Actor Tom Cruise said he and girlfriend Katie Holmes are engaged, after he popped the question early Friday morning atop the Eiffel Tower.
Cruise, speaking at a Paris news conference with Holmes, said: "Yes, I proposed to her."
The couple often shared smiles and blushes as Cruise turned to look at her, with a massive diamond ring on her finger.
"It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," he said. "Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."
Asked why he chose the famed Paris landmark, he said: "I've never been to the Eiffel Tower. It's Paris, it's a beautiful city, it's very romantic."
Cruise said no date for a wedding has been set: "We haven't discussed that - one step at a time," he said. "Let's see. We're not sure."
Cruise, 42, was in Paris to promote the French release of the Steven Spielberg film "War of the Worlds" next month. He and 26-year-old Holmes went public with their romantic relationship in April.
Holmes did not speak to reporters, but at one point, Cruise whispered to her: "Are you OK?" Afterward, the two hurried into a car before leaving for a promotional event in Marseilles, southern France.
"I wish them the happiest marriage that anyone has ever had," said Dakota Fanning, the child actress who co-stars with Cruise in the film. She sat next to Holmes during the news conference.
Cruise and Holmes have faced repeated rumors of marriage. The relationship started after Cruise split from actress Penelope Cruz, and Holmes and actor Chris Klein called off their long-standing engagement.
While in Berlin two days ago, Cruise dismissed speculation by tabloid newspapers and celebrity gossip columns that their relationship is a stunt to promote their new movies.
Holmes was in London earlier this week to promote her new film, "Batman Begins." She had also dismissed accusations that the couple had staged a relationship for publicity.
Holmes said then that she was embracing Scientology - Cruise's religion. The former star of television's "Dawson's Creek" grew up with a poster of Cruise on her bedroom wall and has said she grew up wanting to marry him.
They have only been dating for a short time. Why get married? You should know the person you marry completely.
I married my boyfriend that I had only known for two months and I was sorry I ever did that. He changed his personality overnight.
If you want to marry someone, I suggest you move in with them and see if you could truly get married.
'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo -- H.G. Wells
You must turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary
I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life. The Spy who came in from the cold
Mama always said life was like a box a chocolates, never know what you're gonna get.
They are already talking about having babies. Maybe he's just in it for the kids, him and Nicole tried for years and years and never had kids so they adopted, maybe his love for Katie is that he sees her as a baby factory?
She has already said that she is going to quit doing so many movies to concentrate on her new beau and making a family.
PS: the War of the Worlds team paid for his whole proposal except the diamond ring, they put Tom and Katie in a floor of a hotel in paris with 70 odd rooms and all that crap the celebs seem to think they need, the WOTW team paid for the dinner at the Eiffell Tower and all the flowers and stuff too.
I see two option here:
1: - he is being cheap by proposing while on promotional tour and getting all this stuff for free
2: - the proposal is actually part of the publicity tour for WOTW
It could be a combination fo the two, but I am going for number 2.
I've been thinking this is a publicity stunt for so long, but he's going really all-out for her, so you'd hope she's in on it or she's gonna get a rude awakening before the movie's even out on DVD
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
I don't know if she is in on it. The storey changes so much. There was all this talk about her wanting him to get her mroe movie roles, such as MI3 and some other ones, but then suddenly, she''s withdrawn from it all and wants a family.
Something messed up is going on here. My opinion is this...Tom sees Katie as a hot little baby-making trophy wife and Katie sees Tom as, well, Tom Cruise!
She is obviously in la-la land and probably not able to see past the fantasy that Tom Cruise himself is all over her. I mean, think about it - what girl in the world would say no to him?
showgirly said this in post #9 : Something messed up is going on here. My opinion is this...Tom sees Katie as a hot little baby-making trophy wife and Katie sees Tom as, well, Tom Cruise!
She is obviously in la-la land and probably not able to see past the fantasy that Tom Cruise himself is all over her. I mean, think about it - what girl in the world would say no to him?
Strange...
she looks like a teenage girl, so young. Way to young for me and I'm 36.
Tom is older than that by a bit. I hope she is old enough to see that whatever she sets up with him is going to be temporary.
This article appeared in my University newspaper. The writer puts into words what I feel.
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Tom Cruise: A man of our times
What's a guy to do when it turns out the biggest movie star of his generation is wildly, certifiably insane?
That's the predicament I find myself in now as I see the sudden and unusual downfall of Tom Cruise unfold before my very eyes.
The Scientology bit is one thing. I mean, it was cute for a while. There he was-adorable, fuzzy little Tom, finding the meaning of life through a dead man who spent his life philosophizing about aliens and mutants and spaceships.
I don't want to belittle the guy's religion or anything (even if said religion does creep me out a bit), but with his recent shenanigans on "Oprah" and "The Today Show," I have to wonder if Cruise is finally starting to lose it.
In fact, I'm just going to come right out and say it: Tom Cruise is losing it.
During Cruise's recent confrontation with Matt Lauer over the "evils" of psychiatry, it certainly looked to me like he was cracking. He was ornery, he was irritable, he was-dare I say-pissy.
What happened to the cute, cuddly, adorable Tom Cruise we all knew and loved?
In another recent interview, he claimed that legendary shrink Carl Jung was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War II, and also said that methadone was originally called "Adolophine," after Adolf Hitler, thus confirming Cruise's stance that psychiatry is a "Nazi science."
Turns out neither statement is actually true-Carl Jung's good name is safe.
It's ironic, given Scientology's anti-psychiatry stand, that I never popped any pills until I had to sit through 118 minutes-that's 7,080 seconds of my life-of L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth." Now, I'm a frickin' addict.
Point is, these past few months have been extremely disturbing for anyone who has grown up with Tom Cruise. He's been the face of our generation-the warm, soft, nougaty center around which the world of pop culture revolves. And now, that face has been replaced by the gnarled visage of a belligerent madman.
But really, when one looks at our generation, is it any surprise that our biggest idol is completely out of his mind?
Perhaps I'm just being self-deprecating, but we're a generation of lunatics. We embraced Hammer Pants and JNCO jeans. We made Bob Saget a household name. We decided it was a good idea to give Colin Quinn his own television show. We spent our childhood watching "Saved by the Bell"-and we liked it!
We spend hundreds of millions of dollars to see Michael Bay movies. (Well, I learned my lesson after "Armageddon." I haven't given that jackass a dime since.)
We collectively throw a hissy fit whenever we see a fortuitous nipple. We turn runaways and kidnapped blondes into national superstars.
We literally try to steal young Cuban children from their parents.
We're pill-popping children of divorce, ingesting pop culture sensationalism at a breakneck pace while getting our information and leadership from empty, monotonous politicians like George W. Bush and Howard Dean.
But that's stating the obvious.
Every generation has a face, and ours, for better or worse, is Tom Cruise. When they said that life imitates art, I don't think this is quite what they meant, but I guess this is what we deserve.
On the verge of his and Steven Spielberg's latest offering, "War of the Worlds," with the entire nation in a tizzy about his relationship with Katie Holmes (Are they, like, for real?), his nationally televised psychotic encounter with Oprah's couch and his overzealous attack on such drug-pushing scoundrels as Brooke Shields, Tom Cruise remains, indeed, a man for our times.
We're a vain, oversensitive, overmedicated culture-but then there's Tom Cruise, the Prophet, here to lead us out of the valley of darkness.
06-17-2005 01:53 PM
Poor Tom!
