The term “terrorist” is a harsh one, and not a word you should just throw around when referring to someone. However, I believe the term “Celebrity Terrorist” is a perfect symbolical representation for what Tom Cruise has turned himself into here by holding a movie hostage unless his tyrannical demands are met.
Just when I finished saying (on a recent Audio Edition) that Tom Cruise has been behaving himself over the last few months and may be winning people back over… he goes and pulls something like this.
You see, according to MSNBC, it looks like Tom Cruise threatened to stop promoting the upcoming “Mission Impossible III” film unless they pulled a South Park episode from television that was supposed to air that made fun of Scientology. So basically Cruise is taking the movie hostage unless he gets his way. The studio (which also owns the comedy network) has apparently submitted to the almighty demands of Cruise and pulled the show.
Now look, I don’t mind when a group of fans who are concerned about a topic decide to band together and protest something in order to try to effect change. But for one guy to take a multi-million dollar project hostage unless something is censored to his personal satisfaction… then that is just BULLSHIT.
Now, if this story turns out to be untrue, then I take everything I just said back. Every word. However… if this holds up…
I’ve had enough of Tom Cruise, and I’m disgusted that the studio decided to play ball with him on this… they basically just gave into celebrity terrorism, and that just makes me sick.
