Although Tom Cruise has been receiving most of the praised reviews from Adam Shankman’s film  adaption of the  hit musical “Rock of Ages”, it’s reported that the 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is giving him a run for his money.

Baldwin, 53, plays the owner of The Bourbon, a Sunset Strip club facing closure in the wake of the 1980s. When the trailer hit late last year there were many different looks for the cast, including Tom Cruise’s long hair and shirtless body, Catherine Zeta-Jones jumping back into her sophisticated sexy image once seen in Chicago, but it’s Alec Baldwin who puts up with the most image change.

From suits to long hair and outrageous outfits in the 80s period Adam Shankman is convinced that Baldwin makes it work, sort of. “If that wig didn’t work, then the whole thing was going to be a disaster. The world is so used to seeing him as Jack Donaghy, and I needed to get him as far away from Jack Donaghy as I could.” Shankman said Baldwin took a special on-set liking to Brand. “He and Russell ended up being like Tracy and Hepburn. They were so giddy, and they did everything together.”

What do you think? Can the star studded cast pull off this dynamic musical and make it work for the big screen? Are there too many risks? Will Tom Cruise work the long hair just as good as co-star Russell Brand.

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Not a month goes by where we aren’t introduced to a new celebrity’s child who has been turned into an instant diva for the media’s indulgence and this month it’s Connor Cruise, son of actor Tom Cruise.

Apparently Connor is quite the football fan and when a former representative for the young 17-year-old DJ poked fun over the New England game in a tweet he flipped out in a private text message to the rep.

Todd Krim had tweeted to the Pats fan:

“Sorry @TheConnorCruise maybe next year!!!”

While the Twitter message was a standard bit of poking fun Connor sent Krim the following text message:

“That was a gay ass [bleeping] tweet . . . U don’t say [bleep] like that about my team the second they lose. Low.”

Todd quickly took a photo of the text message and sent it out to other publicists to warn them about the diva’s attitude towards reps. Krim says he wanted agents to know what they were “dealing with” if they signed Connor Cruise to representation.

Krim responded to Connor by telling him that it was a joke to which Connor Cruise responded:

“That was [bleeped]” and “Idgaf” (I don’t give a f*ck).”

Krim says the Twitter fight led to a parting of ways however Cruises team says the split actually happened before Super Bowl XLVI.

Do you think Connor Cruise is headed towards being the male equivalent of Paris Hilton? Perhaps the Church of Scientology made him send the mean-hearted text message in repsonse to Krim’s tweet.

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If Suri Cruise manages to reach legal age without at least 10 Paris Hilton/Miley Cyrus/Britney Spears style breakdowns we’ll be extremely surprised. Earlier this week we reported that mom and dad purchased their daughter $130,000 worth of Christmas gifts including an actual pony and now it turns out the spending had just begun.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reportedly paid $5,000 for exclusive use of a VIP-type area at New York’s Rockefeller Center ice skating rink. The typical cost of skating at the rink? $75.

The New York Daily News also reports that along with their rental they had gourmet hot chocolate and treats made by the famed ”Mr. Chocolate” which were delivered “especially for Suri.”

Obviously it’s completely up to Tom and Katie if they want to spoil their daughter but as history has taught us it’s these type of actions that lead to bigger problems down the road for the rich spoiled children of the entertainment industries most elite.

Do you think Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have went overboard with Suri Cruise and her extravagant tastes at such a young age?

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The print version of In Touch Weekly claims it was passed a copy of Suri’s list (hmmm), and the five-year-old’s pressie demands do indeed add up to the the price of a small apartment.

Top of the list is, inevitably, a pony. And ITW reports Tom Cruise has already located a stable for the beast to stay in near their home in Beverly Hills, at least until Princess Suri gets bored and Daisy/Star/Lucky/Sugarcube is carted off to make Pritt Sticks.

