Tom Cruise Less Popular Than Saddam

NewsMax ^ | 25 March 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Aussie Dasher]

Could actor Tom Cruise be even less popular than a mass murderer?

Respondents in a poll said they’d rather spend the night with deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein than the "Mission Impossible” star.

Stuff Magazine asked readers who among four personalities they would least like to share a camping tent with overnight. Cruise took the prize with 41 percent, with Saddam trailing at 39 percent. Sportscaster/celebrity reporter Pat O’Brien got 15 percent and actress/comedienne Kathy Griffin, 5 percent.

It’s been a bad few weeks for Cruise. He recently "won” an unwanted Razzie award at a ceremony acknowledging the year's worst films and stars.

Cruise - who is engaged to pregnant actress Katie Holmes - was given the Most Tiresome Tabloid Target prize for his embarrassing behavior last year, which included the now infamous "couch jumping” incident on Oprah Winfrey’s show, proposing to Holmes at the Eiffel Tower and his gushing pregnancy announcement.

[Dustbunny]

Tom Cruise is a fruitcake.

[MinorityRepublican]

I like cruise in risky business and Mission impossible.

To be honest, if you put Tom Cruise in the right role, he is actually pretty good. In addition to the movies you have mentioned, I also liked Tom Cruise in the War Between the Worlds. In that movie, he was a "blue collar crane operator" and that was a perfect fit for him, IMHO.