Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The power of the shrink class
Actor Tom Cruise, after a 14 year working relationship with Viacom, parent company of Paramount Pictures, has been "fired" by Viacom chief Sumner Redstone. I've grown to like Matt Lauer of the "Today" show, even though low-key he always has a pertinent point or two to make. He asked why nothing happens to all those stars who are in and out of rehab. Good question Matt but maybe it has to do with Tom going after the psychiatric industry and its reliance on psychotropic drugs. Now this might be a minority opinion but it is not a kooky one. Dr. Peter Breggin even wrote a book about it called "Toxic Psychiatry" and as far as I know he is not a Scientologist. Going after the psychiatric industry is about as taboo as going after the cancer establishment. As far as jumping up and down on Oprah's couch Hef has set the standard here, sleeping around good, falling in love corny. You see it's all a part of pc. A truly pc person cannot simply disagree with you on any given subject, he resorts to coercion to bring you over to his worldview, to mold you into his version of reality. This is why Tom cannot even question actress Brooke Shields' use of psychiatric drugs to deal with her post-partum depression. You see in the pc universe you do not even have the right to your own opinion anymore and if you do assert this right they will call you kooky before they resort to stronger tactics like affecting your livelihood. Tom, like Mel Gibson, is paid though and can take the rest of his life off. Would that we all had the same option when we say or do the "wrong" thing.On the Right
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I don't think its even about the money anymore, because as you pointed out the Hollywood biggies have more money than any normal person could ever need to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. No, its about the fame and seeing their mugs on magazines and TV shows. Maybe its an addiction for them, being in the spotlight. Even Tom probably doesn't mind geting fired, because the news brought his name and pictures of him out again. The impact hasn't hit him yet!
ReplyDeleteCould this be the demise of Tom Cruise's career? I think it is very probable.
ReplyDeleteSome people say that he started losing his mind long ago, when he joined the Scientology Church. Many are saying that it was on the Oprah show that he finally started showing his madness. But I have to say that this guy has been on my Nut Job list for a very long time. And all of the above just make my case stronger.
Thanks beth and DD, it's just that I see this whole thing from a free speech angle. So he ranted against anti-depressants with Matt Lauer, maybe his tone wasn't the way to present his argument but there are many respectable people out there who do question and criticize their use. It just seems to me he is being punished for not being pc. For an industry that castigated filmmaker Elia Kazan for doing what he thought was right during the McCarthy era and then to turn around and attempt to blacklist Tom Cruise because he doesn't say the right things smacks of inconsistency to say the least.
ReplyDeleteI’m 100 percent for free speech .. But I don’t feel that free speech had anything to do with this. Nor do I see anyone trying to make any attempt to blacklist Tom Cruise. I feel that whatever is going on with Tom is his own doing. People see this guy destroying everything he has gained for himself in the past, acting like a Nut and people are not stupid. Maybe he has something going on in his head or maybe it’s this Scientology
ReplyDeletething, I don’t know. But I do know that I once liked him and now I can’t stand him. Would i spend 5 cents to see his movies? No way.
The Hollywood business is all about image, Z, and I really don't blame Paramount for not wanting this lunatic representing them anymore. They see people like DD2 getting turned off by the guy, then he's not going to be profitable to them anymore. We have freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean we can't be held accountable for the words we say.
ReplyDeleteI completely understand your sentiments DD and Beth and don't know how Tom got caught up in all this stuff about a dark galactic overlord trapping spirits called Thetans in volcanoes. I also don't like the way he presented his anti-Prozac position to Matt Lauer, he didn't have to take a cheap shot at Brooke Shields by saying where is her career now. It's just that there are so many other stars who are far worse than Tom (who probably never even smoked a joint in his life)who should be really shunned (Nick Nolte?). I think jumping up and down on Oprah's couch was a dopey thing to do but it didn't get my goat the way it did so many commentators out there. He really should give up the Scientology crap though.
ReplyDeleteSee folks. That's how you do it. You get on the Oprah show you act like a complete imbecile And you get in the news. You go all over the world to promote your stupid and worthless picture. And if you’re a Tom Cruse or a obnoxious Hollywood Lefy like Alec Baldwin. You get the media coverage. Only you have to make a bit of sense. Unlike these two morons most of the time it works. But when you over do it like Tommy boy did it back fires.
ReplyDeleteThis is why i have such contempt for all these Hollywood activist lefties ...It seems that if you are in the limelight your opinion is very persuasive Don’t matter how smart. Just take a look at the list of them and you’ll see what i mean. Start with Barbra Streisand who can’t even read her lines on a prompter.
I know D, his behavior on Oprah was imbecilic but I'd hazard a guess that Tom has lived a mostly moral life. Even his ex Mimi Rogers said to Playboy that he wasn't that big on sex (too much info Mimi but thanks for sharing)and we also know that he at one point seriously considered becoming a Catholic priest. I don't know, other Hollywood lefties like Michael Moore and Babs bother me more than him.
ReplyDeleteGood points!
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