Tom Cruise

NEW YORK -- A lawyer for Tom Cruise attacked an unauthorized biography of the star Monday, calling it "outrageous, sick stuff," even as publisher St. Martin's Press defended the book. "Tom Cruise, an Unauthorized Biography," by British author Andrew Morton, best known for his top-selling 1992 book on Princess Diana, is due on U.S. bookshelves this month.

Mom! Tom Cruise is scaring people again! It's on the Internet, this promotional video he did for the Church of Scientology. I guess it's out there because of this new book by Andrew Morton, "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography." It was on several sites, but then disappeared on some and reappeared on others. Gawker.com posted a cease-and-desist letter it said was sent by attorneys representing the church.

Meredith Vieira and Katie Couric cracked raunchy jokes about "Today" host Matt Lauer on Friday as he was roasted by the New York Friars Club, but the hit of the annual charity event was a surprise guest: Tom Cruise. The actor, who famously sparred with Lauer in a 2005 interview about Cruise's criticism of the use of antidepressants, insisted the two were actually close friends.

So how did Suri deal with the eye patch? That would be Suri Cruise and her dad, Tom, who famously wears a black pirate-esque patch in his new film, "Valkyrie," a World War II thriller about a plot to assassinate Hitler that opened on Christmas. Cruise plays the coup's real life ringleader, the aristocratic Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.

One's a white-hot, A-list movie star. The other is Tom Cruise. Ben Stiller and the "Mission: Impossible" veteran may join forces in "Hardy Men," a feature film update of "The Hardy Boys," 20th Century Fox said Tuesday. The film, which is still in development and has neither a screenplay nor a production start date, would be directed by "Night at the Museum's" Shawn Levy. The plot calls for the brothers to end their long estrangement to solve a big case.

Wall Street may be ready to show Tom Cruise the money. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s long dormant United Artists movie unit -- which Cruise and his producing partner are attempting to resuscitate -- is close to raising about $500 million to finance a slate of movies over the next few years. The money would pay the cost of making prints of the films and advertising them, as well as the cost of making them.

Tom Cruise's latest effort isn't for the big screen. It's for the New York police officers, firefighters and paramedics of Sept. 11. Cruise was to appear Thursday at a private dinner in Manhattan to raise money for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program he co-founded in 2002. The program, based on principles developed by Scientology founder L.

Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star, Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology, which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject. The U.S. actor has been cast as Col.

Tom Cruise's new film "Valkyrie," the MGM/United Artists historical thriller that kicked up dust last month in Germany, now has a tentative release date: Aug. 8, 2008. Cruise, who is also one of the film's producers, stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the leader of a July 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb. Valkyrie was the code name for Stauffenberg's plot. The film will have plenty of competition if that Friday date holds.

Images of Tom Cruise in Nazi uniform and an eye patch pinged through cyberspace Thursday, the first photos released from the set of "Valkyrie," the film that sparked fierce debate in Germany over the star's Scientology connections. Cruise bears a striking resemblance to Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the German officer he portrays in the film who led a 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb in his briefing room.