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Dina Lohan will be honored as a "Top Mom"--no, really!--on Long Island by an organization called Mingling Moms, alongside Rae Stern (Howard Stern's mom), Betty Seinfeld (Jerry's mom), and Shelley Stevens Herschlag (Natalie Portman's mom). Check back here tomorrow for lots more ... [P6]  read more »

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have reportedly gotten married after dating for about a month. [NY Daily News]

Project Runway is not just moving to Lifetime, but also Los Angeles for its sixth season. [EW]  read more »

Rumor has it that fashion label, Heatherette, is no more as Richie Rich may start his own line or move out to Los Angeles (gasp!) to pursue music and television projects. [N.Y. Daily News]

For John Varvatos, the real challenge of opening a store in the CBGB space was not crossing picket lines but getting the stench of punk out of the space.  read more »

Lou Reed secretly married his long-time girlfriend Laurie Anderson in Colorado on April 12 and then celebrated back here in New York with friends like Julian and Olatz Schnabel and Richard Belzer of Law & Order. [P6]  read more »

An animal rights group that calls itself the Paint Panthers painted the words "Bunny Butcher" outside Donna Karan's home in the Hamptons. [NY Daily News]

The Lower East Side still hates yuppies, apparently (a little self-loathing, no?). An activist tells Page Six that everyone is so pissed at Bruce Willis for opening his Bowery Wine Company on East First Street, that they are going to get a pig and name it Bruce. [P6]  read more »

Meet Emma Jean Stephenson, of Beaver Falls, Penn. Ms. Stephenson has been in the dog-showing business for 48 years, breeding and showing Dachshunds (longhair, smooth, and wiry)—many, she said, who end up with New York City owners.

Behind her was one of her dogs, Gunner (Ch. E.J’s Gunner’s Grandson), who didn’t seem to be the least bit perturbed by the noise and din of the back room.

He is indeed the grandson of one of Ms. Stephenson’s champions dogs, E.J.’s Top Gun.  read more »

The L.A. Times’ Web Scout blog posted a story last night about a group of Web types protesting the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles and dozens of other cities around the world—including the church’s Manhattan location on West 46th Street (see video above!).

This mysterious group goes by the name Anonymous and has called for a war on Scientology, the uniform for which, at least from this video, appears to be a Guy Fawkes mask like the one the protagonist in the Wachowski Brothers’ V for Vendetta wore.

When Web Scout asked the Church of Scientology about the protests, the organization released a statement: “’Anonymous' is a group of cyber-terrorists who hide their identities behind masks and computer anonymity,” that statement read in part. “[It] is perpetrating religious hate crimes against Churches of Scientology and individual Scientologists for no reason other than religious bigotry."

Judge for yourself: On Jan. 21, the group posted an eerie video with a computer-generated voice on YouTube that laid down the gauntlet when it said: “Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed.”  read more »

Today brings some added conspiracy surrounding the all-too-infamous Tom Cruise Scientology video. A recent item published on OnlineAthens.com, the Athens Banner-Herald’s official Web site, claims that after local satirist and TV producer Waco O’Guin posted his own spoof of the Cruise clip, his Web site was hacked.  read more »

CBS’ Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson was not allowed to air the Tom Cruise video that has been on the tips of innumerable tongues this week. So, he went and made his own version. As impossible as it sounds, Mr. Ferguson's version, complete with lots of strange acronyms, double-chin laughs and a karate chop or two, might be better than the original.

"I was scared to death of him," Miss USA Tara Conner says of Trump on his upcoming "E! True Hollywood Story." Imagine what Rosie would say. (Page Six)

Charlie Rose joins "60 Minutes," which continues its refusal to target audiences under 50. (NYT)

Clay Aiken debuts in "Spamalot" today. (Goings On)

Chris Martin attacks a photographer when bringing wife Gwyneth Paltrow home from the hospital. (Page Six)

Lily Allen suffers a miscarriage in her first pregnancy. (US)

Lindsay Lohan has to spend a couple days working at a morgue – drunk driving means dead people, you know? (NYT)

In that weird Tom Cruise Scientology video, he takes credit for saving Ground Zero workers. (Page Six)

Hallelujah! We’re not sure how long it’ll stick, but the Tom Cruise Scientology advertisement we reported on earlier has been restored to the Web. In it, the Lions for Lambs star wants to know: Do you have what it takes?

