it's wrong to blacklist commies but okay to blacklist sofa jumpers?

is jumping on a fat negress's sofa really worse than serving stalin?

tomcervo...

In Hollywood, scaring off the soccer mom/grandma demo that buy tickets
to see you as a likable, friendly young man by acting like a cult
zombie is turing into Stalin. It's a job, not an entitlement.
Oh, and Tom & Mel? You're not a boy anymore. Those laughlines are
telling you to shut up and act. No one cares what you think.

Your Pal Brian...

Thank you for calling it a sofa, Gaza.

Gufone...

Oh, God, yes

David Johnston...

Charging megastar salaries and not quite delivering megastar audiences
is a good enough reason to not continue a contract.

lala3000...

Jumping on 'a fat negress's sofa' as you so eloquently put it is only
one of the many events that has tom on the hot seat. The sofa jumping
was strange, cute, but strange and if that was all that he did then
after a few days it would have been forgotten. But no, it was not all.
He continued to show erratic behavior that caused some his fans, me
included, to call into question his stability.
Telling women that post partum depression can be cured with vitamins
and exercise and calling psychiatry, a field that i am studying my
behind to get into, pseudo science is not only insulting but incredibly
dumb. This coming from a member of scientology. A religion that
believes the following nonsense:
the story of Xenu and his Galactic Confederacy. Xenu (sometimes Xemu)
is an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years
ago, brought billions of people to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft,
stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs.
Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the
living, and they continue to do this today, wreaking havoc in the
process. Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans,"
(wikipedia)
This is the man that says psychology is not real science.
Somebody please have him committed already. Talk about having
delusions. Seems that Tom can benefit from a little peudoscience right
about now.

spotlight...

But all that and more, isn't worth anything in relationship
to his contract.
Fact is, they are making less profits on films, less profits
on blockbusters like Mission Impossible III and others he
has been in. So the Studio is taking a simple business
decision. They are pruning a potential loss maker.
It will happen to others too.
Tom will have to fish for his own production finances,
produce the goods and sell them to a studio as an
independant production company. Or he might offer his
services to a rival at greatly reduced pay, perhaps with
points up instead of pay.

The stuff about his personal appearance to his fans
may put some off, but to tell the truth, it's the first time
I have heard about it.
Other Scientologists seem to be ok so far.

Nimrod ``...

Tom Cruise hasn't been blacklisted and he'll have no problem finding
work. A business partner just chose not to renew their existing
contract with him, that's all. It happens every day when one business
partner decides the other partner is no longer one they want to be
associated with.

It's called the free-market, capitalist system and it's as American as
apple pie.