I posted these pics from the Daily Mail yesterday - here's another sites interpretation.....
AS KATIE HOLMES AND SURI TROT AROUND NEW YORK, HOW LONG UNTIL TOM CRUISE WHEELS OUT A NEW ‘GIRLFRIEND’?
Well Katie Holmes was looking good as she trotted around New York yesterday.
I love the 33-year-old’s green studded leather jacket- I’ve been looking for one like that but in black suede for ages.
Zsa Zsa Gabor Suri looks to be on top form, it really warms my icy heart to see her hanging out with friends her own age after years of being surrounded by adult Scientologists.
Meanwhile, life goes on and with filming wrapping in London on Saturday for All you Need Is Kill, 50-year-old Tom action manCruise needs to busy himself finding a fresh beard for when he starts promoting Oblivion around the world in a few short weeks.
And, who better than his stunning Oblivion co-star Olga Kurylenko?
Tom desperately needs some positive press to detract from all the $cientology headlines from the past year. And, a new relationship would at least shift the focus, so long as he can persuade people it’s real and not for publicity.
Good luck with that Tom.
Talking of PR stunts, I wonder if Tom’s going to borrow Suri’s double for a photo op now he has a few days off or if he’s just going to keep hinting they’ve spent time togetherwhen clearly they haven’t?
I keep reading that Tom’s never going to let that Bauer court case go to trial so I don’t understand why his lawyers are bothering to keep fighting it and keeping it in the headlines when all it does for me is drive home the feeling that In Touch was right and he hadn’t seen Suri all last summer.
And he probably still hasn’t seen her. That’s a long time.
This leads me to conclude that not only was the marriage a sham (I was thinking the other day when we reported the Cruise-Holmes wedding in Italy out that they insisted they had filed all the relevant legal papers in LA before they left for Rome but his people only said that after we questioned it so I’m wondering now if they ever even were legally married?) but that Suri’s probably not his kid.
Otherwise he’d have had things nailed down so that when Katie left he got to keep Suri- I just can’t see how Tom would have let it be any other way.
It’s all so fishy that every time I think about it, I still can’t believe that Katie agreed to it all in the first place.
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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Cruise splashes £100,000 on a lavish wrap party for cast and crew but misses out after filming runs over
By J J ANISIOBI
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Tom Cruise may just be the most generous superstar in all of Hollywood.
The acting legend spent a whopping £100,000 on a wrap party for cast and crew on his latest blockbuster – but failed to attend the glitzy celebration himself.
Tom, 50, was in London filming All You Need Is Kill, and planned the huge celebration for the entire cast and crew.
Generousity: Tom Cruise splashed the cash on a lavish wrap party... but the couldn't attend after filming ran over
Unfortunately, the Top Gun star found himself stuck on set until late on Saturday night as filming ran over and he was not able to join the lavish party he had paid for.
Cruise booked one of the top five star luxury venues in town with free food and drink all night for the 400 people who worked on the film.
Tom got his people to book the luxurious Altitude London venue on the 28th floor of the Millbank Tower near the Houses of Parliament.
A source close to the action hero told Mail Online: ‘He chose the venue because it has the most amazing panoramic view of the whole of London.’
Splash the cash: Tom treated his guests to £100,000 worth of free food and drink at the Millbank Tower
But due to filming over-running Tom wasn't able to attend his own leaving do.
The source added: ‘He was still at the studios right up till late Saturday night filming last minute action sequences to the multi-million budget action flick.’
Instructions were sent from the set to managers at the venue that there should be a free bar all night with unlimited champagne and cocktails.
The source said: ‘By the end of the night over 350 bottles of champagne had been popped. There were also delicious canapés of crab cakes, Chinese dim sum, mini Kobe beef burgers, sausage and mash, and satay chicken.’
One of the crew at the party told Mail Online: ‘Tom's had an incredible time filming this movie, he's ridden a vintage motorbike down the Mall to Buckingham Palace and dropped out of a helicopter into Trafalgar Square.
Practice makes perfect: Emily Blunt holds a gun to Tom Cruise's head on All You Need Is Kill set in London
‘He said that filming in London has been one of the greatest experiences of his life, and this was his way of saying thank you to all the production team that made it possible.’
The crew member added: ‘I've worked on quite a few Hollywood films and with big star names, but this is without a doubt the most lavish wrap party I've ever been to. There's going to be a few sore heads on Sunday morning though.’
The shindig included a DJ playing all night up to 3am and the party got started early with people wading in at 9pm at the free bar.
Hundreds of full champagne flutes were lined up across the bar and were replenished as soon as they were drunk. Waitresses kept going round with seemingly never ending trays of canapés.