“If you’re on board, you’re on board like the rest of us,” Mr. Cruise assures his viewers in the clip. “Now is the time! Being a Scientologist, people turn to you. So you better know it, and if you don’t, go and learn it!” Oh, yeah, and “being a Scientologist, you see things the way they are in all their glory and complexity.” In short, Mr. Cruise’s reality—alien beings and all—is way more realer than yours.

A mysterious, nine-minute-long video of Tom Cruise talking about the power of Scientology disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared, according to the Huffington Post. The official church video reportedly features the 45-year-old actor saying, “We are the way to happiness.”

Apparently the media outlet was sent links to the video, which has since been removed, from investigative reporter Mark Ebner. In a new unauthorized biography by Andrew Morton, the author claims that Mr. Cruise is the second most powerful person in Scientology, a religion founded by the late science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, behind current leader David Miscavige. During the videotaped interview, Mr. Cruise is also quoted as saying that Scientologists are “the authorities on the mind,” and, according to the blog, “the only people who can bring peace and unite cultures.”

In a new unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, Andrew Morton—the author who made a small fortune with Diana: Her True Story—makes some pretty serious and inflamatory claims.

The book, which is scheduled to be released later this month, alleges that Katie Holmes was impregnated, a la Rosemary's Baby, with the preserved semen of deceased Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It also says that Mr. Cruise’s ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, “feared blackmail” over auditing tapes she made with Scientologists in which she discusses her sex life. Moreover, Mr. Morton writes that Mr. Cruise is the second most powerful person in the church’s hierarchy; and, according to the book, he now plans to recruit soccer phenom David Beckham to the religion.  read more »

Despite talk of marital strife, Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban are expecting their first child. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, the 40-year-old actress and the country musician—who has, since they married in June of 2006, been dealing with substance abuse issues—broke the good news to their families over the Christmas holiday.

If all goes well, the child will be Ms. Kidman’s first successful delivery. During her marriage to Tom Cruise, the divorced couple adopted two children together—Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, The Golden Compass star also revealed that she suffered a miscarriage when married to Mr. Cruise. “[T]that was really very traumatic,” she told the magazine at the time.

The actress and Mr. Urban spent Christmas together in Sydney, where Ms. Kidman finished working on director Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming Australia.

UPDATE: Since the Daily Mail story broke, an Australian publicist for Ms. Kidman has publicly denied that the actress is pregnant.

Katie Holmes spoke to Parade about the holidays, of which she has “always been a huge fan.” Ms. Holmes, who turned 29 yesterday, recently told the somewhat-random insert mag that she and Tom Cruise plan to spend Christmas with all of their relatives at their Telluride, Colo., retreat.  read more »

Last week, celebrity life coach Patrick Wanis, PhD, wanted to tell our readers his list of the Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns of 2007.

Today, on the phone with the Daily Transom, he got a little more daring.

First up: recent news that Lindsay Lohan has started to use the paparazzi to her own advantage, setting up and pocketing proceeds from snaps of her own mug.

“I say kudos to her!” he said. “I was thinking last week, Why don’t celebrities just use their brain?”  read more »

Rumors suggesting that Will Smith is a Scientologist have been swirling and growing as he is seen in public more and more with Tom Cruise, a well-known member of the organization. There was even an item about it on Page Six today. But now, the likelihood that the I Am Legend star is in fact an L. Ron Hubbard disciple seems a bit greater. It turns out the Will Smith Foundation, which gives away hundreds of thousands of dollars to various causes, donated $20,000 to the Church of Scientology’s home-schooling program, called the Hollywood Education and Literacy Program. Recently on Access Hollywood, Mr. Smith reiterated what he told Men’s Vogue, saying, “I was introduced [to] it by Tom and I’m a student of world religion.”

