Posted on 12/29/2005 9:52:51 AM PST by LdSentinal
Tom Cruise has been named the biggest movie star of all time, but also the most irritating, by film fans. An Empire magazine poll of 10,000 movie fans named Cruise the biggest star, beating Robert De Niro and Marilyn Monroe among others.
Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey took the favourite actress and actor titles.
Cruise's status as most irritating actor "may be a knee-jerk reaction to his year in the spotlight", said Empire assistant editor Ian Freer.
Scientology beliefs
While promoting latest film War of the Worlds earlier this year, Cruise announced he was engaged to Dawson's Creek star Katie Holmes. The pair are now expecting a baby.
Cruise also spoke of his belief in Scientology and criticised actress Brooke Shields, who had admitted taking drugs for post-natal depression.
He beat Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey in the most irritating actor category.
But Mr Freer added: "He has also been voted the greatest movie star in the world, something this year's Mission: Impossible 3 will no doubt confirm."
The poll was commissioned to mark Empire magazine's 200th issue.
In the acting categories Finding Neverland star Winslet beat Nicole Kidman and Natalie Portman while American Beauty star Spacey beat Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp among others.
Steven Spielberg was best director, beating King Kong film-maker Peter Jackson - nevertheless Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy was named favourite film franchise.
Film fans named Fargo star Steve Buscemi their favourite unsung movie hero.
Seven out of 10 of those questioned thought there was too much product placement in films, while 81% thought there were too many sequels and remakes.
What crap.
Come out of the closet, Tom
I hope this news upsets Mr. Cruise...but I am sure he is too busy cashing the checks he gets because the public continues to see these whackjobs as something worth knowing about.
A baby what?..................
I don't see Sabu or Sonny Tufts on this poll. They must be losing some of their following.
Go back in the closet, Tom.....and shut the door real good, because paranoids are out to get you...........
that's funny
Sabu is dead............
I agree, he is as gay as gay can be.
He's no Micky Rooney.
I don't blame Cruise for being irritating, I blame the media and magazines for giving him attention.
Puh-leeze!!! That little twerp? Gable, Cooper, Bogart, and Wayne must be turning over in their graves.
Woopdedoo. He isn't fit to clean Jimmy Stewart's desert boots.
Dead? I didn't even know he was sick. No wonder I haven't seen much from him lately. Oh well, we'll always have Horst Bucholtz.
I can't argue any of the results shown here, especially this one :~D
He doesn't irritate me. I feel sorry for him. That Scientology hogwash has eaten his brain. Hollyweird types fall easily for the most goofy scams. They spend so much time being someone else they forget what it's like to be them..............
As Charlton Heston said a while back, "What ever happened to the BIG men of Hollywood??"
That's some stiff competition!
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