It's not Tom Cruise's arranged marriage, or those expensive male escort stories, or his allegiance to Scientology that make us think he's a gay. It's the actor's record — in his young twenties — of inserting something anti-gay into normal conversation.
Tom's Risky Business co-star Bronson Pinchot (yes, the Perfect Strangers fella) says that during filming, not only did Tom adopt the annoying habit of referring to everyone by their characters' names, but he laced his off-set dialogue with homophobic banter. Pinchot tells AV Club:
We thought Tom [Cruise] was the biggest bore on the face of the Earth. He had spent some formative time with Sean Penn—we were all very young at the time, Tom was 20, I was 23. Tom had picked up this knack of calling everyone by their character names, because that would probably make your performance better, and I don’t agree with that. I think that acting is acting, and the rest of the time, you should be you, but he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, “You want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?” I mean, his lingo was larded with the most… There was no basis for it. It was like, “It’s a nice day, I’m glad there are no gay people standing here.” Very, very strange.
Oh, but there was retribution!
Years and years later when people started to torment him with that [about being gay], I used to think “God, that’s really fitting, because he tormented a lot of people as a 20-year-old.” He made such a big deal about it. Same thing with Eddie Murphy—I remember somebody calling and saying, “You’ll never guess who was just caught with a transvestite!” [Laughs.] And I remember thinking that seemed fitting, because there are certain people in showbiz who make it an agenda, every third sentence has to have something knocking that life choice, and you think, “What are you doing?” Like, these women came up to me in a restaurant—I was wearing a bright red shirt, and I was with some friends, and they said, “Would you like to join our club? We wear red.” What kind of choice is that? If you spent many years in the theater, and then you show up in movies, and people have on their to-do list for the day that they’re going to make a comment every third sentence, it strikes you as very strange. I just thought it was very funny that years later, that became his bugaboo. Which is a nice 1930s term I thought you’d enjoy.
[...] If someone’s 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion. I thought it was very weird.
As history tells it, it's always the guys saying "faggot this" and "gay that" who are the first to throw their ankles in the air.
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Me thinks he doeth protest too much……….vile little midget
WoW! A 20 y/o who called people "Fag"! That's amazing! It must mean all sorts of things.
makes sense —
I think Tom's sexual development was frozen at 17 — hence the rumored highschool wrestling singlet fetish scenarios with hustlers and admirers.
Ofcourse we all know Tommy came to LA, got his teeth fixed
http://www.findadeath.com/funs.....se/tom.htm
then met some nice well-connected gays and became a superstar.
Oh —
and he also joined a crazy tax-emept cult that says gay is pathetic and harmful – and if you pay for enough courses you will become a superbeing where nothing BAD can happen in your life.
(How did that work out for Travolta?)
Pinchot hasn't been relevant or heard of for almost TWO DECADES, but he says something derogatory about Tom and its gospel? the rumors about Tom persist NOT because they've been proven, but because people for some reason NEED them to be true.
I wish people would just let this rumor die- because that's all it is a RUMOR. despite all the people who say they know or suspect otherwise THERE IS NO PROOF.
Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley reportedly once said "TC is a fag", which made me wonder if it was true. Usually hotel queens have very refined gaydar having so many gays working for them. Or possibly she just did not like him? Hmm???
Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley reportedly once said "TC is a fag", which made me wonder if it was true. Usually hotel queens have very refined gaydar having so many gays working for them. Or possibly she just did not like him???
oh fuck off Marion. who asked you?
You probably are an Operating Thetan Level 2
dipshit
true —
Balki isnt relavent – but he also doesnt have to kiss ass and has good first hand accounts:
he also says Eddie Murphy was a homophobe (he always did like the Tranny and their feet — and loves giving them rides)
also he said Denzel and Bette Midler were assholes on the set.
More ignorant f**ks! Why don't you all buy all the seasons of south park so you can all know what the truth to life is. Man I wish I could break all your necks with my own two hands. That is after I beat you till you beg for death!
South Park rules.
