Tom Cruise has powerful friends

The battle lines for the fate of the Earth is on. Ok, not quite, but the HollyWar is on after Paramount Studios "fired" Tom Cruise according to the news I saw on television last night. Tom is represented by the CAA (Creative Artists Association) which is very powerful in the Land of Siliconia. To make a movie, it's almost impossible without the CAA. If the CAA "blacklists" a studio...it makes life very difficult.

Paramount Studios has now insulted one of their biggest clients. Richard Lovett, the president of CAA, said yesterday:

"Paramount has no credibility right now. It is not clear who is running the studio and who is making the decisions."

It's rumored that Tom will sue Paramount Studios if fallout over projects currently in development by Cruise/Wagner Productions at Paramount has problems. Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields ( a guy that has never lost a case) said:

"Sumner Redstone has lost it completely, or he's been given breathtakingly bad advice. That a mogul like Sumner Redstone could make a statement so vicious, so pompous, so petulant as that he didn't want to make a deal with Tom Cruise because of his personal conduct - it tells you more about Sumner Redstone and Viacom, than about Tom Cruise."

Sounds like the dust is not settled yet. I also saw interviews with various big-name actors and directors such as Rob Reiner who are firmly in the Cruise Camp. You go Tom!

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