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Tom Cruise has been photographed with a mystery woman. The press is making a fuss out of it but I guess she must be a worker in a related project. Tom did not mind being tailed by the cameraman. He even posed for a photo with his mysterious brunette but did not reveal her name.
Tom was in good spirits despite the recent controversies with his latest film, Valkyrie. He played a German war hero, Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg. The anti-Scientology critics in Germany were unkind to the movie. Thomas Gandow, of the German Protestant Church, said that “This film will have the same propaganda advantages for Scientology as the 1936 Olympics had for the Nazis.” In a way, Tom Cruise represented Scientology and he has given star status to the Church of Scientology.
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Speculation is rife that Christina Aguilera and that guy she’s married to were paid $1.5 million for the first pictures of new son Max. Harlow Winter Madden is worth about half that, although no figure has been put on what the price might have been if the babies had appeared on the cover together.
Jennifer Lopez is set to make $4-6 million for her twins, which is similar to the high sum paid for Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s debut, which earned a whopping $4.1 million. Her adopted sibling was not considered as cute at age four as a baby, and was worth about half that.
Why do babies make so much money for magazine covers? Is it because celebrities demand that much compensation for losing their private life? (Not that this stops them complaining later when paparazzi try to take pictures of the same child.) It’s because their covers sell.
“We just do tremendously well on the newsstand when we’ve got celebrity babies on the cover,” says Caperton (Kate, OK! magazine deputy editor), “because people love being with their favorite stars in these really important moments in their lives.”
Setting up a safe shoot with a guaranteed paycheck works out well for the parents, too.
“It’s more beneficial for celebrities to cooperate with a company like us to do their baby pictures versus not doing it, because then paparazzi will chase them and will not stop until they get the picture of that celebrity with the baby,” (Roxanne, Getty Images) Motamedi says. “But once the pictures are out, there is really no value of paparazzi chasing them and trying to get the baby shot.”
Is it because we love to see how mum’s looking post-birth? They usually look way better than anyone else. There is a reason new mothers rarely send out pictures of mother and baby together in those first few days – the baby looks cute and they look like they’ve been through Hell. Probably because they have.
Or is it just because we all love babies?
Of course, babies don’t have to be fodder for checkbook journalism. Vanity Fair didn’t pay anything for rights to the first photos of Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. But that September 2006 issue still sold 60% more copies on newsstands than the average for that half of the year. The sell-through was such an anomaly that the title was forced to warn against comparing September 2006 sales with the abnormally successful issue a year prior.
Plenty of editors say paying up will pay you back. “It depends on what the cost is, but it’s a nice positive antidote to the more crazy celebrity stories that go on,” said Sarah Ivens, editor in chief of OK, part of Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell empire.
Oh, I like that idea. I’d much rather see a baby than Britney Spears looking like a train wreck. Interestingly, Britney the train wreck must sell more magazines than her son Sean Preston, when he featured on the cover of People sales were down 15%.
Interestingly, I love babies more than ice cream, but actually couldn’t care less about a picture of one. That could be anyone’s child, one baby is pretty hard to tell from another. That’s why they are so careful putting name tags on them in the hospital. Partly because they can’t talk, but mostly due to the fact it’s hard to tell them apart.
So, I’m sensing a business opportunity here. I have a particularly cute baby at my place. Blue eyed, smiles lots, has a reasonable amount of dark hair, but not like the crazy mop Suri Cruise had. Wanna hire her? Just in case your ugly celebrity baby isn’t up to the pictures. The bidding starts at $1 million – that should pay for her and her siblings to go to college.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Remember these baby pictures of Shiloh? They were a big deal when they came out in June, 2006 and were featured in People and Hello!.
Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, and Nicole Richie and Joel Madden attended the Grand Opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museam in LA on Saturday night. I don’t want to say anything mean right now, so I won’t say anything at all.
LA is so much more than Disneyland and Hollywood studios. Last night the city of the stars celebrated the opening of The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An A-list crowd including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Bennett, Dustin Hoffman and of course The Cruises showed their support. Katie looked beautiful even if we're not loving the scarf while Tom looked perfectly put together in his three piece suit. Christina continued to show off her curves in a bold blue dress while playing it up for the cameras.
Joel Madden kept things rock and roll while Nicole looked elegant, well rested and calm in her soft taupe colored dress. They came to cheer on Grandpa Lionel Richie who was part of the evening's entertainment but they didn't stay long since they went on to Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy party. Talk about a big night out for the new parents. For a lot of pictures including James Franco, Rita Wilson, Tony Bennett and more just
Tom and Cher in 2002. They were backstage at a concert.
Cher revealed that she had dated Tom Cruise in the 1980s. Cher is now 61 and Tom is 45. Back then, they had a huge age gap of 16 years but they dated anyway. Cher revealed this in her interview with “Good Morning America”, on Feb. 8. She said that he was not yet a Scientologist at that time. She had praises for Tom and said that he was “just the most adorable man you can imagine.”
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes.
After Tom and Cher split, he went on to have relationships with Nicole Kidman, and Penelope Cruz. He is now happily married to Katie Holmes.
Cher said that she has a gig at Caesar’s Palace, in Las Vegas. The public will see her soon on Sunday, when she appears as a presenter for the Grammy Awards function.
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