Breaking News!!!
"Paramount Cuts Ties With Tom Cruise"
Author’s note: I realize that this column will be violating my statement of not making a comment about anything good or bad that happens to Tom Cruise after being the first to effectively cut ties with this crackpot. Yet I felt that this was too big a story not to comment about. That said, on with the ridicule….
Actual Quotes from Paramount executives:
"As much as we like him personally,we thought it was wrong to renew his deal." - You see, right there, that is a lie. Movie executives only like people that make them money on their movies, and well Maverick just hasn’t been the draw since he got off his meds and started grabbing the e-meter too much.
"Redstone estimated that Cruise’s off-screen behavior cost his latest movie, "Mission: Impossible III," $100 million to $150 million in ticket sales" - Now why do you think that is? You mean people were not going to spend $10-15 a ticket to see Ethan Hunt saving the world, after jumping up and down on a couch, telling Matt Lauer that (despite his not graduating from high school) he knew more about prescription drugs and psychology than any doctor who, I don’t know, went to school to study those things, has effectively kidnapped and brainwashed a girl right in front of the public, and claims to have sired the first perfect "human" being (the so-called Suri)? Why would people not want to go see Ethan save the world?
Redstone said. "But we don’t think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot." - I am not sure what else needs to be said about Jerry Maguire.
I applaud Paramount for being the first to say no to Scientology. You are aware that that is what they are doing. L.Ron’s number one disciple will soon make some sort of lunatic statement about due to his religious (*cough*) beliefs he is being persecuted by Paramount. I expect that he will call for his fellow kool-aid drinkers; Vincent Vega, Brody/Earl, the Lady who played Vince Vaughn’s wife in Old School, and any other lunatic, to boycott working for Paramount because Paramount is opposed to Scientology.
This is a mission, we can not allow this heroic stance by this company to go unheard. Paramount must be supported in all aspects of their work. Buy Paramount stock, watch Paramount movies, TV-shows, publications, whatever you can do to make sure they stay alive. When you support Paramount, you are helping to defeat Scientology. Anyone who fights scientology is ok by me.
August 28th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Even though I didn’t need a real reason to not like the Redskins I have just found a concrete reason…Dan Snyder just signed a deal to finance the Couch Jumping Freak’s overhead costs for his production company. When will it all end???