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| April | 5 | Tom Cruise says his father was abusive and that school, where he faced other bullies, was difficult, in an upcoming issue of Parade magazine. "He was a bully and a coward," Cruise says of his father, Thomas Cruise Mapother III. "He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life — how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang! For me, it was like, `There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.' There's that anxiety." When Cruise was 12, his mother, Mary Lee, left his father and took Cruise and his sister, Lee Anne, with her, the magazine says. His parents divorced in 1974. Ten years later, Cruise says he reunited with his father, who was "in the hospital dying of cancer, and he would only meet me on the basis that I didn't ask him anything about the past."
| | 3 | Tom Cruise told Germany's leading tabloid in its Monday edition that he wanted to tie the knot this summer with fiancee
Katie Holmes, after the birth of their baby and the upcoming release of his new film, "Mission Impossible III." Cruise was in Germany to plug the film on the country's popular "Wetten Dass ..." ("I'll Bet ...") TV show. He said on the show Saturday that two pilots were at the ready to fly him home should Holmes go into labor. Cruise confirmed to Bild that he and Holmes planned to marry in the coming months.
| | 2 | Tom Cruise is reportedly feeding his pregnant fiancé Katie Holmes Indian food to bring on labour. According to the Daily Star, Cruise, a devout Scientologist, is trying to help the brith process by serving Holmes red hot curries every night. "Tom is convinced he can get the baby to pop out sooner if he feeds her spicy dishes," a source was quoted as saying.
| | | March | 31 | Tom Cruise has reportedly given pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes an MP3 player loaded with mellow music to help her stay silent during childbirth. The actress has allegedly agreed to deliver her baby in total quiet in accordance with a bizarre Scientology tradition. To help her, the Hollywood actor, who is a devout follower of the sci-fi cult, has splashed out on a hi-tech iPod and handpicked over 300 tracks to help Katie keep mum. A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Tom wants her to listen to music through her earphones so there's no noise in the delivery room."
| | 21 | Tom Cruise was the guest of honor at Yahoo's quarterly "Influential Speakers" event Tuesday at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., bantering with chief executive Terry Semel and answering questions from the crowd. After an impromptu arm-wrestling match with Semel, Cruise recreated his "Oprah" sofa-hopping episode, this time on a chair, to trumpet his joy about his fiancee and their soon-to-arrive offspring. Then he brought the very pregnant Holmes onto the stage, where he beamed and patted her round belly. And, yes, he then sealed the interlude with a kiss.
| | 16 | Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of "South Park," are digging in against Scientology after a controversial episode mocking outspoken Scientologist Tom Cruise was canceled abruptly from the schedule Wednesday -- with rumors it was covert warfare by Cruise that led to its departure. "So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!" the "South Park" creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. "Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies... You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!"
| | | Rumors have been circulating that Tom Cruise used his mega-star power and his role in promoting the upcoming blockbuster film to halt the rerun of a "South Park" episode that pokes fun at both his sexual orientation and religion. Cable's Comedy Central had planned to air the episode "Trapped in a Closet" Wednesday night, but then pulled it from its lineup after cast member and fellow Scientologist Isaac Hayes quit the show. The episode, which first aired last year, featured a caricature of Cruise being coaxed to come out of a closet by Nicole Kidman. The trade newspaper Daily Variety then reported rumors that Cruise made an ultimatum: drop the episode or he would be a no-show on all interviews and promotions for his upcoming action flick "Mission Impossible 3." The movie will be distributed by Paramount, which is owned by the same company that oversees Comedy Central.
| | 4 | Tom Cruise and his fiance Katie Holmes won the Razzie award for "most tiresome tabloid targets." The couple, known as TomKat, won for their tabloid dominance. Cruise professed his love for the actress on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last May where he jumped up and down on a sofa like a man possessed. The Razzies this year added the "most tiresome" category to salute "the celebs we're all sick and tired of." Cruise, a member of the Church of Scientology which eschews psychiatry, was also roasted for his attack on psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs made on NBC's "Today" show last June. Cruise was also nominated as worst actor but was trumped by Rob Schneider, the star of "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo."
| | | February | 17 | Visited Sydney with Katie Holmes to bid farewell to Australian media mogul Kerry Packer. | | 14 | Denied report that he and Katie Holmes was separated. | | | January | 31 | Razzie Awards: Earned 3 nominations, including for worst actor ("War of the Worlds"). | | 26 | Top 10 Moneymaking Stars of 2005: Voted 1st place. |
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