The kind folks at US Weekly had Dr. Lillian Glass analyze Tom Cruise's body language during his interview with Diane Sawyer. What's your call? Was Tom fibbing, or telling the truth? Click the image for the full view.
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Sammy says:
I think America has gone overboard with their Tom Cruise bashing. While he doesn't come across as genuine, how many of us could when you're trying to keep your private life your own.
Is Tom Cruise gay? Who knows. He's been in the business for 25 years or so. Has anyone EVER been able to substantiate a claim? No. Could Tom have chosen to sleep with people who would NEVER talk? Doubt it. Maybe he is who he says he is. It may not be who we want him to be but it is who is has chosen to be.
Isn't that how we are suppose to live our lives?
Brian says:
Leave the poor guy alone. He's just trying to make a living in order to feed his family.
pg says:
To feed his family? Hah! He has enough money to last several lifetimes. It's more about feeding his all-engulfing ego. This is what happens when you act like a tool. Katie is the one I feel sorry for.
katie says:
I watched it and knew he was lying the whole time. It's about time that everyone stop pretending that he's this FANTASTIC guy. He's a phony. Regarding "leaving him alone." He doesn't want to just feed his family and be left alone. He keeps putting himself out there and trying to fool everyone. You have to expect a reaction from people who aren't buying it.
Lena says:
I think he's at the point where he can't tell the difference between reality and fiction. Shame really.
Helen Sparkles says:
Why should we expect TC to be honest with us? He probably isn't and his body language reflects this; it is deceitful primarily because he might be trying to present an image which isn’t his authentic self. His eyes show pain, rather than ambivalence, when he answers the Q about Katie's faith and nobody could be expected to share that kind of vulnerability with strangers.
Kris says:
Pick a personality disorder, TC's got it.
He's inflicted his grossly overrated self on the world for too long and I just wish he'd go away.
And Katie? Her, too. No pity whatsover for that flake.
Lisa says:
Um guys, it's Kate now.
Get it right!
LOL
Cheesy says:
TC wouldn't know the truth if it sat on his head and wiggled. HE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Seriously, there is the truth, and then there is Tom Cruise's Truth. And in Tom-Ville, it's all about him. I think he adheres to the mantra: If I say it enough, people will believe me.
Whatevah...
Jenn says:
First of all, I saw the advanced screening of MI:3 last night and it was REALLY good.
And after watching Tom lately, I'm starting to think that he's not some crazy guy. He's happy, he's not hurting anyone, and he's not forcing people to study scientology.
If he's so happy that he could jump on a couch then good for him.
Miss Thing says:
I know people in the industry and they ALL say he's stupid, inarticulate and a total asshole.
Lee says:
Name one thing normal about TC.
BTW, he's so in luuuuv with "Kate" (lol) and the baby he just couldn't wait to leave them only a couple days after the birth. Sound normal? Sound like a guy in luuuuv? lol
At any moment I expect Tom's layers of fake skin to suddenly dissipate and reveal his true self - a gooey mass of snotlike green matter sinking to the ground.
mariootsa
ok, jenn, tommy and brian, if that are your real names, fess up, you are plants from the scientology centre trying to dull the image of tom cruise as a fantastic disaster. NO ONE IS BUYING HIS CRAP! sell it someplace else.
Jenn says:
mariootsa,
Yes Jenn is my real name and I am far from being from the scientology center. I just don't get why people have to call him a wack job when he hasn't done anything worse than other celebs. He hasn't hurt anyone either.
Plus, the movie really was entertaining
Anne says:
He doesn't force anyone to study scientology, unless you are his potential fiance, fiance, wife, child,
coworker on the set or a journalist just trying to get an interview. He most certainly does use his clout to force people to study scientology.
jennifer says:
Did anyone else notice that his self tanner has turned him orange? Not good Tom!!!!
