So Tom Cruise is heading back to the couch. No, not in the psychiatric sense of the word, heaven forefend, but back to Oprah’s couch. (Although, it could be argued that O is America’s pop psychologist.)
It’s been three whole years since the infamous couch-jumping episode and 25 years since the release of the movie that made Cruise a star, Risky Business, and so the worlds’ most famous Scientologist will be returning for a two-part, one-on-one episode with Winfrey. The two will tackle such topics as the star’s controversial religion, his “Today” show tete-a-tete with Matt Lauer, and whether or not he finds her new couch as jump-worthy. OK, so they probably won’t discuss that, but they will be discussing the original couch-jumping episode; which was, for Cruise, the equivalent of “jumping the shark,” ironically enough.
Like my sincerest hope that Britney Spears will clean up her life and return to being the paradigm of guilty pleasure she once was, I want Cruise to regain some of that Maverick mojo. And, I think the American public would like to see him atop the box office again, too. How much more malevolent glee can we glean from watching another Cruise vehicle crash and burn? Regardless of Cruise’s bizarre behavior and his beliefs, the man can act. I’m tired of seeing talented thespians go the way of Kevin Costner. So, maybe, just maybe Cruise will have a chance to redeem himself and resurrect his career on the couch of Oprah.
What do you think? Do you think Cruise the box office draw he once had? Do you think Oprah’s interview will help?
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posted April 29, 2008 at 10:46 am
Tom Cruise is old. Too old to be jumping couches, and too old to be in a Mission Impossible 5, or whatever number we are up to. He was never as good as Kevin Costner, he just had nice blue eyes, but every character he played was another version of the previous one. I was tired of him, I suspect that the couch jumping and marriage and child were just attempts to jump start his poor box office showings, and I was hoping he would let go of the spotlight and go quietly, and with some dignity.
Honestly, who celebrates there Movie Star Anniversary? So much for dignity.
posted April 30, 2008 at 10:01 am
If Tom Cruise or anyone else for that matter was on Oprah, I would not watch as any woman that can take the path that she has with this new on-line chat about a “New Age” religion book in place of the one and only true source, the Bible, is just not worthy of my time or attention or money for any magazine she prints for herself or any other celebrity.
posted May 1, 2008 at 4:43 am
The new age religion is not right. THe Bible is the number one book in the world. Tom Cruise needs to grow up. I remebering seeing him jump up and down on the couch when he was saying how he had found the love of his life Katie Holms it was so childish…
posted May 7, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Tom Cruise is a manipulating, sexist, has-been whose laugh is as manufactured as his image. He “knows” psychiatry and he “knows” about those life-changing vitamins he is peddling but he doesn’t know the damage he his done to his career!? Thankfully, he is a punchline and a synonym for CRAZY! Oprah was nothing more than a PR move to try humanizing this flake. His true “self” can be seen in his ‘lil role in Magnolia from a few years ago. No matter what, in a few years old Tom will BE old Tom and he’ll pull some other stunt. His severely insecure nature has prevented him from elongating his career as Clooney, Ford and Nicholson have.