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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:13 PM
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Katie Holmes to give up acting...
I know, I know, who really cares?

Katie Holmes is to quit acting.

The actress wants to become a full-time mother.

She is expecting her first child with fiance Tom Cruise early next year reports The Sun.

A source said: "Katie has decided to give up acting altogether. She's been telling friends that she and Tom have decided it is best she stays at home and brings up their new baby.

"Her decision is raising a lot of eyebrows in Hollywood. She is at the perfect age for so many screen roles and has completely closed the door on a promising career."


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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:15 PM
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1. It's much easier if they home-school her in scientology.
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Thtwudbeme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:15 PM
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2. Good for her!!!
It's so pleasant in the mansions in the quiet of the morning, when the baby is asleep, and the servants have been told to be...well....unobtrusive....
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Divameow77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:15 PM
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3. I thought the whole idea of dating Tom
was to further her career? :shrug:
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:16 PM
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4. The fact that they resigned everyone from "Batman Begins" sequel but her.
...makes her retirement pretty much a smart move
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:18 PM
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5. Well, Tom has brazillion dollars. He damn well better take care of her.
Gay or not, he's made a commitment.

To break up with her out of selfishness would be vile.

And since this is hollywood, I won't be surprised when he does leave her for the next one.

Not that I can do anything about it, but when you make a child it's best to stay with them until they reach at least 18.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:18 PM
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6. ...Just when she was starting to get the good roles.....
Tom Cruise is such a freakboy jackass. I bet he forced her to quit.
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:19 PM
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7. Is Tom Cruise tired..
of the beards having alot more talent than him?
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:56 PM
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39. Yeah, I think so... I'm serious.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:21 PM
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8. Good for her
Staying home with the kids is a valuble contribution to society. :D
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:21 PM
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9. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are together?
Wow you take one morning off from the DU...
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:23 PM
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10. She was acting?
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:08 PM
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33. If you can call it that.
She tried.
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:27 PM
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11. when is Tom going to give up acting?
let Katie go to work and Tom stay home.
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:33 PM
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19. Don't you mean, when is Tom going to take up acting?
:shrug:
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Lethe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 06:20 PM
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25. *rimshot*
:rofl:
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:32 PM
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12. If anyone saw "First Daughter"
this will be seen as merciful for everyone. :evilgrin: Plus, this will give her more time to polish Tom Cruise's bowling trophies.

If I think anything when I think about her, I send the best wishes I can for an easy birth, a healthy child, and that she will have NO postpartum depression, because he won't have any compassion for her. IMHO, YMMV, don't need to get sued by his attorneys...

Julie
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 04:39 PM
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13. Bwa ha haa! The transformation is complete!
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:01 PM
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14. Oh no...whatever will become of the film industry?
She's actually been in a few good films though. Mind you she wasn't memorable in any of them. But she was in them.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:20 PM
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15. I'm kind of thinking that Cruise won't marry her... just a hunch,
after all, what's he waiting for?

He wiggled out of his marriage to NK JUST under the 10 year line that would have made a critical financial difference.

So why hasn't he married the VERY pregnant mother of his child yet? You know, for being such old fashioned people, and all?

Katie, er Kate knows she's hit the jackpot on this one.

I figure this kid is worth a few million a year at least.
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friesianrider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:29 PM
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16. I think the same thing...
Most of us normal people need to wait for our weddings - we need to save money and wait to plan certain things - but when you're a celeb money isn't an object. And I'd bet that the Ritz in CA would clear their calendars for whenever TomKat wanted to make it official.

There really is no reason for them not to get married now if they really are intending to do it...
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:32 PM
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17. Thank you! Thank you God! Thank you!
Let's all do the Snoopy happy dance now.....
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:33 PM
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18. Ask Sherry Stringfield
how well that works. She quit her role on ER because her new husband wanted her to and her career never recovered.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:57 PM
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40. She actually did it TWICE
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 09:09 PM
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43. Back to waitressing with her
Oh Sherry! More coffee!
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 09:13 PM
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45. Hehe -- she';s off ER again -- the writers had Weaver
slam her --"Dr. Lewis will NEVER be back in the ER again." Sherry, Sherry, SDherry.... she did it to ER twice and NYPD Blue once.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:39 PM
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20. The Scientology is really going to her head, huh?
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:41 PM
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21. so she's splitting up with Tom?
it's the best acting I've ever seen.

luckily, this shouldn't affect her movie career any.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:47 PM
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22. alien babies are hard to raise
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:50 PM
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23. her career will soar when he dumps her
that seems to be the natural order of things for women who marry that guy.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 05:51 PM
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24. More fuel for the Cruise machine. n/t
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 06:30 PM
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26. I know what I wish she'd give up.
as seen in that movie about the kid with the homicidal hand ...
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:08 PM
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27. Wish she's give up Tom and the Scientology
Edited on Mon Nov-14-05 07:09 PM by mvd
As I've said, Scientologists aren't omnipresent in politics as much as fundie Christians, but I'd never become one of either.

But she's not giving up any of that now, so I respect her decision to stay home.
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:27 PM
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30. I hope she'll outgrow that scientology nonsense.
maybe she will grow out of it
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:15 PM
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28. I wish the best for Katie and her child
Even if it includes that jerk, Cruise. It's sad to watch someone walk smilingly into a train wreck, but some of us get off on that kind of thing. Each to his own.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:24 PM
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29. Who knew?
Who knew that Katie Holmes could act?
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:32 PM
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31. Wasn't that why he dumped NK? She wouldn't let him put his career
in front of hers? Wow, and she's really gone in the tank since he left :rofl:

Poor girl, quit Tom Cruise and make your own money (your child will thank you for it)!
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 07:32 PM
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32. How creepy is that?
Staying home to raise Tom Cruise's love child?

Yeesh

Imagine the teeth on the poor thing!
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:59 PM
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41. BWWWAAHH!
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:13 PM
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34. I wasn't aware she'd ever STARTED acting.
:evilgrin:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:34 PM
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35. This is what Tom Cruise wanted Nicole Kidman to do
That way his career would not get eclipsed by hers!
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afdip Donating Member (660 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:44 PM
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36. when did she start???
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Cannikin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:50 PM
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37. She wasnt too bad in Batman Begins
Edited on Mon Nov-14-05 08:51 PM by Cannikin
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 08:55 PM
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38. Stupid, stupid girl
She had shed the "Dawson's Creek" stigma. Batman Begins, Phone Booth, a part in Factory Girls. Stupid. I wonder if he wanted Nicole Kidman to do this, too?
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 09:08 PM
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42. 'Full time mother'
This is NOT to disparage stay-at-home moms, but I don't understand how anyone can be a 'full-time mother' - when was the last time you heard a man describe his lifestyle/financial/family choice as being a 'full-time father'? That idea doesn't even EXIST for men - why does it for women?

This kind of thing burns me up.
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 09:10 PM
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44. This SAHM agrees with you on that
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