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Broadway Co-Star: Holmes Wasn't Bothered by Scientology Protestors

Mandi Illuzzi — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:20:41 -0400

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"It was much more disruptive to the other theatres on the street," says John Lithgow

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Katie Holmes wasn't bothered by the anti-Scientology protestors who picketed her first night of previews for Broadway's All My Sons.

"It was much more disruptive to the other theatres on the street!" John Lithgow told reporters Monday at the Metropolitan Opera's 125th season opening in NYC.

The critics have yet to weigh in on Holmes' performance, but Lithgow can't stop raving.

"Katie is lovely in the play, and she's been such a sweetheart to work with," he said. "She has worked so hard - this is a tough, tough play."

He added, "Katie is acting with thoroughbreds and she's doing a wonderful job! She's had to really push herself."

He said her husband Tom Cruise and Suri, 2, have visited her several times.

"They've been around ... a lot!" added Lithgow, who said Holmes and co-star Patrick Wilson even set up an extra dressing room "as almost a childcare center. It's very sweet!"

See photos of Suri through the years.

He said the Cruise clan is "just adorable! They are just lovely people."

Meanwhile, Variety reports that Holmes' appearance in the play helped pull in a hefty $478,235 for five performances and played to houses that averaged almost 98 percent capacity.

See how Katie Holmes has changed her look over the years.

This makes Sons in the race for the fall's top-grossing straight play (Daniel Radcliffe's Equus currently holds the title).

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Suri's in Pigtails!

Alissa R — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:58:12 -0400

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The two-year-old is gearing up for mom Katie Holmes' Broadway debut later tonight

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Suri is celebrating mom Katie Holmes' Broadway debut with a new 'do.

The two-year-old showed off pigtails while strolling New York City Thursday with Holmes.

Check out Suri through the years.

Tonight, previews begin for the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. (Cruise joined Holmes at her final rehearsal Wednesday, smiling and walking arm-in-arm with her as they exited the theater.)

"Things are going really well for Katie," he recently told the New York Post's Liz Smith. "We'll see you on opening night, Sept. 18."

See Tom and Katie's most romantic moments.

Cruise and Suri aren't the only familiar faces who can't wait to see Holmes take the stage.

Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson recently told reporters: "Of course!" he'll see her.

Look back at Katie Holmes' hair through the years.

Pal Victoria Beckham told Usmagazine.com: "I think Katie's incredibly talented. I'm sure it's going to be magnificent."

Jada Pinkett Smith added said she'll be there opening night.

"I know she is going to be fabulous," she told Us.

The play officially opens October 16.

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Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise Moving to NYC for Broadway Show

Alissa R — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:34:15 -0400

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The play's producer calls her "a natural sweetheart who can sniff out phonies"

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are moving to the Big Apple!

As Holmes preps to make her Broadway debut this fall, "[Katie] and Tom are committed to keeping the family together, so they have to get an apartment here [in New York]," All My Sons producer Eric Falkenstein tells the New York Post

(See photos of their most romantic moments.)

Some critics gasped when Holmes was cast, but Falkenstein says she is "perfect" for the part of Ann, a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot.

"Katie's not a celebrity type," Falkenstein says. "She's done brilliant work in films like Pieces of April and The Ice Storm.

"Ann starts out as a simple, sweet, average Midwesterner, and by the finale gets up the gumption to stand and confront what's wrong," he adds.

He calls Holmes "a natural sweetheart who can sniff out phonies ... Katie basically has that exact moral fiber [of her character in the play]."

At the first table-read, Holmes "took notes... asked questions... [she] loves being around theater people," Falkenstein says.

"When she signed on, she came here to a bare rehearsal room for a read- through," the producer says. "She didn't ask for anything. She was just sweet and deferential."

Holmes debuts in mid-October for a limited 16-week engagement. She will be on stage six days a week.

(See Holmes' hair through the years.)

BFF Victoria Beckham recently told Usmagazine.com, "She's excited, and I'm excited.

"I think Katie's incredibly talented," she added. "I'm very proud of her to be doing this play."

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Suri Cruise's Favorite Video Is Hairspray!

Lindsay Powers — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:59:17 -0400

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The two-year-old saw the Broadway show in New York City

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Suri is a fan of musicals!

The two-year-old joined parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for the Broadway show Hairspray May 2 — because she loves the flick!

"Suri was so sweet in her little velvet and taffeta dress," the show's star, Jenifer Lewis told the New York Daily News Friday.

Cruise and Holmes surprised Lewis by telling her that Hairspray is Suri's favorite video.

The actress didn't expect to see the famous pair at that night. "I turned and there was Tom Cruise saying to me, 'Oh my God, you're wonderful!'" Lewis said.

The next day, Cruise sent the cast flowers and a basket of treats from New York City's famous Dylan's Candy Bar.

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Tom Cruise to Oprah: I Have Been "Misunderstood"

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:17:46 -0400

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In the first part of his interview with Oprah Winfrey (airing Friday), Tom Cruise reveals that he jumped on her couch in 2005 because he was so in love with Katie Holmes and couldn't contain himself.

