Looking at pictures does not do it justice, see it in person! :\
Does everyone in the room barfing traumatize the child?
Cruise was only kidding
News sites take placenta-eating comment out of context and report it as fact
canada.com Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
The Web is buzzing with the shocking “news” that Tom Cruise plans to eat the placenta after his girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth.
Cruise’s comment – a joke he made during an interview with GQ – is being taken out of context and reported as legitimate news. Some sites are going so far as to quote medical experts on the topic of placenta-eating.
Cruise, 43, told GQ: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there." When it was pointed out that it would be a big meal, Cruise replied: "OK, maybe I won't."
Asked about the comments by ABC's Diane Sawyer, the star replied: "Yeah, we're going to do that - a whole family thing. Isn't that normal and natural? No, we're not eating it."
But most sites aren’t making note of the fact that Cruise was kidding.
“Tom Cruise is reportedly planning to eat the placenta and umbilical cord after fiancée Katie Holmes gives birth to their child,” reports mtv.uk.
iAfrica.com declares: “Tom Cruise is intending to eat Katie Holmes' placenta after his fiancée has given birth to their baby.”
“Hollywood actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is planning to eat Katie Holmes' placenta,” reports Ireland’s rte.ie.
Britain’s itv.com says: "Sofa leaping father-to-be Tom Cruise has revealed his latest bizarre plan - to eat Katie Holmes' placenta.”
At least one online news source “gets” it. At the Info About News site, the placenta remark merits only a passing mention deep down in a story about Cruise.
“Oh, and he made a pretty nifty joke about eating the placenta,” reads the site. “Really, it was funny.”
© CanWest News Service 2006
When I have several hours of minmdless work to do, my mind often - OK, always - goes off on its own to ponder things that I don't guess most people think about. Or, at least, don't admit that they think about.
The other day it occurred to me that if a person has a friend or loved one who is prone to get hooked up with a false religion, it would be best to encourage that person to go for Scientology. I figure that when the day comes for that person to have to account for themselves before God and they start explaining Scientology to Him, He'll be laughing so hard that He might just forget to punish them for it.
Oh, for the 'Good Old Days' when we thought that Eric Estrada was "weird" for keeping a piece of his baby's umbilical cord in a vial around his neck!
Who's got that Poncho, "You're a Homo!" gif? :)
Whether this is true or not, Cruise is whacked. He will be found naked, mumbling and wandering the streets of Hollyweird one of these years.
He. Is. A. Nut.
You can see it in his eyes.
L Ron Hubbard:
Messiah Or Madman?
by Bent Corydon
and
L. Ron Hubbard, Jr.
a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf
plain text version
Barf alert! Arrgghhh!!!!
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
alas:
Cruise: I'll eat placenta
The Sun | 4/17/06 | staff
Posted on 04/17/2006 11:27:36 PM EDT by Rebelbase
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1616868/posts
In case any studio demographer reads this and wonders how Tom Cruise's off-screen activities affect his popularity, chalk me up as one more person who would never, EVER see a Tom Cruise movie. It didn't need to be so, but it sure as hell is.
