Who's Zooming Who In The Oprah, Tom Cruise Couch Revisit?
Tom Cruise rarely does anything spontaneous. Even his 'seemingly-spontaneous' couch calisthenics on Oprah's show in 2005 was deemed to be premeditated. All this over-the-top exuberance for finding his "true love" (third time's the charm, right?) in actress Katie Holmes after only a few weeks of knowing each other, was surely to help make the transition that much more believable. Sadly, contrived spontaneity rarely goes over well.
In the years following this epic interview, Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise's names have become inextricably linked to one another, and created as they say, an elephant in the room. Oprah for her part, was seen as complicit in giving Cruise a forum to really behave in a disingenuous way. She sat back and while he let the crazy out, all the while secretly wondering "WTF?" is going on. Oprah received zero credibility for her Tom Cruise interview, and while she's still insanely popular, she knows the whole TC interview hangs over her like a dark cloud.
But what about Tom Cruise? What does he have to gain by going back to Oprah's couch? He too is dogged with the knowledge he let his inner Scientology-induced weirdo out for all the world to gape upon. Surely he'd be better off letting this connection die a excruciatingly slow death. Or perhaps not.
With all the speculation as to what Oprah will be asking Tom, and what Tom will be shilling this time, why not go to the authority on Tom Cruise, the man who spent two years studying, dissecting and analyzing the world's most famous, and now infamous actor, NYTimes bestselling biographer Andrew Morton.
I asked Mr. Morton for his thoughts on this upcoming interview and he seemed pretty interested in the process that went into bringing these two forces together once more, considering how poorly it went last time. From Morton:
"This 25th Anniversary show is not only a reflective piece on Cruise's Hollywood career, but also a brilliant chance to resurrect his image.The Oprah show is the show of choice for Hollywood royalty; the prince of Pacific Palisades talking to the Queen of TV.
This is the first major American interview Tom Cruise has done for nearly three years, and interestingly, it's the first he's done not associated with promoting one of his blockbuster films.
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