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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Berthold Von Stauffenberg is not a Tom Cruise fan. Von Stauffenberg is the son of German aristocrat Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg who made an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944.

Von Stauffenberg said in an interview published in Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that he particularly upset with Cruise’s “off-putting” devotion to the Scientology faith, a religion he calls a “business”.

Cruise is playing Von Stauffenberg’s father in the upcoming movie ‘Valkyrie’. Von Stauffenberg said the movie is ’sure to be crap. I am not saying that Cruise is a bad actor — I cannot judge that. But in any case, I fear that it could turn into horrible kitsch.”

Von Stauffenberg’s father was heroic in his attempt to kill Hitler. The fact that his attempt failed to kill Hitler is considered one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th Century.

Stauffenberg said he would not take legal action to try to stop Valkyrie, but hoped Cruise would drop the project nevertheless.

“He should keep his hands off my father. He should climb a mountain or go surfing in the Caribbean.”

“I don’t care, as long as he stays out of it.”

I hear ya Von Stauffenberg. I wouldn’t want him pretending to be my father either.

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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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