Unless you've literally been living in a cave you can't help but have heard about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, especially now that they're engaged. Is she just a "beard" for Tom's dubious heterosexuality? Is the entire thing a contractual sham? Is Scientology pulling their strings from afar? There have been a ton of amusing and scandalous articles published so far, but the
best one yet is here, courtesy of the ever-dubious Fox News.
The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family. There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was.
Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere of "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway. She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a couple of other friends. They were there to support Rebecca Gayheart, who was making her Broadway debut. I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the play's intermission. She said she had just moved into her New York apartment and was looking forward to seeing the city.
Holmes was busy during that first week in April. On April 7, she was photographed at the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi event. Four days later, Holmes was still in New York and was photographed at VH1's "Save the Music" concert. She still had not met Cruise. Sometime that week, her friends say, she flew to Los Angeles for a meeting with Cruise about a role in "Mission: Impossible 3." The meeting took place after April 11. The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, when she appeared in public as Cruise's girlfriend and love of his life.
Where was she during those 16 days?
Somewhere during that time, she decided to fire both her manager and agent, each of whom she had been with for years and who were devoted to her.
The
article gossip piece also covers Katie's Rasputin-like new best friend and advisor, a prominent Scientologist from an allegedly corrupt and nutty family of Scientologists. It even gives a list of the other young, aspiring Hollywood starlets Cruise allegedly approached, and was turned down by, before finally latching onto Katie Holmes; a list that includs Jennifer Garner, Kate Bosworth, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, and Scarlett Johansson. It closes with some other amusing info I hadn't heard before; that Katie's long listed her favorite actor as Tom. Tom Hanks. Not Cruise, as she's often said since their "relationship" began.
I have no idea how much, if any of this is true, or if it's all just what we want to believe, knowing how fishy all of Tom Cruise's relationships have been, and how wacky
The Church of Scientology is. It's fun to poke at other people's lives though, isn't it? Especially when they're much more famous and rich than we'll ever be.