Diamond earrings and gowns also appear in Suri’s modest demands – apparently she’s after stuff that will make her “look like a fairy princess.” Cruise and Holmes are said to have splashed out willingly on everything their child has asked for. A source close to the couple told In Touch Weekly:

“Tom and Katie love the holidays and always go overboard. [...] They are buying Suri absolutely everything she asks for.”

So again, that’s $130,000 on a five-year-old. This should end well for all involved. How much are you spending on your kids this Christmas, readers? Is it more than, er, $130? Perhaps as much as $1,300?

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Jeremy Renner, star of Hurt Locker and co-star in the upcoming action flick Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, admits that he didn’t have quite as much fun hanging off the side of the world’s tallest building as Tom Cruise did.

In an interview with Extra, Renner says that filming the stunt scene on the side of the Bhurj Khalifa, a 2,723 feet tall building in Dubai, for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol took his “breath away”.

“Tom was laughing at me because I told him I was going to vomit on him,” Renner tells “Extra.” “He’s just upside down, mind you, hanging on a wire saying, ‘Come on, man, look at this view!’ I did look, and I realized the Legoland that was below us were all proper skyscrapers.”

As it turns out, hanging off the side of a building a couple thousand feet above the ground wasn’t even what bothered the two actors the most when filming Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – it was diving into the polluted waters of Prague.

“I’m coughing, spit out water. I swallowed a whole gulp. [Cruise] stops and says ‘I swallowed a whole mouthful of water!’ We’re going to die. Appendages are going to start growing out of our foreheads.’ Tom is rappelling down major buildings but a little bug in the water… ”

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol opens in theaters on December 21.

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Source: Extra

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Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise is coming back with another serving of action and more action. With director Brad Bird at the helm this fourth installment, otherwise known as Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, the MI team, with Tom Cruise at Ethan Hunt, and newcomer Jeremy Renner, is scheduled to hit the theaters this December.

I gotta admit that this trailer is full of action that hopefully is indicative of what we will see when the movie finally hits.

So what do you think, will you be heading to the theater when the movie arrives?

via FirstShowing.net

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Connor Cruise ,the 16 year old son of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman is focusing on his career in the music business. Connor originally was thought to be following in his parents footsteps when he made his acting debut in the film Seven Pounds and more recently completed his second film, Red Dawn.

Instead Connor and his close friend Jake Isham have started their own Entertainment business named Cz Entertainment where they can show off their skills as Disc Jockeys. Connor is said to perform under the alias DJ C-Squared and according to a People magazine source, is quite the artist.

via Contactmusic

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Russell Brand has joined the cast of Rock of Ages, the Tony-nominated musical that already stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough.

The musical will be directed by Hairspray helmsman Adam Shankman.

If you’re not familiar with Rock Of Ages it’s a love story that uses the biggest hits of the 1980s to tell it’s story. Whether your a fan of Bon Jovi or Twister Sister, Pat Benatar or Journey, you’ll probably find something you like in the production.

Brand signed on the dotted line after his two movies Hop and Arthur took the No. 1 and No. 2 comedy spots in America over the weekend.

Russell will play rock club operator and show narrator Lonny.

Shankman made the announcement on his personal Twitter account, tweeting:

“I can officially announce Russell Brand as your Lonny in #rockofagesmovie ! I see a mullet in his future…maybe a Nikki Six?”

With production set to begin next month the movie is expected to be released sometime in 2012.

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Anonymous, the group behind various online website and computer network attacks will be taking to the streets to protest Scientology. It’s a rare move for a group that typically hides behind computer screens and keyboards.

The Anonymous vs. Scientology marches will occur on April 16 in the following cities; New York City, Irving, TX, Santa Rosa, CA, Nashville and Scientology’s U.S. base, Clearwater, FL.

The group is hoping to have the practice stripped of it’s tax exempt status which has been in place since the IRS recognized the organization as a religion in 1993.

Fearing for the safety of protestors in Clearwater where thousands of the “churches” members reside, protestors in that city are asked to disguise their faces for fear of retribution at a later date.

