A Personnel Change For The Ages

Tom! How long has it been? We haven't heard from you since it was announced that you had sinned against the Lord by impregnating a woman out of wedlock. (But is that a sin against Xenu? You make the call!) Yes, Tom Cruise has returned to us, thankfully, by making a decision that can only bode well for him: He fired his sister, Lee Anne DeVette, as his publicist and got a new one. Lee is our burstiest person today. Her term was marked by such gaffes as Cruise's ridiculous Oprah couch-jumping episode; Cruise's ridiculous Brooke Shields-criticizing episode; and Cruise's ridiculous brainwashing-his-girlfriend-and-then-letting-her-do-an-interview episode. But all that's behind us now. Showbiz insiders who know, and the blogger outsiders who don't, but act as though they do, are all praising this change for Cruise. Writes The Bosh: "Tom Cruise is finally making some good decisions. He's decided to dump his publicist and is now represented by Paul Bloch." But not everybody is so unqualified in their compliments... after Cruise berated Matt Lauer about prescription drugs, this blogger wonders how effective a change it'll be: "I'm afraid that 43-year-old men who have been in the public eye since they were teenagers and haven't figured out for themselves that doing these things might hurt their image need more than a good publicist." Quite. And Heckler Spray sums up what all of us in the blog game are thinking: "In the future, people will look back and see that Summer 2005 was a golden time - the time when Tom Cruise went completely berserk. It was a fascinating thing to watch." We already miss it.

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 9, 2005 10:18 AM

Category: Celebs