Cruising for a Losing

Tom Cruise has been dropped by Paramount Pictures due to his 'unacceptable recent conduct'.

Which is a polite way of saying, "Tom Cruise is too mental now for even shameless money-grubbing Hollywood executives to put up with."

Which, considering that those same bigwigs would probably cut a 3 picture deal with Osama Bin Laden if they thought he could pull in the key 16-35 demographic, is certainly saying something.

The weird thing is, up until relatively recently, Cruise might have been considered the acceptable face of Scientology. I don't ever remember him talking about it at all actually, and certainly never pegged him for taking up the long overdue campaign against Brooke Shields.

But his behaviour of late his been so odd, I could easily imagine even John Travolta turning all the lights off and hiding in the electricity cupboard whenever he comes round.

Maybe this is just what happens when obscenely wealthy superstars have mid-life crises, and marrying a young actress and impromptu trampolining on chat shows is just their equivalent of buying a Ferrari and getting a spray tan.