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Sep 2 12 9:37 AM
bubbles wrote:aI'd love to know why Friedman has such a soft spot for KHo. She doesn't deserve it. Not only was she not the youngest, it would appear that she was the only one willing to let her ambition and greed for fame overpower whatever sense she might have had. Scarlett was only 20 when Tommy came knocking and she had more horse sense than to get involved with Scientology and a man more than twice her age.
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Sep 2 12 9:45 AM
KidLawless77 wrote:funmi20 wrote:lol at Roger Friedman still trying to play it like holmes was so naive doe eyed girl..... I wrote the following year about women being auditioned to be Mrs. Cruise. Jennifer Garner, Scarlett Johnansson, and Kate Bosworth were on that list. Katie Holmes, the youngest and most vulnerable, wound up the “winner.” I reported then exclusively that she left New York for a meeting with Cruise on “Mission Impossible 3″ around April 12, 2005 and was not seen or heard from again for 16 days until she turned up in Rome as the love of Tom Cruise’s life.http://www.showbiz411.com...hollywood-by-vanity-fairits funny that he cant do his research to know that actually out of all the actresses rumoured about, katie was the second oldest after garner.scarlett is younger than her by (6 yrs), kat bosworth(5) and jessica alba(3)and am sure she had been in the business longer than or at least the same years as the rest of them.....yet those other ones were intelligent to realize the benifts might not outweigh the negativesYet somehow people like friedman want us to think poor naive katie was just joey potter and so meek , naive that she didnt know any better hahaExactly. Not only was she actually the second oldest, but the infamous "missing 16 days" turned out to be incorrect as well. Between this and his temper tantrum regarding what happened during the Son of No One screening at Sundance, I don't think anything that Friedman writes about his bff can be taken as fact.Gee, maybe he can use his power and influence to get his pal the roles she deserves. Oh, wait a minute. This is the guy who managed to get himself fired from FOX for reviewing a movie he watched via an illegal download. (I've said it a million times, but I don't think his criticism of Cruise had anything to do with him being fired.)
funmi20 wrote:lol at Roger Friedman still trying to play it like holmes was so naive doe eyed girl..... I wrote the following year about women being auditioned to be Mrs. Cruise. Jennifer Garner, Scarlett Johnansson, and Kate Bosworth were on that list. Katie Holmes, the youngest and most vulnerable, wound up the “winner.” I reported then exclusively that she left New York for a meeting with Cruise on “Mission Impossible 3″ around April 12, 2005 and was not seen or heard from again for 16 days until she turned up in Rome as the love of Tom Cruise’s life.http://www.showbiz411.com...hollywood-by-vanity-fairits funny that he cant do his research to know that actually out of all the actresses rumoured about, katie was the second oldest after garner.scarlett is younger than her by (6 yrs), kat bosworth(5) and jessica alba(3)and am sure she had been in the business longer than or at least the same years as the rest of them.....yet those other ones were intelligent to realize the benifts might not outweigh the negativesYet somehow people like friedman want us to think poor naive katie was just joey potter and so meek , naive that she didnt know any better haha
I wrote the following year about women being auditioned to be Mrs. Cruise. Jennifer Garner, Scarlett Johnansson, and Kate Bosworth were on that list. Katie Holmes, the youngest and most vulnerable, wound up the “winner.” I reported then exclusively that she left New York for a meeting with Cruise on “Mission Impossible 3″ around April 12, 2005 and was not seen or heard from again for 16 days until she turned up in Rome as the love of Tom Cruise’s life.
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Sep 2 12 5:41 PM
KidLawless77 wrote:It wasn't Friedman who said his criticism of MTP was the reason he was fired but rather some posters here and elsewhere. FWIW, I don't believe it had a thing to do with it for the reasons you cite. (Kidman is godmother to one of Murdoch's daughters by Wendi Deng.) I may sound loopier than usual, but I wondered if KHo didn't "befriend" or even pay him to say nice things about her prior to agreeing to be Beard #3. It would fit with when they met and it does happen. It was rumored for years that Paris Hilton underwrote Prez Hilton's blog, and he never said anything negative about her in the least. I would imagine in his profession, Friedman meets celebs on a regular basis. I can't see A SINGLE meeting between them bowing him over so much that he acts like someone ran over his dog every time there is any criticism of her. In fact, from the beginning, Friedman blamed MTP for KHo's crappy career. Even Lainey who was pro-KHo when they separated later was to suggest that maybe KHo was not this poor, widddle naive victim. I dunno. . . maybe KHo had a media plan in place to blame him for everything if she did not become an A-Lister. All those stories that were leaked after the split suggest that may have been the case. Between his endless praise of KHo and his hatred of Robert Pattinson, I think Friedman has really lost the plot.
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Sep 2 12 8:05 PM
posterchilde wrote:I just lost a load of respect for Nicole.
Sep 3 12 12:44 AM
(A representative for Miscavige told Vanity Fair, “Mr. Miscavige doesn’t remember any girlfriend of anyone, in his entire life, insulting him.”)
