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Tom, Suri and Connor Cruise visited the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. on May 23rd. There’s only ONE picture available to show you and here it is.
Tom carried Suri and her baby doll into the museum, while grinning from ear to ear. Most likely Katie Holmes was rehearsing for the Memorial Day concert on this day.
Connor and Tom both joined Katie at the Capitol Hill event. Katie did a fantastic job and the concert as a whole seemed to go really well and honor the men and women who so much deserve it.
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I’ve missed seeing Suri with her dad, love how she always wears nail polish, she’s so cute!
Love to see tom with the kids,but where is Bella we don’t see her more often ,for the last few days its always Conner and Suri may be she is with Nicole .OMG!!! conner is a nice looking handsome guy,much taller than before and he lost some weight too
tom is really gorgeous with his mini-me daughter, he is a wonderful and devoted dad, ı love to see them together
Poor Suri. She’s hiding her head again. Obviously, she’s uncomfortable with the crowds. I wish Tom and Katie would realize that and not take her to places with large crowds just yet. I think the museum trip would have been more suitable for just Conner and his Dad. Suri is too young to understand it anyway. She should have been back at the hotel with the nanny where she would have been less uncomfortable. Just my opinion as a Mother.
Why do they keep putting her through all that? She clearly hates it.
Another picture
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Perto da minha casa tem um Museu parece a casa de Tom Cruise. Nunca fui visitar….
Suri de esmalte vermelho igual Luana Piovani na premire de Mulher invisivel….vi as fotos na net.
Ontem assisti jerry maguari na net muito bom o filme, o duble da cena de sexo quem sera…rsrs
Is the girl holding Suri’s blanket Bella? I honestly don’t know–I haven’t seen a picture of Bella in ages. But I have seen that blanket, and it’s definitely Suri’s!
Charlotte Rose, I don’t think its the crowds that upset Suri, its the paps. There are lots of pics and videos where Suri is among a lot of people and it doesn’t bother her, Katie had her on her hip while signing autographs outside the theatre , and a few weeks ago there was a pic of Katie ,Bella and Suri walking in the museum in LA, Suri was walking holding Katies hand. I think as long as they’re not in her face and are a distance away she doesn’t seem to mind. Even in Brazil she was walking through a crowded mall, but she doesn’t like it when they are very close, as is the case most of the time
I meant to say,Suri doesn’t seem to mind the PAPS when they are some distance away from her.
Charlotte Rose, I don’t think its the crowds that upset Suri, its the paps. There are lots of pics and videos where Suri is among a lot of people and it doesn’t bother her, Katie had her on her hip while signing autographs outside the theatre , and a few weeks ago there was a pic of Katie ,Bella and Suri walking in the museum in LA, Suri was walking holding Katies hand. I think as long as they’re not in her face and are a distance away she doesn’t seem to mind. Even in Brazil she was walking through a crowded mall, but she doesn’t like it when they are very close, as is the case most of the time
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I agree Annie, but a museum as crowded as the Air and Space museum (I’ve been there – people are shoulder to shoulder, paps or not) is inappropriate for a child who does like people in her face (paps included) IMHO so my point still stands. The baby is scared and uncomfortable and I feel for her. No matter what the cause. If I were Katie and Tom, I would have left MY CHILD back at the hotel based on her fears. Of course they can’t always do that but in this case, they had the option.
From the run of All My Sons in NYC when Katie would exit with Suri and sign autographs with many paps and screaming fans in abundance, Suri didn’t appear scared nor uncomfortable.
I don’t believe there’s much that Tom and Katie can do unless they start adapting reclusiveness as an everyday lifestyle choice.
I think Suri and her parents handle the pap madness with a noble “it is what it is attitude”
The little one is learning fast…………..The paps can’t get a good picture if she hides her face in her parents necks.
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The trio had a quick, 30-minute tour of the Wright Brothers gallery. “What an affectionate father he is,” an observer tells PEOPLE. “He was very affectionate with Suri and he wanted to know what his children were interested in seeing.” Suri, dressed in a “very cute” pink tie-dyed sundress while her doll wore a hot pink dress, was either in dad’s arms or holding his hand during the visit. “She was happy and smiling,” says the source, adding that Cruise was “very polite to people and greeted them. He was smiling the whole time.”
i think it is all so cute, but 30 minutes in that wright bros section made me laugh…we were there last week too, and the museum was packed( which i hated) and that wright bros section, i went through in about three minutes…
Mary,
In most pictures I and the rest of the world have seen of Suri in the past several months, she is burying her head in her parents shoulder in a crowd or around the paps. She is absolutely uncomfortable and like it or not, there’s no denying that unless every single one of those pictures including the one above is a mass delusion. Thats just a fact. They don’t need to “adapt reclusiveness”. Thats just over the top. What they do need to do is, as I said, is limit unnecessary trips to a museum THAT CROWDED on a Saturday afternoon. Normal outings with paps, they can’t help,but they could be more responsible in CERTAIN SITUATIONS including this one IMHO.
