just because there is so much weird stuff regarding the whole tom and katie thing, i thought i would post this recent story (4/4/06) about what was going on when katie met tom. it serves as a concrete reminder that the shizz is obviously engineered, since it's easy to get mired down in all the other weirdness surrounding tom.
i know that some of you like to discount anything that foxnews.com has to say, but this is an excellent article by roger friedman, their resident party-hopping entertainment guru. i like the personal aspect he brings to this story anyway.
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Happy Anniversary, Katie Holmes
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
By Roger Friedman
We met one year ago tonight. The occasion was the Broadway premiere of “Steel Magnolias.” Before the show began, someone said, “Katie Holmes is here.” I’d liked her work in “Pieces of April” and was happy to say hello.
During intermission, we talked. And at the after party we talked. She didn’t know Tom Cruise. This is what she said: She’d moved to New York, wanted to see a lot of theater and learn about the city. She was living in my neighborhood and wanted to know where to do her grocery shopping. I told her about the world-famous Jefferson Market. When we parted, I remember agreeing to meet her there soon.
A few days later, she was still in New York. Holmes was photographed at a couple of events and the pictures are still available. By April 11, however, she had gone to Hollywood for a meeting with Cruise on a look-see about “Mission: Impossible 3.” That was it. The next time anyone saw her, on April 27, she was with Tom, holding hands and professing true love in Rome. As I wrote last year, there are 16 missing days.
In short order, Holmes fired her longtime agent and publicist. She also severed ties with her newish manager. The rest is history. She and Tom are expecting a baby on or around May 5, the day “Mission: Impossible 3” opens in theaters. She didn’t get that job. She got another one instead.
Yesterday, a German tabloid got an amazing interview out of Cruise. He said that there would be no wedding until the summer, way after the birth and the movie premiere. So let’s rerun these facts: a sweet girl from a Midwestern family, a devout Catholic family, no less, who’s had the same boyfriend for four years, is having a baby out of wedlock with no immediate plans to marry.
Something’s fishy here, and it isn’t the anchovies on the pizza.
The speculation is that the delayed wedding has something to do with a pre-nuptial agreement. There has to be some truth to this rumor. Katie’s father and brother are both highly educated, respected lawyers. They are not about to let her sign a document forfeiting her rights.
The impasse, I am told, is that Katie has had little contact with her family recently. Insiders say that her Scientology monitors and Cruise are isolating her as the delivery date nears.
And without a paper, Cruise — who is worth a fortune — is not getting married.
As for Katie: I will celebrate our one-year anniversary by attending the premiere of Antonio Banderas' new movie, "Take the Lead." It looks good. I will speculate that Katie would have enjoyed the Jefferson Market’s famous rotisserie chicken, that she would have gotten her pictures framed at the Greenwich Village Art Gallery, and had breakfast at Joe Jr.’s. She would have used Jerri’s drycleaners and possibly the famous C.O. Bigelow pharmacy. She doesn’t know what she missed, but I’ll bet she has an idea.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190443,00.html
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