And Then, The Internet Imploded: TomCruise.com

I am so not even kidding about this: Tom Cruise has launched his own website.

It's about as flashy as a website can get, with all sorts of creepy pictures of Tom with video of his movies running in the background and - depending upon which page you end up at - the theme to Mission: Impossible or Risky Business providing a sort of creepy muzak soundtrack to the whole thing.

The best part? The site includes a special message from Tom, which I can't reproduce here because a) it's incomprehensible, and b) it doesn't allow for cutting and pasting, and I simply refuse to transcribe the mindless babbling of one of Tom Cruise's lesser PR engineers.

Basically, it's just soundbite-perfect prattle about oh how he loves movies and oh how lucky he is and oh how he hopes that this humble website will allow you to join him on his oh so fortunate journey through oh-hai-I'm-Tom-Cruise-ACTORMAN-land.

Which, you know: SO NOT INTERESTED.

What is interesting is that there is no mention - none, zip, zero - of Katie or Suri or Scientology or anything to suggest that he is anything other than That Guy Who Danced In His Underwear and That Guy Who Hung Upside-Down By Wires In That Action Movie and also That Guy Who Flew Jets Alongside Val Kilmer In That One Movie That Also Maybe Had Meg Ryan Pre-Lip-Burst In It.

So, this is either a complicated PR attempt to spin Tom as actorly as opposed to crazy, or a very slick singles ad.

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Comments

[Robyn G]

Slick singles ad! HA! Beat THAT, match.com!

Um, ok. Now I must admit that I just went and checked out that site and.... sorta loved it. At least up until the "Risky Business" theme played - then I got the creepies again. Dude brings the crazy like no one else, but I still feel he's made some damn great movies and *can* be a brilliant actor. Especially those older ones. That movie retrospective was one big ego trip, but also damn fun to watch.

Aaaaand now I must go take a shower.

[BaltimoreGal]

I could not bring myself to go to it. I apologize.

[Isabel]

Holy crap...I had totally forgotten that he was even in Top Gun. I guess years of The Crazies can just wipe that awesome movie from my memory.

[JennyM]

And... um, when he is staring at me all creepy-like, I can't help noticing how much larger one eye is.

[Vicky]

Do you think he watches this each morning when he wakes up or does he just make Katie do that?

Ugh... montage way too long... and seriously? That plane blowing up in Top Gun is that guys career. To think I acutually liked Eyes Wide Shut at one point.