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apocalypsosCelebrity friends: Stop picking on Tom Cruise
*sigh* I know movie stars don't have a firm grasp of reality, but still.
Dustin Hoffman, Cruise's Rain Man co-star, tells PEOPLE: "Tom Cruise is an American and has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion."
True, and just like with anybody else we have the right to turn around and call him a crazed lunatic in a lame cult. Welcome to America!
"Imagine having a baby and people talking about it the way they did," says [Ben] Stiller. "People lose sight of the fact that Tom Cruise is actually a person. I feel for him."
Okay, first of all, there's an infant and a grown man. If a video of an infant babbling nonsense and giggling hysterically were posted on YouTube, it'd be posted everywhere because that would be adorable. When an adult does it, it's painful. And there's something that irks me a lot about bunches of people falling all over one another to say he's a fabulous person. Not because he's obviously got loyal friends, and I don't doubt that he's not half as nut as the media makes him out to be (although I don't exactly think he's precisely normal anymore either). It's because their continued defense of him smacks of, "Stop it, you're hurting his feelings!"
He's an adult. He made that video. He knows what his public persona has turned into, and he knows what people think of Scientology. And unless he's been whacked over the head with a shovel recently he couldn't possibly think that he would make a video that, while the larger content might have been less insane, featured moments that could be edited together to make him look like a nutbar.
In summation: Shut it, Tom Cruise's friends. Sheesh.
*sigh* I know movie stars don't have a firm grasp of reality, but still.
Dustin Hoffman, Cruise's Rain Man co-star, tells PEOPLE: "Tom Cruise is an American and has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion."
True, and just like with anybody else we have the right to turn around and call him a crazed lunatic in a lame cult. Welcome to America!
"Imagine having a baby and people talking about it the way they did," says [Ben] Stiller. "People lose sight of the fact that Tom Cruise is actually a person. I feel for him."
Okay, first of all, there's an infant and a grown man. If a video of an infant babbling nonsense and giggling hysterically were posted on YouTube, it'd be posted everywhere because that would be adorable. When an adult does it, it's painful. And there's something that irks me a lot about bunches of people falling all over one another to say he's a fabulous person. Not because he's obviously got loyal friends, and I don't doubt that he's not half as nut as the media makes him out to be (although I don't exactly think he's precisely normal anymore either). It's because their continued defense of him smacks of, "Stop it, you're hurting his feelings!"
He's an adult. He made that video. He knows what his public persona has turned into, and he knows what people think of Scientology. And unless he's been whacked over the head with a shovel recently he couldn't possibly think that he would make a video that, while the larger content might have been less insane, featured moments that could be edited together to make him look like a nutbar.
In summation: Shut it, Tom Cruise's friends. Sheesh.
