Suri Cruise is cute as a button. I think she favors Katie a lot. She’s featured on the cover of US Weekly this week with an article on her Scientology upbringing. Apparently, L. Ron Hubbard advocated parents being ‘friends’ rather than disciplinarians.

According to the blurb from the article, Tom doesn’t like being around people who aren’t Scientologists so everyone in the household, including her nannies are Scientologists. She should be pretty well indoctrinated by the time she’s a teenager.

To top that off, Tom and Katie just hate saying ‘no’ to the little darlin’. So she gets whatever she wants.

Suri pretty much does whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she fusses before bed, they let her stay up later. If they want her to go swimming and she cries, they’ll take her out. If she whines about food, they’ll ask her what else she wants to eat. They always want to please her.

That’s a recipe for a very spoiled child. *cough*Britney Spears*cough* If they can’t say ‘no’ to her now, what are they going to do when she’s a teenager and wants to do whatever she wants? If you discipline them when they are young you have better control of them when they are older and harder to control. That’s my theory anyway.

It could work though. I guess time will tell.

From Jeanette’s Celebrity Corner

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Katie Holmes and daughter Suri Cruise spent some just-us-girls time together in Paris on Thursday. At some point Katie fell and scraped her knee. They went back to the hotel to clean up and change clothes. On the way back to the hotel, Suri napped on her mama’s shoulder.

You have to admit, these are really cute mother/daughter photos, especially since Crazy Tom wasn’t around.

While they were out they went to the Louvre Museum and Avenue Montaigne. They also made stops at Fendi and Lanvin.

click on images to enlarge

photos of sleeping Suri: Celebrity Baby Blog
photos of walking Suri: Farandulista

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It’s true, just look at her. Look at her eyes. They are empty. She is gone.

From Gone Hollywood

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are considering doing a sexy nude photo shoot similar to their new best friends the Beckham’s sizzlin’ hot photo shoot for W magazine.

SAWF reports:

Australia’s New Weekly magazine reports, a friend of the couple told, “They have already started planning some of the photos. One suggestion they were keen on was a shot of them posing together in the shower, dripping wet and covered by nothing but steam.

Cruise and Holmes, 28, have so far kept a wholesome family image in Hollywood but they also want to show off a more sensual side of their relationship.

“Tom and Katie really have amazing chemistry,” says the pal. “They want to show the world how much.”

I’m really glad they have chemistry and want the world to see it. Yeah, that’s important for us all to know that (/sarcasm). But there is something about this that is just bugging me and I can’t quite put my finger on what it is.

OH - I know what it is that’s giving me the creeps about this story. Tom naked.

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Just a cute picture I found while surfing around on TMZ.com. This is Suri Cruise - Tom and Katie’s daughter. The photo was taken in Germany where he father was filming his new picture. What an adorable little girl!

Hopefully her parents will grow up and be good parents to little Suri.

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Apparently Tom Cruise’s Scientology is a bit much for the folks in Berlin. Really, can Tom Cruise be taken seriously and can Scientology be seriously described as a religion? I don’t know, but it just doesn’t seem to fit what is typically considered a religion.

Cruise’s Scientology Stirs Ire in Berlin
By DAVID RISING
BERLIN (AP) - Two hot-button issues in Germany - the Nazi era and Scientology - are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country’s most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin.

Cruise, one of Scientology’s best-known adherents, is to play Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg - the aristocratic army officer executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944 - in director Bryan Singer’s new film “Valkyrie.”

The film’s German co-producers say they were given permission to use the former German general staff headquarters in Berlin, where Stauffenberg worked and where he was executed, and that they plan a detailed, historically accurate treatment.

But word that a Scientologist would play Stauffenberg has rubbed some the wrong way. Germany’s government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people, and critics maintain that one of its adherents should not be playing one of the Nazi-era’s few heroes.

Stauffenberg “is to be played by an actor whose sect, through dubious methods, attempts to lure people and make them pliable,” Social Democratic lawmaker Klaus Uwe Benneter said on his Web site. “This is a slap in the face to all upstanding democrats, all resistance fighters during the Third Reich, and all victims of the Scientology sect.”

Sabine Weber, a spokeswoman for Scientology in Berlin, said she was “shocked” that politicians would speak out against Cruise starring in the movie, saying that it was a “call to discrimination” against someone because of religious beliefs, which violates German and European human-rights codes.

The film’s producers maintain the criticism is misguided, accusing politicians of making hay of a non-issue.

“Basically, some politicians are using the popularity of Tom Cruise to become popular themselves,” Carl Woebcken, head of the Babelsberg studio that is slated to co-produce the film in Germany, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

“This is not a Scientology film, it is a Bryan Singer film, and Bryan Singer is Jewish … and they want to make this film to show that during the Nazi regime there was heroic resistance,” Woebcken said. “The personal beliefs of Tom Cruise have to be separated from his skills as an actor. He is one of the best, if not the best, actors in the world for heroic roles and that is why Bryan Singer approached him.”

United Artists called its film “a historically accurate thriller” and said in a statement that “Mr. Cruise’s personal beliefs have absolutely no bearing on the movie’s plot, themes or content.”

Germany’s federal agency that tracks extremism has had Scientology under observation for a decade on allegations that it “threatens the peaceful democratic order” of the country. The Scientologists long have battled to end the surveillance, saying it is an abuse of their right to freedom of religion, and the U.S. State Department regularly criticizes Germany in its annual Human Rights Report for the monitoring practice.

Stauffenberg’s son Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg has spoken out against Cruise playing the role, telling the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that “he should keep his fingers off my father,” and adding that he feared the movie would be “terrible kitsch.”

You can read the rest of the article HERE. Does anyone take Tom Cruise seriously anymore? And Scientology is a recent invention. When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were about to marry, I remember reading all the things required for a Scientology wedding. But then, Tom Cruise seems like someone who would go for something way out there like that.

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Rumor has it that Katie Holmes is pregnant again. The British Sun and Daily Mail published photos of Holmes with her stomach poking out a bit.

SFGate.com

Earlier this month, Holmes said she was eager to have a brother or sister for her 14-month-old daughter Suri and her stepchildren Isabella and Connor.

She said, “Yeah, definitely (we want more children). We have so many kids in our house, there’s always this wonderful chatter and the great noise of kids. He’s a great father and so it came as no shock that when we had Suri he was amazing with the baby.”

Well, isn’t that special! I wonder if this means more couch jumping.

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Is it possible that things are a little rocky in the TomKat household? Could Katie be a little weary of Tom’s weirdness? Here’s the story:

Katie Holmes: Single and Ready to Mingle?
by TMZ Staff

Is Katie suggesting there’s trouble in TomKat paradise?
Holmes was seen wearing the Singelringen — a ring typically worn to signify the wearer is single — while in Shreveport on the set of her new flick, “Mad Money.” The turquoise and silver unisex Singelringen was on her right hand.

Single celebs like Naomi Campbell, Vivica A. Fox and Wilmer Valderamma are also wearing the hot Swedish ring. But why Katie?

A rep for Holmes was not available for comment.

Who knows? I wonder if things are as oppressive in the TomKat household as some people report. Does Tom really keep Katie under his thumb? And speaking of thumbs, notice that the photo doesn’t show her left hand. Is the wedding band still there? What do you think?

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