Posted on 06/14/2005 5:00:52 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Where do you get 800-count sheets, and if I didn't eat for a year, could I afford them for my king-sized bed?
They were a special value last weekend on HSN. $100 for any size!!!
Tom Cruise is engaged to his girlfriend Katie Holmes, after proposing to her in the early hours of this morning at the Eiffel Tower. The actor confirmed the proposal at a Paris press conference, where the 26-year-old actress sat beside him wearing a large diamond ring.
"Yes, I proposed to her... it was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven’t slept at all," said the 42-year-old star of Top Gun and the Mission Impossible series.
Holmes appears in the upcoming Batman Begins and achieved fame in the American television series, Dawson's Creek, before attracting critical acclaim in the film, Pieces of April.
The couple announced their relationship in April, after Cruise broke up with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and Holmes and actor Chris Klein called off their long-standing engagement.
Holmes will become Cruise's third wife. His two previous marriages, to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, have ended in divorce.
Today's announcement may end speculation that the Cruise-Holmes relationship has been a publicity stunt.
Their wedding will be a dream come true for the actress who told a magazine last October - before she even met Cruise - that when she was a little girl, "I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise".
Cruise, one of the world's most bankable stars, is in Paris to promote Stephen Spielberg's latest film, War of the Worlds, in which he plays Ray Ferrier, an ordinary man leading the fight against alien invaders. The film opens in Britain on July 1.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
There's nothing more special than proposing before an audience, as the Tour Eiffel always has a few thousand tourists milling about. Have you ever seen a more orchestrated "romance"? At least the brainwashing is going well, precisely on schedule.
Gawker version:
You were warned: Kneeling on a well-worn copy of Dianetics, Tom Cruise confessed (again) his love to Katie Holmes and, with complete disregard for all that is sane and normal in this world, asked for her hand in marriage. Eager to properly respond, Holmes’ publicist shoved his hand a bit further up her ass so as to manipulate her answer into an earnest-sounding agreement. And to show us that their love is real, the pair even held a romantic press conference to share their fantastically fantastic news.
The wedding, to be officiated by both Oprah and Scientology’s Xenu, will be held shortly after you accept that life no longer has meaning.
http://www.gawker.com/
I love liberal in-fighting:
If Ralph Nader doesn't stop dropping the N-bomb, Al Sharpton is going to wash out his mouth with soap.
"Nader is not a racist by any stretch of the imagination," Sharpton told me yesterday. "He has a good track record. But he ought to be sensitive that he does not sanitize that word."
Speaking Wednesday night at a Washington fund-raiser to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign, Nader complained that Democratic Party powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states as Georgia and Virginia - which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws that denied African-Americans equal rights.
"I felt like a [n-word]," remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Washington gadfly Evan Gahr reported Nader's comments on his chimpstein.com Web site.
"If Ed Koch had said what Ralph Nader said, we'd be marching," Sharpton noted. "This [scolding] doesn't rise to the level of a march. It rises to the level of a wrist slap."
Yesterday, Nader told me he was using the word in the same spirit as the Black Panthers of the 1960s - "as a word of defiance."
But Sharpton retorted: "He's not a Black Panther."
Democratic operative Harold Ickes - a former civil rights activist who lost a kidney in 1965 after being beaten to a pulp by white racists in Tallulah, La. - was also troubled by Nader's use of the epithet.
"It's not something that I would say," Ickes told me yesterday. "Having grown up in the 1950s and 1960s, I think it's not a word that whites can use.
"It's unfortunate and he may regret it."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/319830p-273490c.html
I think I read "somewhere" that Ellen and Portia have made an offer on Brad-Jen's dream house. And that Ellen and Portia will get married in the summer; Portia will wear a designer gown, Ellen will wear a white tux...
Berkin Alert for Portia De Rossi!
And as for Cruise...........COULD HE BE MORE GAY!
"The Village People" look isn't doing much to dispel those rumors.
Could the NY Daily News' Ben Widdicombe be talking about Cruise and Katie?
Some engaging tidbits So here's what I'm hearing about that relationship. A source VERY close to the deal is saying there's a contract. It's worth $5 million. It's for five years. There will be no sex. The deal was sealed June 7. That's what I'm hearing.
OMG *lol*
Lindsay Lohan and Scarlett Johannson are under 21. What a freak Tom Cruise is. I guess he figured adolescents would be more likely to fall for his - and Scientology's - line of bull.
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