Not content to just kick the world's biggest movie star when he's down, Viacom head Sumner Redstone has gone back to bashing our favorite couch jumping Scientologist:
"Paula (Redstone), like women everywhere, had come to hate him. The truth of the matter is, I did listen to her . . ." Redstone says. "His behavior was entirely unacceptable to Paula and to the rest of the world. He just didn't turn one [woman] off. He turned off all women, and a lot of men."
(Redstone) isn't sorry he embarrassed Cruise publicly: "The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry."
In August 2006, Redstone ended Tom Cruise's production deal at Paramount Pictures, effectively "firing" the film star. Cruise responded by clenching both fists and smiling "way too hard" in an effort to seem "enthusiastic" and "unstoppable".
Awesome, now if only we as a people could "fire" big name celebrities and stop worshipping them. At least someone in a lot of power has the right idea.
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SteveIsaacs
NEWSWIRE
Los Angeles, CA
OCT 31, 2006 12:54 PM