15. I’ve not seen 9 of these … zero intention of

14. Steve and Andy … check sidebar

13. From the young Scot’s video

12. A lady named Joan Wall, from 5yrs ago, today on Quora
From “Top Gun” to “Mission Impossible”, Tom Cruise built a reputation—-“Hollywood Super-Star”.
The name Tom Cruise, today, has come to mean something completely different.
1-Filmgoers are turned OFF by his passionate advocacy of Scientology.
2-Politics. He became an international lobbyist, proselytizer spearheading The Church’s drive to become a recognized religion, drawing comparisons to Josef Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda.
3-Soon after divorcing Mimi Rogers, whose father was a prominent member of the movement, he tied the knot with co-star Nicole Kidman.
The couple became Hollywood royalty. When the union ended, it marked the beginning of the end for Cruise’s untarnished public image.
He married his 3rd wife, Katie Holmes, in a fairy-tale ceremony—the legend of TomKat was birthed. Holmes filed for divorce 5+ years later, fearing her daughter would be brainwashed.
4-Cruise developed a reputation as a control freak. It is alleged he had Kidman’s phoned wiretapped . He told Holmes what to wear. Kidman and Holmes felt they lived in his shadow. They were there to make Cruise “look good” to put a luster on “the image” of Tom Cruise.
5-Cruise’s control over his ex-wives extended to the film set. He has a reputation for micromanagement—revealed in his latest brush up with the crew of “Mission Impossible-7”. He revamps scripts, taskmasters’ directors, crew, scriptwriters and marketing. He wears the crown of a meddler and control freak. Stanley Kubrick “Eyes Wide Shut” opined that the film was “a piece of s**t” because Cruise was “ego-tripping”.
6-His female audience told Cruise to “get lost” after insisting wife Katie Holmes give birth in complete silence, a practice Scientologists believe prevents permanent psychic scars caused by a negative vibe at birth. He had a special pacifier made to keep Holmes quiet during delivery.
7-Paramount ended its 14 year working relationship fearing his erratic behavior was going to negatively impact the box office after Cruise’s bizarre appearance on Oprah’s TV show led to many questions about his sanity.
8-Hefty wage demands, disagreements over back end profits, gender pay gap issues, he became a lightening rod, Hollywood’s most overpaid actor.
9-An inflated ego, wanting to call ALL the shots, Cruise became too powerful for his own good. A big problem in a big ego town.
10-Cruise tried to coerce other A-listers to convert to Scientology. Hollywood looks at Scientology as some kind of weird cult.
Today, ——the name Tom Cruise——doesn’t have the same ring, the same cache as in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
11. Roob corner
… all about memes:
The meme is certainly feared by the baddies and all attempts are made, from on high, to suppress them. An example is the AI Amelia clips … memes need not all be cartoons. It’s something Spitting Image did but SI lost it’s power in 1997 when it showed just how woke-left it really was. Many awaited the pillorying of Blair … silence.
On topic..
https://x.com/CheeksCowboy/status/2094818191990202482
https://x.com/thewrongbull/status/2094821033949778211