I don't get that either. She's just about the paradigm of being beautiful. There must have been something going on behind the scenes that we just don't know.

Lindsay still has a few reps in her. I would give her a workout. Cruise should pull and Aaron Carter and date both of them.

I say it's a publicity stunt too. It's suspicious that they're so quick to admit their relationship (they've only been dating a few weeks). Plus, I was watching E! news and they showed Tom and Katie kissing and it so awkward. It was almost as bad as Liza Minelli and David Guest kissing.

Well, I don't care for either one of them so it's fine with me.

And here I was thinking I had permanently erased that image frm my brain. Bleah!!!

Supposedly there were problems with his Scientology beliefs and her still being a practicing Catholic. I tell ya, that Scientology stuff just ain't right.

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Here's another grampa and granddaughter couple...

Julie Berry actually went to my college and one of her friends that I know accidentally leaked an AIM convo of theirs saying that they were dating looong before it came out into the public. Crazy stuff.:eek:

my eyes! my poor eyes!

please let it not be real

If I had to date a 42 year old man, Tom Cruise would be one of my first choices. Come on, he's hot. She's hot. It'll be over in a few months. Woo hoo. Next!

IT must be a city thing Cream.

It seems that people in the larger cities really don't blink an eye at age differences, race differences, religious differences, etc. in relationships.

The age difference between Tom and Katie would occassion no comment in Manhatten.

Nor would a race difference. *shrug*

It might be a lack of exposure in people. Many people have very little exposure to couples with large statistical differences.

I say statistical because thats what people will usually focus on: religion, race, age, financial status etc. The various things that we use to categorize and define people we don't know personally as human beings.

I dunno.. I think they have the same age difference as my dad and me, so that just bothers me.
Katie has never really publicity whored before...maybe there's some real feelings going on... but it IS VERY suprising. I thought her and Chris Klein were cute together.

ick, he's on Oprah today. This whole thing is SUCH a publicity stunt

I was just talking about this! Total publicity stunt!

Ellen is on at the same time here. The lineup: Goldie Hawn, Jimmy Smits, Gretchen Wilson performs, and Ellen visits the set of Faith Hill's video shoot.

Ellen is the winner today.

Did you see any of it? He's like jumping on Oprah's couch and being a hyper idiot. Talking about marriage and all this junk. He's an actor by trade, a decent one, and he's certainly putting those skills to work. It just looks so fake

Not at all. I don't even know if I want to see the preview. And marriage?! What? In my best Michelle Tanner voice, "Oh, puh-lease!"

I watched it this morning. It did look like he was doing a bit much! I know Oprah was like "please calm down!" lol.

Yeah...I watched him on Oprah today also. He really creeped me out when he was on there. Katie however, looked cute and not-creepy.

Katie looked scared tod eath when he made her come out!

Did anyone else notice today on Oprah that Katie still has those herpes things on her upper lip? Girl, you go with your ultra famous b/f to the Oprah show & you know good and well they will put YOU on too-WEAR SOME FRICKIN CONCEALER!

I believe that you are not supposed to wear concealor on them as it irritates them and they don't heal as well as they should.

I like Katie Holmes and can stand Tom Cruise, but today, he got on my nerves! Everytime he got on his knee and knocked on the floor, I just wanted to screen at the TV, "You look like a fool!"

ROFLMBO!

Tom was totally over the top but, if this is a publicity stunt, then he deserves another Oscar for the "performance." I guess I'm the only one who thought it seemed genuine.

I think Tom is a great actor. He always seems so cool in the movies, but so dorky in interviews. His dorkiness really topped all previous dorkiness today, though. Wow- I was embarassed for him.

I decided to watch this today instead of Ellen. The first few minutes were so :eek: that I couldn't stop watching.

What is going on with this dude? I sat here for most of the show asking, "WTF?" I mean, seriously, jumping on sofas? And what was up with the "thinking man" pose?

Did anyone else notice that Katie kept telling him, "I love you?" I don't think I ever saw him say it back to her. I have a feeling Katie is star struck. And Tom, well, he likes the fact that she's a young one.

