From the Old Testament (Yahweh) to Grimm’s Fairytales (Rumpelstiltskin), names have always carried power. And now some in the media are suggesting that the name of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s newborn daughter’s name is imbued with a similar, power–an anti-Scientology power to be precise.
Naming their daughter Sunday Rose is an intentional slap in the face of Scientology, and would “nark off Tom Cruise,” theorizes Heckler Spray. Citing a source who told MSNBC that “Nicole is a Catholic, and Sunday was an important religious day for her until she was involved in Scientology,” the webzine/blog’s theory has been picked up by other news outlets, including the Huffington Post.
Can I believe that Kidman might still be bitter about the out-of-the-blue divorce proceedings and resultant loss of closeness with her adopted children that some blame on her separation from the Church of Scientology? Sure. And is there a possibility that Kidman wouldn’t mind that “her baby’s name could be perceived as one last jab [at Scientology]?” Hey, she is only human after all.
But, do I think that she would bring her newborn daughter into the morass and use this innocent new life and her name as a stick to poke in Tom Cruise’s eye? No. Just as I don’t believe that Suri Cruise is named after Surrey, England, which is just a hop, skip and a jump from the United Kingdom’s Scientology HQ. I mean, Kidman’s father is a shrink, so hopefully she’s been able to work through her bitterness issues.
In fact, it seems that it was Kidman’s father who provided the inspiration for the name and that Sunday was named after a prominent Australian who was a great patron of the arts and muse to artist Sidney Nolan. Dr. Kidman told The Daily Telegraph that, “I have read a bit about Sunday Reed and her husband John– she was a key mover and shaker in the arts around the beginning of the century. The name Sunday struck me as being a nice name for a woman, so my wife and I mentioned it.”
In the end, people might be more apt to raise eyebrows at the name due to Reed’s alternative lifestyle — she and her husband were involved with Nolan — more so than any anti-Scientology conspiracy. Indeed, it would seem that the only power associated with Sunday’s name is that of a muse, which is great power indeed, but not the kind that the media and gossip mongers would like to ascribe to it.
posted July 10, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Why would she bother to “get revenge” on Tom? That is over and done with and she has a beautiful daughter. Sunday Rose….nice name.
posted July 11, 2008 at 11:13 am
Besides doesn’t Keith have any say in the matter? I suspect Tom & Scientology are things of the past!
posted July 11, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Does anyone know Keith Urban’s music??? He has a beautiful song called “Raining on Sunday.” Did it occur to anyone that maybe they named her after that? It’s a beautiful song to go with a beautiful baby. Maybe it has romantic meaning to the couple. Why does Scientology have to come into EVERYTHING!!!!????
posted July 11, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Sometimes, I wonder if some of these writers don’t just get dumb by the minute. How man grey cells did they use to come up with that and how long did it take. I didn’t realise that the Catholic church needed help to take back Sunday, what about the Jews?
So inane!
posted July 11, 2008 at 7:18 pm
For some of us, Life moves on. Get some space, man.
posted July 11, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Darn few like to mock the cult of $cientology more than I do, but c’mon, why can’t Sunday Rose just be a lovely, lyrical name? If she’d really wanted to piss off her ex, she would have named her Xemu Rose Marcabia Urban.
posted July 13, 2008 at 3:03 am
When Cruise asked divorce from Kidman some years ago, he took a Bert Fields attorney at law.
The attorney had the phone of Nicole Kidman tapped by a specialist (now nehind bars), called Antony Pellicano.
True enough, it’s no sin for a scientologist to spy everyone and everybody, since the whole cult is built as a spying & commercial enterprise. The most important dept in the cult is OSA, it’s the one getting the most money spent. It is hiding behind literally hundreds of fronts supposed to be “non-profit”, but whose only purpose is to make profit for the pyramdid scheme called RTC and CST – the summit of the money system.
posted July 14, 2008 at 6:42 am
I love the name sunday rose congratulations to nicole and keith
posted July 14, 2008 at 7:16 am
It is insane to think that this beautiful couple have nothing better to do that to publicly insult anyone and to use a child to do so. They have a wonderful life together and are far better off leaving Tom Cruz exactly where he is (GONE) out of the picture. They have a beautiful life now I am happy for them both.
posted July 14, 2008 at 9:03 am
“revealing the new addition to his family is named after famous Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s muse Sunday Reed”
posted July 14, 2008 at 10:18 am
i personally think she is better off without Cruise and hopefully Urban will be the man she needs in her life. Why should she even care what Cruise thinks about anything. i think Sunday Rose is a unusual and sweet name for a little girl>
posted July 16, 2008 at 8:41 am
using a child for publicity, fighting in public after a divorce, how childish get on with life, and if anybody want’s the truth about scientology visit a church or see videos on the web from scientology website not from others.scientology believes man is a spiritual being, guess what, the catholic church says that too!go figure.