I think Suri and her parents handle the pap madness with a noble “it is what it is attitude”
The little one is learning fast…………..The paps can’t get a good picture if she hides her face in her parents necks.
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Sorry, but I have to call you on this. Suri is 3 years old. SHE’S A CHILD. She doesn’t have the ability to have a “noble it is what it is attitude” and to say that she is hiding her face in her parents shoulders so the paps can’t get a picture is just….well….NUTS. She’s a baby!! As a Mother, a child that just does NOT have that ability and forethought. You have to know that.
I know you will defend Tom and Katie no matter what, but sometimes you’re just so far over the top that its strange. I don’t mean to hurt your feelings but COME ON!!
No one is attacking this beautiful child. I’m simply saying a little prudence on Tom and Katie’s part might be a good idea. I hate to break it to you, but they’re not perfect. No one is. Lets cut out the silliness and just get real here. Just my opinion
Mary,
I have rethought my comments and I need to apologize. I could have come down less hard on you. It’s just that sometimes it’s tiring to only read your comments from you when it’s for the sake of your nonstop defense of anything remotely in defense of an obviously uncomfortable child. You have understand that as a Mother, it’s difficult to see a child so clearly not happy about being hauled into a situation that clearly makes her uncomfortable. Its also an issue of you clearly taking every OPINION as an attack. It’s not. I am a fan also and the reality is Tom and Katie are not perfection personified. They’re human beings just like you and I.
Finally, you seem to take every comment so far over the top. I’ve been ignoring this lately, but saying we’d like them to become reclusive is just so far over the top. So many of your defenses are. Please allow others to have an opinion without the constant rebuke and over the top statements which no one even infered. Its the fair thing to do.
I’m sorry if I came down hard on you but I’ve been feeling for a long time that this needed to be said. You make it very difficult to share a fun discussion when you misrepresent what others have said. This is a fun site for fun chat and OPINIONS. PLEASE let others have theirs.
I just wanted to chime in here and say that we need to respect each other’s opinions. Like it has been said, “opinions are like bellybuttons, we all have one.” If you don’t agree with what someone says, that’s fine, but please just state your case without attacking the other person. Thanks!
Thank you very much Julie.
Yes, thank you Julie and I agree. Taking things over the top and trying to make others feel as if they’ve done something wrong by expressing their opinion is not in keeping with the nature of the site IMHO since none of us actually knows the Cruises, what they think or how they feel OR what their lives are like in the real world. Also stating something as fact, when it is, in reality, an assumption or an opinion, doesn’t help the situation, also in my opinion. Remembering that the Cruises are fallable human beings would also be nice!
Yes, thank you Julie and I agree. Taking things over the top and trying to make others feel as if they’ve done something wrong by expressing their opinion is not in keeping with the nature of the site IMHO since none of us actually knows the Cruises, what they think or how they feel OR what their lives are like in the real world. Also stating something as fact, when it is, in reality, an assumption or an opinion, doesn’t help the situation, also in my opinion. Remembering that the Cruises are fallable human beings would also be nice! LOL!
So sorry for the duplicate post, Julie! I get the oddest message each time I post and it doesn’t look as if the post has gone thru, but I guess it has. Sorry!
Ithink that there should be a law saying that the paps should stay a certain distance away, isn’t that harrassing , when 20 paps are sticking cameras in a little girls face and shouting at her. The thing that seems to be going on in the above pics is, that a mother is taking her child to dance lessons, and the paps seem to be waiting on top of the stairs and at the bottom taking pics. Unfortunately the paps are going to be in Suris life for a very long time, and this little girl has to get on with her life and if they are there waiting for her at her dancing , music, art lessons, shopping or going for coffee and sweets with her mother, or outings with the rest of the family, then her parents probably feel ,so be it. I don’t think Suri is traumatised by them ,she just doesn’t like them or feels comfortable with them, but at the same time there have been some lovely pics and videos of Suri being very animated and happy when the paps are obviously there , but at a distance, I don’t understand why they come so close to her , so that she feels she has to hide her face from them, and they don’t keep their distance and take pics of her beautiful little face showing, instead of hiding it in her parents neck. I reckon that when Suri gets past the paps and goes to her destination, whether its the museum or anywhere else, she forgets all about them, and doesn’t care less, until the next she sees them then she probably says to herself the paps are here , time to cover my face, she’s so cute.