There was even a dressing up cupboard laid on complete with Mission Impossible style outfits and a photo-booth so that crew could take pictures of themselves because there was a strict no photos rule in the party.
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My Scientology personality test
I was intrigued by the invitation to 'discover my true potential' on the Scientology website – but I just felt nagged and exposed
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Scientologists hold Sunday and Monday services that anyone can go to, of any religion or faith. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
I was curious to see what would happen if I took the Church of Scientology's "Oxford capacity analysis test". Trailed on the church's website as an invitation to "discover your true potential", the test consists of 200 questions, veering wildly in tone from the mundane – "Do you speak slowly?" – to the impudently probing – "Are you normally considered 'cold'?" – to the rather extreme – "Is your life a constant struggle for survival?" Each requires a response of yes, no or uncertain, and as I worked my way through them I started to feel a bit like I was being nagged.
"Do you find it hard to get started on a task that needs to be done?"
"Do you bite your fingernails or chew the end of your pencil?"
"Would you 'buy on credit' with the hope that you can keep up the payments?"
All a "yes" from me, I'm afraid. After completing the test online I followed the website's instructions and contacted the London Dianetics Centre to book my "personality test evaluation".
The date of my appointment arrived and off I went to find the centre, a rather grand building near London's Blackfriars that could easily be mistaken for smart lawyers' offices or a private bank. After reporting in at reception I'm met by a friendly, if rather intense, Scientology volunteer who'd be taking me through my test results. She seats me at a desk in the building's "information centre" and places a personalised graph in front of me, with an undulating line indicating my "10 personality characteristics".
"Any points lying above this line," she gestures, "are very good, generally. Any points lying below the line are affecting you negatively in some way." The vast majority of points on my graph are well below the line.
"So these first three points here," she gestures, "these are all very low. That shows something in your past has affected you quite a bit. Can you think of anything like that?"
I say no.
"Anything that affected you that was a past painful experience?"
Surely everyone has past painful experiences?
"Anything that stands out for you?"
I wrack my brains and eventually mention a past experience I feel is just about painful enough to be a satisfactory answer. We then move on to the next point on the graph and more questions follow, each seemingly requiring me to reveal something negative about myself, or something unpleasant that's happened to me. After 20 exhausting minutes of this we come to the end.
"So these things you've spoken about," she says, "your slight lack of confidence, which you'd like to improve, and also worrying about finances, and getting yourself more active, and procrastinating less" - (God, I think. Did I really say all that?) – are those areas in your life you'd actually like to do something about?"
Feeling rather overwhelmed, and not a little exposed, I tell her I'd certainly be interested in hearing a little more about it all. She leads me through to the next room to view this extraordinarily badly acted short film (a must watch for all fans of unintentional humour) and once it's over asks if I have any questions.
I ask what she would say to convince me I ought to become a Scientologist.
"I wouldn't try to convince you. What [Scientology founder] L Ron Hubbard said specifically is that what is true is only what's true for you – it's your reality that counts. It isn't necessary to take answers on faith. The thing that's stressed most strongly in dianetics and Scientology is that you seek yourself. What we do with the personality test is see what area would help you. So I would suggest that you read Dianetics(Hubbard's book), because you might find that it could help you in your life."
So what is it that Scientologists do, exactly? Do they attend church services?
"We hold Sunday and Monday services that anyone can come to, of any religion or faith. And people who are Scientologists would do courses to further understand life and themselves; there's many, many different courses, depending on whatever they're interested in. They'll also read books, as L Ron Hubbard wrote many of them and recorded many, many lectures."
I say I'm curious about some of the rumours I've heard, such as that Scientologists aren't allowed to make any noise during childbirth.
"No, that's absolutely hilarious," she says with a smile. "It's completely not true. There was a paragraph in Dianetics, which says that the birthing environment should be as calm as possible for the mother and child, and that was taken out of context."
How about rumours that church members are sometimes encouraged to disassociate themselves from people they've known before – is that true?
"Not that I know of, no. I have many friends who aren't Scientologists, and many who are. A lot of Scientologists are married to people who aren't Scientologists."
I say I've heard some suggestions that the church wrings a lot of money out of its followers.
"There are millions of people across the world who use dianetics. Now to produce the books, to create the DVDs, to pay for toilet paper and so on … There's no percentage of income, or tithing, or anything like that. There are donations made for the courses; people can make bigger donations if they want to, but it's all entirely voluntary."
I decide to leave it there. Any further questions I might ask along these lines would just sound rude, and I have no wish to offend my patient host. Nevertheless, nothing she's told me has made me think dianetics or Scientology would hold anything worthwhile for me. I pass up the opportunity to buy one of L Ron Hubbard's books and leave with a few handouts and a deep unease over how much personal information I've just volunteered to a total stranger.
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