OT: Tom Cruise

[Scottie]

We live in the cult of celebrities.

[Susan]

Yeah after the interview with matt Lauer i'd heard enough. He kept saying "I know these things" and called matt a glib! Now i'd like to see tom's psychiatry degree, or maybe he left it on the mothership. I heard someone note how he doesn't have much to say, his vocabulary is very basic and when asked a question he always breaks out into maniacle laughter.

Didn't katie holmes also "vanish" for like 15 days when they first met and when she returned she had stopped seeing two of her friends, began researching scientology and then fired her agent and is now using his? oh and i heard a rumor "War of the Worlds" will put you to sleep. There are pods underneath all the chairs. Tom cruise is an alien, prepare to be assimiliated...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

[Ash]

The other night I also caught a clip of Tom being interviewed and the thought that he seriously may be on something occurred to me too.

Maybe he's got a serious addiction to some drug.
I mean, look at his behavior.  Either he's on something or he's becoming an eccentric weirdo.

[Zapranoth]

THANK you, Susan.  I had been wondering what the hell the Emperor had been screaming when he fried Mace Windu, and on second viewing of episode 3 I still couldn't catch it.  Now I know!  

"UN LIIIIIIIIIIII    MI  TED    POWERRRRRRRRR!!!!!"

Awesome.  I'm happy now.  =)

Okay, my two cents' worth.  Prescribing IS scary when it comes to kids.  Or to adults, for that matter!  You give someone the wrong combination of meds and you can outright kill them, much less fail to help them.  But what Tom-O isn't paying attention to, because he's a stupid selfish self-absorbed zealot of a cult, is that there are quite a few people out there (who will tell you  if you ask them) who derive tremendous benefits from the psych meds we have today.    Yeah, we have a long way to go, and if you look back into the history of mental health, there's true barbarism there, true.  But that's not the whole picture.

Tom has ventured from the realm of the irritating into a wholly new realm of nutty celebrity moxie and destructive public diarrhea of the mouth.    He needs lithium.  Or perhaps Depakote, or Lamictal, or some other mood stabilizer...

[h.p. Love]

Zapranoth wrote:


> Tom has ventured from the realm of the irritating into a wholly
> new realm of nutty celebrity moxie and destructive public
> diarrhea of the mouth.    He needs lithium.  Or perhaps
> Depakote, or Lamictal, or some other mood stabilizer...
>

He seems pretty manic to me. He's got that delusional cocaine thing going on.  I wouldn't go with the lithium though. I'd start with deprogramming sessions, therapy and something if necessary. Depakote might work or zyprexa. It's nothing a good dose of seroquel can't tame. After Katie leaves him, I'd also throw in some Viagra.

Seriously though, I caught some of the mtv movie awards today and the special award to Tom was way overblown. It was one of those moments in celebrity worship that are downright uncomfortable.

[Zapranoth]

Olanzapine would make him blimp out and become diabetic.  That'd be a sight to see.

[Wence]

I would say that it is not cocain or other drugs that influence TomC.
I think these scientological "E-Meter-Sessions" made a freak out of him.

[Susan]

Ash - maybe he's not on something. but he sure is a poster boy for people who *need* self medicating ;-)

[Yaddo 42]

He's rumored to have ADHD related to his dyslexia that the Hubbard folks supposedly cured years ago.

I caught a clip of the Lauer interview, and read a transcript on the Drudge Report. Whew. To paraphrase every impression of Johnny Carson, "That is some weird, WILD stuff." He did have the whole "Believe me, I know this, you don't" attitude and the repeating "Matt....Matt...Matt" and tsking at anything he didn't like but never stated anything clearly to refute it pattern going on. Or he alluded to the overmedicated kids, and past abuses of electroshock therapy, or tried to change the subject with lines asking if Lauer knew Ritalin was a "street drug" now. Like any drug or product that can be abused or is hard to obtain legally is automatically evil if there is a criminal market of people willing to pay to abuse it. Isn't part of the drug abuse appeal of Ritalin is that it actually has the reverse effect in adults? It makes them hyper or wired rather than calming them.  

Just seemed very manic, IMO. But I guess saying that makes me one of the "bad people" who are part of the whole psychiatry conspiracy. Plus how tough is it to go toe to toe with Matt Lauer and leave him stammering? He's a fluffy morning show host who has as the toughest part of his job the task of not p**sing off Katie Couric.

[Zapranoth]

(really OT)

Ritalin is methylphenidate, which is a relative of methamphetamine (aka meth, crystal meth, speed, crank).  No one really knows why stimulants in general help kids with ADD, in truth -- but the current thinking is that kids with ADD don't have normally functioning frontal lobes (the part of the brain that's supposed to filter out what is important vs what is not) and that the stimulants make it step up and do its job.

Tom does sorta resemble a less funny version of the original Robin Williams' Mork cameo on Happy Days, doesn't he?  (Do you remember that - when he comes in and talks with them, then realizes he was too early, pokes his watch, and does the whole scene in reverse again?)      You could tell that Robin was burning just a li-ttle bit too bright there...

[h.p. Love]

Anybody see that red carpet deal where an interviewer blasted Tom in the face with a squirting microphone?

[Susan]

hp - yeah, he scolded that guy like a little schoolboy standing there calling him a jerk for 10 minutes while holding his hand

at least it wasn't a pie like what happened to bill gates ;-)

[h.p. Love]

Susan wrote:

> hp - yeah, he scolded that guy like a little schoolboy standing
> there calling him a jerk for 10 minutes while holding his hand

"Why did you do that? Why would you do that?"

I just wanted to hear someone say: "Because it's funny and you take yourself too seriously. You made some movies. None of this dog and pony show is real. And now you're trying to brainwash America's sweatheart Katie Holmes."

*Tom gets another squirt*



Post Edited (06-25-05 17:56)

[Susan]

Yeah his response shoulda been "FREE KATIE! FREE KATIE" then tom probably woulda slinked away

[Zapranoth]

No.

He should have said "I'm not Clear yet.  The Thetans made me do it."