While I strongly believe in freedom of religion, after the church plead guilty many years ago to drugging, kidnapping and then extorting money from various members they should have lost all tax exempt rights and the heads of the religion should have been jailed. Shame on your IRS and while I don’t say this very often, good luck Anonymous.

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So Katie Holmes will be moving to Australia this summer (winter there) for filming of a movie she’s starring in and her hubby, Tom Cruise, the face of Scientology, will be joining her for moral support.

While in Aus, Tom will also be bolstering support for Scientology and trying to “dispel the myths that Scientology is a cult” according to UK’s DailyMail:

Tom Cruise will launch a recruitment drive for his Scientology church in Australia.

His charm offensive will begin when he relocates to Melbourne for four months while his wife, Katie Holmes, begins work on her latest film, Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark.

‘Tom knows that he will have his work cut out as the church attracts protesters,’ says my source.

‘But he hopes his presence will help change minds and dispel the myths that Scientology is a cult.’

The state of Victoria outlawed Scientology for six years in the Sixties after it was branded ‘evil’ by a local lawyer.

Katie will begin shooting in August amid tight security. Sources say the cast will have to sign 20-page confidentiality agreements and the couple want to recruit a large ‘entourage’.

So if you live in Australia and catch a wiff of Rogaine and see a balding man resembling the guy pictured below approaching you, or he shows up at your front door trying to sell you magic vitamins out of a backback, beware.

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Tom Cruise, 46, is reportedly going bald and taking Rogaine treatments in a last-ditch effort to cling to the what little hair he has left.

A Star Magazine informant has revealed:

“Tom is using Rogaine because his [hair] is thinning. Plus he gets weekly massages to stimulate growth.”

No word on the cause of Tom Cruise’s hair loss. At this point it could be any number of things, like Anthrax, Scientology vitamins, or just plain old age.

[Source: Popcrunch]

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Actress Kelly McGillis, best remembered for her role opposite Tom Cruise in Top Gun, has confirmed rumors that she is a lesbian.

“I’m done with the man thing,” McGillis told Shewired. “I did that, I need to move on in life. It’s a part of being true to yourself. That’s been a challenge for me.”

51 year old McGillis is twice married and divorced, and has two teenage daughters. McGillis said that it took her a long time to accept that she was a lesbian. “I think that was an ongoing process from the time I was probably 12..It was a long arduous journey for me.”

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Katie Holmes’ Scientology detox diet continues to eat away at the once great looking actress, with a new appearance showing all the ravages of a malnutritioned child in a war zone.

Holmes was pictured in Los Angeles over the weekend looking frail and disheveled as she attended dinner with husband Tom Cruise and his adoptive daughter Isabella.

Adding to the gaunt look, Holmes also had forgotten to do her fingernails, with some showing a mint-green nail varnish, while the others were bare.

According to The Mirror, Holmes is on a strict Scientology detox diet that uses herbal drinks and a purification procedure to eliminate toxic substances. If the Detox includes eating away at all body fat, then it’s quite clearly working.

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Tom Cruise isn’t endearing himself to the natives in Brazil, with a nice little display of cultural stupidity.

Cruise was in town to promote Valkyrie, and decided it would be really smart to trying to speak to the locals in Spanish, saying “hola” (hello) and “gracias” (thank you).

One tiny little problem though. They don’t speak Spanish in Brazil, they speak Portuguese.

It’s the equivalent of a French actress doing a media conference in the United States flipping into Spanish instead of English….actually, no, that doesn’t work, chances are a good portion of the audience in the US would speak Spanish, but I digress, because it would still be rather rude.

I guess Xenu doesn’t hand out pills for intelligence.

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The producers of Valkyrie, Tom Cruise’s newest movie based on the plot during World War Two to kill Hitler may be sued for using a reproduction of the famous Hitler Globe.

The globes, produced in the 1930′s were given to high ranking officials in the Third Reich, with one Globe said to be kept at Berchtesgaden (The Eagles Nest), the Bavarian Country home of Hitler. Most were destroyed during the war, but the Berchtesgaden Globe was retrieved by American soldiers.

