Rush & Molloy report:
Tom Cruise must be getting sick of reading those snarky stories about his romance with Katie Holmes.
Despite his public smile, the actor has banished virtually all print reporters - including your humble gossip-slingers - from the New York premiere of his movie "War of the Worlds" tonight. A Paramount rep says only one print outlet has been deemed housebroken enough to tread the red carpet. Which outlet is that?
"It's nobody's business," the rep told us, though we understand the exclusve has gone to People magazine.
Only the exclusive isn't that exclusive. More than 30 carefully vetted TV crews are also expected.
Cruise did deign to meet with print reporters yesterday at the Essex House. But he seemed a little testy when someone asked how he "popped the question" to Holmes at the Eiffel Tower last week.
"I didn't know I needed to pop it," he said. "Is that a thing?"
Director Steven Spielberg interjected, "Wow, it was 20 minutes before someone asked [that question]."
Holmes hugged and smooched her 16-years-older fiancé after the press conference. But some friends worry that he's taken over her life. You've heard about Jessica Feshbach Rodriguez, the Scientology "minder" who has shadowed her as she promotes "Batman Begins." Her indoctrination apparently has been going on for weeks. On May 27, Cruise took Holmes to Canadian, Okla., to visit a Scientology-backed drug rehab center called Narconon Arrowhead, Cruise's sister and press rep Leanne DeVette confirmed to Hollywood-elsewhere.com columnist Jeffrey Wells.
Sources say Holmes' parents, who raised her as a Roman Catholic, told fellow churchgoers in Toledo that she wouldn't be converting to the controversial sect. But then she announced she had.
"She's not consulting her family on any of her decisions," a family friend tells us.
Still, Cruise seems to know that there's nothing like a home-cooked meal to win over the in-laws. We hear that his family recently met with the Holmes clan - and his mom even made fried chicken.