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Has Scientology Made Tom Cruise The Big Bad Wolf?
It's fascinating to watch all the newsies and bloggers go on the attack against Tom Cruise now that he and Katie Holmes are Splitsville, and this isn't the first time that Scientology was blamed. The press went wild and portrayed Cruise as a delusional cult member in 2005 after he jumped around on Oprah's couch and decried the use of medications to deal with everyone's personal problems. War of the Worlds was released that same year and made a whopping $591 million worldwide. No one took note of that or the fact that that Tom managed to show up for work everyday while making the film and, therefore, helped the production finish shooting a big, complicated production in just 73 days.
To set the record straight, I am no fan of Scientology. I do enjoy the work of Tom Cruise. I believe he is a talented and hard-working actor who cares about the quality of the product he helps to create. I do agree with him more than I disagree about medications designed to treat real or imagined mental illnesses. I think that many people have become legal junkies who live on physician's pills and promises of results without actually considering the long term affect of the drugs they take and any addictions they might develop to them.
Enter the other half of the TomKat divorce mess: Katie Holmes is being portrayed as the victim, an escapee from the evil cult that her husband forced her into and now wants their child to join in earnest. Well, I would say that anyone who works in Hollywood would have to know that some celebrities are serious follows of Scientology and that Tom Cruise is among the most famous of those. It makes no sense to say that Katie did not know what she was getting involved with when she said, "I Do." One could argue that she might not have thought about children and their possible future relationship with that church at the exact moment that she agreed to be Mrs. Tom Cruise, but those are exactly the kinds of things that responsible people consider before they get married in the first place.
Now Katie Holmes is America's Sweetheart thanks to a role she played on Dawson's Creek and some very good public relations work, while Tom Cruise is the deluded cult member trying to lure his young daughter into the evil clutches of Scientology. Never mind the fact that while Tom is almost always affable, Katie is known to have a quick temper, frequent mood changes and often gets upset over relatively minor inconveniences.
It has been reported that during a recent visit to her local New York City food market Katie went off on a cashier. She allegedly used expletives to describe that person and had a hissy fit because something did or did not go her way. That cashier was later removed from the store, meaning that he or she was either transferred or let go. That incident was, of course, due to the pressure placed on poor Katie by the TomKat divorce (which she initiated). I guess no one is upset about whatever happened to that cashier who is probably not rich, famous or involved in a huge and messy divorce that makes the news everyday and gets the participants tons of free publicity.
Could it be that this whole TomKat divorce thing is just another Hollywood marriage gone sour instead of a struggle against come cult seeking the hearts and minds of everyone involved? Whether or not Scientology is the cause of the split, it is a fact that Tom Cruise at age fifty is not seeing much of a slow down in hot roles or most of his box office performance. Katie not so much. Her movie career has not been as stellar as she had hoped post Dawson's Creek and that might just be the kind of stone in a shoe that makes a gal think it's time for a complete change of direction. What better way to get noticed than by divorcing someone like, oh, Tom Cruise? Katie might be the girl next store, but after the way she suddenly dumped Tom and went off on that cashier I don't think I would want her living next store to me!
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