MOVIE BUZZ – Tugg Speedman, Ben Stiller’s character in the upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder, now has an official website that brazenly parodies Tom Cruise’s. Far from subtle, the site is formatted almost exactly like Cruise’s and boasts a similarly affected fan address and dramatic pose. This isn’t the first time Stiller has poked fun at Cruise. Check out the YouTube vid Tom Crooze.

The Best Links:

1. Tugg Speedman: The Official Site
2. Tom Cruise: The Official Website
3. TomCruise.com Parody Site Still Not As Funny As Actual TomCruise.com
4. Tom Crooze

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Josh Hartnett to make London stage debut as Charlie Babbitt in theatrical rendition of the classic 1988 Oscar-winner. Hartnett, whose film career boasts such memorable performances as Capt. Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor and ‘Bucky’ Bleichert in Black Dahlia, will soon be plying his trade in London’s West End. The role was originally played on screen by Tom Cruise. Performances begin officially on September 9.

The Best Links:

1. Playbill News: Josh Hartnett to Make West End Debut in Rain Man
2. Josh Hartnett
3. Rain Man (1988)

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Will Smith is starting a new private school called New Village Academy, which he insists is NOT a Scientology facility. The Children of Scientology are so much scarier than teen goths!

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1. New Private School Sounds a Lot Like a Scientology Training Camp
2. Will Smith Denies Students Will Be Taught Scientology Lessons
3. It’s a Private School - They Can Do What They Want
4. Lesson One: Africa Needs More Goats
5. Top Ten Ways to Really Know If Your Child’s School Is Scientologist
6. Will Smith Opens Scientology School, Despite Being a Non-Scientologist
7. Dear Will, Stop Insulting Your Fan’s and the Media’s Intelligence!
8. Don’t See What the Big Deal Is about Scientology
9. L Rob Hubbard’s “Study Technology” Will Be Taught
10. The School Offers Classes On Yoga, Robotics and Etiquette
11. Los Angeles Times Has a Photo of the School
12. “The actor must prove there is no Scientology link to his pet project”

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Tom Cruise has been involved in his fair share of feuds from Brooke Sheilds to (most recently) Dr. Drew. Here’s a recap of some of Cruise’s most notable tiffs. Too bad Celebrity Death Match isn’t around anymore. An entire season could have been devoted to Tom Cruise and his couch assaults.

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1. Tom Cruise v. Brooke Shields
2. Tom Cruise v. Dr. Drew
3. Tom Cruise v. Suri’s Favorite Luxury Baby Boutique
4. Tom Cruise v. Matt Lauer
5. Tom Cruise v. Paramount
6. Tom Cruise V. Actor Jason Beghe
7. Tom Cruise v. (Sleezebag) David Hans Schmidt
8. Tom Cruise v. Nicole Kidman?
9. Tom Cruise v. South Park Viewers
10. Tom Cruise v. Channel 4 Prankster Who Squirted Water On Him (watch the Hilarious Video, Too)
11. Tom Cruise v. Andrew Morton

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – Hot on the heels of news the pair are making up, Cruise’s turn as a Redstone-esque character in Tropic Thunder blows audiences away. Will this be the beginning of a comeback? If he keeps wearing the fat suit, we’d say yes.

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1. Industry People Go Nuts Over Cruise’s Redstone Impersonation
2. Tom Cruise Steals Tropic Thunder
3. Tom Cruise-Paramount Deal Pending!
4. Wait, Tom Cruise Has a Sense of Humor?
5. Too Insidery?
6. Tom Cruise Rockin’ a Fat Suit

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – A new video is leaked, just in time for Scientology Day! Gawker has a new Tom Cruise Scientology video - this one shows his extravagant birthday tribute on a boat, complete with Scientology bigwigs, a band, a video tribute and an impromptu, Risky Business-style performance of Old Time Rock and Roll by Cruise.

The Best Links:

1. Tom Cruise Scientology Birthday on a Boat Video
2. Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress
3. Nick Denton’s Balls - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. “Bomb” Cruise - Featured on BuzzFeed
5. Tom Cruise Parody Videos - Featured on BuzzFeed

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TECH BUZZ – The superbike of choice for thrill-seekers and OT-VII’s everywhere. Yes, it’s a $72,000 motorcycle made of titanium and capable of reaching speeds up to 200 m.p.h. But owning one puts you instantly in Tom Cruise’s vicinity - only 1,500 were made, and he got the first one - which means he might put his ethics on you.

