Posted on 11/25/2005 7:13:46 AM PST by Qwertrew
Tom Cruise has already claimed to know the history of psychiatry. Now he's working on getting acquainted with OB/GYN.
The couch-jumping thesp has acquired a sonogram machine with which to personally track the progress of the fetus currently incased in his fiancee Katie Holmes' womb.
Cruise revealed the purchase during an interview with Barbara Walters taped Oct. 30 for the veteran newswoman's upcoming special, Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, scheduled to air Tuesday on ABC. "I bought a sonogram machine," Cruise told Walters. "I am going to donate it to a hospital when we are done."
Somewhat startled, Walters replied, "Wait, you are going to do your own sonogram?"
"Yes," Cruise replied, chuckling.
Sonogram machines, which use ultrasound waves to monitor a baby's development, can cost anywhere from $15,000 to $200,000. No word on how much Cruise shelled out to purchase his own.
Cruise told Walters he did not yet know the sex of his first genetic offspring.
"Barbara, I would tell you," he said. "I would say, 'I know if it's a boy or a girl, and I'm not telling you.' "
"So what do you see?" Walters asked. "A little baby," the actor replied.
Fascinating, indeed.
The War of the Worlds star also told Walters that he and Holmes would wait to get married until after their child's birth, though it's unclear exactly when that blessed event may occur.
"We are going to get married next summer or early fall," he told Walters. "We don't have a date set yet."
The affianced duo recently departed for Shanghai, where they'll spend a couple of weeks while Cruise films scenes for Mission: Impossible 3.
According to the Shanghai Daily's Website, Cruise and Holmes have been taking in the local sights, including the Chenghuang Temple, a resort featuring old-style architecture, as well as dining heartily on Sichuan cuisine.
I don't care if anyone mocks my beliefs and I will continue to mock Tom Criuse as long as he "puts it in our faces".
The source may be sponsored by something you find unseemly (is that live & let live too?) but the facts are facts. They prey upon people and get them to pay large sums of money to further their "religion status level". It is a cult. But, as Jim Jones says....just drink the friggin kool aid!
"Since 1986 authorities in France, Spain and Italy have raided more than 50 Scientology centers. Pending charges against more than 100 of its overseas church members include fraud , extortion , capital flight, coercion , illegally practicing medicine and taking advantage of mentally incapacitated people."
- Time Magazine, May 6, 1991
Sorry you missed it, but our evangelical church provided more than $1 million to Katrina victims.
Some might say he's taken quite a step toward earning such status, yes.
Robin Williams is an asshole.
Is my imagination or is this guy getting creepier by the day?
Actually, I dislike Cruise because he's an arrogant, patronizing, and obnoxious fanatic. Like when he browbeated Matt Lauer, saying "You don't know about the history of psychiatry. I do." I'm no fan of Lauer, but Cruise came off as arrogant, sanctimonious, and fanatical. Then, have you heard him bashing Brooke Shields' use of Paxil to help her deal with a nasty case of post-partum depression?
Yes, but Cruise seems like he basically wants to push Scientology down our throats. Like when he basically made Katie join $ci, and how he's apparently trying to get Keri Russell into it too.
You win the award for the most sensical post of the day.
When the baby is born and becomes a toddler, cruise ought to get together with Michael Jackson to let their kids play together.
Cruise's kid ought to be a nuerotic as Baby Blanket is going to be having Jacko for it's sperm donor father.
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