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Rome, Italy :: Movie star Tom Cruise was in Rome to promote his latest blockbuster on Monday, but his main mission was to rush back home to his bride-to-be Katie Holmes and baby daughter and resume diaper duties. The 43-year-old told a news conference in Rome ahead of the world premiere of "Mission: Impossible III" that he would cut short the European promotional tour, which was also to have taken in Paris where he and Holmes were engaged 10 months ago. "It was everything that we wanted it to be and more," Cruise said of the birth last week of Suri. "It was really very spiritual." The Hollywood A-lister suggested that he wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. "I changed her first," he said. "I change diapers all the time. I have to tell you I love it. We have a whole system worked out. It’s the ‘B and B’ - she does the breast feeding and I do the burping and changing the diapers. It’s teamwork. It’s fun." (continued after the jump, pictures in the gallery!)

Tom Cruise creeps up and very enthusiastically greets
Mission: Impossible 3 co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Holla atcha boy, Jay-Z!  Tom Cruise shouted you out, throwing up
 the trademark Roc-a-fella Records hand sign. TEAM ROCAFELLA!

(continued before the jump) Cruise has two older children that he adopted during his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman — 13-year-old Isabella and 11-year-old Connor. Suri was his first biological child.

Cruise said he would be in Rome for eight hours, allowing him to attend the red carpet before the premiere, but would then fly back to the United States.

He was joined at the briefing by other stars from the film, including Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman who plays the arch-villain, a black-market arms dealer.

 Mission: Impossible III is an adrenaline-packed two hours of death-dodging that sees the action star leaping from Shanghai skyscrapers and breaking into Vatican City.

Part of the film was shot in Rome, but the eternal city also has personal history for Cruise.

Rome was the city where Cruise and Holmes, known in tabloid shorthand as "TomKat," first made their romance public in late April 2005, smiling for photographers during the David di Donatello awards.

The following month, the twice-divorced Cruise made a manic, couch-hopping profession of love for Holmes on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The couple got engaged in Paris in June.

His whirlwind romance and public discussions of his belief in Scientology, the church founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, have also made Cruise the butt of countless jokes. — Reuters

Rome, Italy :: Actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, 27, and girlfriend Reena Hammer, 20, share a kiss on the red carpet of the world premiere of Mission Impossible III.  Reena studies ancient Latin translations and Persian, her father owns beauty spas and her mother is a very famous make-up artist who has a cosmetics line. During an interview in the March/April 2006 issue of  Social & Personal magazine, JRM talked about his leading lady (see below).  More pictures in the gallery!

How long have you been going out with your current girlfriend, Reena Hammer? A year and two months. I live with her.

Is it still exciting? Yes, it is, but it’s difficult to keep it alive.

How do you cope when you’re away working? Phone calls. I’ve learned how to deal with it over time, because I’ve been on the road for about nine years now.

Do you ever send her flowers or chocolates? She comes and visits. I’m not really the sending flowers type. I’m not very romantic. A nice box of chocolates once a month is always good when you can’t get there to shag your girlfriend, though!

Does distance ever make you insecure about your relationship? You have to have trust - and I have to trust her as much as she has to trust me. I go out with a girl who’s ten years my junior and very, very beautiful, so why shouldn’t I be insecure?

You must be able to sleep with whoever you want to, though? I prefer to be in a relationship with somebody that I love very much and that’s close and sensitive and comforting than to **** a different supermodel every week. That has no appeal whatsoever.

Does Reena ever get jealous of your love scenes? Yeah, I remember seeing Match Point at Cannes and I was sitting next to Scarlett while my girlfriend was in the row behind. When it got to that scene (where Jonathan rubs baby oil onto the back of Scarlett), she started kicking the back of my chair and saying, "I’ll ****ing kill you!"

What do you love about her? Lots of things, She’s very very smart. She’s very, very sensitive. She’s very, very beautiful. She’s very tough. I don’t fancy weak women, regardless of how really beautiful they are,

What does she do? She goes to university.

Do you think you would ever an actress? No - it would be too difficult, too competitive. I’m the only actress in my life!

Rome, Italy :: Tom Cruise, 43, certainly has an affinity for climbling on top of things.   Tom climbs atop his car and stands on the roof top during the world premiere of Mission Impossible III held in the Eternal City, where many of the MI3 scenes were shot.  Many more pictures in the gallery!

Tom Cruise collects a stuffed animal bear as a souvenir for baby Suri.

Rome, Italy :: The cast of of Mission: Impossible III — (left to right) Maggie Q, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Monaghan, director JJ Abrams, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Phillip Seymor Hoffman — pose for a group photo in front of the Coliseum during the world premiere of M:I3 this morning at the Palazzo Colonna.  They all attended a photo call and press conference later on in the day.  Mission: Impossible III opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, May 5.  More pictures in the gallery!

The hotties of Mission: Impossible 3 to heat up the big screen –
Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Maggie Q.

HOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!  A whopping 30 new Mission: Impossible 3 images have surfaced with pictures of director JJ Abrams and the entire leading cast including Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell) and newcomers Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), Keri Russell, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup and Laurence Fishburne. There’s also a handful of scenic shots including the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong (Shanghai, China). M:I3 hits theaters nationwide on Friday, May 5, and is sure to be box office gold.  All new Mission: Impossible pictures in the gallery. And they’re all really good too!

Tom Cruise is back as special agent Ethan Hunt in M:I3.

New to the Mission: Impossible franchise are fresh faces hotties
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Maggie Q all geared up for action.

Director J.J. Abrams recast Scarlett Johansson and Carrie-Anne Moss back in May 2005, opting for his Felicity leading lady Keri Russell.  Here are some awesomely fantastic production stills and candids of actress Keri Russell,  29, filming scenes from the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible III opening nationwide in theaters May 5th, 2006.  More pictures in the gallery! Anybody looking forward to Kanye West writing the theme song for Mission Impossible 3?
 

Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Maggie Q and Ving Rhames (Luther
Stickell) aid struggling Keri Russell in Mission: Impossible 3.