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According to Star Magazine, Katie Holmes shipped 8 months pregnant mom-to-be Nicole Kidman, a basket full of baby gifts. The basket was full of onesies, stuffed toys, baby blankets and other fun baby items, from Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills.
An insider told the magazine, “Katie wanted the best of everything in the basket. It cost over $2,000.”
If this story is true, I sure would have loved to have seen that basket! Katie seems to have great taste and I am sure the basket was gorgeous.
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I am also one who finds Tom Cruise’s bio on his website detestable. It is one thing to not look back on a marriage once it failed, it’s quite another erasing that part of his life altogether in his bio. The fact that this bio is authorized or even written by him shows more of his true color than anything else.
Lauren,
Brad Pitt did not humiliate Aniston. It was she who humiliated him first if you were really analyzing their interviews. He went on Oprah to talk about her as the love of his life and yet when is asked if he were the great love of her life, she replied, on national television, that he was one love of her life. To me, she dealt him a great humiliating blow.
I think to the end he was gentlemanly to her. Words from her friends on Vanity Fair interview were that he was honest about his attraction to Jolie and he did not cheat. Words his fans were that he let her filed for divorce to save face. Both are gentlemanly actions and showed respect for her (unlike Tom Cruise who let Nicole Kidman found out he was divorcing her as a surprise). To this day Pitt has yet said slightest a hint of bad word about Aniston. But Aniston went on to complain that he was missing a sensitive chip for doing the W magazine spread (a job’s demand for Smith movie) while she took up with Vaughn.
I put Aniston on par with Cruise.
I am not saying he should talk wbout her or dwell on her, but a bit of respect isn’t too much to ask for after such a long relationship. In his image rebuild O interviews, when asked about when Nicole could see the children, He basically dismissed the question with a “Whenever”. Asked again he still said Whenever. If he respected her as nothing more than the mother of those 2 children, he should have said something like, “Nicole and I work together to make sure the children get time with both of us.” Or Just a “Well that is something Nicole and I work out together.” Didn’t have to be a great statement but a totally dismissive statement did not make him look so good. Katie should be taking notes, because this could be what she faces down the road.
Tom Cruise’s bio on his website has nothing to do with his personal life, past or present. The bio on his website is about his career.
The movies he did with Ms.Kidman are included in the filmography.
Tom Cruise has not gone on a diatribe against Ms. Kidman in any print or televised interviews (notwithstanding of Ms.Kidman’s best efforts).
As was mentioned earlier:
Anne
Jun 22, 2008 at 11:45 am
Have we forgotten what Nicole has said about her marriage to Tom? That she lost her identity? That she has never been happier that she is with her new husband? We are being too harsh on Tom. He said that nothing good ends, something ends because it is no longer working. Let us not forget that he has said very nice things about Nicole and how much he will always love her.
Every one divorced here can testify that there are things you said when you wer married that contradict what you have said since your separation. That is life.
We can never know what happend it is between those three people.
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Tom was asked in that Oprah interview as well how was his relationship with Nicole…………….
His response………….Good, good and easy.
We share custody he said, he called the rumors that he was not allowing her to see the kids as ridiculous.
He repeatedly said she could see them whenever she wanted.
Like Mary said, Tom’s bio on his website is about his movie career and nothing to do with his personal life, as it should be.
Regarding O interview, I’m satisfied with his answer….they share custody, and she see them whenever she wants. Would you rather he said, her priority is her new husband, or work? or that, the kids are waiting for her to find a house in LA?
Well, Nicole did say she was happier with her new husband yet this was after a long period of being single. My interpretation on her statement is different than yours I guess.
I find his website a clear sign of his arrogance, his advertising it a sign of his worrying about the bottom line of his movies’ profit which translates to his greed, his Oprah interview another proof of his greed.
C, I’m sorry to say this but you sound a little bitter! First you had a problem with the website erasing part of his life, when in fact you didn’t even bother to check what the website is really about for yourself? (brainwashed by others?).
And now he is arrogant for having a website and for finally having his say on O after 3 years of gossips? LOL!
Well, as long as you realized that applies to all actors, directors and celebrities in general.
Regarding NK, I wonder how this new husband or his family felt, when she said she was “still in love with Tom Cruise”…right around their wedding?
Sorry but she said “I still love Tom”….
not…
“I’m still IN love with Tom. BIG difference.
this comment was in an interview in the June issue of Ladies’ Home Journal which means the actual interview was probably 3-6 months earlier.
I agree with you Darin. She had the decency to say she still loved her children’s father. On the other hand, he slapped her in the face during the Oprah interview.
