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This is why I watch interviews with celebrities that I’m not so fond of. Tom Cruise appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday. Oprah interviewed him in his home in Telluride, Colorado which Oprah said was,

“just so normal!”

Well, not exactly. I don’t believe a typical home includes a kitchen the size of a penthouse and leather-bound scripts just lying around. Normal, no. Well deserved? Probably.

Oprah launched right in, starting with Tom’s crazy couch jump three years ago. I’ve never understood the huge debacle over this myself but Tom says,

“I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her (Katie.). 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.”

Oprah then moved in to the more serious issues, which have been burning for three years. His interview with Matt Lauer, his stance on Brooke Shields taking antidepressants for postpartum, and whether or not the rumors about his marriage ending are true. On conventional medicine and therapy Tom said,

“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. Of course I could have handled it better. Even the day of that interview, I knew I could have handled it better. It’s really the parent’s decision and parent’s should make that decision.”

When asked about the rumors surrounding his marriage, Tom said,

“It’s ridiculous. I mean, it’s laughable to me.”

Tom seemed to be at peace and want to clear a few things up. Whether it was his PR rep talking or whether Tom has really seen that he hasn’t always presented himself properly, I don’t know. But I don’t hate him like I once did and it will be good to watch Part 2 of the interview on Monday.

It seems that all the rumors of a supposed divorce have just been too much for Tom Cruise and he has sent his wife, Katie Holmes, off to a Scientology boot camp so that she can become brainwashed into being a better wife. Of course, Tom or the other believers don’t call it that but that’s pretty much what it is. From Glam Canada,

“Star Magazine claims Katie Holmes recently spent 3 days at Gold Base, the Scientology compound in Hemet, CA for being a misbehaving wife. Tom supposedly banished Katie to the compound, because she wanted to go to NYC by herself and star on Broadway. After two failed marriages Cruise went to a lot of trouble to find the perfect Scientology wife, and he’s not about to let her start thinking for herself now, the story basically goes! The source said the boot camp puts the camper through a battery of tests and purification:

“various tests, confession sessions, tons of reading and physically challenging purification processes. Tom insists that auditing and purification practices are incredibly beneficial to Scientologists at all levels.”

I certainly hope that Katie is too smart to put up with all of that but one never knows once what can happen once you’ve fallen into a certain belief system. Tom has come under a lot of fire for his belief in Scientology but this one’s going to be the hardest to defend, I think. Hopefully it’s not actually true and Katie just went away to take a break from everything she’s been going through recently.

Tom Cruise is set to appear on The Oprah Winfrey show tomorrow, May 2, to celebrate his twenty-five years in film. Oprah is prepared to ask him the tough questions including his public disgust of Brooke Shields, what happened with Matt Lauer on the Today show and probably, his current relationship with Katie. Should be a good one.

So, Matt Lauer sat with Britney Spears, on ‘Today’, bold-facedly questioning her parenting skills, and why she would ever drive a car with her child in her lap. And then, this same self-righteous imbecile gets caught –on camera, riding in the back of an SUV with his kid in his lap. Nice one, chief. From People:

“He gave Britney Spears a hard time for driving with her son in her lap — but Matt Lauer did something similar this weekend in New York, though he wasn’t breaking the law.

TMZ cameras caught Lauer with wife Annette and son Thijs outside the Marc Jacobs store in SoHo on Saturday, with Lauer holding his son on his lap as his SUV took off. No car seat in sight.

Back in June of 2006, Lauer quizzed Britney in that infamous “Today” sit-down, and asked her why should would ever drive with her son in her lap — pointing out how much negative press she got from the incident.

For the record, unlike Brit, Lauer was in the backseat with his child and not behind the wheel. According to New York’s Taxi & Limousine Commission, the child does not have to have a car seat because hired cars are exempt.”

However –make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that saved his ass, is that it was a “hired” vehicle. If it had been one of his own cars, or a privately owned vehicle, his ass would have been grass. And as most of you know, despite how ridiculous the intense the scrutiny of such a trivial incident is, –the potential harm a child can come to out of a car seat, whether in the front seat or the back, is the same; in the sense that chances for fatality in an accident are fairly high. Concluding in that, if Matt was sooo hung up about the safety of Britney’s kids, why the hell isn’t he being more careful with his own?