Tom Cruise: '$1m for Suri's pictures'

**MaryJane** · May 4th, 2006, 04:35 AM

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TOM Cruise is in talks to sell pictures of new daughter Suri for up to a million dollars.

Aides of the actor, 43, are negotiating with photo agencies to take the first official snaps.

The agencies plan to sell them to US magazines for $1million — £543,000.

Tom’s fiancée Katie Holmes, 27, gave birth two weeks ago.

An industry insider said: “There is a bidding war.”

thesun.co.uk

buttmunch · May 4th, 2006, 04:42 AM

Why don't they just do it the cool way: have a photo taken, release it to every media outlet at the same time and move on. But then, how would $cientology fill its coffers even more without these nice little jackpots?

darksithbunny · May 4th, 2006, 07:39 AM

yes. what a wonderful father. I am sure the surrogate just loves this. She probably realises now that she got ripped off for her services.

LynnieD · May 4th, 2006, 08:12 AM

Hey Tom, I'll give you *scrounges around between my sofa cushions* $.10 cents!! CASH!

Fucking jerk...

Mel1973 · May 4th, 2006, 08:15 AM

I wouldn't give him a wooden nickel for photos of some child that is NOT HIS!! I hate this guy so much today.

southernbelle · May 4th, 2006, 08:31 AM

I really don't care what Suri looks like and I don't really think very many other people do either. Tom needs to realize that apart from his fellow Scientologists, no one gives a shit about him, Katie, or their spawn. The only time I enjoy reading about them is when I'm laughing at what fools they make of themselves.

PS, I still think it's ridiculous that he is making Katie change her name to Kate because he thinks Katie isn't a real name or is a "child name," but they gave their child a name like "Suri". I'm sure they thought they were being clever by "inventing" a pop spelling of Surrey and that no one would realize the name was in fact a tribute to LRon.

Mel1973 · May 4th, 2006, 09:12 AM

I think it's an acronym - just haven't figured it out yet. Everyone should come up with their best guess - I just know it's a subliminal message of some sort. SURI : Scientology Ubiquitously Reaching Idiots???

Algernon · May 4th, 2006, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by southernbelle

I'm sure they thought they were being clever by "inventing" a pop spelling of Surrey and that no one would realize the name was in fact a tribute to LRon.

Wait, I'm dense...what is Surrey? Is it in LRon's name?

Mel1973 · May 4th, 2006, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Algernon

Wait, I'm dense...what is Surrey? Is it in LRon's name?

that would be a County town in South East of England where Lafayette Ron Hubbard's home was and where the Scientology Headquarters are built.

twitchy · May 4th, 2006, 10:14 AM

I still think that these pictures will be timed to attempt to upstage the Brangelina baby.

Where is Katie anyway? Endless shoe shopping and now she has just fallen off the face of the earth.

GoldDust77 · May 4th, 2006, 10:55 AM

Tom is such a pathetic MORON! I don't believe for one second that he & Katie have a new baby together. If they did, i believe that TomThumb would have been showing off pictures, that he the "doting new dad" snapped of his precious new baby & fiancee. The way he's babbling on & on in public to anyone who'll listen about how he's ecstactic to even CHANGE DIAPERS?!? Yet this "super happy, proud new dad" has NOT shown off a picture of his "pride & joy"???? (Especially when he IS aware that there are many people out there that don't believe for one second that a new baby even exists! And in light of the fact that this is all an elaborate hoax the success of which is dependent upon people actually BELIEVING that there really is a new baby, you'd think he'd be doing ANYTHING to prove/show that there IS a baby!) He hasn't yet produced a photo of "his new baby" because there is none! At this point anyway.

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Originally Posted by southernbelle

I still think it's ridiculous that he is making Katie change her name to Kate because he thinks Katie isn't a real name or is a "child name," but they gave their child a name like "Suri". I'm sure they thought they were being clever by "inventing" a pop spelling of Surrey and that no one would realize the name was in fact a tribute to LRon.

Southernbelle,

I agree. I think it is painfully obvious that the DREADFUL name "Suri" DEFINITELY has some sort of tie(s) to Scientology. (Of course it does! Did any of us think they would actually give "their baby" a name withOUT ties to Scientology? LOL) Like you & others have pointed out, Surrey England is where L.Ron Hubbard had a home, and Surrey is where the Scientology Headquarters are. Definitely a strong possibility that that's why TomThumb picked that (*cleverly* re-worked spelling version of) that name.

OR as i've seen a couple people point out, there is also a strong possibility that TomThumb the egomaniac wanted "his daughter's" name to be an anagram of his OWN name, since he's SO *all-important*:

CRUISE --> RUIS --> SURI

I totally believe this is what he did. I think it was probably a combination of BOTH things, personally. He probably thought he "struck gold" (and thus started leaping up & down on the nearest couch) when he discovered this anagram of his own precious name, PLUS with it being a reference/connection to L.Ron Hubbard.

In any event, it's a TERRIBLE name. Like you pointed out, "Katie is not a real name", yet SURI is??? All i can think of when i hear this awful-sounding name is, in the future, someone introducing her: "And we present Miss Suri Cruise!". Sounds like the word "misery". Gee, what a GREAT word to have your name sound like!

Twitchy,

About Katie being hidden away right now: In my opinion what is probably going on is that they (TomThumb and his band of merry Scientologists who are helping him to mastermind this whole ridiculous, elaborate hoax) are still waiting for the delivery of the baby they are adopting or awaiting the birth by the surrogate, or something like that. What i AM sure of as to where Katie is, is that she is NOT at home breast-feeding and tending to her & Tom's "biological child". No such thing exists!

luvmy2cats · May 4th, 2006, 11:54 AM

Perez said that the bidding war was over and OK magazine has got the prints. He also said a source told him that they were posed and really cheesy.

What gets me is that Tom loves the new baby and loves parenthood and changing diapers. He's on the press junket about MI3 so when does he have time to do all this stuff. I honestly believe that he is big enough of a star that the public would actually forgive him if he stayed at home to be with the new mother and baby. Instead he's trotting the globe and being absent.

Personally I think Tom is a controlling megalomaniac. I think that the baby isn't real...but if it is, then it isn't his. Now he and Katie have a baby, and everything is still about him.

Bellatheball · May 4th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Doesn't one have to be on the same continent as the baby in order to change diapers?

aabbcc · May 4th, 2006, 01:39 PM

^^ Maybe he has really long arms.

LMAO

[That was so awful, but I couldn't resist. Hehe]

Elisa · May 4th, 2006, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by southernbelle

I really don't care what Suri looks like and I don't really think very many other people do either. Tom needs to realize that apart from his fellow Scientologists, no one gives a shit about him, Katie, or their spawn.

Hmmmm....I wouldn't bet the farm on that one. Of course people are interested, if not simply curious. Hell..I'm not a big fan of either of them, but if pics are posted or on a magazine cover, I'm gonna look.

People have been eating up all the publicity around them for the past year. Like them or not, they've been everywhere. As they say, 'any publicity is good publicity'. I doubt either Tom or Katie give a shit what we think of them, so long as they're making $$$$$ from it. Who can really say they really wouldn't do the same thing?