Fine print of the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes relationship contract.

When we’re out in public, you may not appear prettier than I am.

You will always smile and say vapid things--cf. your excellent work in Dawson’s Creek.

There will be no sexual contact, but you will give interviews in which you refer to me with provocative nicknames like “Tomcat” and “My Number One Top Gun.”

I will ensure that you get to play the decorative, useless woman character in some big budget franchise movie. Note: Batman Begins will not count toward this obligation.

Don’t look at me with beady, judgmental eyes.

I’m serious.  Don’t you goddamn look at me.

Don’t threaten to overshadow my talent.  You seem harmless (First Daughter, etc) but so did Nicole.

Slouch a bit when you walk with me.  You’re 5’9” and I’m...well, none of your business.

Your brain now belongs to our benevolent alien overlords.

At the end of 15 months, we will have an amiable, publicly staged breakup--at which point I will take up with my War of the Worlds co-star, Dakota Fanning.

Exactly.  He frightens me. She creeps me out.  Please, someone just beam them up and out of my gossip pages.

Posted by  on  06/21  at  06:38 AM

were those same rules applied to nicole kidman i wonder?  how did they manage the whole “no looking prettier than i” clause in the contract?

btw “first daughter” was WAAAYYYY better dubbed into french.

Posted by romy  on  06/21  at  07:49 AM

I wrote a very witty comment and then it didn’t like my email address and and deleted the witty comment. I was brilliant I tell ya!

Posted by anna  on  06/21  at  08:57 AM

Bwahahahahaha I think I love you, Greg.  wink

Posted by Mir  on  06/21  at  09:09 AM

me too grin

Posted by hopefulloser  on  06/21  at  09:19 AM

Tragically, it’s already too late for Katie. See this press release.

Posted by Alan  on  06/21  at  09:47 AM

Dammit, now I have to contend with HIM for Dakota’s affections…

Posted by Trouble  on  06/21  at  10:20 AM

I saw a news clip of Tom and Katie at his London movie premiere and he looked disgusted when she went to kiss him.  I’ve never seen anything so uncomfortable in my life...well, except for Meet the Parents.

Posted by QOB  on  06/21  at  10:57 AM

I heard that she wasn’t signed for the next Batman movie, so this may actually be hurting her career.

Posted by  on  06/21  at  01:51 PM

wow, scary how you’re able to sooo adeptly channel tom like that!

Posted by  on  06/21  at  02:00 PM

I think her performance in Batman is what’s hurting her career.

Posted by Greg  on  06/21  at  02:09 PM

Did you hear about the man pretending to be a journalist who got Tom to speak in to his microphone on the red carpet of his movie premiere, but it was actually a squirt gun?  YES!! IN YOUR FACE!

Posted by cloudy  on  06/21  at  02:41 PM

Hey nice Google ads, champ.

Posted by jaden  on  06/21  at  02:56 PM

don’t forget
- don’t touch my pee pee, sex is dirty (ask mimi rogers)
- take your vitamins, not like that drug addled brooke shields

Posted by jenB  on  06/21  at  08:53 PM

I’ve heard she is a 26 year old virgin in Hollywood… help me out here, there has got to be a line regarding him sleeping with a man before she has.

Posted by Lisa V  on  06/21  at  09:09 PM

He he he he!  Freaky

Posted by  on  06/21  at  10:42 PM

get ready...lawsuits aplenty.

i just realized how perfect actresses are as beards. when asked about having kids, they are completely within their rights to scrunch up their lopsided little mouths and make ‘ew’ face.

Posted by Dirty Dan Sin  on  06/21  at  11:26 PM

Tom Cruise = HETERO

Posted by Reecie  on  06/22  at  05:02 AM

On the upside, Dakota Fanning is awful enough to bring him down.

Posted by kerewin  on  06/22  at  06:28 AM

Reecie, I am sure that you are a majestic and learned person...but I still picture you in a pyramid power hat lighting candles and shaking a gourd when you say that The Cruise is The Hetero.

But I know that I am biased. Hey, did you know that I know a guy that actually pronounces biased ‘bi-assed’ and feels good about it.

Posted by Dirty Dan Sin  on  06/22  at  09:32 AM

Reecie’s comment is a bit of an in joke.

Posted by Greg  on  06/22  at  10:01 AM

Oh, it’s perfect...too perfect.  In fact, it’s so perfect it almost has to be real...!

Posted by AMG  on  06/22  at  10:03 AM

is it too late to add something in there about her nipples?  i ask because i’m wearing an eyepatch due to the last scene of BB.

Posted by bryan  on  06/22  at  02:36 PM

God, this is rich.  You’re a scream.

Posted by elsa  on  07/05  at  02:55 PM