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Will Smith: Attacks on Tom Cruise Were "Painful for Me to See"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:26:22 -0400

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"I've met very few people committed to goodness the way Tom is," he says

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Will Smith defends his pal Tom Cruise in a new interview with USA Today.

He said the criticism Cruise, 45, has received for his Scientology faith has been "painful for me to see. I've met very few people committed to goodness the way Tom is."

The Hancock star, 39 — who was rumored to have converted to Scientology after speaking out about the controversial religion — was raised Baptist and said he remains Christian.

"We disagree on a lot of things," added Smith, who attended Nelson Mandella's 90th birthday in London on Wednesday. "But even with different faiths and different beliefs, at the end of the day, goodness is goodness."

(See photos of all the women Tom Cruise has dated.)

He said that their friendship thrives on rivalry.

They currently compete to see who can sign autographs longer.

"It's hard to beat that dude," Smith said. "He has another gear. He did two-and-a-half hours in France for Mission: Impossible on the red carpet. Now when I go to France, people will say, 'You know, Tom was out here for two-and-a-half hours.'"

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He also opened up about raising his children Willow, 7, and Jaden, 9 (whom he had with wife Jada Pinkett) and son Trey, 15, (from a previous marriage).

"The kids can do anything they want, as long as Daddy thinks it's funny," he says. "And artistically, that's where you need to be, too. You have to find the humor in things."

The same rule applies to tabloid rumors about his life.

"You have to let that roll off you," he said. "There's a natural narcotic my brain must pump, because negativity doesn't last. It's strange to play a guy like Hancock, who can't find something to feel good about. That's the opposite of who I am."

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Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise Moving to NYC for Broadway Show

Alissa R — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:34:15 -0400

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The play's producer calls her "a natural sweetheart who can sniff out phonies"

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are moving to the Big Apple!

As Holmes preps to make her Broadway debut this fall, "[Katie] and Tom are committed to keeping the family together, so they have to get an apartment here [in New York]," All My Sons producer Eric Falkenstein tells the New York Post

(See photos of their most romantic moments.)

Some critics gasped when Holmes was cast, but Falkenstein says she is "perfect" for the part of Ann, a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot.

"Katie's not a celebrity type," Falkenstein says. "She's done brilliant work in films like Pieces of April and The Ice Storm.

"Ann starts out as a simple, sweet, average Midwesterner, and by the finale gets up the gumption to stand and confront what's wrong," he adds.

He calls Holmes "a natural sweetheart who can sniff out phonies ... Katie basically has that exact moral fiber [of her character in the play]."

At the first table-read, Holmes "took notes... asked questions... [she] loves being around theater people," Falkenstein says.

"When she signed on, she came here to a bare rehearsal room for a read- through," the producer says. "She didn't ask for anything. She was just sweet and deferential."

Holmes debuts in mid-October for a limited 16-week engagement. She will be on stage six days a week.

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BFF Victoria Beckham recently told Usmagazine.com, "She's excited, and I'm excited.

"I think Katie's incredibly talented," she added. "I'm very proud of her to be doing this play."

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Victoria Beckham: Katie Holmes Is "Excited" to Go on Broadway

Alissa R — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:56:48 -0400

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She's "going to be magnificent" on stage, her BFF tells <b>Us</b>

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Victoria Beckham has no doubt that Katie Holmes will blow away critics when she makes her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller's All My Sons this fall.

"I think Katie's incredibly talented. I'm very proud of her to be doing this play," she told Usmagazine.com at Monday's CFDA Awards in NYC. "I'm sure it's going to be magnificent."

Holmes — who, along with husband Tom Cruise, hosted an A-list housewarming bash over the weekend - begins rehearsing this summer.

She plays a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot.

She will appear on stage six nights a week.

"She's excited," Beckham added, "and I'm excited."

In the meantime, Holmes and Beckham are relaxing with a little retail therapy.

Asked if they take frequent shopping trips together, Beckham told Us, "Of course, we do! All friends do."

See Holmes' hair through the years.

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Tom Cruise to Oprah: I Have Been "Misunderstood"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:17:46 -0400

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He also takes on rumors that his marriage to <b>Katie Holmes</b> is fake

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In the first part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Friday), Tom Cruise reveals that he jumped on her couch in 2005 because he was so in love with Katie Holmes and couldn't contain himself.

Winfrey confessed that the incident caught her by surprise.

"When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, 'Wow. What was that?'" she tells him in an interview in his Telluride, Colo., home. "I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I'm sure you did not either."

She even confesses, "I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident."

Cruise tells Winfrey, "I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her.

"I can't even articulate it, to be honest," he adds. "That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me."

Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, "It just kind of kept going.

"Those things I kind of go, 'You just have to take in stride.' It just kind of became a confluence of things."

ON ATTACKING MATT LAUER

He also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer (Cruise attacked the anchor, calling him "glib" during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs).

"I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer," Cruise says. "For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It's not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this."

(Cruise now says of medicating children, "I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.")

ON SLAMMING BROOKE SHIELDS

He says his comments on post-partum depression "came out wrong." (He slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan.)

"What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way," Cruise says.