Lars says:
Here is something you might not know. Right after Sept, 11 2001, many of the volunteers who were down in the rubble were soon suffering from weird, unexplained symtoms. Like asmea, caughing, some had to be put on defibulaters and some were even dying! No one knew why! Ecsept for Tom Cruise. Tom soon after fully funded a purification center in lower manhattan. Bdeveloped by L.Ron Hubbard, the program rids the body of all toxic chemicals. Now, about 200 have been throught the program and all are at full health, according to them. if you don't believe me, check it out. I don't know any crazy people that would do that. Do you?
blondEE says:
jenn--what planet are you from?? doesn't force scientology on people you have to be crazy!
he forced it on his mother and sister, and disowned his sister for awhile.
he forced it on katie, and since her parents wouldn't comply got rid of them.
he forced it on brooke shields by trying to say she was wrong for taking anti-depressants.
need i continue??!!
wake up! this guy is a lying dumba$$ who craves the public attention. i don't feel bad for him, he's getting what he wants. his whole life is a movie. he planned the "birth" of that child accurately for promo reasons and hired 'kate' to play the role of wife.
missy says:
lars, you make me laugh. if tom cruise is the go to guy for medical help, we are in trouble. he is the asshole trying get genuinely mentally ill people off their meds. scientology kills by not allowing people access to drugs that they need. while drugs aren't always the best answer, they often are some. and l ron hubbard was a child molester. plus tom is just plain annoying. and i feel bad for the victims of 911 who were brainwashed by something made my a child molester science fiction author.
missy says:
p.s. thanks socialitelife.com for allowing us to comment on the evils of scientology. many people in the media are too afraid to allow this.
Jenn says:
Lars is correct, he made this his primary contribution during this time and those people really appreciated it.
BlondEE do you have any proof of what you said? No you don't, just like I don't know for sure that he hasn't forced people to study scientology but I'm pretty sure we would have heard first accounts of it by now. And for that matter how far different is he than any random church member who shows up at your house and condems you unless you agree to go to church?
He's not hurting anyone, he's happy and if studying scientology makes him happy while helping others then good for him.
No i'm not a scientologist nor do I care to study it but there are other regligions considered a little more crazy than scientology.
Namibia says:
HE IS SUCH A FREAK!
Madge says:
Look, Jenn, maybe the gay midget dwarf has you fooled, but not the rest of us. Maybe you believe he's happy, so happy that he's jumping on couches, the rest of us think it is all make believe, performance art. Right before he and Katie pronounced their undying love he interviewed several young Hollywood starlets to be his girlfriend.
Fabiola says:
The whole thing stinks. Everything about his romance and relationship with Katie was orchestrated and planned out. I have not seen one picture of them, even the supposedly unposed random shots, where they look remotely sincere. Anyone who cannot see through his ploy, frankly, is stupid.
L. Ron says:
Lars, that story is complete BULLSH*T. It was all a scam to recruit members to Scientology. Do your research. Check your sources.
"Legitimate studies of
Scientology's detox program show it to be an ineffective and potentially
dangerous regime based on nothing more than Hubbard's vivid imagination."
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews/vail-colorado-firefighters.htm
The Herald also reported that the “controversial detox method” is seen as a “preliminary religious ritual that all new members must buy.”
http://www.cultnews.com/index.php/2003/10/05/ap-picks-up-ny-times-story-about-scientology-related-program-and-nyc-firemen/
New York Times exposes covert Scientology operation
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/ny-firefighters-detox-scam.htm
Scientology Kills says:
This is from a former Scientologist's web site.
For all of you who think Tom Cruise isn't hurting anyone, I suggest you go to this page.
http://www.holysmoke.org/more-theta.htm
Is money your "god?" Is hate, intimidation, control, and the domination of others your sacrement? Is "getting even" with your imaginary enemies your chief act of worship? Do you secretly feel powerless, weak, impotent, and long to punish those who are stronger than you are? Then The Cult of Greed and Power (Scientology) is the crime syndicate for you!
But if you're a decent, kind, happy, emotionally healthy person, you will not, of course, have anything to do with the crime syndicate. The articles and links on this page will tell you why the Crime Syndicate of Scientology is to be shunned and opposed by good, decient people. Some of the links are off-site, linking to pages with many more resources about the crime syndicate.