That was just too sugary sweet. I had to keep changing the channel. In a way, it did seem like it was genuine. FOr some odd reason, Tom kept reminding me of Wil Truman from Wil and Grace during that interview. I wonder if Chris Klein tuned in?

See, I'm the opposite here. I find Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas kind of icky together (she can do so much better!), to say nothing of Lara Flynn Boyle and Jack Nicholson (when they are together. total ick!) But this doesn't creep me out at all. Maybe it's because Tom Cruise is hot and I'd date him if he asked me. :D (yeah, I'd make an exception to the 7 years in either direction rule and the men-with-kids rule for him!)

You should see what some people are saying on the Oprah.com message boards. One post in particular calls him a pedophile and a male Mary Kay LeTourneau. I think it has been deleted from that board but you can read it here.

This whole thing reminds me of a quote from my Latin book:

"I don't think anyone knows I love her because I haven't done anything foolish yet"

Even the ancient Roman guys went nuts when they fell in love.

i missed oprah, but caught a smidgen of interview to be aired tonite that they played this am on the today show. i have never seen anyone so giddy as tom cruise was in that interview. it was so bizarre-he went on and on like i would expect a teenybopper to gush if she met orlando bloom. i couldn't help but think that this all came about because he wanted to get back in the media spotlight. i mean, how many other people would be able to garner all this attention just because they started dating someone? weird, weird, weird!!

This isn't the first time this has happened on Oprah.

Does anyone remember when Ellen and Anne Heche were on the show? Anne comes out and is all gushing over Ellen, saying how much she was in love with her, and she was so happy, and this was love at first sight and it was meant to be. And then months later, they were split up and Anne Heche was dating some guy.

They are using Oprah as a media platform because they know how many people watch her show and they know it's a great way tom plug their movies.

I bet Nicole Kidman and Mimi Rogers were just shaking their heads.

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I agree with the skeptics, I think its a Hollywood sham to plug their movies. :o

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Totally in agreement with ya!

Haha, this isht gets crazier and crazier.

I hope this plan backfires and they both lose fans -- honestly, that's what I see happening right now.

They are both idiots but even idiots deserve happiness no matter how pathetic they may be.

Sheez people, and I thought I was the cynical one on this board.

Fall in love much ? Don't any of you remember when you were infatuated and how foolish others would have thought you were? And how giddy?

I suppose that people in their forties can't feel that way? Maybe its something lost when they age?

I have no idea whether what they have is genuine, but neither does anyone else.

As far as who is taking advantage of who, well this is Tom Cruise we are talking about.

A quick reality check: if Tom just wanted to hook up with much younger girls he could walk into any vacation place in the world or any college town and have his pick.

This is not helping Tom's career, he was already a household name, but this is certainly raising Holmes's profile.

So if we need to be cynical maybe we should think that Tom is being played? Because I see no real benefit for him out of this.

Also, I was watching one female "Talking heaD" and she was commenting on Tom's vocabulary.

Tom described Katie as Magnificient and that he was enamored . . . and the commentator was saying none of her friends spoke that way . .. all I could think was that none of her friends had a very good every day vocabulary.

There's two reasons that came to mind almost immediately for me, and the first is almost too easy, but I'll say it anyway:

1) He's still stuck in the closet and she's his beard.
2) Hero worship. Katie's running around telling people about how "she dreamed of marrying Tom Cruise when she was a little girl and sometimes dreams come true!" (ick). Given her newfound commitment to Scientology, it appears that she might be overly willing to defer to his opinions and conform to his lifestyle while praising him constantly -- what guy isn't going to be flattered by that?

It helps Tom alot... yes, he is a household name but he is losing the comming generation and to have that connection with someone 20 years younger helps freshin him to the younger public... he does need this especially since his last couple of films were all geered to real mature audiences

agree with a.e.BOT and sugar and spice

AND Tom's getting TONS of free publicity from it. His name is mentioned daily in both the tabloid journals/shows as well as the legitimate news. Katie Holmes "converting" to Scientology made the front page of cnn.com, just like anything else in their relationship does. He's being talked about everywhere