Did you see the Dead Celeb episode recently where all the dead celebs of 2009 were stuck in limbo in afterlife (a grounded plane on the tarmac) waiting for Michael Jackson to return to his seat.
Jacko's soul was at unrest (and was carrying excess baggage)
and he possessed the little brother.
The kids entered him in drag to a toddler tiara pageant, because Jacko needed to finally become what he always wanted – a pretty little white girl winner.
I believe it, even if Pinchot's little rant does seem absurdly immature….Tom Cruise, creepy psycho runt, hates the fact that he was 'once' the object of male desire. Scientology is just weird enough to assign him leader.
I bet Mary Pickford is rolling in her grave over what those Hollyweirdos have done to her town!
My comments are aimed at all you anti-Scientology cowards. I should do a drive by on you Nazis next time you p*ssies protest outside of a Church. Naw, all I have to do is walk right up to you cowards and beat some sense into you Nazis. Damn, I'll be beaten ass for a long time, considering you have no sense. Any of you A-hole anon cowards up to it?
@ Joe
Did you have PCP for breakfast?
Yes, I don't believe in scientology because it was created by a charlatan named L. Ron Hubbard. Scientologists? Sterile new age devotees infesting Hollywood, of course, which is defined by image control and behavior.
Its no more to be believed in than say, your wisdom.
You know I thought we lived in a world were men and women gave there lives to eradicate Nazi ideology. Hum… I guess they died in vain.
Bronson Pinchot may not be "relevant" in today's terms, but he's done well for himself since Perfect Strangers ended. He may not be a megastar, but I bet he'd rather be where he is right now and sleep well at night, than make $20 million per film and be the biggest asshole or cunt on the planet.
Joe, $cientology isn't working out too well for you is it?
Godwin's Law!
I wish tom would just jump in his scientology spaceship and get the fuck off of our planet.
Joe obviously has a hemmorhoid bigger than his brain.
Remember folks, a major studio CEO / Sumner Redstone told Tom Cruise to take his production company and fuck off. Tommy was royal pain in the ass with a rampant ego who lost his fucking mind from being coddled by a bogus church and fighting his own personal demons.
Redstone estimated that Cruise's antics – acting wacky, ripping into psychiatry, firing his professional publicist – were the key elements in the star's downfall: "When did I decide [to fire him]? I don't know. When he was on the 'Today' show? When he was jumping on a couch at 'Oprah'? He changed his handler, you know, to his sister [LeAnne Devette] – not a good idea."
Now if we can just get Ben Stiller to jump off a cliff —
or lose half his money via divorce.
Fuck all the assholes in Hollywood – some celebs have integrity to calls it as they sees 'em – whether its homophobic/uptight closet cases (or Tranny lovers) or vile pricks (Denzel Washington) or
rude cunts (Bette Midler).
Remember what the 60 year beloved showbiz vet Jimmy Durante said:
"Be awfully nice to them going up – because you're gonna see them all again on the way down."
@runtlover: Let's hear it for the "Schnozz" cause he was right in more ways than one, you gotta be nice to them goin up 'cause guaranteed you WILL see them ALL on the way DOWN and it won't be pretty!!
Dun'd be Reedikulous. What does Bronson Pinchot have to lose, in telling us what we already know — that most 'movie stars' are a bunch of psychotic freak shows? Every time the Oscars roll around, I pray that someone nukes the Kodak Theatre and wipes them entirely off the face of the planet. With the exception of a few Hollywood humanitarians (and you know who they are), they add no value to our world, are easily interchangable/replaceable, and spend little time thinking about the rest of us out heree living in the real workaday world. They're kind of like investment bankers, only prettier and a lot more greedy.
he has always struck me as creepy. people just didn't wanna see it until the whole scientology thing exploded because he was still pretty. now everyone's more than willing to be creeped out by him.
Tom Cruise makes me sick because he pretends to be straight and he's the worst actor on the face of this earth. Every movie he does it's Tom Cruise as…"Tom Cruise." Every Time. Johnny Depp is the best actor on the face of this earth. He melds into his character, becomes one w/ his character.
Go home, Tom Cruise.
