I hope Tom tells Redstone to shove his ill wrapped apologies down his a-hole.

Ha Ha ha, am loving this.

Next time he will think with his head not his balls.

No, no no. You see, that’s what TC had to say to Brooke Shields, remember????

Have you forgotten these words, which contradict what this old senile geezer is saying:

Vanity Fair Interview
“When did I decide [to fire him]?” Redstone asks. “I don’t know. When he was on the Today show? When he was jumping on a couch at Oprah? He changed his handler, you know, to his sister—not a good idea. His behavior was entirely unacceptable to [my wife,] Paula, and to the rest of the world. He didn’t just turn one [woman] off. He turned off all women, and a lot of men.… He was embarrassing the studio. And he was costing us a lot of money. We felt he cost us $100, $150 million on Mission: Impossible III. It was the best picture of the three, and it did the worst.”

The deal with Cruise/Wagner Productions was scheduled to lapse at the end of August. Redstone indicates he decided to cut ties to the company sometime last spring, waiting until the July time frame to notify Freston and Paramount’s C.E.O., Brad Grey. “I made my decision without their support; I didn’t tell anyone for months,” Redstone says. “But [eventually] I made my position clear to Tom and Brad, that he should be off the lot. They had some concerns.” In fact, Freston and Grey realized that “firing” an actor with Cruise’s visibility and track record, a highly unusual if not unprecedented move, would trigger a severe backlash in Hollywood’s creative community. Still, it was Redstone’s company, and they were his employees.

“This wasn’t just Sumner—he had a right to feel the way he did,” says a person involved in Paramount’s deliberations. “I mean, women didn’t go see the movie, because of Tom Cruise’s behavior. It showed up in the research.” Freston and Grey, this person says, had put a lowball bid on the table to renew the contract—$2.5 million, by all accounts—and everyone involved realized that both sides would probably allow the deal to quietly lapse. “The negotiations had started when Sumner weighed in,” this person says. “Brad had to get rid of the offer, which is a hard thing to do. They were working toward that. They understood where Sumner was coming from. They really did. They were trying to pull [the offer] back, and when they were trying to do that, Sumner went public. That’s when everything hit the fan.”

Redstone characterizes his decision to “go public” as entirely an accident. A savvy Wall Street Journal reporter, Merissa Marr, caught wind of the story and telephoned Redstone at his home, and Redstone told her everything, castigating Cruise for his behavior. Redstone acknowledges his comments were unnecessary, but he brushes aside any suggestion he went public merely to re-assert his role as Viacom’s alpha dog. Still, there’s no denying the sparkle in his eyes as he recounts the reaction to his comments. Clearly, he loved every minute of it.

“I wasn’t looking for an explosion,” Redstone insists, “but I didn’t mind it. The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry.”