Sign of the Apocalypse: TomCruise.com
HOLY CRAP! Someone showed Tom Cruise the internet! That’s right….Tom is now online…and has launched a Web site devoted to himself (of course): http://www.TomCruise.com.
Many stars have their own sites for fans, but Cruise’s belated entry to the Internet is of particular interest.
Few stars have seen themselves pilloried more on the Web than Cruise, who has watched numerous embarrassing moments ricochet around the Internet at warp speed. Who can forget watching the clips of Cruise appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” way back in June 2005?
The event — the beginning of Cruise’s publicity crisis — is alluded to on the new site, which links to his recent interview with Winfrey. Sitting at his Telluride, Colo., home, the talk show host refers to it as “the sofa incident.”
So it makes sense that Cruise might want to protect his brand a little bit by using the great powers of the Internet. The site is in many ways standard for a celebrity. Among the features are a “message from Tom,” a glowing biography, a few recipes, some pics from the Scientology Spring picnic and handsome photographs.
The actor explains: “I created this site as a thank you, to you, for sharing the journey with me and to invite you to continue to explore what the future will bring.”
“My hope with this site is to bring you in and share with you the fun I experience every day during the filmmaking process, from working with the script, to the making of the film through to what we finally see when we settle in our seats and the lights go down,” writes Cruise.
If Cruise really does this — if he uses his Web site like a filmmaking journal — it could be a delightful and illuminating perspective on what it’s like for a true megastar to make a movie. More likely, though, it will be filled with crazed ramblings, denials of his sexuality preferences, and pictures taken of himself with an iPhone.
His next starring role is as a World War II German officer [ahem, Nazi film] in “Valkyrie.” Its release was recently pushed back four months until Feb. 13, 2009, which many read that it sucks.
Hey Tom, Welcome to 2008, you nutbag! Oh yeah…www.YOUAREBUSTED.com/TomCruise!
