Sumner Win – Cruise Lose
October 31, 2006 by staralicious
Filed under Tom Cruise
PageSix reveals that Sumner Redstone’s wife helped him decide to dump Tom Cruise. “He was embarrassing the studio. And he was costing us a lot of money”.
Redstone says it was his wife, Paula, who first soured on Cruise, which got him thinking about offloading the misfiring star.
“Paula, like a lot of women, had come to hate him. The truth of the matter is, I did listen to her” Redstone says. “His behavior was entirely unacceptable to Paula and to the rest of the world.
Redstone estimates that Cruise’s antics – acting wacky, ripping into psychiatry, firing his professional publicist – were the key elements in the star’s downfall: “When did I decide to fire him? I don’t know. When he was on the ‘Today’ show? When he was jumping on a couch at ‘Oprah’? He changed his handler, you know, to his sister LeAnne Devette – not a good idea.”
Redstone estimates that Cruise’s bizarre behavior cost Paramount “$100 million, $150 million on ‘Mission: Impossible III.’ It was the best picture of the three, and it did the worst.”
[tags]tom cruise, sumner redstone, wacky[/tags]
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