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Offline IronDioPriest

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The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« on: November 10, 2013, 12:43:57 PM »
Leave it to Jake Tapper to get to the truth.

If you hadn't heard it yet, it's been circulating around the web for several days now - that Tom Cruz said that acting is as hard as being a soldier on the battlefield fighting in Afghanistan.

Not even close. In fact, he essentially said the opposite. People should pay a heavy price for this kind of reputation rape.

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Tom Cruise did not make widely reported claim that acting is as tough as combat

Los Angeles, California (CNN) - The headlines have irritated and outraged veterans and service members and their families around the world.

"Tom Cruise: making movies is like serving in Afghanistan," said one of the headlines buzzing around social media and patriotic websites this weekend...

... The comments originate from a deposition in Cruise's libel suit against Bauer Publishing, a magazine publisher, which he accuses of charging him with abandoning the daughter he had with Katie Holmes.

Celebrity news site TMZ.com reported, "'Tom says his location shoots are just like serving a tour in Afghanistan." The website then quoted Cruise saying, "That's what it feels like. And certainly on this last movie, it was brutal. It was brutal."

Reading the relevant excerpts of the deposition shows that Cruise's comments reveal a different story.

The comments come in a section of the deposition where Cruise is being asked about time he has spent away from daughter Suri, either because of film or other commitments.

"Now your counsel has publicly equated your absence from Suri for these extended periods of time as being analogous to someone fighting in Afghanistan," opposing counsel asks him. "Are you aware of that?"

"I didn't hear the Afghanistan," Cruise replies. "That's what it feels like and certainly on this last movie it was brutal. it was brutal."

"Do you believe that the situations are the same?" Cruise is asked.

"Oh come on," Cruise says, "you know, we're making a movie."
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Re: The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2013, 05:38:06 PM »
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People should pay a heavy price for this kind of reputation rape.

Should; mostly don't, though.  Is that why they do it, because there are often no consequences?  Takes a really scummy person to deliberately circulate lies and distortions.

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Re: The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2013, 05:59:05 PM »
That would be TMZ.
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Re: The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2013, 06:18:04 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on November 10, 2013, 05:38:06 PM
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People should pay a heavy price for this kind of reputation rape.

Should; mostly don't, though.  Is that why they do it, because there are often no consequences?  Takes a really scummy person to deliberately circulate lies and distortions.

Tim Robbins, Ed Harris, etc...
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Re: The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2013, 08:04:51 AM »
Quote from: AlanS on November 10, 2013, 06:18:04 PM
Quote from: Pandora on November 10, 2013, 05:38:06 PM
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People should pay a heavy price for this kind of reputation rape.

Should; mostly don't, though.  Is that why they do it, because there are often no consequences?  Takes a really scummy person to deliberately circulate lies and distortions.

Tim Robbins, Ed Harris, etc...

Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, etc...
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Re: The "Tom Cruise compares acting to Afghanistan" story is a lie
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2013, 08:12:55 AM »
Not a fan of Tom 'Scientology' Cruise, but I'll more than give him a pass.  He said the plain truth in his deposition ("Oh come on," Cruise says, "you know, we're making a movie.").  Now I can't read sarcasm into his words, so he may have been sarcastic, but I seriously doubt it, unless any sarcasm was properly directed at the bottom feeder.
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