A matter of the moronic leading the insane

[apocalypsos]

Celebrity 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.

Comments

[yud.livejournal.com]

Some actors still have a grip on reality: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/01/23/tom-and-jerry/

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. What video is this?

This one

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. He's a big boy, he can handle it. If he can't, then he should stop making things so much worse by acting like a complete fruitcake in public. And if he can't do that then maybe it's time he stepped out of the limelight for a while?

Why is it so many people go out of their way to express what a precious little flower Tom Cruise is and how we shouldn't step on him or pull off his petals of specialness? He's like that sticky weed that grows in hedges, nothing remotely special except that it's sticky and clingy and impossible to get rid of and gets stuck on people's backs. Grrr.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Jerry O'Connell for that video - it's hilarious. Especially the insane laughter, he has that down perfectly.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I like to think he was on the set of Jerry Maguire way back when watching and PLOTTING. Heeeee. :)

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

What you said. Cubed.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

So this is the TomCruisePatrol?

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[jellicle.livejournal.com]

Oh man... Thanks!

Did you get an old comment I made asking if the fic where Dean is a fan of Project Runway was yours?

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Nope. With my luck, Gmail probably ate it. *sigh*

It's not mine. Sounds like it should be, though. :)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Dustin, you moron, you are so close. There already ARE celebrity's babies being hassled by the media.

Angelina may or may not be an idiot but when her four year old is plastered all over the front of PEOPLE, someone (or some people) need to be arrested. Seriously.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

My fed-on-comics brain makes me think Scientology has a hold on Dustin and Cruise's defenders...

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

Have there been any "Leave Tom Alone!" videos on youtube?

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

I'm so tempted to ask my sister to do one as a joke. She has some disturbing facial similarities to, uh, whats-his-face so it would be perfect... though I have not yet pointed those similarities out lest she kill me.

[chandri.livejournal.com]

...I've noticed a lot of people confuse "freedom of speech" with "privilege to say whatever ridiculous/insulting/completely effing insane shit I want without getting called on it." FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS BI-DIRECTIONAL, Hollywood. (I'm looking at YOU, Dustin Hoffman.)

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[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.