I agree that there should be some sort of law keeping the paps a certain distance from the children of celebs. They didn’t choose to be in the public eye. Their parents did. And that goes of all celebrity children! Personally, I think Suri is very disturbed by the pap and crowd presence and it bothers me. She a beautiful child who, as I said, didn’t choose this lifestyle. Since none of us lives with Suri, we have no idea how serious she takes it or how upsetting it really is to her.
IMHO, until a law is enacted preventing the paps from being that close, Tom and Katie really can’t do much about when Suri goes to dance school, a store, out to dinner….etc. They’re stuck. They can’t keep her at home forever…..BUT in cases like this with the museum, they DID have a choice. They COULD do better at keeping her away from crowds in a situation like this. She’s too young to really understand what she was seeing anyway at the museum. I’m not saying Tom and Katie can keep her away from the paps at all times. They can’t. BUT they could do it in certain situations and I wish they would for her own good since she seems so uncomfortable. It’s what I would do with my kids. Just my opinion.
I think certain states do have laws in place about how close the papps can get, etc. DC is a different situation however, but in my opinion Tom can move around pretty easily without the media all over him when he wants to. There are times that we don’t see any pictures but he has traveled around the world someplace. Recently very few pictures were printed when he and Katie showed up in Toledo for the funeral of her brother-in-law. So they are able to jet around without notice when they want to.
EXCELLENT POINT CON MOM!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone know the maker of Suri’s adorable doll?
I agree that they probably get around quite a bit with the media not knowing, until they come out in public places, and Katie in paticular goes to very public places with Suri, and I for one think she should continue to do so. They can’t live their life according to the paps, but Katie doesn’t like them either and it shows.
I for one think she should continue to do so. They can’t live their life according to the paps, but Katie doesn’t like them either and it shows.
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Why do you think she should do so, annie? Is it because you enjoy seeing the pictures? My first concern is for Suri who doesn’t like the photographers. If we saw less pictures and Suri was less unhappy, that would make me happy! A child her age wouldn’t be missing anything by NOT seeing the Wright Bros exhibit at the Air and Space Museum.
If Katie doesn’t like the paps (and I agree it shows on alot of occasions), then why not take steps to decrease access? As I’ve said a thousand times before, they can’t decrease attention from the paps completely because its part of why they have their careers, but they absolutely COULD avoid a crowded museum on a weekend afternoon which is the subject of this thread!! They COULD make changes that would be more fair to their daughter.
You know CR,I really believe that Katie can get Suri out of the habbit of covering her face or snuggling into her parents neck when she sees the paps because there are a few pics of Suri waving and smiling at them, but Katie has no time for them, but she is an adult and shows her displeasure by totally ignoring them, but the only thing Suri can do is hide her face,and as much as I like Katie, I really believe she can get Suri out of it if she tried, because little kids get into little patterns, and I think this is what has happened with Suri, and I think that maybe Katie hasn’t handled this in the best way, only because,she herself can’t stand them.
There was a special done by Dateline (NBC) on the paparazzi and celebrity children some months back………Katie and Suri on a NYC sidewalk walking hand in hand looking quite carefree. The camera cuts to the wide shot- Katie and Suri were almost completely surrounded by the paparazzi.
There have been many occasions when Suri seems quite unaware of the paps and others where she is very aware of them.
The Cruise’s cannot live their lives in a bubble and until the paps, the public, the tabloids as well as other media realize that children of celebrities should not be a part of their money making enterprise then it is what it is.
Many celebrities are calling for a law to be passed to protect children from being photographed like this………. Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow have been very vocal about it.
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The Wright Brothers exhibit seems quite appropriate for a trip to the museum for the Cruise family……………Planes are such a huge part of their lives. Suri has seen the inside of more planes than many adults I think.
According to the report from People.com the family had lunch and spent only about half an hour at the museum………..Plenty of time left to have that teaparty or however they decided to spend the rest of their time in DC.
I really believe she can get Suri out of it if she tried,
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Annie, I agree!
