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	Phil's Blogservations Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Posted by philgomes 2:10 PM Free PR Advice: Tom Cruise, Please Stop Free PR Advice: Tom Cruise, Please Stop Tom... It's a shame that Scientology is so stringently anti-drug, because I simply can't think of anyone else who is in more desperate need of a really good sedative right now. My typical gauge of someone's PR profile — good or bad — is this: Do I hear about that person's comings and goings whether or not I actively follow the circles wherein said person participates? I don't watch the talk shows or read the tabloids, but I've heard a lot about you lately, haven't I? There's the new relationship with Katie Holmes (who, I must say, Dawson or not, easily has one of the best smiles in all of Hollywood), your (two) couch-abusing antics on TV, your public feud with Brooke Shields, your on-set promotion of Scientology during the making of War Of The Worlds, and now this example of counterfactual craziness. Supporting Scientology claims that psychiatry is "a Nazi science", Cruise stated, "Jung (Carl Jung, the father of modern psychiatry) was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War Two," which the magazine's researchers discovered is untrue, according to the New York Center For Jungian Studies. The movie star continued, "Look at the experimentation the Nazis did with electric shock and drugging. Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine. It was named after Adolf Hitler." The magazine also questions Cruise on this point, explaining, "According to the Dictionary Of Drugs And Medications... this is an urban legend." Dude... You were Maverick in Top Gun! You were Joel Goodsen in Risky Business! You were Jerry Maguire in... Oh, waitaminnit... Anyway... The second your on-screen characters got in that F-14 Tomcat's cockpit — or, perhaps more adventurously, got with Rebecca DeMornay — a whole generation of popcorn-popping male suburbanite teenagers (now in their 30s) wanted to be you! I'm not writing because I'm somehow jealous of your recent happiness. I'm writing this because, to the mature and reasonable media consumer of today, you just look nuts. Please, man... Rotate the media knob counter-clockwise a bit... For your own sake, before these antics overshadow your career and the movies millions pay to see. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.