Page Six reports that Tom Cruise’s film "Valkyrie" - in which he plays a Nazi who tries to kill Hitler - has been pushed back for the third time, to February 2009 and my GOD, I’m just opening a vein right now over that one.
Word has it he is doing that chronically pretentious American actor thing where he doesn’t bother to even attempt an accent and yet, you can bet actual money that every single other actor in the film does. Or at least they do an English accent which, as far as American audiences will be concerned may as well be a German accent because it’s not from Long Island or Mississippi.
But, really, what could possibly be making it impossible for Tom Cruise’s film to come out? HA! Hilarious little play there – did you notice?
Andrew Morton’s book about Cruise said that Cruise is a maddening control freak who will sacrifice everything to get the status he wants in whatever field he is in – he did it with acting to a certain extent and now he’s doing it with Scientology.
When you’re an actor you need to act and be nice and stay thin. When you’re a Scientologist you need to apparently lose your freaking mind, marry a woman so you can eat her soul, buy a robot child, act out like a bipolar freak, adopt an utterly loathsome, smug and completely uninformed view of the way the human mind and body works, essentially believe that humans are descended from aliens and slowly but surely kill off every rational component of your brain.
Then you have to evangelise heavily and ram your beliefs down everyone you work with’s throat in this really passive aggressive way so that people feel they can’t work with you unless they change to adopt your beliefs but you do it in a way reminiscent of a cult leader or Communist dictator so you can never really be directly held accountable for your recruitment technique.
Even though the American public aren’t as perhaps critical of culture as would benefit them, after several years of watching Tom Cruise act like this in public, it seems like their interest in him as a moral compass, object of desire and vehicle through which people can experience the fantasy of film based escapism may have, and I’m just positing this idea for random possibility, it MAY have waned.
Just as suggestion. [source]
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