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1. Tom Cruise, Lucky Man, Gets The First Ducati Bike in the World
2. The ULTIMATE Ducati Experience
3. Actually, A Dude In Scotland Looks to be the First to His Ducati Desmosedici RR
4. Official Ducati Site - All 1500 Desmosedici RR Have Sold Out
5. A Full Picture Gallery of the $70,000 Beast
6. All About the Ducati Desmosedici Family of Superbikes

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CELEBRITY BUZZ – The leaked Tom Cruise video has spawned a cottage industry of imitators. Some are brilliant, some are bizarre, some prove that it takes more than donning a black turtleneck and laughing maniacally to be funny, and one proves that self-parody is the best kind of parody.

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1. Eugene Mirman is the Best Scientologist Ever!!
2. Tom Cruise in “Magnolia” - Seduce & Destory (NSFW)
3. Craig Ferguson Looks Sexy in a Wig, Don’t You Think?
4. Jerry O’Connell Makes Us Laugh Inside
5. Bringing a New Meaning to “Getting Clear”
6. Tom Cruise Impersonated By Superman
7. Scrapbooking Parody, Which Somehow Gets at the Underlying Ridiculousness Perfectly
8. Tom Cruise Unraveling - A Really Disturbing “Interpretation”
9. LOLTomKat
10. We’re Pretty Sure We Went To High School With This Guy
11. Tom Cruise With Some Sort Of Speech Disorder
12. Mickey Kaus Keeps Doing That Cruise-ian Thing With His Hands
13. Tom Cruise Parody Filmed After Taking Large Doses of Peyote
14. Proving That Parody Is Hard
15. Tom Cruise As a Foul-Mouthed Frat Boy
16. A Parody Of Jib-Jab Doing a Parody of Tom Cruise
17. Outtakes From the Scientology Video

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CULTURE BUZZ – An internal Scientology video featuring Tom Cruise talking about his beliefs has been leaked to the web. A lot of indoctrination videos share a certain set of aesthetics: Cheesy production values, soft lighting, jargon which might seem unintelligible to the outsider. Oh, and creepiness.

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1. The Cruise Indoctrination Video: “It’s newsworthy; and we will not be removing it.”
2. Scientology Writes; Gawker Rises
3. Amway: “Where Life Gets Better”
4. The Story of Mona Vie
5. “The Responsibilities of American Citizenship” (1955)
6. “What It Means To Be A Mason”
7. “The Winds of Martyrdom”: Osama and Five Suicide Bombers (Link To RealMedia Stream)
8. “Never Tell A Lie” (80’s Mormon Commercial)
9. “The Mormon Way of Doing Business”
10. Jenni Ignat: REALLY Excited About You Joining Mary Kay
11. “The Amway Opportunity”
12. “Roger Moore Thanks Amway”
13. “The Indoctrination of Palestinian Children”
14. More Tom Cruise Scientology Videos
15. Transcript of the Scientology Video
16. Heaven’s Gate Crazies Pitch An Autobiographical Movie

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MOVIE BUZZ – Not only do Tom Cruise’s Lions for Lambs co-stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep dislike him, but the film tanked at the box office and looks like one of the biggest duds of Cruise’s career. Maybe people don’t like the weird schoolboy haircut? Nah, we think they’re just not interested in the film’s brainless sermonizing. Just wait till audiences get a load of Cruise as a Nazi!

The Best Links:

1. Tom Cruise’s Box Office Disaster
2. “Lions” Redford and Streep Not Fond of “Lamb” Cruise?
3. Cruise’s Lions Turns Out to Be a Turkey
4. Meryl Streep - “Good Morning America” Part 1
5. Nobody Likes Tommy
6. Valkyrie Trailer: Our First Look at Nazi Tom Cruise
7. Tom Cruise Nearly Wins Us Back at Museum of the Moving Image Tribute
8. Is That Tom’s Real Hair?
9. Tom Cruise Is a Technophobe, and Also, Quite Possibly, a Liar

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