Papa Razzi says:
Tom *IS* a lying freak. A quote he made a few days ago: "I ALWAYS change the diapers"...ummm, okay, he was at home w/Katie & the baby for MAYBE 48 hours (some of which I'm sure involved sleep) after the baby was born. Since then, he's been flying around the country/world promoting his ego and movie. So, for him to say he "ALWAYS" changes the diapers is RIDICULOUS. Unless of course, the baby was actually "born" much earlier than they claim...which still makes him a liar.
scamps says:
Do I really give two shits about his life? Not really. But am I offended when someone claims that a medical treatment that helped me change my life for the better never helped me in the first place? Absofuckinglutely.
gOssiP says:
tom cruise is such a controlling freak--and he doesn't care who knows it! i am blown away that he made her change her name from katie to kate. that girl should see that as a big blinking sign to get the hell out of there while she still can!
and i have to agree w/blond on the fact that katie's family has disappeared, most likely b.c they aren't scientologists.
also, if he loved katie, wouldn't he have just let her stay catholic.
Jessie Williams says:
I think the way to better understand his alien highness (Cruise) is to look at his Scientology.
Interesting read:
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien269.html
Penthouse Interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. (Founder of Scientology’s Son)
Penthouse/June 1983
Some highlights:
Penthouse: Why do you think it’s so risky?
Hubbard: My father drilled into all of us: Don’t go to court thinking to win a lawsuit. You go to court to harass, to delay, to exhaust the enemy financially, physically, mentally. You file every motion you can think of and you just lock them up in court. The courts, for my father, were never used to seek justice or redress, put to destroy the people he thought were enemies, to prevent negative stories from appearing. He just wanted complete control of the press --and got it.
Penthouse: What exactly is Scientology?
Hubbard: Scientology is a power-and-money-and-intelligence-gathering game. To use common, everyday English, Scientology says that you and I and everybody else willed ourselves into being hundreds of trillions of years ago --just by deciding to be. We willed ourselves into being ourselves. Through wild space games, interaction, fights, and wars in the grand science-fiction tradition, we created this universe --all the matter, energy, space, and time of this universe. And so through these trillions of years, we have become the effect of our own cause and we now find ourselves trapped in bodies. So the idea of Scientology “auditing” or ‘counseling” or “processing” is to free yourself from your body and to return you to the original godlike state or, in Scientology jargon, an operating Thetan --O.T. We are all fallen gods, according to Scientology, and the goal is to be returned to that state.
Penthouse: And what is the Church of Scientology?
Hubbard: It’s one of my father’s many organizations. It was formed in 1953, basically to avoid the harassment of my father by the medical profession and the IRS. The idea of Scientology didn’t really exist before that point as a religion, but my father hit upon turning it into a church after he started feeling pressured.
Penthouse: Didn’t your father have any interest in helping people?
Hubbard: No.
Penthouse: Never?
Hubbard: My father started out as a broke science-fiction writer. He was always broke in the late 1940s. He told me and a lot of other people that the way to make a million was to start a religion. Then he wrote the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health while he was in Bayhead, New Jersey. When we later visited Bayhead, in about 1953, we were walking around and reminiscing --he told me that he had written the book in one month.
Penthouse: There was no church when he wrote the book?
Hubbard: Oh, no, no. You see, his goal was basically to write the book, take the money and run. But in 1950, this was the first major book of do-it-yourself psychotherapy, and it became a runaway best-seller. He kept getting, literally, mail trucks full of mail. And so he and some other people, including J. W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, started the Dianetics Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. And the post office kept backing up and just dumping mail sacks into the building. The foundation had a staff that just ran through the envelopes and threw away anything that didn’t have any money in it.
Penthouse: People sent money?
Hubbard: Yeah, they wanted training and further Dianetic auditing, Dianetic processing. It was just an incredible avalanche.
Penthouse: Did he write the book off the top of his head? Did he do any real research?
Hubbard: No research at all.
Penthouse: Did your father do this just for money?
Hubbard: Yes. The more he made, the more he wanted. He became greedy. He was really just interested in the use of money and power, wherever it was or whomsoever it was. Morality and politics made no difference to him at all.
Penthouse: Where did all this money come from? How much did it cost to be audited, in Scientology parlance?
Hubbard: It cost as much as a person had. He had to stay in the organization, getting audited higher and higher, until he paid us as much as he had. People would sell their house, their car, convert their stocks and securities into cash, and turn it all over to Scientology.
Penthouse: What did you promise them for this price?
Hubbard: We promised them the moon and then demonstrated a way to get there. They would sell their soul for that. We were telling someone that they could have the power of a god --that’s what we were telling them.
