Cruise photographer mauls infant, Tom Cruise left dazed

[Mel1973]

hahahahah you said "boy bangs" - what a dumb as he is!!

[buttmunch]

Boy bangs! hahahahahaha...he's getting puffy and losing his hair. Maybe we'll all be spared that horrible grimace he calls a smile sooner than I thought.

[KristiB]

I guess if I saw a mob of photographers and a major celeb heading my way I would pick up my child and move.

[sprynkles]

If you watch that video to the end, it's amazing these celebs ever get anywhere they're going. I really can't think of a lower life form than a paparazzi following ppl around thru the most mundane aspects of their lives.

[Bellatheball]

Can anyone hear what they are saying to each other? Man, he looked like Michael Meyers....just stood there with a blank look and a head cocked to the side. Creepy.

[Zee]

Maybe he was waiting for the director to yell action. Cue the carrying father routine to the injured child and mother.

[Lobelia]

I couldn't watch the clip. I watched a few seconds, long enough to see that the kid tripped over the mother, but then I got so skeeved out by Tom standing there, staring at the wailing kid, that I turned it off. What is it about this man that is so off-putting?

[irishpig]

I hate the papparazzi more and more, and am beginning to understand Britney throwing Coke on them, and all everything else the stars do to them. If they were crowding my kids like that, I'd be tempted to spit on them, like someone (who?) did last week.

[Seapharris7]

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

When I first read this, I thought Suri was mauled and was shocked that she is real! I love how he tried to comfort this kid....doesn't seem like the response of a man who is a new dad (again) to me.

I too believed that they had finally released the the Suri into the wild.

And actually, when I was 8 months pregnant with our only child, we went Christmas shopping @ Walmart - in November! Needless to say, the place was packed to the brim with people. My husband was pushing the cart ahead of us, while I was walking about a foot behind him.
Suddenly he stops, his cart is jammed on SOMETHING, and he just kept rolling back & pushing the cart forward. Then when heard a very loud crying sound.

Apparently what had stopped my husband's cart was a child's shoe... very ATTACHED to a 2 year old boy.

[nana55]

As much as I hate Tom Cruise, what a way to live your life. But why doesn't he stay away from some of the games. Why does he subject his soon-to-be-wife and kid to this craziness. Fame never gets old I guess.

[sprynkles]

It's very sad for the kids 4 sure. They are freaks no matter where they go. I hope these ppl are really doing it 4 the kids and not photo ops.

[MrsDark]

Originally Posted by enctpc

Don't Scientologists believe that children shouldn't be comforted after getting hurt? Maybe Tom was thinking that child should lay back on the ground and give the pain back to the ground I wonder if she got paid off or free tickets to the Scientology center

Correct. I'm surprised he even touched the little bugger. WTF kind of brainwashed asshole does it take to deliberately go out of your way to AVOID comforting/showing compassion to a hurt kid? I'm starting to think all CO$ers are a bunch of chlid abusers, what with the Travoltas who won't acknowledge their kid's mental disability and let him run wild untreated and this horseshit of working them like dogs and being careful not to show any kind of emotion when a child is in pain! I shudder to think what goes on (the extent of the emotional abuse/neglect, I mean) behind closed doors.

[buttmunch]

I too believed that they had finally released the the Suri into the wild.

[Chilly Willy]

I'd be pissed, too, if I was the mother's kid. Because you know Tom calls the paparazzi, whenever he goes to one of those football games. That's the reason he's there, after all.

He was creepy in the clip. Awkward, helpless, zombie like. He didn't know how to handle the situation without consulting Scientology first.

[GoldDust77]

Originally Posted by Bellatheball

I love how he tried to comfort this kid....doesn't seem like the response of a man who is a new dad (again) to me.

That was my reaction too, Bella. The way Tom stood there, just hovering, was beyond AWKWARD & i found it to be rather creepy. And like you said, he just came across as having NO paternal instinct. Absolutely NONE. It was like he has no clue how to deal with a baby. (He is certainly not getting any practice with how to deal with babies at home, since, IMO, Suri is NOT REAL.)

Originally Posted by Laurent

I was shocked to think they might actually have their imaginary child with them for a change.

It is downright bizarre that Tom & Katie NEVER EVER have Suri with them. And Katie is/was supposedly breast-feeding? (Remember the infamous photo where she *accidentally* let her nursing bra show, for a photo op with the paparazzi.--while, of course, she & Tom were ALONE out on the town with NO BABY AROUND.) I do not believe for one second that the parents of an infant who they supposedly love so much, would spend so much time without her. It makes NO SENSE. *Suri* has NEVER ONCE been photographed, in all the gazillions of times that "TomKat" are photographed, except for that carefully manipulated Vanity Fair photo spread, which i'm convinced was faked. The two of them prancing all over town, & all over the world for that matter, without their infant, is incredulous.

Originally Posted by aabbcc

It went down moments after Tom put his soon-to-be wife, Katie Holmes, in a passionate liplock ...
Who in their right mind makes out at a kiddie soccer game?

I agree, Aabbcc....It is just plain creepy & strange for a man in his MID-40s to be making out with his fiancee AT HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER'S SOCCER GAME!!! That is just sick, weird, & obviously all for show for the paparazzi, to show how *real* his & Katie's relationship is. (HA!) Like Elvira & Buttmunch mentioned, i feel bad for the teenage Cruise kids; they're probably mortified at the disgusting, immature, show-off-ish behaviour of their father.

Originally Posted by buttmunch

And why did Katie make that lame-assed attempt at touching Isabella's back in some sort weird stepford comfort thing?

I agree, Buttmunch, the way Katie kept half-heartedly & awkwardly touching Isabella's back was strange & creepy.--She, like Tom, also displayed ZERO maternal instinct & like Bellatheball said about Tom, IMO Katie also just does NOT come across AT ALL as a mother.

Originally Posted by buttmunch

Watching this really freaked me out.

I got freaked out too. Tom & Katie are like a couple of walking zombies. At all these soccer games they attend, they do such bizarre, inappropriate (for a children's sporting event) things just to show off for the paparazzi how *in love* they are. And that's part of the problem here. This video shows how relentless the paparazzi are; how they surround & basically take over the soccer game area--But it's Tom & Katie that fan the flames!, by doing stupid things like making out, that make the paparazzi more apt to want to be there, to capture TomKat's disgustingly weird PDA sessions. The fact that they are disregarding Isabella and/or Connor's feelings in that regard, sickens me. As well as the children's safety, by courting the paparazzi, which are shown to be rather dangerous. (Crowds like that can crush, or at least scare, kids.) And like Zorbeet pointed out, in the swarm of paparazzi it is KATIE that Tom holds onto while going thru the crowd (continuing their stupid fake PDA session), rather than his OWN CHILD. They are two CREEPY people.

Originally Posted by Chilly Willy

I'd be pissed, too, if I was the mother's kid. Because you know Tom calls the paparazzi, whenever he goes to one of those football games. That's the reason he's there, after all.
He was creepy in the clip. Awkward, helpless, zombie like. He didn't know how to handle the situation without consulting Scientology first.

^^^You said it! TOTALLY agree. CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPY.

(End of rant. I could talk all day about how creepy & fake these two brainwashed crazy zombies are! )