May 24, 2005. Scientology evangelist Tom Cruise excused himself for leaping all over TV talk show Oprah Winfrey's couch by declaring his love for publicity Katie Holmes. The star went on "Oprah" and drooled about his young girlfriend, punching the air like people do when they score a touchdown or win a car on "Wheel of Fortune."
He said, "I can't be cool... I can't be laidback. It's something that has happened and I feel I want to celebrate it and I wanna celebrate her. She's a very special woman." But the hyped megastar also said he tried to be cool when they first started dating - as he laid on a series of romantic surprises including a motorcycle ride on a beach and decorating their hotel room in Rome, Italy with rose petals.
Mmm, yet a People magazine poll found that 62% believe the romance is a publicity stunt. A Star cover story posed the question: "Are they faking it?" And even The New York Times ran a story with the headline "I Love You With All My Hype."
, Nice to be in love, fer sure, but it's so odd for a 42-year-old twice-divorced man to act all girly-girlish about a new love. And most megastars don't actively go overboard SEEKing publicity to advertise a new relationship. Most stars lie, run, deny, use fake names and disguises and do everything in their power to flee from paparazzi snapping photos from the bushes.
For example, take Brad and Ang. We're totally with Brad Pitt hooking up with Angelina Jolie cuz they're like the coolest people in Hollywood, and if they want to deny their relationship -- fine, that's the game. They want privacy yet the more they try to hide it the more intrigued we are by it. Not so, Cruise and Holmes who had to issue statements through their publicists to alert the world they were dating. Now Tom is shopping the affair around on talk and entertainment shows such as "Inside Edition," "Access Hollywood," "Entertainment Tonight" and "Oprah." And this from a star who's insisted for 20 years that his private life is none of our damn business?
Rolling Stone magazine's Rob Sheffield writes his take on it, in an open "letter" to Cruise: "This next mission is your toughest yet. Your goal: Convince the world that you and Katie Holmes are caught in a scorching love train, rather than a sad publicity ploy . . . you need her to look like a heavy-lidded, dazed, satisfied w-o-m-a-n, rather than a scared kid who's been told to play along, or she'll never see her stuffed koalas again."
Nice to be in love, fer sure, but it's so odd for a 42-year-old twice-divorced man to act all girly-girlish about a new love. And most megastars don't actively go overboard SEEKing publicity to advertise a new relationship. Most stars lie, run, deny, use fake names and disguises and do everything in their power to flee from paparazzi snapping photos from the bushes.
For example, take Brad and Ang. We're totally with Brad Pitt hooking up with Angelina Jolie cuz they're like the coolest people in Hollywood, and if they want to deny their relationship -- fine, that's the game. They want privacy yet the more they try to hide it the more intrigued we are by it. Not so, Cruise and Holmes who had to issue statements through their publicists to alert the world they were dating. Now Tom is shopping the affair around on talk and entertainment shows such as "Inside Edition," "Access Hollywood," "Entertainment Tonight" and "Oprah." And this from a star who's insisted for 20 years that his private life is none of our damn business?
Rolling Stone magazine's Rob Sheffield writes his take on it, in an open "letter" to Cruise: "This next mission is your toughest yet. Your goal: Convince the world that you and Katie Holmes are caught in a scorching love train, rather than a sad publicity ploy . . . you need her to look like a heavy-lidded, dazed, satisfied w-o-m-a-n, rather than a scared kid who's been told to play along, or she'll never see her stuffed koalas again."
