Cruise, Holmes an item
In what could be the most surprising celebrity coupling of the year, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes last week announced to the world – via a photograph of them hand-in-hand – that they are dating.
Cruise, 42, and Holmes, 26, have been dating only a few weeks, her publicist told USA Today.
The budding romance came to light Wednesday when the actors arrived together in Rome, where Cruise is being honored at the David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s top film awards, the syndicated TV show “Extra” reported.
Cruise’s sister and publicist, Lee Anne DeVette, confirmed to “Extra” and Us Weekly that they’re a couple.
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is standing firm regarding her comments that the United States “is responsible in some way” for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
Gyllenhaal spoke out on New York’s all-news cable channel NY1 as she promoted her new movie, “The Great New Wonderful,” at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film contains stories about people living in the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster.
Following predictable criticism, Gyllenhaal, 27, released a follow-up statement on her fan website: “Nine-eleven was a terrible tragedy, and of course it goes without saying that I grieve along with every American for everyone who suffered and everyone who died in the catastrophe,” she wrote. “But for those of us who were spared, it was also an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America’s role in the world. Because it is always useful, as individuals or nations, to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict.”
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Lindsay Lohan thinks her friends are ripping her off and ratting her out to the tabs. “I’ve been marking my money lately because I had a friend who was stealing from me,” the teenage actress Lohan tells Teen Vogue. “I recently ended a close friendship because of stuff that was getting out. Sometimes, I’ll tell people in my life something completely out of this world – that could never be true – and then I’ll see it in the tabloids. That’s how you find out who you can trust.”
Lohan no doubt thinks a pernicious pal burglarized her house in L.A. on April 6 while Lohan was in New York. The thief took $10,000 worth of electronics and left a trail of empty booze bottles.
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Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld hosted a glitzy book party Tuesday night for someone called Ed Broth – but the alleged author never showed up. Or did he? The New York Post reports that Broth, the mystery man credited with writing “Stories From a Moron: Real Stories Rejected by Real Magazines,” was billed as the guest of honor at a New York restaurant – and his absence quickly became a running joke during Seinfeld’s remarks. Seinfeld – who wrote the book’s foreword – was repeatedly interrupted by characters portraying his personal assistant and an NYPD cop to advise him of Broth’s whereabouts. But most in the crowd correctly surmised that Broth was somehow related to “Letters From a Nut” author Ted L. Nancy, another elusive writer for whom Seinfeld has penned forewords. After all, Broth and Nancy have the same book publisher, share the same Thousand Oaks, Calif., address, and neither has ever been photographed. Care to make a confession, Jerry?
