Perish the thought! A personal opinion influencing thought? Well, whatever it takes to wake up batshit crazy Tom. sorry for no pics, they all seem to copyrighted on this topic.
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off of dailymail.uk:
Cruise firing triggered by studio head's trophy wifeBy RICHARD SIMPSON
Last updated at 14:14pm on 25th August 2006
The unknown trophy wife of a Hollywood film executive has been revealed as the unlikely driving force behind Tom Cruise's dramatic firing this week.
Paula Fortunato, 43, the wife of 83-year-old Sumner Redstone, the Viacom chairman who sacked Cruise, took a dislike to the actor after he publicly criticised the actress Brooke Shields for using post-natal anti-depressants.
An 'incensed' Fortunato advised her ageing husband that the comments Cruise made live on television, which are in line with his Scientology beliefs, had forever turned female fans off him.
On Wednesday of this week Paramount Pictures - the film division of Viacom - dropped the 44-year-old actor, calling an abrupt end to one of the most lucrative partnerships in film history.
Redstone made the extraordinary move of speaking out publicly to blame Cruise's 'unacceptable conduct' off-set for his decision.
Redstone said: "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount."
Redstone estimated that Cruise's off-screen behaviour cost his latest movie, Mission: Impossible III, between £50 and £75 million in lost box office revenues even though the film was, he said, 'the best of the three movies' in the action series.
It had been understood that the 'recent conduct' Redstone had been referring covered the past year, which had been a public relations fiasco for Cruise.
Cruise's obsessive devotion to Scientology has seen him demand that his young fiancee Katie Holmes should go through the agonising process of childbirth in silence.
There followed speculation that Miss Holmes's conversion to Scientology at Cruise's request has caused her estrangement from her own family, while wildly varying reports have questioned the very existence of their four-month-old daughter Suri since to this day she is yet to be seen in public.
His allegiance to the cult has itself stirred controversy, it being based on the belief that humans are an exiled race from outer space called Thetans.
Cruise's behaviour in public in recent months has also become increasingly erratic. He became the butt of jokes after declaring his love for Miss Holmes in his infamous couch-hopping appearance on America's Oprah Winfrey Show.
But Hollywood insiders have now made the intriguing discovery that Redstone's decision was linked almost entirely to the feelings of his wife - who is 40 years his junior, who 'had his ear' and, he believed, was the best barometer of how the female public felt about the actor.
According to an insider, Fortunato, was 'incensed' by Cruise's criticism of Brooke Shields, who wrote about how prescription drugs relieved her postnatal depression.
"Here is a woman - and I care about Brooke Shields because she is an incredibly talented woman - where has her career gone?" Cruise ranted on national television. "These drugs are dangerous. I have actually helped people come off them. When you talk about postnatal depression, you can take people today, women, and what you do is, you use vitamins."
Sources say Fortunato told her powerful husband, "I never want to see another Tom Cruise movie again".
Viacom spokesman Carl Folta confirmed the story last night, telling a New York newspaper: "It is true that Mrs. Redstone disagrees with Tom Cruise's views, but she and Mr. Redstone see every Paramount film."
Cruise is understood to be incensed that his entire career risks crashing around him due to the whisperings of Miss Fortunato, who until recently was an unknown New York primary school teacher. Miss Fortunato met Redstone while he was still married to his first wife of 55 years, Phyllis Gloria Raphael, and married him three years later in April 2003.
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