Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Paramount Dumps Tommy Boy Cruise

Looks like all the couch jumping, Today Show freakouts, and Suri hiding have finally hit Tommy Boy in the wallet.
Sumner Redstone, Viacom chairman, said the behavior of the star of the
"Mission: Impossible" series and "Top Gun" was unacceptable to the company,
according to the Wall Street Journal story e-mailed to
reporters.


Redstone must have really been angry at Cruise because Paramount is giving up a sure $100 a movie property. Maybe Paramount is afraid of further, unanticipated freakouts coming down the road. Maybe he would have bitten off Matt Laurer's ear or something like that. In any case I'm going to follow this story because it will probably be the wall-to-wall du jour in the next few days.

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