Tom Cruise appeared on NBC's Today Show this morning because he was in the neighborhood and has a movie coming out and is in love and stuff. He got into it a bit with host Matt Lauer - especially heated was their exchange regarding Cruise's recent criticism of that tall, depressive woman Brooke Shields and her use of psychiatry. 
Tom and Katie
Lauer: How are you handling this? I mean every magazine, every newspaper, and every entertainment show. What's it like for you to be living through this right now?
Cruise: I have to tell you. It's just a great time in my life. I'm really happy. And, you know, I'm engaged. I'm going to be married. I can't restrain myself.
Lauer: It's like you've got two little cords on your mouth and you can't stop smiling. I was thinking about it. On the one hand, it's got to be a little hard to see yourself everywhere, splashed across the pages. Another aspect of this, though, is, how many actors 20-something years into a career can generate this kind of interest still?
Cruise: You know, I just do what I do. I love making movies. And I feel privileged to be able to do that, always. And it's something that — I'm just living my life, you know.
...Lauer: You are being so much more open. You've been on this show in the past at times where you were in other relationships. And I'd kind of broach the subject of a personal life. And you would very gingerly steer it away. That was how we came to know Tom Cruise. And now, you're saying, "You know what? I'm okay with it." So, it does seem like a different guy.
Cruise: Yeah. But they're still writing it. You got to understand. All that stuff, they'd still write it. They'd still talk about it. And the thing is, I still feel I will talk about what I feel, what I want to talk about.
...Lauer: So, when you hear the cynics, Mr. Cruise, and you've heard 'em, who say, "This is publicity for a movie, this relationship," or "This is Tom Cruise in his 40s trying to become or stay relevant for a younger audience, and that's why he's out there talking about this relationship with this lovely young lady,” who happens to be sitting right over there. How do you respond to that?
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— go to most recent comments1 - Mickey
Ha ! Now why do I get the feeling that the two men dont like each other too much...and Cruise claims to have 'studied' psychiatry ? Right. And my granny studied cardiology.
2 - Silas Kain
Psychiatry = accepting your sexuality and moving on.
Scientology = getting those thetas out of your body that make you queer.
Tom Cruise = a soon to be has been movie idol selling Amway products in Brentwood.
Katie Holmes = a unwitting victim.
3 - Paulie
Cruise has not only lost it, but I suspect that he has also lost many fans. I hope the American Psychiatric Association disputes the lies he is propagating on national TV. I also hope that people taking medication do not listen to a man who doesn't even have a high school education.
4 - Eric Berlin
I've been meaning to count how many times Cruise says "Matt" during the interview.
And how many times he heatedly claims to know about something that Lauer does not.
Could make for a great drinking game.
5 - Silas Kain
HOLLYWEIRD (A&P) - Talk show guru Dr. Phyl announced today that Tom Crews and Katie Homes will appear in an NBC special on Scientology and the Making of a Film Star during November sweeps. "This will give my audience an opportunity to see how religion can bring a man and woman together," Dr. Phyl slurred in his Texan drawl. "We been relying on psychiatry and behavior modifying drugs for too long and we wanna show that the love of a good woman can cure everything," Dr. Phyl added.
In a related announcement, BRAVO announced the creation of a new show called Queer Eye for the Middle Aged Crisis Guy which will debut during November sweeps. First up, former Hollyweird box office idol, Tom Crews. In the episode, the queer guys take Crews to a Beverly Hills men's spa for a full body wax, anal probe and makeover.
6 - Ghoesty
Hey peops.
You ever wander deep, deep into a mental hospital to the room where they electrocute your personality deep fried? There is a little brochure, and some flowers arranged like as for a funeral.
I'm in favor of meds, but not authoritative violence that passes as a Mental Health Act.
7 - axlerama
How Tom Cruise became a specialist on Psychiatry is beyond me.. Matt Lauer=journalist-Tom Cruise-movie star. No where do I see the title Dr.