Art collector Robert Pritikin acquired the globe in 2007 and filed a copyright claim over reproductions, ostensibly to stop neo-Nazi’s creating copies, and this is where the problem for Valkyrie lies: they didn’t seek permission from Pritikin to use the globe reproduction first.

According to Page Six, the Globe is actually up for sale, the Pritikin is said to be hoping the matter will be resolved without going to court…or better still Tom Cruise will buy the globe.

Sadly though it’s a case of copyright law gone mad. This is a work created in the 1930′s by a German company that no longer exists; that an art collector can claim copyright over the work in 2007 when the work, under both US and German law should be in the public domain is scary within itself. Worse still though, the copyright claim means that an historical event, and portrayal of that event based on facts, is now limited by copyright law, even events that occurred over 60 years ago. Imagine for example a copyright claim over parts of the US Civil War, the US War of Independence, or the Battles of World War One? That we despise Hitler is irrelevant: history needs to be free so that we are able to remember it freely, copyright law has no place here at all. It’s yet another sickening example of how copyright law has been corrupted by greed and blatant disregard for the common good.

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The FBI is investigating a death threats sent to Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes.

The threats, alleged to be coming from groups opposed to Scientology, have resulted in an increase in security around Cruise, wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri.

The threats are being taken so seriously that Cruise is now apparently traveling in bullet proof cars, and is even thought to have spent $10 million building an underground bunker at his Colorado Estate.

In August, threats were made to place anthrax in the air vents of Tom’s Los Angeles office according to the Telegraph.

Anti-scientology protesters have also targeted screenings of Cruise’s latest film Valkyrie.

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Whether it’s the pressure of being married to Tom Cruise, motherhood or a Broadway show we’re not sure, but actress Katie Holmes has been caught looking a more than a little worse for wear.

The Daily Mirror notes that Katie looks run-down, gaunt and tired, sparking concerns about her health.

The Mirror has more pics, including visable sores on Katie’s body. Something definitely not right here.

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Remember Connor Cruise? He is the less photographed and less talked about, adopted kid of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He was adopted before adopting was de riguer amongst celebs.

Well it seems if you have the biological kids, the adopted kids get pushed to the side. Connor Cruise debuted in the movie Seven Pounds, as a young Will Smith. This week saw the LA premiere of Seven Pounds which WIll Smith and Connor Cruise both appeared at. Tom and Nicole didn’t even bother to show up.

No “I am so proud” no smiling photos supporting their son (even if he is adopted). Now that Sunday Rose and Suri are here it seems to all about the biological. The positive focus that Tom seems to get with Suri, and Nicole gets with Sunday Rose means that it will be unpopular to call these two bad parents. But I’ll say it. Not bothering to tun up to your child’s movie premiere is poor form and clearly shows favoritism amongst your children.

Tom claimed he was too busy promoting his current movie, Nicole Kidman didn’t even bother providing an excuse.

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With Valkyrie hitting the big screen, Tom Cruise is popping up all over town as part of the usual movie promotion circus. His latest stop was as a guest on Letterman.

Although Letterman may not be known for hard hitting interviews, he didn’t let Tom off that easily, delivering a Top Ten Craziest Things People Say About Tom Cruise on the Internet routine.

Here’s the Tom Cruise Letterman Top 10 video:

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Tom even admitted that he thought he sounded “arrogant” during his last Matt Lauer encounter, saying: 

“I’m here to entertain people. I thought about it a lot. It’s a subject matter that was important. After looking at it, I really thought, it’s not what I had intended. In looking at myself, I came across arrogant. I absolutely could have handled that better.”

Regarding Scientology, Tom told Matt that  ”I think there’s a time and place for it. [But] when people are tuning in to hear about my movie, that’s what I’m here to talk about.” 

Is this a whole new Tom, or at least the one I actually had a crush on (unthinkable!) pre-Vanilla Sky?

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