Tom Cruise talks Katie Holmes, rumors and films in Playboy

Tom Cruise in Playboy, June 2012

/ Playboy/David Rose

(CBS News) Tom Cruise opens up about everything from his love for Katie Holmes, to dealing with the rumor mill in the June issue of Playboy magazine.

The 49-year-old actor gushes about his wife, seven years after they first starting dating, which led to Cruise famously couch-jumping on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," a move that brought on many skeptics.

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"She is an extraordinary person, and if you spent five minutes with her, you'd see it," he told the magazine. "Everything she does, she does with this beautiful creativity. She's funny and charming, and when she walks into the room, I just feel better."

Cruise said he's "a romantic," adding, "I like doing things like creating romantic dinners, and she enjoys that. I don't know what to say -- I'm just happy, and I have been since the moment I met her. What we have is very special."

And then there are those nasty rumors in the tabloids.

"There comes a point when you just have to go, You know what? Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set," Cruise told Playboy about tabloid reports. "I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love. You just have to keep going and remember that. The other stuff? I hear it, I read it, I get it. But life is not a matter of trying to prove anything to anybody."

He also addressed his faith in Scientology, explaining, "What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve. Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them."

Cruise will hit the big screen in "Rock of Ages" on June 15.

Check out the Playboy interview here. The magazine hits newsstands on Friday.

[nohater]

the man is worth well over a 100 million and probably more than that amount. he is where he is because he has an adoring public who pay good bucks to see his movies. he must be doing something right else he wouldn't be a star, be so wealthy. so he is married to his third wife and is a scientologist, who cares? apparently not many people because the man keeps making tons of money off his films. travolta is a scientologist and also famous, veyr wealthy. the two have an adoring public, they are where they are thanks to the general public.

[hypnotoad72]

She has a silver tongue and knows how to use it.

The day it became crystal clear how fake she is happened a few years ago:

The day she ranted about inner school kids only wanting ipods instead of education, when she was itching to start an education program... Let's analyze this very briefly: If she were sincere - would have said "How do you get an ipod? That's right, by getting and education and applying yourself".

She never went the logical distance.

She instead used the children as a prop for her own benefit and scapegoated them.

Consider how she had sold ipods with Bono months before, the whole incident reeked of a deliberate dog'n'pony show meant to put out a fake talking point.

These issues were both in the news and covered. Feel free to do your web searching to find articles from back in the day.


Okay, you win:

2006:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/10/12/oprah_and_bono_to_unveil_product_red_ipod_nano_tomorrow_images.html


2007:
http://www.racialicious.com/2007/01/03/oprah-inner-city-kids-want-ipods-and-sneakers-not-education/

Plenty more articles exist covering both topics.

And who needs Scientology to do or recognize what this Tom Cruise guy says? That's a given for most people, the desire to improve and find out what's true for them. (Especially when money is involved.)

Oh, I've seen enough of Tom's films. The recent one from 2008 with the nazis speaks for itself (meaning he's there to look pretty and little else. Not even a token accent... oh, wait, he's just trying to be "progressive", given all the cliched accents others have done over the years and including the slight accents his fellow actors gave, no? No. He sounds like an American trying to look like a German and it's far more laughable than even the most forced Hollywood accent. It's Tom being Tom for Tom's sake, and the Mission Impossible movies are not ones most people would equate as something to "believe in"... unless he thinks he's the fictional butch character, but most people telling a shrink they're ___ would be slapped with a certain disorder...)