He sure did. O even asked him 2 times whether NK saw the children much or when she could see them…He blew it off totally with a ‘whenever’ both times. O sort of looked for a moment like she wanted to ask again, but his look shut that right down.
maybe tc should have been honest and said ,that nk has no interest in making an effort to see her kids, she’s the one who said , they love LA ,it came out of her mouth. what he should have said was, she’s so into her new life in nashville and australia that lLA is the last place she wants to be. hence,’whenever’
Annie,
So “whenver” was TC’s way of telling the world he thinks NK is a lousy mother, or his way of telling the world that he doesn’t give a rat’s tush about her anymore? The truth will eventually surface.
TC on Nicole seeing the kids:
“We share custody……Whenever, whenever that’s what it is.”
The above is how Oprah’s question about Nicole and her seeing the kids ends.
It starts with:
Oprah: What is your relationship with Nicole like now?
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I can transcribe the entire response if anyone wishes.
Tyler.. he gets shot down with everything he says. saw him once on michael parkinson show, and was asked about nicole,tc said , he wished her well , that they worked well together, and he will always love her, he probably doen’t give a rats tush about her, and neither do alot of other people who have exs. its been seven years everyone has moved on,there is no reason to make a big deal about it in interviews or where ver. Tyler , did she go to visit her son on the set of his movie,the rest of his family did.
They are both married to other people and both appear very happy.
They have both moved on and so should we.
Annie………….I don’t recall any news of NK visiting Conor on the set of his movie.
Tia,
Oh my God, how did you hear bitterness in my post? Why would I be bitter about Tom Cruise, or any stranger for that matter?
This is a gossip blog, is it not? And anyone who stops by can post her/his opinion, can’t she/he?
I will own up to the fact that I’ve never found Cruise appealing as an actor. I am not a fan of any celebrity. If his/her work is pleasing to me I’ll watch the movie or listen to the song again but I am quite aware that the person on screen or stage is the product of the writer, director, i.e. manufactured. There are some, just like some people I cross path in life, I do not find their personalities appealing, and Cruise is one of those. He’s never come off as genuine to me. And I expressed my opinions. I also commented based on others’ comments alone just to make a point. Please do not judge me based on your attitude toward celebrities. You may want to ‘love’ a celebrity and gush about him/her et al but I don’t. They are subjects to which I spent a few minutes gossiping about for pure entertaining purpose. Being an entertainer’s fan is not for me. My people deem entertainers loose in moral and believe that their flaws make them a better entertainers, and I find their wisdom apt so I’ll never worship entertainers. I’ll enjoy their work if, as I said above, it entertained or touched me. That’s as deep an emotional investment I spend on them, nothing fantastic like bitterness.
C, sorry if I was wrong but it sounded to me like you were just making your point without checking and saying anything that is negative. When other posters made it clear, that the website is not about his personal life (that was the problem you’d with it first), you just skipped that part and went on to criticize him for having a website altogether.
Darlin, you were right. She said “I still love Tom”.
Why do people get one point and stick to it like glue? After his divorce, in all interviews, Tom said such nice things about Nicole. On Larry King, he said he loved her, will always love her and was very protective of her. He said so many nice things about her. All that is forgotten and all we can remember is ‘whenever’. A statement made 7 years later when both people are since remarried and have drifted further apart.
What about what Nicole said? How come non fans are not giving all her snide comments any credence? Con mom, how come you are not warning Keith to be ready for a quip about his height and Nicole wearing heels?
Tom has never ever said anything negative about Nicole. Give credit where it is due, with Ethan Hawke calling Uma Thurman fat among other insults, lets not even talk about Charlie Sheen calling his marriages a sham and lie (examples I am not comparing) or Brad Pitt saying his life was meaningless before he met his current lover, I find it incredible that ‘whenever’ is blown out of proportion.
Lauren: Good points!!!
Thanks Hana
Just wanted to add (before I was hauled away for a meeting)
C for someone who is a fan of no one, you sure jumped in to defend Brad Pitt like a mother defending a cub. Which is not bad, just that you sounded like a fan, no?
Since this is not a Brad or Angelina site, and that topic is tedious not to mention unpalatable, please (with all due respect) let us agree to leave them out other than as examples used in passing.
Lauren,
I’ll defend anyone if the points made against him or her stirred me, i.e. if the matter debated tugged me in some ways. No discrimination or favoritism here.
Brad Pitt’s talent as an actor is on par with Tom Cruise and his look in his younger days ranked right up there with Tom Cruise, pure girlish pretty boy with little in the head, from the interviews I read of the two (and other celebrities) while waiting in cashier lines at the market or browsing in the bookstore.
They, and other celebrities, are smart however if money is the gauge for smartness. They have done something right to amass the money they have. This is the credit I give them.
Personality-wise, I have yet found anything Tom Cruise done that fits my preference for male character, hence the criticism. Isn’t that what we judge strangers for–what doesn’t suit our liking?