He says the incident has brought the two of them "closer" (Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes.)

ON BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST

Cruise dodges Winfrey's question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement.

"It's a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it]," he says. "I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.

"The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others," Cruise adds. "That's part of being a Scientologist, and that's who I am as a person."

In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says the footage "was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I'm actually talking to my congregation."

"It's [taken] totally out of context," he adds.

ON BUYING A SONOGRAM MACHINE FOR HOLMES DURING HER PREGNANCY

Cruise says he and Holmes took great pains to keep her pregnancy private. "We went in the middle of the night, and we were very excited -- this is such a private moment," he says.

"My life was already a zoo," he says. When news leaked, "it was off the charts."

As for purchasing a sonogram machine for Holmes, Cruise explains, "When you're having a baby, you just want it to be as safe and as easy as possible."

ON KEEPING SURI HIDDEN FOR SO LONG

Lots of rumors spread about their daughter, Suri, because the couple kept her hidden after she was born. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was "hard to hear.

"We just want to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back," he explains. "You don't ever get those moments back."

On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, "Kate and I didn't feel any need to [rush] it. We said, 'Why? It's our family.' We just were on Suri time."

ON DAUGHTER SURI

"She's spectacular," he says. "She really is just magic."

His two children with ex Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella, "were really excited."

ON HIS MARRIAGE WITH HOLMES BEING FAKE

"That's laughable to me," Cruise says. 'You just know that they're trying to sell it and spin it."

He says Holmes' Catholic family has welcomed him.

"They're amazing. I love them," Cruise says. "You see why Kate is such an amazing woman -- incredible integrity and strength. They're family."

ON RUMORS THAT HE HAS PUSHED NICOLE KIDMAN OUT OF THEIR KIDS' LIVES

"No, that's ridiculous," he says. "We share custody. That's what it is."

ON HIS REPUTATION

"Listen I, I feel like definitely things have been misunderstood, and there are things I could have done better," Cruise admits. "But then there's also that world where you go, 'Oh, it's been spun to such an extent that ... that's a truth also.'

He continues, "Knowing when and where to communicate, I think that's important.

"A lot of times I was nervous giving interviews. Or I wasn't sometimes as comfortable about things. And I realized that it's okay.

"There's stuff you have to just let go," Cruise adds. "I just have to do the best I can."

Part two of Oprah's interview airs Monday (check your local listings).

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Tom Cruise Set to Return to The Oprah Winfrey Show

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:34:32 -0400

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He will appear on the show three years after his infamous couch-jumping episode

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Oprah Winfrey may want to hide her couch: Tom Cruise is returning to her talk show.

Three years after his memorable couch-jumping episode, Winfrey will interview Cruise from his home in Telluride, Colorado, on May 2.

Then, Cruise will appear in her Chicago studio for a second taping on May 5.

The two-part show coincides with the 25th anniversary of Cruise's famous flick Risky Business.

Friends and colleagues will surprise him with taped messages, according to Harpo Productions.

Since his last appearance, Cruise wed Katie Holmes, and the couple welcomed daughter Suri — who just turned 2.

See the couple's most romantic moments here.

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EXCLUSIVE FIRST PIC: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Holiday Card

Mandi Illuzzi — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:02:53 -0500

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Click here to see the greeting that Holmes designed herself

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Katie Holmes herself designed the family's burgundy, cream and brown holiday card, Us Weekly reports exclusively in its latest issue.

The card is being sent out on behalf of husband Tom Cruise, 45, their daughter Suri and Cruise's adopted children, Bella and Connor, a source says.

Interestingly, Holmes, 28, signed the cards "Kate," which is how Cruise often refers to her. (Check out Suri's postcards here.)

Holmes (who recently debuted this shocking new do) is also playing Santa this year: "Katie has kept her staff busy doing the shopping, and even had a different gift-wrap design for different categories: family, friends, business associates," says the source.

The clan, adds the insider, will spend Christmas in Telluride, Colorado.

(Who has the power in the relationship: Tom or Katie? Find out here.)

And don't miss these shots of the couple's first year together.

Check out the latest on Tom and Katie's trip to the Italian Alps in the new Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

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TomKat: Back In the U.S.

Alissa R — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:48:24 -0400

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The Cruise clan return to the states after a four-month stay in Germany.

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After spending four months in Berlin (where Tom Cruise was shooting the thriller Valkyrie), the TomKat clan have returned to the states, Usmagazine.com has learned.

A Valkyrie set source would not reveal their whereabouts, but said, "I was told it's New York."

The source also adds that Cruise is returning to Berlin October 24 "maybe with Katie" for a screening of his upcoming Robert Redford drama Lions for Lambs .

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Becoming Mrs. Cruise

Noelle Hancock — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:07:48 -0400

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Classic, timeless style: Check! Demure red carpet posing: Check! Following Tom's lead: Check!

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Classic, timeless style: Check! Demure red carpet posing: Check! Following Tom's lead: Check!

Since Katie Holmes began dating Tom Cruise in April 2005, she's gone from apple-cheeked ingenue to sleek sophisticate.

Her transformation before the cameras brings to mind former Mrs. Cruise, Nicole Kidman.

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