Don't get me wrong. I like it when somebody stands up to Matt Lauer (and especially when they stand up to Katie Couric) but this latest dust-up on the Today Show has me scratching my head. Having watched all the cable shows have a field day with it, I know I'm not the only guy who thought Tom Cruise looked a little...oh...on edge. I mean, the last time I had dark circles under my eyes like his was that psych mid-term back in college. I actually started to feel sorry for him.
"Pay attention. I'm only going to say this once."
Between the water in the face, the Katie Holmes love-fest and the kids-on-drugs Scientology rant, Tom's starting to evoke a Dan Rather-like weirdness. (Remember "What's the frequency Kenneth?" and "Courage"?) Now that the War of the Worlds in in the theaters, his publicity mission is done.
War of the Worlds is really a fantastic film which will stand the test of time and Bewitched is really a horrible movie that I couldn't even sit all the way through. So Tom wins the summer movie competition with Nicole.
My advice to Tom is to take Katie (Holmes, not Couric) and go someplace and chill.
