I remember back in the day when everyone loved TC...sometime before people developed the obsession with learning every SINGLE detail of a a celebrities personal life. Is he weird just because he's weird? Did people prying in his business drive him toward his unusual behaviour in the first place?
Who knows.
True, celebrity on celebrity action is kinda asking for attention, but all the same, I will never understand why people care...
If people knew fuck-all about his personal life, I'd assume the majority of people out there wouldn't have the same "views" in the first place...
All he is to me, is a guy that's been in a whole bunch of good films.

They never had a kid, it's all made up.

But like someone said above, Cruise walks around the planet like he owns the place - other successful actors don't seem to eminate such an air of pomp when we see them attending premiers and such like. His 'killer smile' is more like permanent rictus - and discovering his pretentious views about the planet and the rest of us makes it very easy to dislike him.

The public pay for celebrity coverage, but I don't think it is us that has made him look and sound like such an arsehole.

I have a very live and let attitude about actors and celebrities in general. I think Jeffery Jones sjhould get a swift kick in the nuts for soliciting 14 year old boys for nude pictures, but I wont stop watching his movies, basically because it happened and life moved on.

Cruise is like J-lo and Affleck were a couple of years ago. i try to avoid him, but he WONT GO AWAY!!!!

Plus, once one of these people shows them self to be particularly self-righteous and arrogant, i get my hackles all raised. I hat earrogant people. i knew a guy who believed he deserved to be arrogant.... Heavy into Ayn Rand, and pretty much the Objectivist version of a scientologist. I cant stand them.... I rank them with pedophiles in the "useless human turd" category.

So far, the only Scientologist i have even the slightest bit of respect for is travolta, because hespecifically refuses to talk about his religion, as opposed to the rest who appear to be trying to recruit anyone who will listen to them.

Sagging-faced Affleck is another one - the profile of this cocksucker is inherently evil somehow.