Many celeb parents have told the paps to back off and leave their kids out of the media. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are two very recent ones. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do the same thing. When Tom Cruise was with Nicole and Bella and Connor were smaller, they told the paps to respect the kids’ privacy and they did. Nicole still keeps her time with Bella and Connor private and stays out the cameras when they visit. Princess Diana told the media to stay away from Princes Harry and William while they were growing up and they did.
Cruise and Holmes are using Suri for their personal PR (i.e. holding Suri facing out so the paps could photograph when she was a baby, Katie’s MAD MONEY tour in NYC with Suri out till all hours of the night, Katie on camera uncovering Suri’s face from the blanket draped over her so the paps could photograph a sleeping Suri as they boarded a helicopter, etc.). If they were really motivated to keep the paps away, they would have said something by now. Other celebs have, even Cruise himself with his two older children. Neither Holmes or Cruise have ever said to not photograph Suri, just not to print lies about them in the media.
BTW, the Smithsonians are loud when there is a lot of people in them. The rooms echo. And any idiot could have told Cruise that they would have been packed Memorial Day Weekend!!!
Besides what parent smiles like Cruise is when their child is showing signs of distress and fear!!~Just my humble opinion.
The paparazzi of today know no boundaries………….None whatsoever!
In years past celebrity parents could request that the papaprazzi not take pics of their children and the request was respected. The paparazzi these days are on par with stalkers. Many of them are disrespectful and rude.
Tom and Katie kept Suri out of the public for months after her birth and were criticized for it to the point of people questioning her very existence and worse.
Websites offered money for any picture of Suri, one even offering a payout of $250,000. for a clear shot.
Katie has said in interviews way before Tom that her mother took her everywhere with her as a child.
Parents often emulate their own upbringing when raising their own children and I applaud Tom and Katie for wanting to give Suri as much of a normal upbringing as possible even in this “everyone is a paparazzi” society we live in.
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Here’s a bit of what Tom had to say:
‘As a parent you protect your children but Suri is a very open and warm child and she will just wave to people on the street. She is such happy, fun girl.’
‘It is certainly different these days with the media, but people have been very good to us and do give us space so I am not going to be difficult.’
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Tom has also said as long as he and Katie show Suri that they are not worried about anything then she won’t worry………….Maybe that has something to do with him and Katie not confronting the paps angriy publicly when they have Suri. They just just smile and move along.
Life and living goes on even with the paparazzi and tabloid madness.
Katie’s co-star from The Extra Man (Paul Dano) said this:
“Katie Holmes handles that stuff very well,” he says of the celebrity machine. “I have a lot of respect for her now that I’ve worked with her because she was very mature and sort of graceful about it and didn’t let it interfere with her work.”
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BTW, the Smithsonians are loud when there is a lot of people in them. The rooms echo. And any idiot could have told Cruise that they would have been packed Memorial Day Weekend!!!
————-Perhaps that is why the family left after only half an hour!
No, no, What?, that is not what I meant at all, not for one minute, do I believe that Suri is used as pr for Tom and Katie. I said that I don’t believe that Suri gets traumatised by the paps,and when she goes inside to wherever she is going Ithink she probably forgets about them, I also said Katie has no time for them and it shows, and that Ithink that Suri has probably got into a pattern of covering her face when she sees them. I have also said that ,when the paps are at a distance, Suri doesn’t seem to mind them , and there is a lot of evidence of that in videos, when they were in NY.
As for Tom, he is and always has been nice to the paps and the media.
As for NK there are a lot of pics of Sunday Rose, and last time they were in Sydney, she did quite a bit of posing with her, she shows pics of her to fans.There are more pics of Sunday around in a few months than her other children in all their life. Then the Jolie- Pitts, when do you see Angelina go out for something, meeting up for coffee, dancing lessons, art lessons, for her kids or herself, you see her every now and then maybe buying toys or art supplys, to me, Katies outings with her child are very normal, everyoneone I know does it and has done it, Brad Pitt took the 2 boys to Cannes with him last time, and did some serious photo opping, nobody said anything , if it was Tom, everyonebody would have shouted photo op, there are a different set of rules concerning Tom and Katie and different rules for everybody else and that goes for everything!
Jessica Alba is photographed taking her daughter to the park every day, Gwen Staffani and husband do a lot of photo op, nobody says anything.
The big difference between those kids and Suri is ……….when she is not seen for a while the media starts ….where is Suri, havn’t seen her 20 or 30 days, they actually count the days since she was last seen.
One last thing, yes , I believe that if you can’t beat them then join them, and this is what I personally would like to see Katie doing, thats the best thing for Suri in the situation she is in.