Tom Cruise has lost it and looks like a fool. Enough already! i've lost all respect.
8 - Dori
I couldn't help but notice that Tom Cruise kept misusing the word antipsychotic drugs when he
meant psychotropic drugs. Antipsychotic medication is prescribed for people suffering from schizophrenia and other psychosis, which are defined as: "any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted," NOT for depression. Time for Tom to go back to the L. Ron Hubbard Medical University for Celebritries and take a refresher course!
9 - Natalie Davis
Bow to the will of Cruise... bow to the will of Cruise. He knows better than you. Bow to the will of Cruise.
10 - Eric Olsen
funny but also good point, Nat: I think he has accomplished what he has by force of will, which is swell for a career but hell on those around him in life
11 - marty
If you are going to match wits with educated people you need more than one half wit. Cruise lost his years ago.
12 - Eric Olsen
and it wasn't that Lauer was giving him all that hard a time, he was letting him rant but simply making the point that if it helps some people it can't be all bad
13 - Ghoesty
Please people as you step by my comment about the forced electrocution of patients in the "ward" of the health ministry (department) try to observe the most basic rules of grammar.
Now who would like a lesson about a real place in Canada called Woodlands where patients were tortured and killed in the 60's and 70's? Or how about a lesson on how the guilty parties were re-employed and are active today in the Canadian medical system? (One of whom, a nurse, I met! It was painful after she stabbed me in the head with an ear thermometer, and when I complained to my doctor this nurse made it clear just who was boss. This nurse was boss and I better stay quiet.)
14 - axlerama
with all do respect. what does that have to do with Tom Cruise being a moron?
15 - Wawawi
Cruise and Holmes have both lost their minds. They deserved each other.
16 - miron
Across the world, in an island country in deep political and economic turmoil, where the president of the republic is in trouble over wiretapped conversations and an allegedly corrupt and possibly incorrigible family, millions sit in front of their TVs and think: "Wow...Tom Cruise has lost it."
17 - susieQ
Open letter to the press:
Did Tom Cruise’s latest tête-à-tête with Matt Lauer do anything to convince you that:
a - he is completely insane, and
b - something really needs to be done about crazy famous people
Bottom line - someone needs to do something about Cruise and his contemporaries. When did we let these freaks take over Hollywood?
Hollywood used to be about cool, glamorous people - not religious, zealot freaks with outrageous egos and serious "god" complexes. Did the brat pack ever lecture us on the indiscriminate use of vodka?
Okay - so here is my fantasy - never thought I'd have a fantasy involving Cruise, but here it is…
Tom Cruise, Mr. "there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance" locked in a room with a schizophrenic.
Okay - let's see, everyone needs some sort of implement - just like in video games. So we'll give Mr. Cruise a book on Scientology so he can heal Mr. Schizophrenic. and hmm…. we'll give Mr. Schizophrenic something he can use… maybe an ax or a hatchet. no meds though! He'll be going off his meds, and Mr. Cruise will be there to help solve Mr. Schizophrenic's little mental problems because Cruise KNOWS the history of psychiatry. He has exposed the wizardry and is here to tell us all about it, and settle all questions we might have about psychiatric meds once and for all! Thank goodness for that. Of course, silly, ignorant me - student of neurochemistry, would think that once Mr. schizophrenic is off his meds, he might do some creative things to Mr. Cruise with his hatchet. Things that even the amazing Mr. Spielberg might find hard to put up on the screen.
Schlepping through the news is my job, and I’ve noticed that whether it's Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Michael Jackson or any of the other overblown, egotistical freaks out there, the press is even more star struck than the fans….unless of course, it’s a young starlet. Then you guys seem to have no problem humiliating, denigrating and press raping (yes, I just made that up) them to the hilt. Note the Fox News writer admonishing the British press for squirting cruise with a water gun hidden in a mic. Now if Paris Hilton or Ashlee Simpson had gotten a "squirt" in the face (now now, I'm still talking water here!) that'd get you folks all warm and squishy. That would be considered HILARIOUS!!! But god forbid we should throw stones at Tom or Mel or Russell - why they can barely defend themselves!