Winfrey confessed that the incident caught her by surprise.

"When we finished that show with you jumping up on the sofa, I was like, 'Wow. What was that?'" she tells him in an interview in his Telluride, Colo., home. "I had no idea it was going to turn into an international brouhaha, as I'm sure you did not either."

She even confesses, "I was a little nervous coming up this morning, I have to admit, because you and I have not sat down for a real conversation since the sofa incident."

Cruise tells Winfrey, "I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her.

"I can't even articulate it, to be honest," he adds. "That feeling, that connection. Just who she is and what she means to me."

Of the negative response to his couch jumping, Cruise says, "It just kind of kept going.

"Those things I kind of go, 'You just have to take in stride.' It just kind of became a confluence of things."

ON ATTACKING MATT LAUER

He also opened up about his 2005 interview with Matt Lauer (Cruise attacked the anchor, calling him "glib" during a chat about psychiatry and the use of anti-depressant drugs).

"I was feeling pressed in the interview with Matt Lauer," Cruise says. "For me, my issue was really about child drugging. It's not like it is today, like people are really kind of openly talking about this."

(Cruise now says of medicating children, "I think the parent should be able to and should make that decision.")

ON SLAMMING BROOKE SHIELDS

He says his comments on post-partum depression "came out wrong." (He slammed Brooke Shields in the same 2005 interview for taking Paxil to treat post-partum depression following the birth of her daughter Rowan.)

"What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way," Cruise says.

He says the incident has brought the two of them "closer" (Shields attended his 2006 wedding to Holmes.)

ON BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST

Cruise dodges Winfrey's question about whether he feels people negatively target him because of his Scientology involvement.

"It's a minority religion, and I think that sometimes people misinterpret [it]," he says. "I think the best thing is for people to read about it themselves. I believe people have the right to choose what they believe in.

"The code of Scientologists says you respect the religious beliefs of others," Cruise adds. "That's part of being a Scientologist, and that's who I am as a person."

In January, videos leaked online of Cruise at Scientology events discussing the religion. He says the footage "was stolen. I was receiving an award that evening for global literacy. It was a very private moment. I'm actually talking to my congregation."

"It's [taken] totally out of context," he adds.

ON BUYING A SONOGRAM MACHINE FOR HOLMES DURING HER PREGNANCY

Cruise says he and Holmes took great pains to keep her pregnancy private. "We went in the middle of the night, and we were very excited -- this is such a private moment," he says.

"My life was already a zoo," he says. When news leaked, "it was off the charts."

As for purchasing a sonogram machine for Holmes, Cruise explains, "When you're having a baby, you just want it to be as safe and as easy as possible."

ON KEEPING SURI HIDDEN FOR SO LONG

Lots of rumors spread about their daughter, Suri, because the couple kept her hidden after she was born. Some blogs speculated that the child was deformed. That talk, Cruise says, was "hard to hear.

"We just want to have our baby, have the kids and everyone get to know Suri, get the family up here and just chill and have that time that you never get back," he explains. "You don't ever get those moments back."

On waiting three months to publish her photo in Vanity Fair in 2006, Cruise says, "Kate and I didn't feel any need to [rush] it. We said, 'Why? It's our family.' We just were on Suri time."

ON DAUGHTER SURI

"She's spectacular," he says. "She really is just magic."

His two children with ex Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella, "were really excited."

ON HIS MARRIAGE WITH HOLMES BEING FAKE

"That's laughable to me," Cruise says. 'You just know that they're trying to sell it and spin it."

He says Holmes' Catholic family has welcomed him.

"They're amazing. I love them," Cruise says. "You see why Kate is such an amazing woman -- incredible integrity and strength. They're family."

ON RUMORS THAT HE HAS PUSHED NICOLE KIDMAN OUT OF THEIR KIDS' LIVES

"No, that's ridiculous," he says. "We share custody. That's what it is."

ON HIS REPUTATION

"Listen I, I feel like definitely things have been misunderstood, and there are things I could have done better," Cruise admits. "But then there's also that world where you go, 'Oh, it's been spun to such an extent that ... that's a truth also.'

He continues, "Knowing when and where to communicate, I think that's important.

"A lot of times I was nervous giving interviews. Or I wasn't sometimes as comfortable about things. And I realized that it's okay.

"There's stuff you have to just let go," Cruise adds. "I just have to do the best I can."

Part two of Oprah's interview airs Monday (check your local listings).

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Tom Cruise Doesn't Jump on Oprah's Couch on TV special

Mandi Illuzzi — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:24:45 -0400

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"He was really calm," an audience member reveals

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Tom Cruise's couch jumping days are over.

The actor, 45, filmed the second-part of his Oprah Winfrey interview in her Chicago studio Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

"He was really calm and collected," said Diane Andonovski of Toronto, Canada.

During show breaks, Cruise even talked to audience members and seemed "so sweet and so sincere," Sally Maddy of Duluth, Minn., said. "He's even cuter in person."

Cruise was joined by immediate and extended family members, including wife Katie Holmes and their daughter Suri, who just turned 2, audience member Jenny Hume of England said.

