Bring the crazy, boost the ratings?
We tried to resist, really we did, but we find it impossible not to join the chorus out there that's been making hay with the King of Scientology's recent appearances on the Gawker, the Defamer, the YouTubes and in anyone's home/place of business/corner bar/cellphone with a broadband connection.
We'll peg it to a bit of "news" so it's not 100% gratuitous (just about 95%).
Tom Cruise has decided to join Scientology brethren John Travolta and a bunch of presumably non-Scientologists at the SAG awards on Sunday. He has a "studio" to promote, after all, and wife-unit Katie Holmes has a comedy in the movie houses that could use a swift kick. Aside from saving souls and converting minds, he's got business to attend to, people.
He won't be deterred by the video now viewed a gazillion times on YouTube and parodied by some actor whose recent claim to fame is "Carpoolers" (now that's nerve!). Nor will Cruise hide his still-oddly-shorn head in the face of the unauthorized bio that was just published about him that reveals less in a couple hundred pages than the subject himself does with a single maniacal laugh.
No, he'll soldier on, like a well-programmed LRH follower should, providing just the kind of suspenseful moments to the weekend proceedings that have been sorely missing from every other award show so far this season. Will he pop open a can o' crazy? You'll have to watch to find out.
Related creepiness: Defamer has posted clips from "Orientation: A Scientology Information Film" that beg for rainy day viewing. Anne Archer! Kirstie Alley! Yipes!
Mmmmm, chocolate Oscar. Not every star will walk away from the 81st annual Academy Awards with a trophy, but if they hit the high-profile Governor's Ball they can have pastry chef Sherry Yard's gold-dusted candy version. Also on the menu from celeb chef Wolfgang Puck is tuna tartare in sesame miso cones, chopped Chino Farms vegetable salad with ginger soy vinaigrette, Maine lobster and caviar. Serve it up! (Getty Images)
Glad you stooped. Good stuff.
Posted by: chip | January 23, 2008 at 11:37 PM