Katie and Tom???

So the most recent US Weekly, I think not on stands, but out to subscribers shows a picture of Katie Holmes looking harried and lost with a headline stating 'Inside Katie's Prison'. The inside article then details her life of being a prisoner of Tom Cruise.

I still remember a year ago when The Soup kept making fun of her response to media questions with a tight and weird 'Sure'. My husband then felt compelled to say 'that poor girl'. It's true I do feel sorry for her. Tom Cruise seems to have lost his perfect charismatic shine. It doesn't matter that he has made up with Brooke Shields after the public post baby depression argument in 2005. And that Brooke Shields is willing to publicly state that they are friends now? Well, good for her.

It was a great move to make up with her, she was angry and her anger was shared by his major support demographic-women, particularly women in their 30's who grew up with him. And he is certainly dressing like a Daddy these days and proudly displaying his wife. But it's far too obvious that he's not quite right. His hair is always disheveled, his clothes are a little off, he's too too happy. I never thought a celebrity could be too happy or shiny, but he looks manic.
Par this with reports that Katie Holmes is cut off from old friends and family members; suddenly it seems like Tom Cruise is your stereotypical powerful man dominating and abusing his wife.

As someone who has spoken out on domestic abuse issues and spent time studying them and the traditional profile of an abusive controlling man-I think his current profile of behavior makes him seem like a movie villain instead of a film hearththrob. Really, it's like the plot of a TV movie, powerful famous male actor, adored by millions, has a fabulous career, fabulous wealth, takes on a young naive actress to make into his slave. In public the villain is perfect and in private he is a monster.

Well, not quite. There have been no reports of physical abuse, and sources state that Katie Holmes has simply been overwhelmed by the new life she has been given. So there is a more plausible reason for her behavior than the idea of Tom Cruise being a hateful abusive jerk. It doesn't seem to matter as people do love to hate Tom Cruise now. I thought he was untouchable, but his comments in 2005 made so many in the media angry, his public fights didn't help, and his strange behavior have made him a target.

At the same time, I have a hard time believing that life is so bad for Katie, I mean she has tons of money, she gets everything she wants materially and she is married to a very powerful good looking man. She shops like mad, he picks up the bills, and she's uber famous now.

Can I just take a detour and say for someone who shops so much why does she always look so bad? She needs a stylist, her taste is deplorable. Maybe that's why they are rumored to be loveless. Although I find that hard to believe with the baby.

In fact the same article states that they were making out like mad at a Superbowl party this year. If it's true that she is a people pleaser and will try to make anything work as the US weekly article states then I can feel somewhat sorry for her. She may be in over her head. Maybe she just never realized she would have to cut back her career, change her religion, enter a crazy media circus, or loose friends and family for him. And what's with his mom and sister living with them? Moochers!

Whatever the deal is now, she is set for life even after this marriage is over, and believe me, they will get divorced eventually.

Another thought that occurs to me is that Cruise went for a very young woman to have his children and his profile now fits that of the mogul older man trading in wives for younger models. That's a turn off and is incongruous with his good boy image. Also, I don't believe he is straight, maybe that's why he looks so weird because he is stressed out trying to be straight.
Whatever the case it seems the Cruise's have become the newest media target since no one can take too much more about Britney Spears loosing her mind-although she is the blurb this week too.

Can I just say I long for the days of Brad, Jen A. and Angelina on the tabloids? That was sooo much more fun. I don't care much about Angelina's newest baby and Britney just makes me feel bad, and I don't like Tom Cruise anymore so hearing about his problems is annoying. I hate the Scientologists except they are so crazy they are entertaining. In fact the problems Tom keeps having mediawise are a great advertisement against the Scientologists. It's like 'see they aren't that great, they make people crazy! Just look at Tom Cruise!'

(Note: I would like to take a moment to extend Condolences to Tony Snow and his family. Today the news announced that his cancer has come back and metastized to his liver. Liver cancer is very serious, a mentor of mine died just last Summer from it. Maybe because he is young he will survive. Blessings.)