Did you guys see me on Oprah yesterday? I think I had an amazing interview. I answered all my questions with so much passion; I couldn’t help but just get off my feet, over and over again. I could not sit any longer I had to stand up and shout to the world that I am in LOVE WITH KATIE HOLMES. I did not do this to prove that I do(n’t) like men as many people have suspected. I did this out of love for the woman who fell in love with me in just a few short months, for the woman who loves me enough to leave her religion of over 20 years for Scientology and me. I had to make out with her on national television to show just how much I love women Katie Holmes.
Sincerely,
Tom Cruise (not really)
Tom Cruise’s questionable behavior of Oprah became a topic for conversation because it was the first time that anyone had ever acted like that on a television interview, not to mention the IT WAS ON OPRAH! Everytime Oprah asked him a question he did not necessarily answer the questions with words he answers them with his actions. Every question Tom was jumping up on the couch, standing up, or flailing around to show his enthusiasm. When Oprah asks,”What has happened to you?” Tom Cruise answers by standing up with both arms in the air and then gets down on the floor making excited gestures. Oprah then comments, “Something has happened to you,” and Tom answers with, “I’m in love.” We are first intrigued by this situation because of his stature in the media (ethos). We keep watching because of the nature of the interview. Oprah asks Tom Cruise questions about his life, which goes back to deal with his stature in the media (logos). Lastly we continue to be entertained by the way he answers his question and the emotion in his actions (pathos).
~M.L.A
Normally I don’t pay too much attention to this sort of celebrity scrambled egg buffet, but the general opinion about Cruise is that part of this problem is due to his firing his long-time (15 years) publicist and hiring, in her place, his sister, Lee Ann Mapother DeVette (his real name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV). Perhaps in trying to get out from under the thumb of a publicist that used Cruise’s bankability to supress negative stories about him and his personality, he unwittingly has exposed himself to the things she was trying to prevent: ridicule, apparent meltdown, disparagement.
This comment by Jason Scott does not praise or ridicule Tom Cruise, but simply gives a possible explanation for his irrational behaviors.
Scott, Jason. “Tom Cruise Kills Oprah” Waxy.org: Daily Log. 24 June 2005. Waxy.org. 14 Nov 2007 .
On Tuesday, I posted a link to my local copy of the Tom Cruise Kills Oprah Quicktime video that I found on an unnamed file-sharing site. Since then, the clip’s exploded in popularity. It’s been linked from MSNBC, USA Today, b3ta, and every Livejournal and message board on the planet. Right now, I’m serving about 200 gigabytes of the 4.1MB video every day. Yesterday, it was downloaded over 52,000 times and 60,000 times the day before. (Watch my bandwidth implode in real-time.)
After Tom Cruise’s Oprah fiasco, one guy posted a video that remade Tom holding hands with Oprah into Tom killing Oprah with laser beams. As he said the video exploded with popularity, downloads and comments. Do Americans really need Tom Cruise to give them something to talk and blog about? I think by the evidence…the answer is yes.