I know you’ve been planning your fall season around this announcement, but here it is from inside the strange
Tom Cruise camp. Tom and
Katie Holmes are planning a wedding for sometime in the first three weeks of November, before Thanksgiving.
I don’t know where this event will take place, if a Catholic minister will officiate or if it’s a Scientology event. But at least we have a time frame.
There’s a little more news from the Cruise-Holmes front, and it concerns their initial meeting. Talking to some insiders recently, I discovered that Cruise — when he invited Holmes to join him in Rome right after they met in April 2005 — gave the young actress a credit card with a $100,000 spending limit. He told her to go back to New York and buy whatever she needed for the trip.
Additionally, Cruise, friends say, did indeed have Katie’s car overhauled the day he met her. The order of events seems to have been an eight-hour meeting — yes, an eight-hour meeting — with Cruise to discuss “Mission: Impossible 3.”
During this time, Cruise told Holmes he didn’t like the dents and scrapes on her car, and took it from her. When he returned it the next day, it was like a miracle body lift had taken place. The rest is history.
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again: no one whom Holmes knew prior to her meeting Cruise has seen or heard from her since then. None of her close friends ever received word of her relationship, pregnancy or birth of baby
Suri. And nearly none of them expect to be invited to a wedding.
“It’s very sad,” says one ex-friend. “She was a great girl.”
The focus now on the wedding should be interesting considering the addition, about a year ago, to Cruise’s household of his mother,
Mary Lee Mapother-South.
For years, Mary Lee Mapother was married to a man named
Jack South and lived in Marco Island, Florida. She was a founder of the now defunct Marco Island Film Festival and active at the San Marco Catholic Church as a Eucharistic minister.
But a year ago, Mapother-South left her husband, Marco Island and the church completely. Sources on Marco Island call her a friendly, outgoing woman who was very involved in the community and her religion. Her departure seemed sudden, friends say, even though she talked about the impending birth of little Suri.
But Mapother-South already had grandchildren in California, and hadn’t shown any interest in moving there before. Past friends on Marco Island are mystified.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218224,00.html
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