My point - it's all crap, it's ENTERTAINMENT - or at least it’s supposed to be. And people like Cruise, Gibson and Crowe are destined to become Jacksons if we don't HELP THEM get some perspective on who they are and where they fit into our society. They need to be taught not to take themselves so seriously, and when they do - they need to be put in line - or rather brought back down to earth. THAT'S YOUR JOB AS THE PRESS - you know, to report the facts and dispute the falsehoods, question stuff that seems not quite right? Otherwise, they get the impression, and rightly so - that they can kill their wives or others (OJ, Blake, Specter), molest children (Jackson), dictate religion/history/politics (Gibson, Penn, Schwarzenegger), and now - Mr. Cruise fancies himself a doctor. What's next? Move over Mr. President, Quentin Tarantino thinks he can do a better job. (hey, maybe he can - but that's not the direction he chose, so too bad!)
It doesn’t take a journalist to kiss ass and drool all over a star, we are all capable of that. We look to “journalists” to help us get to the facts and sort through the B.S. - no matter who is concerned, no matter how famous they are - so hey guys, and gals, STEP UP! And kudos to Matt Lauer for at least trying to get a word in edgewise… MATT, MATT, MATT!!! but MATT!!!!!
Tom, tom, tom, tom, TOM! - shut up already, no one cares that you scored a young hot chick later in life - we know you think it’s a revelation!!! I’m 39, if a hot 25 year old was throwing themselves at me, I’d be having epiphanies all over the place too - it just wouldn’t be (embarrassingly) major news.
18 - Brandon Edwards
"Tom bashing" that's funny...it seems your missing the POINT...Mr. Cruise is arguing that taking ANY type of prescription drug is NOT natural. True.
And he is advocating that we should all strive to be "natural, as in not taking "drugs". Also true. That's it...you people who want to "hate" on a guy because he knows what is the TRUEST sense of being "happy" are just sad. And anyone who wants to just use a communication forum to bash someone because they are secretly envious is just PATHETIC..and before you even THINK abut criticizing me...go ahead...because I know you will... because you are "weak" sad wimps behind a computer screen. Me? I'm an American soldier in Iraq who just had to comment on what I am seeing here...what the hell have you done to call yourself an American? You haters make me sick...what are we fighting for? Mr. CRUISE SPEAK ON...LAST I HEARD IT WAS STILL FREE...and your right there will always be "critics" because they have NOTHING better to do!
19 - Bake2
HA! Tom is an idoit! Or as we have started to call him around here:
Rooster Lollipop (YOU figure it out)
Never watching a Tom Cruise movie again. He has NO business talking about PPD, first as a MAN, and second as a MAN who has NEVER had a wife that suffered from PPD.
His so called religion is nuts and now he's spread the insanity to others. Hopefully no one goes off their anti-depressants suddenly and ends up...well..worse off...maybe dead.
As far as his new "love"...something is very weird about it. She's a very young impressionable girl. She needs to RUN not walk out the door while she can still get out.
20 - Joshua
I think Scientologists and Psychiatry (not necessarily Psychology) are for weak people. Depression is a ageless phenomenon caused by outside circumstances. It is NOT first a genetic chemical imbalance. Your wife was weak to believe that. Same with Scientology. It's a weak system masking itself as science by emulating scientific forms to help you mentally.
Therapy, on the other hand, is natural. Talking and discovering the issues that lie at the core of your problem helps YOU solve your own problems, not drugs.
Hell, if I say that cocaine worked for my depression (which it possibly can), is it right? Just because something has a good chance of altering a certain way your mind doesn't make it science.
