Posted on 06/24/2005 2:27:49 PM PDT by jeepgal
Tom Cruise criticized NBC "Today" show host Matt Lauer on Friday when Lauer mentioned Cruise's earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants. Cruise told Lauer he didn't know what he was talking about. "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do," Cruise said.
The interview became more heated when Lauer, who said he knew people who had been helped by the attention-deficit disorder drug Ritalin, asked Cruise about the effects of the drug.
"Matt, Matt, you don't even — you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."
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What position?
"Celebrities. Is there anything they don't know?"
Homer Simpson
He's definitely manic. I guess the question is whether he is bi-polar or manic because of drug use. One can get there either way.
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nothing surprises me anymore. Welcome to the freak show that is America.
I'd like to see someone bitch slap them both
I doubt that Cruise knows very much about Ritilin, by I have no doubt that there are thousands (millions?) of children taking it who should not.
Speilberg's sister is rumoured to be a Scientologist...
Just saying, I strongly doubt that Speilberg laughed about Cruise privately or otherwise.
I read and reread Cruise's comments in that exchange and I agree with his general stance on the fact, as to Ritalin...however, some psychotropics actually alter brain chemistry such that an afflicted person is helped to remedy their original problem by way of (some) medications, and can hopefully do well without them later.
On the other hand, the entire interview seems to have run amok (d'oh) and my initial intuitive doubts about the motives of this film (Speilberg's rendition of "The War of the Worlds") is now confirmed. Meaning, the entire project seems to be a vehicle for something, well, creepy, all things considered.
I'm thinking that there is excellent filmmaking involved (such that it'll be a rewarding viewer experience) but there's some sort of overtone to the whole project that bespeaks of something, well, creepy, for lack of a more effective description.
I know I used to love swimming in the open ocean until I saw JAWS, and to this day, I wish I'd never seen it. Not that it was a "bad" film, just that it produced a bad effect.
At this point, after the recent psychiatric/psychologist nuttiness (pronouncing it advisable that society embrace "gay marriage" because the group thinks it's a healthy thing for society, based upon liberal ideology engaging in pretend medicine and false empirical process)...anyway, after all that's considered, perhaps Tom Cruise's statements are not so off.
Not that El Ron Hubbard couldn't have used some excellent helps in that area of his own mental anguish and suffering. But more than anything, I wish El Ron had had time with a great Catholic Priest and a lot of use of the confessional, among other things.
I'm just saying, there's a theme there that Cruise is still being played by and it's an interesting one.
Tom Cruise is a certified Moonbat...
Proof: Falling for the tripe of Scientology..
Kind of like democrats; falling for the obvious lies and obfuscation of the Moon-Bandits in the democrat party.. or even the BushBats.. that are oblivious on several levels..
Tom is gonzo.. as is Vinney Barberelli..
Yeah...but I wasn't writing from a point of endorsing what Tom Cruise the Scientologist promoter expresses so much as trying to suggest that he does have a point (lost in his inappropriate and continued inappropriate forums and deliveries, such that his message is, too, lost) about the industrial use of psychopharmacology, particularly among children as doled out by unqualified individuals for, often, convenience based upon genearlized, negative assumptions.
Tom Cruise's determined denigration, however, about this one-note-theme (psychiatry is wrong/bad/harmful/awful/vile/a pseudo-science/whatever) has become noticably strange.
As in, it's not often even raised as an issue (or an issue related to his films he's supposedly promoting) and yet there he is, at the drop of a hat, talking about the same one-note theme, such that it seems beyond odd.
But, Cruise has a point about this issue, particularly lately, when the political agenda (read, the Liberal philosophy if not communism as ideology) by the current bane of outspoken "American" pscyhiatrists/psychologists is, actually, rather appropriate.
I was just wondering if Cruise may be saying something really important and worthy of consideration but the point is being lost in his otherwise preoccupation with Scientology.
Tom Cruise can't spell psychopharmacology...
Tom fired his agent, Pat Kingsley and put his sister in that place.
Kingsley has been protecting Tom and the rest of his people for years by using the pool of them as a threat.
If someone in the past had wanted to get rough with Tom, the rest of the famous clients would not go to that same interviewer and they would be black balled.
But at this point, the former agent and many in Hollywood IMO are loving this.
Yeah, Pat Kingsley is an excellent publicist...
Perhaps she's doing a far better work now -- I hope I got that point across -- by allowing the truth to come out.
And, boy oh boy, isn't it.
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