I like the way BP handled his divorce, not TC’s from NK. Mind you NK wasn’t a saint. I still don’t like men who celebrated anniversary giving friends and relatives and the wives the impression that all was well and mistakes, if any, had been forgiven, then turned around less than a month later and few days shy of prenuptial mark to drop the divorce bomb and told the world ’she knows exactly why we’re divorced’, a clear insinuation that the blame lay at her feet. In other word I simply do not like men who are sneaky like women.
Please don’t accuse me of being a bitter divorced woman. I was divorced yes but my ex handled it manly.
BP, as well as a host of HW men, haven’t attacked a woman that is not their wives in public either. Here is another unmanly thing that Cruise did.
Tia,
I did not argue the point of the bio because I did not care to continue, realizing that fans will always see things their ways and this is one of the few issues I’ll never change my mind.
So if you want me to debate on about bio then I’ll do.
When I see the word ‘biography’ I think of everything about the person, not just his career only. This is why I found his bio dishonest, highlighting only his accomplishment career-wise. Yes, he did not include his wives. I could have mentioned Rogers and Holmes in my point but they were not subjects in debate.
Maybe you think bio needs not include tidbits of personal info and it’s fine since we can’t all see things the same way. Life would be too boring thus.
My position is still the same. If he authorized the use of the word ‘biography’ for his site, his book, or whatever medium, and blasting advertisement for it in my face to invite me to come see it, I expect tidbits of personal life along all else. And if he wanted to sell me on his likability on the persona level, I expect honesty from him.
I have yet felt honesty emanating from him. That’s just my perception.
Oh Lauren,
I would not have talked about BP if no one did. I think if you’re fair-minded, you should tell the other person off as well.
Lauren dear, you can’t help yourself, can you?? Your being allowed to be continually mean and personally attacking anyone who doesn’t lurve TC the way you apparently do, is making this site tedious and difficult. Since you are aware that you aren’t going to change anyone’s mind with your never-ending negativity, one has to wonder the reason you ‘fight on’. Why not all getting back to keeping it friendly and lighter? We are not solving the ills of the world here, just discussing Hollywood gossip. These are just opinions and once again I am quite doubtful that TC cares or even knows how any of us feel one way or the other.
The biography of Tom at his website is strictly about his movie career.
He has said the he will be making a clear distinction between his personal life, his religion and his career.
The ending paragraph of the statement at his website says:
My hope with this website is to bring you in and share with you the fun I experience everyday during the filmmaking process, from working on the script, to the making of the film through to what we finally see when we settle into our seats and the lights go down.
I think he’s made it very clear that his website is a biography of his work.
Anything else can be debated elsewhere and has and continues to be.
I think BP is just as bad as TC. I respect C’s opinion, but don’t see the distinction.
i hate BP
I don’t like either of them but both have made some great movies. TC trying to make his website all professional is like shutting the barn door after the horse is gone. Too late. He used to keep it all separate and it really worked better for him. Too bad he let that publicist go. She really protected him and his career.
I don’t think we know for sure if Nic visited Connor on set or not. She is in L.A. quite a bit, and it is not plastered everywhere. She was there the week after Mother’s Day weekend, yet no one made a big to do about it.
Connor also filmed his movie part a month or two before the photos taken of Cruise and Holmes on set. In fact, I think Connor was there that day for an audition, not filming, when cruise and gang showed up. Nic was seen photographed exercising in L.A. when Connor was supposedly filming.
Aren’t movie studios private property? Aren’t there a lot of celebs on site at movie studios? So, why were the paps there to just photograph Cruise and Holmes and Suri unless someone them called them and got them admittance beforehand?
i think some of you have even said Nic prefers to keep her time with her children private and out of the media.
And Tc has been insulting to Nic in public: He told O he never loved another woman like he did KH, who he knew for two months at that point. That is insulting to the kids and their mother.
It just amazes me how many of you are in the know here. If you know Cruise, Kidman and Holmes personally, why do you need to come a gossip site for fun?
It never, ever ceases to amaze me how rumor becomes fact and speculation becomes truth.
Rumor is rumor, true, but words out of the horses mouth are fact.
True, but even those words are often twisted to be far removed from the original words out of the horses mouth.
We have veered way off the topic of the post. Any more off topic comments will have to be removed.
Thanks for understanding! I guess we could also use some new news to talk about….
Mary, thank you for explaining the “movie bio” for C.
C, if your interest is about TC personal life and etc. You can check out many other websites containing those information.
Julie ..please let me say this. Anon you must know nk personally to call her Nic.
No, I guess use Nic for the same reason you call her NK, it is faster
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I have deleted quite a few comments that were unnecessary and had nothing to do with this topic. Because this is the second times things have gotten out of hand and off topic on this post, I am closing comments for now.