He appeared on the show in honor of the 25th anniversary of his break-out film Risky Business. His friends and colleagues — including David and Victoria Beckham, Dustin Hoffman and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett — also appear on the show.

Part one of Winfrey's interview — taped from his family's home in Telluride, Colo. — airs Friday afternoon.

He is expected to open up about whether he thinks he has come under attack unnecessarily and how he has been accepted by his Holmes' family, as well as his infamous Matt Lauer interview.

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Tom Cruise tells Us Valentine's Day Will be Romantic

Lindsay Powers — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:37:03 -0500

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ALSO: Katie Holmes: Suri's "growing so quickly!"

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What's in store for Katie Holmes this Valentine's Day?

"I have plans," Tom Cruise, 45, told Usmagazine.com at the opening of the Eli Broad Contemporary Art Museum last night.

Will the day be romantic?

"It will," Cruise, who's known for gestures like proposing to his now-wife atop the Eiffel Tower, tells Us.

But the actor, who held Holmes hand on the carpet while he talked to Us, remained mum on the details.

"I'm going to keep that to myself but it's going to be fun though!" he said.

A topic he couldn't stop talking about: Two-year-old daughter Suri.

"Yeah, that one I can keep going on about!" he said.

And he's not the only chatty one. "She's talking a lot!" Cruise said.

"Every day she does something new," added Holmes, 29, who donned sky-high gold heels and a strapless Lanvin dress. "She's growing so quickly!"

Cruise said they see a lot of each other reflected in Suri "24/7."

Tell Us: What should Tom do for Katie this Valentine's Day?

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Katie Holmes' Holiday Plan: "I Will Cook Some Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Maybe a Cheesecake"

Lindsay Powers — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:45:00 -0500

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ALSO: The Mad Money star reveals that Tom’s’s kids with Nicole Kidman call her “mom”

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Katie Holmes: Actress, fashionista .... cook?

Tom Cruise’s wife, who just turned 29 Tuesday, says she plans on hitting the kitchen this Christmas as she celebrates with both sides of their big family in Telluride, Colorado. (Check out her family’s holiday card.)

“I will probably cook some garlic mashed potatoes and maybe a cheesecake,” she says.

She adds that “Tom’s really good in the kitchen ... [he] has shown me the greatness of extra chocolate chips.”

Even 20-month-old international jetsetter Suri will get in on the action by helping Mom make sugar cookies.

“Suri will be in the dough everywhere,” Holmes joked.

She said the family — who include Cruise’s kids with Nicole Kidman, Connor, 12, and Isabella, 14 — will likely go skiing. (She added that “[Tom’s] first two children are incredible, really smart and kind. They call me ‘Mom.’”)

As for the couple’s first child, Suri, Holmes says “we don't like to be away from her.

“She's very aware,” Holmes adds. “This summer, when Tom was working in Germany, she'd wake up and say, ‘Hello, Berlin,’”

Alas, no interview would be complete without Holmes gushing over her husband. (They celebrated their one-year anniversary this year.)

“I appreciate the man that I'm with and my family and my work,” she tells Parade. “I feel very lucky to be able to say that. I mean, what we do in a week is extraordinary.”

For more details about Holmes’ holiday and what she bought for Christmas, pick up the newest issue of Us Weekly on stands now.

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Suri Cruise Visits the Spice Girls

Alissa R — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:48:53 -0500

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The celeb baby "danced along to the music" during a recent visit with the reunited group

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Suri Cruise spiced up her life, taking in a private concert with the Spice Girls.

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and their daughter recently paid the reunited group a surprise visit in L.A. as they rehearsed.

According to the Spice Girls' Web site:

"Tom and Katie enjoyed an impromptu audience with the girls and were treated to an exclusive performance, while Suri danced along to the music."

Said Holmes' pal, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham: "[My husband David Beckham] and I are great friends with Tom and Katie. It was lovely of them to come down to rehearsals, a really nice surprise. Katie has told me before that she used to be a big Spice fan so it was great for her to meet the other girls.”

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Tom Cruise Dishes: Married Life Is "Lovely"

Mark Cina — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:35:47 -0400

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The actor opens up to Entertainment Tonight about wife Katie Holmes and life with daughter Suri.

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In a November 1 interview with Entertainment Tonight's Jann Carl, Tom Cruise said of his marriage to Katie Holmes: "I feel lucky. I have a lot of respect for her as an artist, as a woman."

He added: "She's a very strong, gracious woman. She's very funny, a great comedian."

Married life, he continued, is "all very good, all very lovely."

He referred to Holmes as "Kate" throughout the interview.

As for raising daughter Suri, 18 months, he said he and Holmes share parenting duties "just like everybody else, you just work it out. You make it work. We've gotten pretty good at organizing everything." Laughing, he added, "I don't sleep much anyway."

The interview was held in Paris, and Cruise said the city "has great significance to me in this time period of my life. It's the city where I proposed to Kate."

For more, watch Entertainment Tonight November 1 (check local listings).

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