Tom Cruise has managed in one short interview and a handful of grinning pictures to reignite the major crush I had on him back in the Top Gun days. I know he’s probably more deep in the closet than my high school prom dress. I know he’s a Scientology drone. I know his marriage is not quite right.

But holy cow..look at that smile! It could melt even the most heartless ice queen.  And he just keeps getting cuter as he gets older.

On entertaining his family: “I’d create different characters and ad-lib sketches to make my sisters and my mother feel better. I’d try to make them laugh. I’d do Donald Duck as John Wayne. I’d watch Soul Train and imitate the dancers. I guess you can say that’s where it started. I always had a dream to be in movies, [my family] didn’t say, That’s impossible. They laughed.”

On jumping on the couch on Oprah: “What happened, happened… I wanted the audience to be happy just like I wanted to make my sisters and my mother happy when I did those skits as a kid. But I’ll take responsibility for my actions… Afterward, wild things were being said about me, and once they’re in the ether, there’s nothing you can do about it. It felt like being the new kid in the schoolyard again and the other kids are whispering and whispering about you and suddenly you hear what they’re saying, and you think, What? That didn’t happen. Look at the reality of the situation.”

On wife Katie Holmes: “Because we do live in a cynical world. It’s easy to be cynical. Making the choice not to be cynical is important. You can keep dwelling on what didn’t work, or you can figure out how to fix it. Which is what being a parent is all about. You know, I’m married to such a special woman. Every night before we go to sleep, Kate and I look at each other and it’s like, How’d we do today?”

On daughter Suri Cruise: “It’s come full circle. Now I’ll put Suri on a swing and tell her stories when I’m working on a script. I’ll start with the beginning of the movie and take her through the story beat by beat. Of course, I make it age-appropriate. She’s four years old. But she asks all the right questions: Why does that happen? Those are the bad guys? You’re the good guy, right?”

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I love this story from the New York Times. Slash was chillin’ backstage at the Staples Center over the weekend when he was accosted by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I’ll save my commentary and just let you read it as written..but I think it’s hilarious that Katie said nothing to Slash. You can really just feel the tension the room as you read it.

POOR Slash. All the star guitarist wanted to do was tune his Gibson and collect his thoughts before going onstage at the Staples Center here with the Black Eyed Peas. He was jittery — a tattooed bundle of nerves in a leather top hat.

But a visitor was outside his dressing room door, his manager announced. Was it O.K. for Tom Cruise to come in and say hello?
Slash, who recently released a solo album (“Slash”) but is still best known for his Guns N’ Roses days, was taken aback. “As in, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise?” he asked. Yep, the wide-eyed manager said. “Um, yeah sure — tell him to come in.”

And suddenly there was a beaming Mr. Cruise. His wife, Katie Holmes, lingered behind him. “I’m a big fan, and I just really wanted to meet you,” Mr. Cruise said. Some awkward banter followed — neither man seemed to know whether to play the fan role or the celebrity one — and ended with a confession. “I’m a little nervous to go onstage,” Slash said in a soft voice. Mr. Cruise tried to comfort him, saying the same thing happens on a movie set. “That’s good,” Mr. Cruise asserted. “That means it will be a good performance.”

With that, Mr. Cruise bid adieu, leaving Slash a bit discombobulated (although, frankly, it was hard to tell since his face was almost entirely hidden by mirrored aviator sunglasses and his enormous mop of hair). “That has to be one of the weirdest things that has happened to me in at least two weeks,” he said, adding that he couldn’t believe how nice Mr. Cruise was. “And he’s not as short as everybody seems to think.”

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I couldn’t bring myself to watch this video of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes doing a song and dance routine to Whatever Lola Wants from Damn Yankees over the weekend.

These two always rub me the wrong way and probably my least favorite celebrity couple to report on. Seeing them do things like this, or God forbid, dirty dancing  just makes my skin crawl. But if you are a TomKat fan please enjoy this video of the gruesome twosome performing at the “A Fine Romance” fundraiser for The Motion Picture and Television Fund in New York last Saturday.

I just don’t think my stomach can bear watching Katie treat  Tom as her hyper-choreographed love/dance slave.

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I always love to hear who was the first choice in classic movies. Sometimes the actors decision can make or break their career.

Moviephone  mocked up some classic movie posters with the star originally picked to play the leads. Can you imagine Al Pacino and Meg Ryan in Pretty Woman? No, me either. I love me some Meg..but she could have never pulled off that white/blue cut out dress that Julia made famous.

And I would have never crushed on Tom Cruise in Footloose the way I did over Kevin Bacon. I do however think Will Smith would have rocked it as Neo in the Matrix.

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I know for a fact that Tom Cruise is a couch-jumping, Scientology fruitcake…but he still skews Big Movie Star when you see him on the screen. This movie doesn’t look half bad.

An action-comedy centered on a fugitive couple (Cruise and Diaz) on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

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