poor katie. always thought it's just a mutual publicity stunt, but it's getting freakier.
(granted it's fox news... hehe.)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160192,00.html
Katie Holmes' Missing Days
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
By Roger Friedman
The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to
her friends and family.
There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know
where she was.
Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere
of "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway.
She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a couple of
other friends. They were there to support Rebecca Gayheart, who
was making her Broadway debut.
I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the play's intermission.
She said she had just moved into her New York apartment and was looking forward
to seeing the city.
I also know that on April 4, she had not yet made the
acquaintance of Tom Cruise. She briefly dated Josh Hartnett after
breaking up with actor Chris Klein.
Hartnett, Klein, Cruise: Which of these three is not like the others?
Klein and Hartnett are young and tall. Cruise is middle-aged and
height-challenged.
On the other hand, he's the biggest movie star in the world. They
are not.
Holmes was busy during that first week in April. On April 7, she
was photographed at the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi event.
Four days later, Holmes was still in New York and was
photographed at VH1's "Save the Music" concert. She still had not
met Cruise.
Sometime that week, her friends say, she flew to Los Angeles for a
meeting with Cruise about a role in "Mission: Impossible 3." The
meeting took place after April 11.
The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, when she appeared
in public as Cruise's girlfriend and love of his life.
Where was she during those 16 days?
Somewhere during that time, she decided to fire both her manager
and agent, each of whom she had been with for years and who
were devoted to her.
The manager, John Carrabino, also handles Renée Zellweger and is beloved by
his clients.
Holmes also acquired a new best friend, Jessica Feshbach, the daughter of
Joe Feshbach, a controversial Palo Alto, Calif., bond
trader.
The Feshbach family, according to published documents, has donated millions
to the Church of Scientology. Jessica's aunt even runs a Scientology center
in Florida.
According to Richard Behar's now famous 1991 story in Time
magazine about Scientology, the Feshbachs were the subject of
congressional hearings in 1989.
Behar wrote: "The heads of several companies claimed that
Feshbach operatives have spread false information to government agencies and
posed in various guises ― such as a Securities and Exchange Commission official ―
in an effort to discredit the companies and drive the stocks down.
"Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, testified
that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and interfered with
his loans. Sometimes the Feshbachs send private detectives to dig
up dirt on firms, which is then shared with business reporters, brokers
and fund managers."
The risk-taking Feshbachs, known the world over for making their fortune
"shorting" stocks, and the level-headed, conservative Holmeses would be
a difficult mix at a dinner table.
Katie's father, Martin Holmes, is the senior partner in a large and
respected Toledo, Ohio, law firm. His son, Martin Jr., has recently
joined the firm. He's a Harvard graduate. Katie's mom, Kathy, is
frequently cited in Toledo for her charity work.
There is some fear among Holmes' close circle that her instant romance
with Cruise is not as organic as portrayed.
For one thing, Holmes was raised a strict Catholic. Also, gone from the
picture are two close Holmes friends who used to be with her when she
did publicity for a film.
One of these is Meghann Birie, a childhood friend who has suddenly
disappeared from Holmes' world. Another, a local TV producer here in
New York, was too afraid to discuss the situation with me.
We know that Cruise auditioned several actresses for this role
before settling on Holmes. This column reported a story about Jennifer
Garner. There have been published stories about Kate Bosworth, Lindsay
Lohan and Jessica Alba being approached.
A newer one involves Scarlett Johansson, who ran for her life when
presented with a fait accompli dinner at the Scientology Celebrity
Centre in Hollywood.
And history has been rewritten since the April 27 unveiling.
Curiously, since the Cruise-Holmes situation popped up, we have
heard over and over again that Cruise was the young actress' idol
when she was growing up.
That's certainly interesting because all of the publicity that used to
run on Holmes ― still found all over the Internet ― lists another Tom
as her favorite actor.
That would be Tom Hanks.
Now that happy moment between the time the lie is told and when it is found out.