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To: Bill who wrote (3934)	11/1/2006 11:56:13 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

Has anybody seen Mission Impossible III? Is Cruise finished? ================================================ Women hate Cruise, says studio boss November 1, 2006 - 7:39AM When did I decide? I don't know. When he was on the Today show? When he was jumping on a couch at Oprah? No longer a ladies' man ... Cruise and, inset, Sumner Redstone. The Hollywood supremo who severed Tom Cruise's contract with Paramount Pictures says he was influenced by his wife who, along with women all over the world, had come to hate the actor. The Viacom chairman, Sumner Redstone, who sacked Cruise in August after bad publicity surrounding his odd behaviour during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, has told Vanity Fair his wife, Paula, first expressed her distaste for the Mission Impossible star. "Paula, like women everywhere, had come to hate him," Redstone, 83, said. "The truth of the matter is, I did listen to her, but I make business decisions myself. "His behaviour was entirely unacceptable to Paula, and to the rest of the world. He didn't just turn one [woman] off. "He turned off all women, and a lot of men ... He was embarrassing the studio." Cruise, a Scientologist, had also earned the ire of women when he criticised Brooke Shields over her use of antidepressants for postnatal depression after the birth of her first child on the NBC's Today show. Redstone, one of America's richest men, says Cruise had committed "creative suicide" and left him no choice but to end Paramount's 14-year association with the star and his company Cruise/Wagner Productions. Redstone told the magazine: "When did I decide? 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 - not a good idea. "And he was costing us a lot of money. We felt he cost us $US100 million [$130 million], $US150 million on Mission: Impossible III. "It was the best picture of the three, and it did the worst." Cruise's relationship with Katie Holmes has also been under constant scrutiny by gossip magazines. Cruise will star in a romantic comedy titled I Married a Witch, to be released next year.