Katie Holmes fires publicist, hires Cruise's sister

[Grove]

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By now, we’re all painfully aware of Katie Holmes’ utter and total submission to Master Cruise. But in a bitch-you-so-did-NOT-just-do-that, yet inevitable, move, Holmes has terminated superflack Leslie Sloane-Zelnick and retained her captor’s life-partner’s publisister:

Katie Holmes fired her publicist of nearly eight years on Tuesday.
During her conversation with Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, Holmes did not mention that she was pregnant by fiancé Tom Cruise. The next day, the news broke. […]

Sloane-Zelnick’s probably not too upset about losing this client. While she relished the challenge of dreaming up a ridiculous explanation of how the virgin Holmes conceived their baby (think naughty Keebler Elves drilling a path through her navel in the middle of the night), her resources were already taxed thinking up excuses for why Lindsay Lohan thought she could squeeze her Benz between the headlights of a delivery truck, Maybe those mischievous elves can be repurposed…

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Katie Holmes fired her publicist of nearly eight years on Tuesday.

During her conversation with Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, Holmes did not mention that she was pregnant by fiancé Tom Cruise. The next day, the news broke.

In short order, since meeting Cruise in April, Holmes has now fired her manager, changed agents and discharged her publicist. All had been her longtime allies.

And let's not forget the broken engagement to actor Chris Klein back in March. That's a lot of activity for seven months.

Where does that leave our Katie? I'm told that Holmes has claimed Cruise's sister, Lee Ann De Vette, as her new publicist.

Pictures of Holmes from just a few days ago with Cruise on the set of "Mission: Impossible 3" are circulating on the Internet. There's no sign of a pregnancy, but there is a woman in the background of every picture.
She's been identified as Jessica Feshbach Rodriguez, Holmes' best friend since the spring and a high-level minder from the Church of Scientology. Her family has donated millions to Scientology.

As for Holmes' friends here in New York, the word is that not one of them has heard from the actress since she flew to L.A. to meet Cruise for the first time last April.

Since Holmes first became associated with Cruise, her career has come to a standstill. Pretty much the only project she has coming up is the DVD release of "Batman Begins."

That release coincides with the release of the "War of the Worlds" DVD. The timing of the releases and the pregnancy announcement are probably coincidental.

Holmes pulled out of the next movie she was supposed to make, "Factory Girl," after she became involved with Cruise. Certain to be a career-maker, the role of Edie Sedgwick will now be played by Sienna Miller.

A more recently announced Holmes part, a smallish one in a Dennis Quaid-directed feature about the 1961 murder of a woman by her bandleader husband, will probably have to be tabled now.

Holmes also makes an appearance in "Thank You for Smoking," currently playing the festival circuit. Otherwise, her career trajectory — which was on the upswing with "Pieces of April" — is over.

All of this still leaves the issue of Holmes' family members back in Toledo. They're putting on a brave face. But they can't be too thrilled about a pregnancy without a marriage.

So I guess we can expect an adrenaline-filled, paparazzi-crazed wedding sometime in the next month. Gentlemen, start your helicopters.

What an idiot.

[muchlove]

At first, I thought that this whole Tom Cruise thing was going to give her career a big bump - tons of publicity, especially. But now I think, unless she gets movie deals from within the Scientologist hive/brain/mothership/collective, she's pretty much done.

[pacific breeze]

Dumb move, but one in a series of dumb moves.

[suede]

I get a weird sense of comfort to think that of all the really stupid things I did in my 20's - for and not for love - I had never been as seduced, brainwashed or stupid as she has proven herself.

[LynnieD]

This chick is f-d up. Like we didn't already know this, but I mean, it becomes clearer and clearer everyday that she is a complete and total moron.
Maybe she's really into Tom, and will just go along w/anything he requests, like artificial insemination, joining a cult, dropping out of roles, etc.

[child_of_dark]

katie is on cruise-control. i liked that !

[beauty_lies8]

this is just so damn heartbreaking: i really liked her on Dawson's Creek when i was in High School, and she seemed so down to earth, and capable, i just really wish her parents/friends/family would step in and do SOMETHING! Save Katie, someone, anyone, please.

[vonvyne]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm..........someone needs to make a movie on brainwashing with these two.

[DVS_one]

hey did they forget to she lost her virginity in that list of dumbass things she has done?..

or will it turn out like suspected... insemination..

hmmmmmm as the sands slip thru the hourglass...