The New Yorker reported that the doctor also was Spielberg’s friend. But the issue that “really snapped the bond” between Cruise and Spielberg is that the director, “naively,” talked to Cruise about a doctor who prescribes Ritalin, Masters said. Page Six also reported that Spielberg was “furious” with Cruise because he, too, knew children for whom “Ritalin does a lot of good,” according to a report in The New Yorker. Tom Cruise, right, kisses director Steven Spielberg at the premiere of War of the Worlds, Thursday, June 23, 2005, in New York. The film still ended up earning $603 million in worldwide box office. “I’m not sure how he calculates that,” Masters said. At the time, she reported that Spielberg believed that Cruise’s “antics” had overshadowed the release of “War of the Worlds” and cost the film some $30 million in box office. “There was a lot of negative publicity,” Masters said. While Cruise later apologized to Shields and invited her to his 2006 fairy-tale wedding to Holmes in an Italian castle, the damage was done to the actor’s once sterling reputation. Cruise ranted against the drug, often used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and told Lauer: “You don’t even know what Ritalin is.” When then-“Today” host Matt Lauer asked Cruise about his criticism of Shields, Cruise became visibly combative and called psychiatry a “pseudoscience.” He also accused Lauer of being “glib” when the host mentioned knowing people for whom the prescription drug Ritalin worked. As of one Scientology’s leading members, Cruise would have been opposed to psychiatric therapy and the use of psychiatric medications. In another interview, Cruise lashed out at his friend Brooke Shields, calling her “irresponsible” for using antidepressants to treat postpartum depression. “People will remember that Tom Cruise was very enthusiastic about Scientology and Katie Holmes in that period,” Masters, a longtime entertainment journalist, said.ĭuring an appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s talk-show in May 2005 to promote the “War of the Worlds,” Cruise notoriously jumped on her couch to proclaim his love for Holmes. The estrangement goes back to when Cruise was supposed to be promoting “War of the Worlds” in 2005, but he let his passion for new girlfriend Katie Holmes and the Church of Scientology get the better of him. Industry veterans Kim Masters and Matthew Belloni have since come forward to discuss Cruise and Spielberg’s falling out and their apparent rapprochement last week in a new episode of Masters’ KRCW-FM radio show, “The Business.” (AP Photo/Claude Paris)īut in the coverage of the Oscars luncheon, nothing much was made of the fact that the two had been estranged for nearly 20 years and the turbulent reasons for that estrangement. Cruise who is in France to promote the Steven Spielberg film “The War of the Worlds” proposed to Holmes earlier on the Eiffel Tower. American actor Tom Cruise and his fiancee actress Katie Holmes wave at wellwishers as they visit the old port of Marseille, southern France, Friday, June 17, 2005. Much was made last week about Tom Cruise being the toast of the Oscars nominees luncheon, and how his one-time director Steven Spielberg was heard praising the actor for saving Hollywood and the theatrical movie industry by shepherding “Top Gun: Maverick” into a $1.48 billion worldwide blockbuster.Ĭruise was left “blushing” when Spielberg, his director for “Minority Report” and “War of the Worlds,” gushed, “You saved Hollywood’s ass” and “Seriously, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ might have saved the entire theatrical industry,” Variety reported.
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