Katie Holmes has revealed Tom Cruise’s biggest turn-on. As it happens, the actor, 43, likes to see his wife looking as though she just left a bespoke clothier on London’s Savile Row. “Tom likes me in a suit and a mini every now and then. I like it when he likes it. It makes me blush. He'll say, 'You look good. I hope security's going with you.' Now that gives me attitude," Ms. Holmes, 28, says in an interview for In Style’s January issue. The Dawson’s Creek actress goes on to say that she would “love to” have kids again, but she isn’t in a hurry. Apparently, being pregnant with Suri was made easier thanks to her husband. “I couldn't have asked for a more supportive human being. He had the room ready, candles everywhere, pictures in frames. It was very homey and beautiful,” said Ms. Holmes, who apparently fell in love with the actor “in an instant,” adding: “Suri is talking up a storm, running around, so aware," Ms. Holmes also said. "She loves coloring and creating. She's a great mimic and dancer. She came to the photo shoot and was all into the shoes."

It’s hard to believe that the first pictures of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ family holiday card won’t grace the cover of Vanity Fair—à la baby Suri—this year. No, this time around, Us snapped up the exclusive. The handsome card’s designer, none other than Ms. Holmes, even put the names of her two stepchildren, Bella and Connor, on the cream, brown and burgundy number. (Suri, of course, has already beaten her mother to the Stephen-Crane punch; the wee tot already has her own postcards.) The most surprising aspect of the festive greeting is not the awkward bow knotted around it, but rather the fact that Ms. Cruise signs her name as “Kate”—something her hubby calls her, at least in public.

And while we’re not exactly sure what Scientologists celebrate in the month of December, a source close to the couple said the Cruises would be spending the holiday in Telluride, Colo., where they have a home. “Katie has kept her staff busy doing the shopping, and even had a different gift-wrapping design for different categories: family, friends, business associates,” the source added.

If it’s Thursday, this must be Düsseldorf! It looks like Katie Holmes got a little excited at the prospect of traveling to Deutschland, as she chopped off most of her hair and fashioned it into some kind of futuristic bob. While attending the Bambi Media Awards Ceremony in the German town with her hubby, Tom Cruise, Ms. Holmes—all nervous smiles—showed off her new hairdo. The Huffington Post thinks she looks like the couple’s baby, Suri. We, on the other hand, are of the mind that she looks more like Venus A, the Mazinger Angel robotic toy which has, among other rad features, “typhoon missiles” for mammaries.

Now that the Spice Girls are once again sharing the same rack, they have really started to turn up the heat. A little over a week after the British pop group dove headlong into their reunion tour at this month’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show, they've been courted by the Cruise family, who stopped by to hear the ladies croon, clap and clop during a recent closed rehearsal. But that’s not all, Tom, Katie and Suri apparently went so far as to wish the hot-again herbs good luck on their upcoming tour, which gets underway in Vancouver on December 2.

From the official Spice Girls Web site:

Tom and Katie enjoyed an impromptu audience with the girls and were treated to an exclusive performance, while Suri danced along to the music.

“David and I are great friends with Tom and Katie,” Victoria told us afterwards “It was lovely of them to come down to rehearsals, a really nice surprise. Katie has told me before that she used to be a big Spice fan so it was great for her to meet the other girls.”

Surprise Guests at Rehearsals [TheSpiceGirls.com via HuffPo]

In the latest issue of Men’s Vogue, Will Smith tells the book that, after flirting with Buddhism and Hinduism in the past, he has started to study Scientology with Hollywood pal Tom Cruise. Adding to Mr. Smith’s recent revelation, a source apparently told US Weekly that the I Am Legend star’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, 36, has also become interested in the quasi-religion started by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.  read more »

For all his winning charm, Tom Cruise is despised by his Lions for Lambs co-stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, an insider told the Huffington Post. When the subject of Ms. Streep and Mr. Redford’s absence from a recent dinner honoring Mr. Cruise was raised at the event, the source reportedly spilled the beans.

“Meryl and Bob can’t stand Tom. In London, Tom kept trying to push himself into interviews. Bob said, No. Tom wouldn’t listen. Meryl has done almost nothing for the movie. She wants nothing to do with him.”

Another source, however, tried to take the stirring spoon out of the pot, saying, “That’s mean. They’re great friends. Just look at their interview on Good Morning America.”

Oh, and Nicole Kidman said that her life didn’t feel “relevant” when she was married to him. Oh, snap!