21 - Tom 'LITTLE MAN' Cruise
Tom 'LITTLE MAN' Cruise is suffering from short man syndrome. He has made alot of bad choices. He has always come off as a little roach who always loves kissing ass. He's a periennial ass kisser. It's good to see him get his comeupance! It's about time he got knocked off his high and mighty horse.
Under a cloud of mystery, he all of a sudden broke up with Nicole Kidman, perhaps the most startling, beautiful, woman in the world. Under that cloud of suspicion makes us all believe that he is G-A-Y. Which is what I personally suspected all along.
He had married that hot MILF before he latched onto Nicole's hotness. But he didn't have any kids. A chick that freaking hot and you don't have any kids? Something is WRONG!
Then with Nicole, same deal. She probably got tired of his brainwashed, Scientology bullcrap and went out to find a REAL MAN.
Tom 'LITTLE MAN' Cruise is now with Katie Holmes who is about 5 inches taller than he is. Making him even smaller than he was with Nicole.
-TOM, YOUR CAREER WAS OVER AT HELLO. YOU ARE GAY AND CAN'T AND WON'T COVER IT UP.
YOU BLEW IT WITH NICOLE. SHE WAS THE BEST THING YOU HAD GOING.
-NICOLE, IF YOU WANT TO HOOK UP AND BE WITH A REAL MAN, CALL ME. I'LL TREAT YOU RIGHT AND ROMANCE YOU TOO. THOSE OTHER POSUERS DON'T DESERVE YOU.
22 - Ghoesty
Quote by Bake2
"His so called religion is nuts and now he's spread the insanity to others. Hopefully no one goes off their anti-depressants suddenly and ends up...well..worse off...maybe dead.
"
Hey dude, this is about someone speaking their mind in a free society, not Dawn of the Dead.
Word to Brandon Edwards. These jerks don't know what freedom is, and I might add, they are atrocious spellers.
Remedial english, people!
23 - Shelly
I think Tom was very attracted to Matt Lauer and that's what got him all hot and bothered.
I was going to see War of the Worlds tomorrow night, but now that it's main star has gone stark raving mad with arrogance, I'll have to pass.
Sorry, Mr. Spielberg. Next time try a SANER star.
24 - Lilyblue
Tom Cruise is totally ignorant about neuroscience, the human body and the basic biology that you learn in highschool. There IS such a thing as as a chemical imbalance in a body. Ritalin and Antidepressants are NOT antipsychotic drugs, they are called psychotropic drugs.
I just read in an article that Tom Cruise fired his publicist last year and his publicist is now, GUESS WHO? His older sister (also a fellow scientologist...) His "religion" used to be off limits to reporters as per his old publicist, but now he is free to rant and rave abut it thanks to advice from his sister/publicist...
Hopefully Katie will not go down the same path even though it seems she has already started...
From today's news:
"Cruise has been increasingly vocal about his own devotion to the religion of late and reportedly even took Holmes' parents on a tour of the Scientology Celebrity Center last weekend, according to the New York Post.
One thing's for sure, Katie Homes seems to be falling more and more into Cruise control--even taking a newfound interest in the Church of Scientology.
Holmes has also been making some changes in her professional life. Last week, Holmes fired her CAA agent, Brandt Joel, replacing him with Cruise's people at the same agency, Rick Nicita and Kevin Huvane, per the New York Post. This week, she parted ways with her longtime manager, John Carrabino, her rep, Leslie Sloane, confirmed to E!"
There is actually a website called www.freekatie.net !!!!
25 - azstephany
Someone I know was a "stewardess" on John Travolta's plane and it turns out his first child (son) with Kelly Preston is autistic. They hide him a lot and don't allow many photo ops of him and treat him terribly while the other kid who is "normal" gets a lot of positive attention... because it would just look bad if a child of parents who are scientologist had a kid with a GULP chemical imbalance or brain abnormality. Think what powerful advocates for treatments for disabled and mentally ill people these stars could be if they weren't themselves the truly crazy ones.