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After the Cruz breakup, the lovelorn actor turned to his best friend, Scientology leader Miscavige, for help in finding a new wife. The diminutive church boss, who has a notoriously volcanic temper, became irritated with constant calls from Tom. As the head of a multibillion-dollar operation, he felt it was below him to be seeking out women for the Hollywood star. He deputized his wife, Shelly, to take over the task.The first girl she chose seemed ideal. She was a Sea Org member, that is to say committed to working full time for Scientology. The girl found herself “running into” Cruise, all the while thinking she was auditioning for a part in a movie. She dated Cruise a couple of times but then asked Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer, if she was being deliberately “set up.”Her reward was to be told by Davis on Cruise’s behalf that the relationship was over. Then, according to friends, she was sent to a top security Scientology base and forced to scrub public bathroom floors with a toothbrush as punishment for messing up her assignment.Tom had already moved on, briefly romancing 19-year-old actress Yolanda Pecoraro, whose only claim to fame was appearing as a bikini babe in the TV drama “Dr. Vegas.” She did, though, bear a remarkable resemblance to Penelope Cruz. The daughter of a Nicaraguan mother and Italian father, she had been a Scientologist since the age of 13 and was by the side of the actor when he received a special Scientology award in November 2004.When that hookup bit the dust, he gave Scientology leaders a wish list of women he would like to date. They included Jennifer Garner and the up-and-coming actress Sofia Vergara.When Vergara got an invitation from Cruise’s friend Will Smith to attend a pre-Oscar party, she had no idea she was being set up. She was dazzled by Tom’s megawatt smile and amused by the blizzard of phone calls, flowers and chocolates that followed their first meeting.It was not long before he casually suggested they head for Celebrity Centre where, surprise, surprise, Miscavige was waiting to layer on the charm. It soon became clear that she was being auditioned for the biggest role of her life — Mrs. Tom Cruise Mark III. It was made clear that if she took the part, she would have to renounce her Catholic faith and convert to Scientology.“She was fundamentally terrified of Scientology,” a friend told me. “She sincerely believed that she would be struck down by God and burn in hell if she joined.”Exit Sofia — running for the hills. [THANK GOD]After that debacle, the church went into overdrive to find him a partner. They put out a casting call for possible brides, telling them that there was an upcoming Cruise movie they might get a part in. Former Scientologist Marc Headley, who filmed many of the auditions, recalls that first they rounded up Scientology actresses like Erika Christensen, Erica Howard and Sofia Milos. None was deemed acceptable.They were looking for a woman who would accept the teachings of Scientology, but who would also look good on Tom’s arm — and not make too many waves.“They had to look outside the herd, so to speak. They went for Jennifer Garner, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba, in that order. Jennifer and Jessica didn’t bite, but Scarlett took the bait and came in for an audition. When she arrived at the address and found out it was the Scientology center in Hollywood, she freaked out and didn’t do a tape.”Finally, the Scientology casting crew hit on Katie Holmes, then 26, after they read an interview in which she said she would like to marry Tom. A senior Scientologist was sent to New York to give her the once-over. He liked what he saw.She must have been thrilled. Ever since she was a little girl, she had told her three older sisters that she was going to marry Tom and live in a beautiful mansion where she would start the day by sliding from her bedroom into her own swimming pool.Their first meeting was right out of the Cruise book of romance. He took her on a motorcycle ride to the beach at Santa Monica, later sending a limousine filled with chocolates and flowers to her apartment.“I was in love from the moment I shook his hand,” she later gushed. In the coming months, the former star of “Dawson’s Creek” would turn gushing into an art form.Tom, meanwhile, was bouncing up and down — literally. Vergara watched their antics from a distance, and thanked her lucky stars. “She had a narrow escape,” recalled a friend. “She privately pitied the poor girl. Katie is a much weaker, more innocent person than Sofia.”It had been only six weeks since Katie had broken off her engagement with actor Chris Klein, and now she was falling into marriage with a star 17 years her senior. Her family and friends watched in horror as they saw the normally vivacious woman turn into a Stepford Wife, silent, dutiful and stooping. She was now nicknamed “Dead Eye” Holmes, the young actress cocooned by Scientology handlers wherever she went.Katie may now regret signing in June 2005 a comprehensive contract with Scientology. But the reward was a proposal on top of the Eiffel Tower and marriage in an Italian castle in November 2006.
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Sep 3 12 1:02 PM
madame duran wrote:posterchilde wrote:I just lost a load of respect for Nicole.Errrmmm...why? Because she's the godmother to someone related to Rupert Murdoch?
Sep 3 12 1:10 PM
posterchilde wrote:madame duran wrote:posterchilde wrote:I just lost a load of respect for Nicole.Errrmmm...why? Because she's the godmother to someone related to Rupert Murdoch? Yes, I think Murdoch is scum.
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Sep 3 12 3:14 PM
madame duran wrote:posterchilde wrote:madame duran wrote:posterchilde wrote:I just lost a load of respect for Nicole.Errrmmm...why? Because she's the godmother to someone related to Rupert Murdoch? Yes, I think Murdoch is scum.I can understand why people don't like Rupert Murdoch. I just don't see the point of hating on Murdoch's relatives--or any friend of those relatives--simply because they're "guilty by association" (twice or thrice removed).
Sep 3 12 5:28 PM
SuriousProblems wrote:Just as a little aside - I just finished reading the current on the stands VF which was their fall style issue... -Diane Kruger was one of the few actresses ranked as one of the most stylish people today - both Penelope and Nicole made it onto the list of Hollywood style Icons (there was an absolutely beautiful pic of Nicole that I'd never seen) Katie, as the only one of the four with her own "fashion" line, was distinctly absent from the whole magazine.
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Sep 3 12 6:31 PM
Sep 3 12 6:45 PM
Fairly Normal wrote: The remark KidL. made about Katie "befriending" Roger Friedman got me thinking, what if he is Suri's real father? That would explain his soft spot for her! lol
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