money for fucking everything or to be followed around by an advisor. Do some research on scientology and you will realize how much more of a 'wacko cult' it really is compared to established religions or even unestablished ones like wicca or whatever else people pratice. It is ignorance in my opinion to compare it to other religions or say it doesn't seem any less wacko.

[kahljorn]

" Every other religion doesn't charge money for you to move up in order to find out their actual beliefs."

"Tithe".
Almost every religion requires some kind of sacrafice in one form or another to find out their actual beliefs. The pope probably knows more about christianity than some lowly workaholic in new york city(of course that depends on how you look at it), and a buddhist monk who gave up all of his life's possessions might know more about "buddhism" than you(that's probably a better example).

"Every other religion doesn't use threats to keep you a member of their group."

You're going to hell.

" It is ignorance in my opinion to compare it to other religions or say it doesn't seem any less wacko."

:lol I said, "About as wacko as any other religion out there"(semantics). Are you saying no other religions have wacko like tendencies, that only scientology has a little bit of wacko?

"Every other reilgion wasn't made a few decades ago by a science fiction writer who claimed the way to get rich was to invent a religion."

That sounds more like money grubbing than wacko. Wacko would generally provide some sort of craziness factor.

Please provide us/me with more information on scientology, I'm interested in learning about it. I do find it hilarious that people blow up scientology to be abig thing, then most of it turns out to be misunderstood.

My point in it being wacko was that the people who believe it don't really know what they are believing and probably don't really care. Scientology is actually a very good example of that, but so is damn near every other religion, it's just a bit more subtle.

Intergalactic walrus? That's hilarious. Are you guys sure scientology isn't just some kind of joke taken too seriously? Also, he said women shouldn't breastfeed. That's also hilarious to me for some reason.

[Sethomas]

Kahl, to learn the "secrets" of scientology requires a long process of paying to be elevated into a new tier, and this runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. A decade ago, someone found out the secrets (which are not easy to come by) and posted them on the internet, and naturally the "Church" tried bitterly to sue. So, while you can make the trite observation that many conventional faiths have a "tithe" (a term which strictly refers to a 10% donation, something to which generally only fundamentalists live up), you can go to any Catholic or Lutheran or Buddhist center and freely enquire what the religion is all about. You might not get an honest evaluation of each faith's ups versus its downs, but you're essentially allowed free access to as much knowledge as you want.

And threatening people with eternal damnation is not quite in the same league as putting snakes in their mailboxes. The former can be countered by simple incredulity, the latter is just fucking weird.

[kahljorn]

*shrug* I'm trying to build an argument off of nothing here.

Most earlier religions limited the knowledge people could have and even had the tiers you are talking about. Today the lines may be more blurred, but if you look at the history of most religions you could find some similarities. I mean, they would kill people for disagreeing with them.
I mean didn't Origen himself say that the knowledge of the masses wasn't even the entire truth? Who was then ousted from the church.

P.S. I'm not really interested in this argument but I am interested in hearing what you guys know about scientology so go ahead and keep posting about that.

[Ant10708]

http://www.xenu.net/archive/secret.html

[executioneer]

hahaha oh shit :eek :eek

[kahljorn]

I heard about this xenu thing. I don't get how someone could have really stolen their internal secrets, it's pretty easy to lie about having stolen it and make up a bunch of shit, but whatever. I'll give it a read.