Tom Cruise describes the unexpected death of friend John Travolta’s son as “horrific” in an appearance on “The View” scheduled to air Friday.

Cruise struggled to maintain his composure as he spoke about last week’s death of 16-year-old Jett Travolta.

“John just adored him, both of his children,” Cruise said haltingly during his appearance, taped Thursday. “It’s something that I don’t have the words for.” The Travoltas have an 8-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu.

In response to a question from “The View” host Barbara Walters, Cruise defended Scientology, which he and the Travoltas follow, saying the church doesn’t discourage conventional medical care.
“Actually, the exact opposite,” he said.

Jett died Jan. 2 at the family vacation home in Grand Bahama. Results of an autopsy performed Monday were not released, but a Bahamas undertaker said the teen’s death certificate listed “seizure” as the cause of death.

Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston, were expected to host a private memorial service Thursday for their son at their home in a central Florida gated community.

(source:chicagotribune)

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Are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes trying to give Donald Trump a run for his New York City real estate money?

If a new report is to be believed, Cruise and Holmes have bought not one, not two, but three more lofts in the building where the Valkyrie star has owned an apartment since first hitting it big in the ’80s with Risky Business.

Estimated price for the new purchases? A whopping $14.4 million.

But don’t call in the decorators just yet…

A source tells me that the only thing Cruise and Holmes have been doing in that building is living there—not snatching up all available living space.

In fact they’ve called Cruise’s apartment home during Holmes’ three-month run on Broadway in All My Sons. The Arthur Miller play, which costars Patrick Wilson, John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest, closes on Sunday.

And while Cruise told me in an interview last month that he loves living in New York City, chances are the family will soon be back on the West Coast.

Not only that, they’ll also be busy jetting around the world as Holmes and Suri are likely to join Cruise for at least part of his upcoming international promotional tour for Valkyrie. He’s expected to make stops in England, Germany, Italy, Russia and Brazil, among other places.

Source: E! Online

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Katie Holmes on Broadway. It wasn’t so long ago when it was announced that Mrs. Tom Cruise would make her New York stage debut in, of all things, the hard-hitting Arthur Miller drama “All My Sons.”

The instant that news broke, so did the guessing game: Would ­Katie be any good? Would she sell tickets? Could she handle a Broadway schedule? And would her husband jump on the seats at the theater?

On Sunday, four months after previews began on Sept. 18, “All My Sons” ends its limited run at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The answers to those questions have emerged. They are, in order: yes, yes, yes and no — though Tom frequently sat in the seats to watch his wife at work.

And work she did. The 30-year-old actress, famous from TV’s “Dawson’s Creek” and such films as “Batman Begins” and “Pieces of April,” turned in a fine performance as a young woman in love with a man whose father is hiding a terrible secret. She blended in with stage vets John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson.

Yes, Holmes was mannered at times, as my review of the production stated. She sometimes shouted her lines as if projecting for the audience in the theater next door. But that had as much to do with the non-naturalistic staging as it did with her own acting ability. Fact is, the back half of TomKat carried her own.

And, it’s worth mentioning, she always showed up.

To date, she hasn’t missed a single performance. Holmes embraced Broadway, and her appetite for the stage seemed to deepen because of this experience.

She’s reportedly been offered the Kate Winslet role in a musical version of “Finding Neverland,” about the writer who created Peter Pan.

Holmes declined a request to comment for this story, but that possible offer could be a fascinating followup to “All My Sons.” Katie Holmes on Broadway: the second act.

By all accounts, she’d be welcomed back.

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on January 5 Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks have expressed their grief to devastated couple John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who lost their son on January 2.

The grieving parents 16-year-old Jett was found unconscious in a bathroom, where he had apparently fallen and hit his head following a seizure, in the familys holiday home in the Bahamas.

Jett, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two and was a toddler when he was diagnosed with rare Kawasaki disease, had later been taken to Rand Memorial Hospital, Freeport, where he was pronounced dead.

Mike Ossi, the familys lawyer, revealed that all celebrity friends had made it known that they were with the stars during their hard times.

“Everybody has reached out. It seems like the world has reached out and feels the pain that John and Kelly are going through, Contactmusic quoted Ossi as telling U.S. TV show Entertainment Tonight.

Thousands and thousands of phone calls have been received. Oprah has called. You name it, they”ve called, he added.

(source:thaindian)

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Connor Antony Cruise recently made his big-screen debut in the Will Smith film Seven Pounds, and while Will and Connor’s dad Tom Cruise are good friends, no favors were called in on the 13 ½-year-old’s behalf. So said Tom during a recent interview with The Insider. “They have to earn it,” Tom explained. “They’ve grown up in it, but there’s a point where there is the difference of watching [the film industry] and, ‘Do you want to do it? Do you really want to do it?’” Like any other actor with no experience, Connor auditioned for the part while Will and Tom — also dad to 16-year-old Isabella Jane and 2 ½-year-old Suri — waited outside.

“We’re standing out in the hall, we were kind of nervous, looking at our watches, saying, ‘What’s going on in there?’”

The process was an enjoyable one for Connor, who remains undecided on whether or not he’ll pursue a career in acting full-time. “He still likes sports, he likes to read, so we’ll see ultimately what he wants to do,” Tom, 46, said. “It’s his decision…Whatever they want to do, we’re there [for them].” That much is evident when Tom was asked if he’d support a career in acting or modeling for Suri. “Whatever she wants,” he replied, adding,

“I love being an actor and all my kids have grown up on movie sets. They’re always there. And Kate is an actress and she will carry Suri around on stage while she’s with the other actors running lines. No matter what, just like when we were kids, they’re going to do whatever they want to do.”

(source:the insider)

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