The evidence mounts: Tom Cruise bases his life on classic movies.
His life has mirrored 1941's Citizen Kane. Kane came to unlikely wealth in his youth when a massive gold deposit was discovered under his impoverished mom's land.


Cruise came to unlikely wealth in the pseudo-John Hughes flick Risky Business by dancing in his tightie whities.
Kane surprised everyone by marrying a dignified, exquisite woman who was, quite frankly, out of his league.


Cruise surprisingly married the stiff but regal and classically gorgeous Nicole Kidman.
In both cases, it did not end well.
Then Kane married a sweet, innocent young thing.


Taaa-daaa! Ditto Tom, with Katie Holmes.
Both Kane and Cruise molded their adorable girlish wives into something they weren't: Posh. Ha ha, pun intended!

Kane encouraged, nay, forced his sweet young thing to star in the classiest of stage performances, an opera. Kane's wife was ill-equipped for the job and suffered very bad reviews, indeed.


Tom just may have landed a serious, heavy Broadway role for little Katie in All My Sons. Katie dutifully slogged through a role and venue way too big for her.
Thanks to their husbands' pushy ways, both Kane's wife and Katie very quickly grew old and miserable.


Tom reportedly desperately wants Katie to have a second child. We've read that Katie is going through a rigorous and painful Scientology "cleansing" program as well as all sorts of um, unusual testing and instruction to become worthy of bearing another child. Some go so far as to speculate that Katie will be impregnated with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's old frozen sperm. And damn, we are so willing to believe it.
Getting healthy before getting pregnant is optimal, but going through "cleansing", "education", questioning and who knows what else is weird and demanding, right?
Tom, Katie's already produced a beautiful child for you and goodness knows, we've been treated to photos of Suri practically daily since her babyhood. Clearly, the child is well taken care of, right? What's with all the pre-conception demands that, we repeat, we are so willing to believe?
Tom, take our advice, please. Citizen Kane died miserable and alone. His last utterance was a whispered, "Rosebud". At the end of a life pushing people around, he longed for something pure and simple, a peacefulness that he'd rejected in the name of ego. We won't spoil Citizen Kane's ending, but we will say that, at the end of his life, Kane had majah regrets.
Tom, we think you need to find your own Rosebud. We think maybe you could also take a chill pill.
It's OK if you wash it down with your beloved barley milk. One step at a time, Tom. One step at a time.
Photos, in order: RKO Pictures (all Citizen Kane),Warner Bros.(Risky Business), Time magazine, The WB (Katie Holmes), Big Pictures (Katie & Posh), AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus (All My Sons), WENN (Katie tired).
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