Tom Cruise's sudden and public ouster from Paramount may have taken Hollywood by surprise, but it has all the makings of the inevitable and gradual implosion of a giant star. His increasingly erratic behaviour over the last year reeks of an insular, self-obsessed individual whose poison proved to be his own Kool-Aid (see George W. Bush). Beginning with the 2004 ouster of his career-building publicist Pat Kingsley and her replacement with his sister, Cruise has come apart at the hinges right before our eyes. You have to wonder whether the high-placed Scientology member thought it best to start airing his laundry, or whether the Church pushed him over the ledge.
Paramount Pictures is severing its lucrative 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise, whose recent off-screen behavior proved to be too much for Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone, who disclosed the superstar's termination Tuesday.
"His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount," Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Paramount is Viacom's moviemaking arm.
The unceremonious dismissal of one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars stunned the entertainment industry...
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