Here’s my little way of sticking it to Tom Cruise.If you haven’t heard, the word is that Tom Cruise threatened to refuse to do any publicity for this summer’s “Mission: Impossible III” unless Comedy Central pulled a scheduled rerun of the “South Park” episode titled “Trapped in the Closet.”
Viacom controls both Paramount and Comedy Central—and apparently Cruise controls Viacom.
The episode lampoons Scientology and subtlety (or maybe not so subtlety) hints that Cruise is a closet homosexual.
Back in January there was a story that Cruise kept the episode off the air in the U.K. It first aired in the United States in November.
This of course comes just days after Scientologist Isaac Hayes, who voiced the character Chef for nearly a decade, quit the show over the episode (conspiracy nuts think Cruise got to him).The New York Post says “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who had some critical words for Hayes, have been ordered not to discuss the latest incident with Cruise.
So while he might be able to keep the show off the air, he can’t remove it from everywhere. Here’s a link to the entire episode on YouTube (until the agents of Tom Cruise get to them too). You can also find it on Xenu.net.
Man, this guy gets on my nerves. I recognize this means Cruise might not want to promote “M:I III” on this blog. I think I can live with that.
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Tom Cruise is a loony. One the running podcast Phedippidations the podcaster has made two references to the 'space aliens' in Tom Cruises head and Tommy has made some post up on the podcast's bulletin board.
Maybe Hayes has a new album coming out and just needs to get his name out there... or seperate himself from "Hey, is that Chef on the radio?"
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