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Tom Cruise: Cutter and censor?


Jim Emerson / January 25, 2006
First, last week, Tom Cruise was reported to have, uh, persuaded Paramount not to show the infamously funny "Trapped in the Closet" episode of "South Park" in the UK. The episode (parts of which you can view here) showed Cruise locking himself in an actual closet, and fellow Scientologist John Travolta, rapper R. Kelly and Cruise's ex-wife Nicole Kidman attempting to coax him out. "Don't you think this has gone on long enough?," Kidman says. "It's time for you to come out of the closet. You're not fooling anyone."

Now there are reports from Sundance speculating that Cruise may have been behind the surreptitious removal of a sex scene between his alleged fiancee Katie Holmes and actor Aaron Eckhart from the print of the film "Thank You For Not Smoking" that played the Sundance Film Festival. According to a story at rottentomatoes.com, the scene -- which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival -- had been excised without the knowledge of the director or even the distributor, Fox Searchlight:

Some speculate that the all-powerful Tom Cruise himself may have persuaded filmmakers to cut the scene in order to preserve the wholesomeness of his pregnant fiancée; Cruise was rumored to have persuaded Holmes to drop out of the now-filming “Factory Girl,” a biopic of Studio 54 party girl Edie Sedgwick, because of its controversial themes.

At a Q & A session following the Sundance screenings, director Reitman clued in a mostly unaware audience to the missing scene -- which, unbeknownst to him, had mistakenly been lopped off when editors were assembling the Sundance print.
Fox Searchlight reportedly assured patrons that the sex scene would be restored for the film's theatrical release in March.

Knowing wrote:Why am I not shocked...