Penthouse: What kind of people were tempted by this promise?
Hubbard: A whole range of people. People who wanted to raise their IQ, to feel better, to solve their problems. You also got people who wished to lord it over other people in the use of power. Remember, it’s a power game, a matter of climbing a pyramidal hierarchy to the top, and it’s who you can step on to get more power that counts. It appeals a great deal to neurotics. And to people who are greedy. It appeals a great deal to Americans, I think, because they tend to believe in instant everything, from instant coffee to instant nirvana. By just saying a few magic words or by doing a few assignments, one can become a god. People believe this. You see, Scientology doesn’t really address the soul; it addresses the ego. What happens in Scientology is that a person’s ego gets pumped up by this science-fiction fantasy helium into universe-sized proportions. And this is very appealing. It is especially appealing to the intelligentsia of this country, who are made to feel that they are the most highly intelligent people, when in actual fact, from an emotional standpoint, they are completely stupid. Fine professors, doctors, scientists, people involved in the arts and sciences, would fall into Scientology like you wouldn’t believe. It appealed to their intellectual level and buttressed their emotional weaknesses. You show me a professor and I revert back to the fifties: I just kick him in the head, eat him for breakfast.
(My mother was lying on the bed and my father was sitting on her, facing her feet. He had a coat hanger in his hand. There was blood all over the place.)
Penthouse: Did it attract young people as much as cults today?
Hubbard: Yes. We attracted quite a few hippies but we tried to stay a way from them, because they didn’t have any money.
Penthouse: A poor man can’t be a Scientologist?
Hubbard: No, oh no.
Penthouse: What do you think of the great popularity of cults in this country?
Hubbard: I think they’re very dangerous and destructive. I don’t think that anyone should think for you. And that’s exactly what cults do. All cults, including Scientology, say, “I am your mind, I am your brain. I’ve done all the work for you, I’ve laid the path open for you. All you have to do is turn your mind off and walk down the path I have created.” Well, I have learned that there’s great strength in diversity, that a clamorous discussion or debate is very healthy and should be encouraged. That’s why I like our political setup in the United States: simply because you can fight and argue and jump up and down and shout and scream and have all kinds of viewpoints, regardless of how wrongheaded or ridiculous they might be. People here don’t have to give up their right to perceive things the way they believe. Scientology and all the other cults are one-dimensional, and we live in a three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul.
Penthouse: Do you mean killed?
Hubbard: Well, he didn’t really want people killed, because how could you really destroy them if you just killed them? What he wanted to do was to destroy their lives, their families, their reputations, their jobs, their money, everything. My father was the type of person who, when it came to destruction, wanted to keep you alive for as long as possible, to torture you, punish you. If he chose to destroy you, he would love to see you lying in the gutter, strung out on booze and drugs, rolling in your own vomit, with your wife and children gone forever: no job, no money. He’d enjoy walking by and kicking you and saying to other people, “Look what I did to this man!” He’s the kind of man who would pull the wings off flies and watch them stumble around. You see, this fits in with his Scientology beliefs, also. He felt that if you just died, your spirit would go out and get another body to live in. By destroying an enemy that way, you’d be doing him a favor. You were letting him out from under the thumb of L. Ron. Hubbard, you see?
las says:
Is he lying? Well, is the Pope Catholic? Is the Dalai Lama Buddhist? Is the sky blue? Is water wet? Is Jacko crazy? Is Pete Doherty a junkie? Is space empty?
Jessie, thank you for posting that. It reveals a lot, don't it?
Oh, and stop the "leave him alone" stuff. HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE. If he did, he wouldn't be airing his personal life on TV! "Feed his family"? He could do that a thousand times over with what he has now. Stop trying to make him sound like an ordinary guy.
Mr.Right says:
Miss thing, you dont know anyone. quit lying. If you do by some small miracle, know someone in the 'industry' im sure that they would not have said that. Hes one of the most famous celebrities right now and directors love working with him. He's also probably a lot smarter than you are
ohpleaze says:
Scientologists are stupid, deluded fucks.
Nuff said.
