Dis the Clear, Lose the Cruise
In this week's New York there's yet another example of how thimble-sized Tom Cruise can wreak havoc on mass media. According to the blurb, Cruise skipped out on a Men's Journal cover article after Wenner Media went ahead and published a piece titled "Inside Scientology" in the latest Rolling Stone. The article revealed the not-so-breaking news that "the church has a storied reputation for squelching its critics through litigation, and, according to some reports, intimidation." True to form, Cruise then pulled out of the cover shoot before Kate Rockland, the writer on the MJ story, could even get to him.
Even though a testy, amped-up Cruise always makes for great copy, we're sure Rockland's relieved that Camp Cruise chose to employ this is the type of "intimidation," instead of, say, having Jenna Elfman stop by her house and bash her in the face with an E-meter.
