Tom Cruise is bonkers. Intensely bonkers. Run for the hills, Katie! I have only once met in real life someone with a level of self-regard and delusion approaching Cruise's, and the guy was just absolutely repellent. Cruise must be toxic in person, and I guess the end result of being around him as much as his wife is is her glassy-eyed smile and complete lack of personality (gee, Nicole Kidman looks warm and animated by comparison).

Scientology did not create this monster — I'm sure he was full of himself from early on — but it sure enabled the heck out of it.

I wonder if cognitive dissonance will ever set in and Cruise will come to see himself the way the world does, or if he'll go the way of Michael Jackson or Howard Hughes and just live an increasingly isolated, freaked-out life of stuff that disturbs everyone else.