don't stop me if you've heard this one
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brienf about an article i remembered reading in which a judge threw out tom cruise's lawsuit where the actor was suing someone for stating he (cruise) was a gay. the judge's logic was that to accept such a lawsuit would be to accept there was something defamatory about being gay.
I CAN'T FIND IT. i swear, i didn't dream this one up. and i'm trying to figure it out.
in the meantime, however, all i can find are articles from his "wins" in 2001 and 2003. in 2003 he was awarded TEN MILLION dollars because some gay "erotic wrestler" claimed to have had an affair with him.
now how, praytell, is the stamp of heterosexuality worth 10 mil-lion dollars?
and why must this actor be so insecure that he runs around suing anyone who calls him the gay? really, there are worse playground names to be called than for someone to claim you're a homosexural. cruise says he's trying to protect his "reputation". say what? ahhh. so rather than attempt to fight the homophobia permeating hollywood, you want to cash in on your (supposed?) "straight rights"? rather than teach the ignorant it's ok to be gay, you'd perpetuate the myth that it's BAD.
fuck that. why must we put up with this shit? oh.. right, he's against AIDS. he can't possibly suck that much.
grrrrr. so much for the liberal hollywood elite. . .
TOM Cruise, the film actor, has won a (pounds) 6.2m ($10 million) defamation case against a gay porn star who claimed he had a homosexual encounter with him.
A Los Angeles judge gave the ruling late last month after Chad Slater admitted that his story was false and said he would not actively defend himself against the lawsuit, Cruise's lawyer said yesterday. The Mission: Impossible actor was ''very, very pleased with getting this judgment and is happy to have another ruling by a court that these stories are false and defamatory'', said the lawyer, Ricardo Cestero. now tell us WHY the fuck he's pleased, please.
In his lawsuit, Cruise said that Slater falsely told a French magazine, Actustar, that his gay love affair with Cruise led to the actor's August 2001 divorce from Nicole Kidman.
The judgment marks the second time 40-year-old Cruise has won lawsuits he filed to quash rumours that he is gay. In 2001, he sued Michael Davis, the Los Angeles publisher of Bold magazine, for (pounds) 66m after Davis claimed to have a videotape of him engaged in homosexual acts.
The actor dropped the suit later that year after Davis retracted his claim and agreed to a stipulation that Cruise ''is not, and never has been, homosexual and has never had a homosexual affair''. now why does that language sound familiar?
Cestero said that Cruise had not decided whether to press Slater, also known as Kyle Bradford, to pay the latest judgment. Slater could not be reached for comment.
Cruise said he would donate any proceeds of the lawsuit to charity.
Cestero said that Cruise, who is filming The Last Samurai in New Zealand, intended to file defamation actions against anyone who spreads false rumours about him. ''He is very concerned and very protective about his personal reputation,'' said Cestero.
the herald glasgow, scotland 1-17-03 this article seemed to pack in the most information
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brienf about an article i remembered reading in which a judge threw out tom cruise's lawsuit where the actor was suing someone for stating he (cruise) was a gay. the judge's logic was that to accept such a lawsuit would be to accept there was something defamatory about being gay.I CAN'T FIND IT. i swear, i didn't dream this one up. and i'm trying to figure it out.
in the meantime, however, all i can find are articles from his "wins" in 2001 and 2003. in 2003 he was awarded TEN MILLION dollars because some gay "erotic wrestler" claimed to have had an affair with him.
now how, praytell, is the stamp of heterosexuality worth 10 mil-lion dollars?
and why must this actor be so insecure that he runs around suing anyone who calls him the gay? really, there are worse playground names to be called than for someone to claim you're a homosexural. cruise says he's trying to protect his "reputation". say what? ahhh. so rather than attempt to fight the homophobia permeating hollywood, you want to cash in on your (supposed?) "straight rights"? rather than teach the ignorant it's ok to be gay, you'd perpetuate the myth that it's BAD.
fuck that. why must we put up with this shit? oh.. right, he's against AIDS. he can't possibly suck that much.
grrrrr. so much for the liberal hollywood elite. . .
TOM Cruise, the film actor, has won a (pounds) 6.2m ($10 million) defamation case against a gay porn star who claimed he had a homosexual encounter with him.
A Los Angeles judge gave the ruling late last month after Chad Slater admitted that his story was false and said he would not actively defend himself against the lawsuit, Cruise's lawyer said yesterday. The Mission: Impossible actor was ''very, very pleased with getting this judgment and is happy to have another ruling by a court that these stories are false and defamatory'', said the lawyer, Ricardo Cestero. now tell us WHY the fuck he's pleased, please.
In his lawsuit, Cruise said that Slater falsely told a French magazine, Actustar, that his gay love affair with Cruise led to the actor's August 2001 divorce from Nicole Kidman.
The judgment marks the second time 40-year-old Cruise has won lawsuits he filed to quash rumours that he is gay. In 2001, he sued Michael Davis, the Los Angeles publisher of Bold magazine, for (pounds) 66m after Davis claimed to have a videotape of him engaged in homosexual acts.
The actor dropped the suit later that year after Davis retracted his claim and agreed to a stipulation that Cruise ''is not, and never has been, homosexual and has never had a homosexual affair''. now why does that language sound familiar?
Cestero said that Cruise had not decided whether to press Slater, also known as Kyle Bradford, to pay the latest judgment. Slater could not be reached for comment.
Cruise said he would donate any proceeds of the lawsuit to charity.
Cestero said that Cruise, who is filming The Last Samurai in New Zealand, intended to file defamation actions against anyone who spreads false rumours about him. ''He is very concerned and very protective about his personal reputation,'' said Cestero.
the herald glasgow, scotland 1-17-03 this article seemed to pack in the most information
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I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 08:42 am (UTC)This could SO work in a paper I'm considering. You've done some of my conceptual work for me!
I promise to thank you for your help when I win an Oscar for paper-writing.
Re: I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 04:32 pm (UTC)you ruuuuule.
Re: I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 04:50 pm (UTC)Re: I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 04:52 pm (UTC)i really need to work on that.
Re: I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 04:55 pm (UTC)Re: I founded one! I founded one!
Date: 2005-01-02 05:26 pm (UTC)i'll be sure to get right on top of that.
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Date: 2005-01-02 08:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-03 05:14 am (UTC)there would be no financial gain if there wasn't something cruise wanted to keep supressed.
if i sent you an email that said give me a thousand dollars or i'll tell the world you're shoe size is x. why would you care?
he's explicitly trying to keep his sexuality labelled as STRAIGHT which is kinda' offensive...
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Date: 2005-01-04 06:01 am (UTC)maybe to illustrate better, i'll quote from the article brienf linked above “In 2004, a statement implying that an individual is a homosexual is hardly capable of a defamatory meaning,” Gertner ruled.
tabloids include shit all the time because they know it is incendiary. it remains incendiary when folks like tom cruise get up in arms about it. i ain't giving him no victim title for being called (falsely or not) something that i am.
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Date: 2005-01-04 07:24 pm (UTC)i'm 112% for people being the only ones to self-label. so even if cruise is sleeping with a new guy every week and wishes to be called straight, i mostly fully support that.
you'd have a point if the lawsuit was over someone falsely claiming to have had an affair with cruise; but that's not what happened. he made the sexuality the isssue. not the affair.
so again, no sympathy for him.
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Date: 2005-01-03 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 05:56 am (UTC)heh hope you like her as much as i do :)