Page Six: March 17, 2006 — HOLLYWOOD bully Tom Cruise got Comedy Central to cancel Wednesday night’s cablecast of a controversial “South Park” episode about Scientology by warning that he’d refuse to promote “Mission Impossible 3,” insiders say. Since Paramount is banking on “MI3″ to rake in blockbuster profits this summer, and Paramount is owned by Viacom, which also owns Comedy Central, the tactic worked.
The episode, which first aired last November, was set to rerun Wednesday night, but was mysteriously pulled at the last minute. Now the question is whether Comedy Central will ever again air “Trapped in the Closet” and whether it will be included on the DVD of the show’s ninth season.
Cruise has a history of playing hardball. He is allegedly responsible for the missing sex scene his fiancée Katie Homes filmed (before she started dating Tom) in “Thank You for Smoking,” which opens today.
Tom Cruise’s evil strikes once more. Why pull the episode on rerun? That seems lame, but if it doesn’t appear in the DVD, that says something really pathetic about those pansy Viacom heads. They could instead yank Cruise’s Mission Impossible 3, but they would lose a lot of money. What really should be done is a boycott on hiring Cruise, starting now. No money lost, and no one wants to see him in movies, anymore, anyway! Win win. Cruise -> lose. Perfect.
March 19th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
[...] SJS had posted earlier in the week that Tom Cruise allegedly used his influence to prevent the creators of “South Park” from re-running an episode which poked fun at Scientology. [...]