Debbie Schlussel: CORRECTED: On Tom Cruise's Self-Celebration: Is It Just Me . . .
**** CORRECTION: For some reason, even though I posted the pic of Tom Cruise Jumping on the Oprah Couch, it didn't post, and instead featured a pic of his recent wedding, not my intent. Fixed now. Scroll Down. ****
. . . or is there just something weird and wrong about this? Tom Cruise is marking 25 years in showbiz in a very ostentatious and conspicuous way.
Maybe it's just that everything Tom Cruise does gives off this strange vibe. But this ad, below, has been running on a number of movie websites, and it's just odd. Yes, we all like to mark our anniversaries professionally, but I can't imagine the late great Jimmy Stewart engaging in this kind of self-congratulatory promotion for 25 years in acting. And I can't remember any other living actors doing it. So, it seems strange to me that Tom Cruise is doing it.
And rather than this shadowy profile of his face and outline of his head--which seems like something a follower of the L. Ron Hubbard science fiction religion would do--I think that this would make a better ad for Tom Cruise's 25th anniversary.
Then, we'd all click over.
Posted by Debbie on July 15, 2008 06:12 PM to Debbie Schlussel