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Paramount dumps Tom Cruise: Finally!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 25, 2006, 06:08:40 pm ---
I think the link he has with Tom Cruise is the scientology thing.....that to me is the only thing they seem to have in common.....I have often wondered how someone as nice as James Packer could even be friends with such a dick head as Tom.
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Maybe it is just Scientology, but...who knows? This from msnbc:
Grooming his successor
Has Tom Cruise snagged the promise of more big bucks for Scientology?
The “Mission Impossible” star has been honored for being the biggest donor to the religion, and is said to have raised more than $1.6 million for a controversial detox program for firefighters in New York that is linked to Scientology. But the real money may be yet to come.
While filming “The Last Samurai,” Cruise became chummy with James Packer, whose billionaire father, Kerry Packer was the richest man in Australia. The elder Packer died this week, and James Packer is widely believed to be inheriting his father’s empire.
“James Packer was spotted around a Scientology campus in Australia, has made frequent trips in Los Angeles where Scientology is headquartered, and reportedly spent time in Scientology counseling sessions in Sydney — and Tom Cruise is his pal,” Cultnews.com’s Rick Ross tells The Scoop. “Practically everything that Tom Cruise does has some connection to Scientology. The thinking is that Cruise has groomed this guy to be a big giver to follow in Cruise’s footsteps. After all, Tom Cruise is the biggest giver Scientology has.”
And this is from an Australian newspaper....
In response, James Packer adopted a lower profile in Sydney and increased his trips to the US, where he frequently vacationed with Cruise at his Telluride, Colorado, estate.
A few weeks after the death of Kerry Packer on Boxing Day, James again packed his snow gear and headed to Telluride.
Although Cruise was not close to Kerry Packer, he flew to James's side in his private Gulfstream jet on Thursday for Friday's memorial service at Sydney Opera House.
He checked his pregnant partner Katie Holmes into the Park Hyatt before dressing in khaki T-shirt and jeans and slipping out to attend a private cocktail party at the Packer family's Bellevue Hill compound.
By nightfall, the men were packing bags for a helicopter flight to the family property Ellerston, near Scone.
Cruise's friendship and the likely and ongoing influence of Scientology have, say friends, given Mr Packer a newfound sense of "peace and focus".
It appears that Mr Packer has found the man who will help coach and support him through the next phase of his life.
Just my 2 cents but it sure seems interesting that "the men" are spending all this time together on private vacations and such...."coach and support" -- interesting euphemism, if you ask me.
Leslie
Giancarlo:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 25, 2006, 06:55:42 pm ---
Giancarlo
Well don’t be. I was merely countering your statement that Tom’s behavior was ‘outrageous’ and must have had something to do with the breakup with Paramount. I merely pointed out that Tom’s behavior compared to other actors' behavior seems a bit tame in comparison. I didn’t say that you were excusing the others. The Huffington article Vickie posted really brings this point home.
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Okay.. you are clearly not reading my posts. I have said it is one of the factors. Most of his behavior is indeed outrageous, and has received substantial media spotlight. That is one the reasons why it is damaging business. And Mission Impossible III as I stated was not that great of a money maker. It utterly fell behind in the domestic market (and failed to make back its budget).
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Giancarlo on August 26, 2006, 06:04:50 pm ---Okay.. you are clearly not reading my posts. I have said it is one of the factors. Most of his behavior is indeed outrageous, and has received substantial media spotlight. That is one the reasons why it is damaging business. And Mission Impossible III as I stated was not that great of a money maker. It utterly fell behind in the domestic market (and failed to make back its budget).
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LOL! And you're not reading my posts either. I was well aware you said it was one of the factors. That's why I said you said it had 'something' to do with the break with Paramount. Not that it was the overweening cause.
We're going to have to agree to disagree about what we each consider 'outrageous'. His pushing his own religion, getting stupidly overexcited about his lovelife and being egomaniacal is hardly IMO 'outrageous' comparatively speaking.
That ANYthing out of Hollywood has received substantial media coverage doesn't mean what is reported over and over again is substantially newsworthy in the first place.
Example, Brad Pitt getting caught naked on his balcony by the paparazzi. The pictures circulating in tabloids and the internet. This went on for some weeks.
Newsworthy?
Pitt has a penis and here's the proof? (to quote Brad himself).
Hardly.
MI:III did not make its budget in the U.S., but it did so handily with overseas business and that wasn't including the DVD sales as I recall reading.
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on August 25, 2006, 06:08:40 pm ---Wow, Leslie....that sure rocked my socks a bit......the guy you are talking about is James Packer, now one of Australias richest men, since his father, Kerry Packer died last year.
He is in the news a lot here in Australia, has been since he was a young boy, but there has NEVER been any signs, rumours or indications that HE is gay...he has been married, but now divorced, and for the last few years been dating a popular model.
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Katie, clearly you haven't been reading the same gossip rags as my mum cause James Packer HAS been plagued by gay rumours and has copped them for YEARS!!!! There was some huge scandal with his breakup with Kate Fischer - you might remember they were engaged and then she suddenly and mysteriously "changed her mind" about marrying him and was given $10 million dollars to "never speak about, write about or discuss any aspect of her relationship" with James. Hmmm.... *raises eyebrows"
And then he married Jodhi Meares, an extremely well-endowed swimsuit model. James virtually gave her unlimited access to the Packer fortune to start her own swimsuit design business - Tigerlily (they have great swimwear actually) and then 2 years after the business was off the ground, James and Jodhi divorced. Same deal - HUGE sum of cash for Jodhi to never speak about her relationship with James.
Hmmm again... *taps pencil on desk*
Del.. good to be back.. ;D
Katie77:
Gee Shonna, its all new to me.....maybe i have been living in the country too long, or not reading the right magazines.....(i would guess that any newpaper or magazine, carrying such stories, would NOT be Packer owned)......
I can honestly say, I have never read anything about James being gay....I remember the break ups with Kate and Jodhi......but in the news I read, it didnt mention it.
My thoughts, though, if James is gay, what the diff, he seems like a nice enough bloke, as are most gay guys, my only point of view on that subjuect would be still.......How could he get tangled up with a dick head like Tom.......
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