Creepier and creepier.

"get Johans off me"?! Gah.

Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that a rich, handsome hollywood celebrity has his pick of nubile young women and that he sampled the favors of several before picking one??

I'm shocked, shocked, I say.

*gasps*

I heard Jessica Alba was one of the choices too, and Jennifer Garner.

*yawn*

Doesn't everyone have their pick of nubile young women? Or is that just Tom and I?

really? can you toss me some of your rejects, dude? I'm not picky, really.

*wakes up from dreamland, enters reality*

*cries*

Why would some American sex-symbol fear being outed in modern America?

Oh.

give me cancer now god...

That's not a nice thing to call Katie.

He really can act well, sometimes. That was a great role. But also:

"Respect the cruller, tame the doughnut!"

Anyway, I don't really know why it's creepy. A lot of straight men, perhaps most, and certainly including myself, find that youth is deeply intertwined with sexual attraction. Say, 18 or so might be the ideal.

I do find that I don't have much in common with anyone in their twenties or younger. Even were I someone like Tom Cruise, I'd have big reservations about being involved with someone so much younger. But I sure as hell would want to have sex with them. Were I someone like Tom Cruise, I think I'd probably act on that desire.

Whether or not the youth/beauty thing regarding women is innate or the product of culture, I agree that it's regrettable and it'd be much better otherwise. But I've also come to believe that once someone has their sexual attraction triggers "set", they stay set. I don't think I could change my sexual preference in age/body type any more than I think I could change my orientation. Still, how important those things, and other things, are to someone's long term sexual satisfaction varies. Related to my comments in the other thread, I think having that "trigger" present is necessary for some people, and not for others. I'm hesitant to make moral judgments against someone given that context.

He broke the rule: (own age / 2) + 7 = age of youngest person you can date mate with

The story is creepy. I'm not clear that a moral judgement was made against someone.

He broke the rule: (own age / 2) + 7 = age of youngest person you can date mate with

Um, no. This originated as the "perfect" age for a match according to (true or not) Chinese custom. How it went from being the perfect age (where 1 less would be roughly equivalent as a match to 1 more) to where the "ick" factor comes in... says a lot to do with how our aging society deals with youth and beauty (and the fact that young women are still beautiful to older men. Very threatening.)

On behalf of all gay men, I apologize to straight women on Tom's behalf. Sorry, ladies, really.

They should turn it into a reality gameshow - Celebrity Beard anyone?

Charles Nelson Reilly could host. I'll have my people call your people.

::adopts Geordie accent::
Toonite, in the Celebrity Beard house, and Tom still can't find his Ritalin.

I should stop reading popbitch.

Who would have thought that so many vapid Hollywood starlets had enough sense to steer clear of Scientology? More than anything, I'm impressed by this showing - prior to reading this I seriously believed that all female celebrities of the Lindsay Lohan type had roughly the intelligence of a house pet. I realize now that it's only the overwhelming majority of them.

We should have Celebrity Religious Deathmatch--smiting, miracles, s/m, plagues, etc

first up==Tom Cruise and his Scientology vs. Mel Gibson and his special brand of Catholicism

Then==Madonna and her Kabbalah vs. Richard Gere and his Buddhism

A guaranteed hit!!

CELEBRITY FAITH-OFF!!

Omg you are so on guys, I would pay good money for that.

Ooo ee ooo ah ah bing bang kaballahwalladingdong

Tom Cruise could tag team with John Travolta, and Madonna could tag team with Britney Spears. Sure, I'd pay to see that. This time, though, Travolta and Cruise have to do the kissing. With tongue.

Tom Gets Squirted on the Red Carpet (iFilm w/ad) "It's suspenseful...emotional...exciting...extrastressional...*SNORT*...extraterrestrial..."

Poor Tom. But he still tries to help the jerk out. Or at least holds his hand until the authorities arrive.

Yeah, watching that on TV last night was a bit creepy - he started off smiling at the guy and then his face changed very subtly and there was a hint of some real menace there by the time the heavies dragged the guy away - Tom Cruise is not a Nice Guy, no matter what his publicity would have you believe.

Mind you, if the guy had shot him in the gut and Tom was bleeding out on the red carpet I bet he would have said much the same thing. Scary in a quite intangible way.

Yeah, exactly. The sort of guy that gives you the creeps with no discernible cause. Was he always that way, or is it something that has developed?

and there was a hint of some real menace there

I believe this. I wouldn't let him babysit my kids (if I had any).

He was excellent as the lead in "Born On The Fourth Of July". Really. I'd bet that was before the aliens grabbed his brain, but who knows? Maybe it was part of the process. It was an Oliver Stone flick after all...

I always find him to be a convincing actor on screen.

And I just saw a video of the fake- microphone incident. Creepy girl stuff notwithstanding, he handled it well.

I don't know how much of a "Nice Guy" I'd be if someone sprayed water in my face in an effort to humiliate me. I wonder how Sean Penn or Colin Farrell would have reacted in that situation? hmm...

Colin would have immediately punched him out and thrown whatever was handy, and Sean Penn would have yelled, i guess. Both just pure anger things, not this weird changing attitude Tom shows--It's as if his mask didn't hold. It's actually creepier than just pure instinctual reaction.

There was an interesting piece in the Village Voice on Cruise many years ago which said that he acts as a reflection of America's image of itself which it projects to the rest of the world. There is no real Tom Cruise, they claimed. What we see is a gleaming mask covering up the stuff we'd rather not see because we know it's crazy and violent. Well, the article sounded a bit like the Voice was high again but it was pretty interesting.

Colin would have immediately punched him out and thrown whatever was handy, and Sean Penn would have yelled, i guess. Both just pure anger things, not this weird changing attitude Tom shows--It's as if his mask didn't hold. It's actually creepier than just pure instinctual reaction.

So true. I sort of feel for Tom. I don't think he really deserves the amount of shit piled on him. But there is something creepy about the way he interacts with people. He is capable of conjuring this incredibly intense sort of faux sincerity at a moment's notice which is great if you're on screen but just looks weird when you're giving an interview or interacting with people in the real world.

He just seems very, very tightly wound. There is a hint of mania underneath all of his offscreen interactions.

I don't know the guy though so I'm probably just be talking out of my ass.