Terry says:
How are Rob Thomas, and Tom Davis doing?
kellirc says:
Good grief he's only a movie star not a presidential candidate. If you like his movies go see them, if not then don't, but quit having such hissies over his personal life. If he went to the lengths that are being talked about to cover up something in his life then that would mean that every single second of his life is made up and a lie. No one could keep that going. If he is gay then why did he marry his first wife? It couldn't have been to further his career, she wasn't any more famous than him. And then, why marry Nicole Kidman? He had already been married and didn't need to prove anything at that time about his heterosexuality. Maybe his recent actions have just been to try to change his image as the "good guy" to something that might get him his long awaited Oscar.
las says:
"He's also probably a lot smarter than you are"
I doubt that. The idiot A) hasn't noticed that the public knows he's lying, B) is a Scientologist, and C) didn't know how to use a dictionary until his mid-20s. he actually boasts about this. There are hamsters brighter than this man. Much more likable too, even the rabid ones.
Eat Me says:
Directors love working with him? Are you f-ing kidding me? Steven Speilberg has been quoted saying that he will never work with the man again after the crap he pulled last summer with WotW.
Also, Tom will never get an Oscar. He can't act for shit. And he's become a joke to pretty much everyone in hollywood.
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Another Katie says:
Ok ya'll.
Let me begin by saying I have not doubt that all this with TomKat is staged. But like so many, I'm addicted to the gossip. However a few of these comments are a bit off base.
The changing of "Katie" to "Kate." Having had the same name for my entire life, I am aware of common nicknames. Does anyone else have a nickname? Don't we call "Thomases" "Toms" and "Edwards" "Eds?" All my life my father and brothers have called me Kate, even though I am Katie. Has my name been changed? NO. Was anything forced on me? NO! In fact when someone calls me Kate now, I am reminded of my brothers and father, who now live thousands of miles from me.
The other point I want to make is a painful one. I hate to defend Tom. However, it is documented that he has dyslexia. As a teacher, I can never condone making fun of someone who has a learning disability. The ability to use a dictionary properly is by no means an accurate account of intelligence. Do I think Tom is highly intelligent? Not really. But do I think its right to harrange him because he has dyslexia? Absolutely not!
kellirc says:
Yes he is a joke who consistently brings in the audiences and the money.
blase says:
I pretty much don't give a damn about Tom Cruise and what he believes.
But I do care about the fact that his antics are wasting precious air time.
I want to watch the news. The real news, and the last thing I want my eye sockets to be scarred by is his big grinning face plastered all over my TV screen.
Who cares if he believes in scientology, so long as he isn't so bloody vocal about it. If he wants to waste his mega bucks in some cult religion, then let it be. Plus it's not his fault kabbulah, kaluba, kallaba or whatever it's called wouldn't accept him. The poor darling. To be deemed less worthy than Paris or Britney. 'Tis a heart wrenching tale.
Also, if Katie wants to beget his spawn, then let it be. Once they truly begin encroaching on my freedom, then I won't let it be.
But right now, all I can say is: get off my TV screen and thank God Nicole got out while she still could!
helen says:
(apologies my bad english please)
Who renamed "Thomas", "Tom"? who brainwashed Tom at 22? isn't it that woman bitchy Mimi Rogers? ohhh... feminists won't complain of cooourse...shame, shame shame Mimi...at 22, a rich and top list actor, you knew Mimi, huh?
Shocking!
I am appaled by the stupidy of people here: you are unbeleivably gullible!
Tom never stated she is "kate now"
I beleive you have personality disorder here, if you can't difference reality from fiction!
and a teacher? WTF?
You all made fools of yourselves here, I stay back, reading you, and what's going on in your shitheads: you are truly a bunch of losers with too much time on their hands, in result of a failing career or life.
It feels good to bash someone who started from nothing and become the biggest star in the world, plus he is so hot and rich.
It feels good he has flaws! he is like US! we can trash ourselves and our miserable lives.
Anyway, I feel for you. Can't wait for MI:III
look at that and shut up:
http://static.flickr.com/53/134745034_e5b16ae152_b.jpg
From Paris, France.
helen says:
I was not arsh compare to you of course, if you want to suck cock, which you seems to be saying all the time, fine!
"we can trash ourselves and our miserable lives."
That is a good psycotherapy though
doofus says:
from Paris, France?
if that's the average mentality, no wonder France has lost every war they've ever been in.