Idiot Tom Cruise takes back everything bad he said about postpartum depression
May 3rd, 2008 by Scott Marks
Just because Tom Cruise acts like the world’s biggest vagina doesn’t mean he has one. The movie star has retracted his ludicrous comments about depressed new moms who turn to medication to beat postpartum depression.
The story made headlines when Cruise was out promoting one of his stellar Mission: Impossible sequels. Tommy Boy criticized Brooke Shields for publicizing anti-depressants in her book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression.
When is he going to apologize for Scientology, the inane cracks Dr. Cruise made about teens and antidepressants, and rendering Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruze, Sophia Veraga and Katie Holmes sexless after using the beautiful women as beards?
He has since personally apologized to Shields for his remarks and now admits he regrets the comments he made, insisting he was wrong to suggest postpartum depression could be controlled by taking nothing stronger than vitamins.
This time Cruise’s customarily animated ass must have been Crazy Glued to Oprah Winfrey’s couch when he told the talk show queen, “It came out wrong, it’s just not true. I was raised by four women who have children and babies. I’m not trying or want to tell anyone how to live their life or what they should believe or shouldn’t believe.”
Tom reserves this type of behavior strictly for diatribes concerning man-made “religions.”
Cruise went on to say he felt “pressed” by the media during that period of his life - and regrets saying a lot of things on TV.
He added, “I felt like I could’ve handled it better,” admitting he regrets discussing Shields at all.
Tom, with the exception of Risky Business and the bone Scorsese threw you, I regret your career.
Tags: Apologizes, Brooke Shields, Oprah Winfrey, Postpartum depression, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Tom CruiseFiled Under News
Barbara Walters confesses affair with senator to Mother Superior Oprah
May 1st, 2008 by Scott Marks
It was a meeting of daytime TV’s two biggest yentas, Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. Walters brought her view to Harpo Studios and, not to be upstaged on Winfrey’s turf, Babs let loose a powerhouse piece of personal gossip: She revealed a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as “exciting” and “bwilliant.”
In a further attempt to sell copies of her new memoir Audition, Walters also blubbered on about guilt pains she harbored over her mentally retarded sister.
Appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press.
A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate.
He was African-American and a Republican? How does that happen? Okay, now I understand why she offered the gossip to O instead of sharing the exclusive with her hobgoblins on The View.
At the time, Walters had already gone through two husbands and was still co-hosting NBC’s Today show. Walters admits that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers.
Walters also talks openly (and tearfully) about her oyngaboodle sibling Jackie. Walters confesses that, as a child, she sometimes felt embarrassed by her older, mentally retarded sister. Now she knows how Star Jones felt.
“(Jackie) stuttered terribly. People made fun of her. People made fun of me,” Walters says. “I didn’t bring friends home. I felt terribly guilty because she was very loving and I didn’t always feel that way.”
Jackie Walters died in 1985 of ovarian cancer.When the AP uses the term “chokes up,” I take notice. Let’s hope that Babs will make an upcoming cameo in my crybaby reel.
Tags: Affair, Barbara Walters, Edward Brooke, Jackie Walters, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, Scandal, Senator, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The ViewFiled Under News
A Celebration of Oprah Winfrey’s Hair! (1987 - 1997)
January 29th, 2007 by Scott Marks
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