It is rather funny that a sect pyramid-scheme fraud org created by
a deranged sci-fi writer in the 50s found that new millineum technology / ie: internet info sharing (and not their dreaded enemy: psychology) would bring cracks in its foundation and shed light on its ludicrous fundamental beliefs and despicable practices.
Thankfully France called it a fraudulent sect — not a church.
Germany too.
Sadly – in the USA — you can buy your way to tax-exempt status with our government.
I once saw a check from an entertainment company to Tom Cruise for a film he had done in the amount of $12 million dollars, and it had $6 million taken out in taxes! Can you feckin' imagine giving the US government anything with that many zeros? I saw it with my own eyes.
Anyone who gives the US government as much money as that kid has definitely deserves his own religion. Hell, let him use the world as a forum to display his transparent adolescent defense mechanisms–everybody learns, step by step. Some of us, publicly. He'll come around.
And let's face it. Scientology is a made up religion. That's its point. Volcanoes spewing and the story of Xenu… why not? All the world's other religions are creative entitities designed to explain the nature and purpose of the universe, why can't Ron Hubbard and his merry band do it too?
However, the only thing I don't see Scientology's followers doing is helping others with basic necessities–food, clothing and shelter. And sharing a message of joy. Overall, they seem secretive, grumpy and decidedly uncharitable. But as long as they're paying their taxes, (and in this case a massive quantity) let 'em do what they want.
It would not surprise me to see Katie and their kid outing Tom permanently in a few years. There have been rumors for a long time about Tom's sexuality – it's just too bad he's not man enough to embrace it.
@ JOE:
Hollywood and Vine at 12pm on December 3rd, 2009. I will be wearing a Dodger Blue Jacket, with a rainbow Patch over the left front 'pocket' area.
Name's Roger. I'll meet you there for that ass beating, Mr. "I can say anything on the net cause I'm Anonymous'.
You might want to bring some friends though. I am 235, 6' 1" and have been fighting Mixed Martial arts for 12 years. I have been featured on MTV's Bully Beatdown twice.
I am ready to put your hatred to the test.
I am also gay.
What say? Want a piece? See you there!
TC has 2 young men in his trailer on site at all sets
nondusclosure docs need to be signed by all working on the set or they will be fired and blacklisted
he is gay
in Hollywood it's not just the movies that are fake
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In '86, I was dating a guy who had a thing for transvestites and I, being the free-spirited chick I was, found it kinda hot. One night, we were cruising NYC's Meatpacking district, around 13th St and 10th Ave, and we saw Eddie Murphy in his black Corvette apparently trying to get into the same thing my BF was trying to get into–another dude's mouth and/or butt. There is no doubt in my mind that Pinchot is speaking the truth, and that lil Tommy Cruisin is as queer as a chocolate orange.
It's so true: the biggest homophobes ARE the first with their ankles in the air.
I don't think Tom Cruise is gay, and here's why: He's been one of the most famous people on the planet for more than 25 years. And aside from one or two not-very-credible men who had everything to gain from claiming they've had sex with him, there hasn't been a single substantive report of him having relationships with men.
We're talking two and a half decades here, an eternity for someone who is used to having everything they want — you can't tell me there wouldn't be an indiscretion here and there even if he was extremely cautious.
Secondly, the bit about him having boys on call and everything tidily taken care of with non-disclosure agreements doesn't really make sense — to do that, he'd have to have people drafting, editing, presenting and collecting those documents, expanding the pool of people who "know." And like any secret, it's exponentially more likely to be revealed with each person who's trusted with it. All it takes is one guy who blabs to his wife over the dinner table, with just enough detail to seal its validity, and Tom Cruise would be forced out of the closet.
As for the denials, and the lawsuits — all that fits in with the profile of a guy who at one point peppered his speech with anti-gay language. But some people really are homophobic without actually being gay, and it's not inconceivable that Tom Cruise is one of them.
We're tired of seeing him in movies, and we're tired of his sanctimonious Scientology-inspired rants. Overall, he's pretty much a douchebag. But gay? I think if he was, we'd know for sure after 25 years.