Tom’s Co-Stars Meryl Streep And Robert Redford Skip Tribute Dinner [HuffPo]

 

 

The liberal actor-director’s A-list new political drama is topical, tripartite—and honestly, somewhat tortuous.  read more »

Despite starring Tom Cruise, Robert Redford’s antiwar diatribe is totally toothless.  read more »

11 people were injured when the side panel of a truck they were riding on during shooting for Valkyrie, the Tom Cruise historical thriller about a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Though one of the injuries was serious enough to compel the victim to remain in the hospital, there's nothing to fear according to what a German police spokesman told Reuters (via CNN.com):  read more »

Yesterday, I caught up with Councilman Hiram Monserrate, who has come under fire for supporting a Sept. 11 first-responder detoxification program associated with the Church of Scientology.

Scientology's most famous booster, Tom Cruise, held a fund-raiser last night for the program.

Monserrate, a former cop, told me he spoke with Sept. 11 rescue workers who have benefited from the program, and said that critics are motivated by their own agendas.

"The bottom line is the program provided a better quality of life for hundreds of rescue workers that have taken the program," he said. "I myself personally have spoken to dozens of them who've had serious ailments, problems with upper respiratory infections, breathing problems."

He added, "I think it's unfortunate that some of the pundits, some of the pro scientists, some of the industries, who have their own reasons for having their own opinions clearly -- right, the pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession in particular -- question an alternative means of providing health care.

"This is the same type of thing they said about chiropractors twenty years ago. The same arguments that they're using here."

I asked Monserrate, who introduced a Council proclamation to declare last Thursday L. Ron Hubbard day, in honor of the science fiction author who created Scientology, if he would ever consider becoming a Scientologist.

"No," he said. "Councilman Hiram Monserrate is Christian, who was raised as Evangelical Christian. That's my faith. That's not on the table. This has zero to do with Scientology. The program has zero to do with Scientology. They don't espouse it. They don't promote it."

• Scientology sucks. We just wanted to say that. Although it does have some context for this item: Leonard Bernstein's apartment in the Dakota has sold--and it wasn't to Tom Cruise.
[Gawker]
• Apparently, there's a Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour, wherein salivating devotees travel around the Borough of Kings by bus, tasting all the sauced delights. Yum!
[DumboNYC]
• We present this only as an example of how expensive Manhattan housing is: A five-bedroom, three-bath house with two--count 'em, two!--eat-in kitchens, two living rooms, a dining room, an attic and a basement is selling in Little Neck, Queens, for $672,500. Oh, and it has a 1.5-car garage.
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• Forbes is out with its list of the world's billionaires, and, not surprisingly, some New York City real-estate folks make it--Steven Roth, Tamir Sapir, Mort Zuckerman, Stephen Ross, and Donald Trump, coming in with a paltry $2.9 billion.
[Forbes via Real Deal] - Tom Acitelli
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• According to a tipster, America's most Scientological couple, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, has bought a Dakota apartment for around $20 million. It's a classy co-op, though not as hip as Mr. Cruise's former downtown digs. [Gawker]
• "Pricy penthouse" stories are the best kind of real estate porn. Sexy "high-end penthouse apartments are in demand" (though apparently the Dakota's top-tier co-ops aren't that grand). Sadly, Forbes' list omits the New Museum penthouse, which has a new 80s pop star owner.[Forbes]
• Wall Street's woes won't burst our real estate bubble, despite the Dow's 416-point plunge. In fact, the housing market is a relatively safe bet for jittery investors--especially when TomKat is moving to town. [Real Deal]
• The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs HQ at 31 Chambers Street got a new high-tech makeover. But the "ornamental plaster, marble wainscot [and] fireplaces are still there", lucky for the wainscot-loving paper-pushers. [Interior Design] - Max Abelson
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"Is this not, literally, the single laziest pun you can think of?" Remy pleaded. But while Remy's letter was helpful in shedding light on the "Cruise Control" problem, it didn't offer any suggestions for what to replace it with. So here's a list of new Tom Cruise-themed puns for journalists to use, free of charge. (Some exceptions apply; void in Tennessee.)  read more »

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