Katie Holmes Designs Dresses

Shop ’till you drop Katie. I would be doing the same thing. YOU GO GIRL!

I alwys root for Katie. I am all for support Good, and abhor evil. So am defianitely always rooting for this girl. Thought she can’t draw. Read somewhere that she knits.

Read this article some of you haters, but do not do a Redstone, we won’t have you back.

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The restart of a beautiful friendship?

They should have driven a stake through his heart. Just six months after Tom Cruise, who once played the vampire Lestat, was apparently killed off by the head of Paramount Studios and dismissed as history by Hollywood pundits, he’s back, undead and more powerful than ever.

So powerful, in fact, that the man who caused a furore in Hollywood last August by cancelling Cruise’s $10m-a-year production deal with Paramount now wants to be friends again.

Back in August, Sumner Redstone (right, with Cruise), the elderly chairman of Viacom, which owns Paramount, called the actor’s behaviour “inappropriate” and said “his recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount”.

He was referring to Cruise’s proselytising for the Church of Scientology, his denunciations of psychiatry and his notorious ‘couch- jumping’ on the Oprah Winfrey Show when he declared his love for his fiancee - now wife - Katie Holmes.

Redstone blamed those incidents, which caused Cruise to plummet in the public’s affections, for what many saw as the weak box-office performance of Mission: impossible: III, which grossed just $134m in the US, $81m less than the previous film in the series.

The dumping of Cruise made headlines worldwide - but the star wasn’t down for long. In November, in a move which surprised many in Hollywood, Cruise and Paula Wagner, his producing partner, took control of United Artists, the venerable movie studio started in 1919 by actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director DW Griffiths.

In return for running UA and producing around five films a year for it, Cruise and Wagner were givena 33 per cent stake in the studio. They have now started shooting their first film, a $35m thriller called Lions for Lambs, directed by Robert Redford and starring Cruise, Redford and Meryl Streep. And Redstone, seeing one of Hollywood’s top stars back on top, is now claiming his split with Cruise was all a bit of a mix-up.

Talking to People magazine, he said: “What happened was I gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal. In the course of it they asked me what was going on. I said, ‘You know, he would no longer be in the lot.’ They treated that like I was firing him. I didn’t fire him! I had nothing to do with it. But they treated it explosively. And I didn’t like it.”

This is not how Hollywood insiders see it. They say the complaints about Cruise’s personal life were a cover. Redstone wanted to take on Tinseltown’s high-priced ‘talent’ and the powerful agencies like CAA (the Creative Artists Agency) which had long represented Cruise. Paramount barely broke even on Mission: impossible: III, yet Cruise’s lavish production deal meant that he made around $70m from the film.

The man who stepped in and saved Cruise’s reputation was Harry Evans Sloan, who runs MGM, which owns United Artists. Sloan believes Cruise and Wagner can restore the fortunes of UA, which was once known for films like Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Annie Hall, but has recently limped along on profits from the Bond films.

Tom Cruise remains one of the biggest box-office draws in Hollywood history; films he starred in, including Mission: impossible and Collateral, generated more than $2.5bn for Paramount during his 14 years at the studio. Sloan knows that, and it looks like Redstone has suddenly remembered it too.

Rude boy should go and stuff it! Loser

Anyone know who her coat is designed by? I love it!