Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce
Every day last week, the boyfriend and I would go to the convenience store around the corner from our house to see if the new Vanity Fair had hit the shelves. I wanted to see the photos Annie Leibovitz had taken for the magazine of the new happy Tom, Katie, Suri Cruise family.
This week, we finally got the mag with its 22-page spread and, quite honestly, it's like looking in a mirror: Tom Cruise falls for significantly younger (and stunning) woman and has a baby with her to expand his brood.
The boyfriend falls for significantly younger (and stunning) woman and has a baby with her to expand his brood.
Tom Cruise jumps on couch on Oprah show to profess his love.
Sandwiched between the DVDs and flannel PJS, the boyfriend plays salsa music in Costco and swirls me around a couple of times to profess his love.
Tom and Katie have brown hair.
The boyfriend and I have brown hair.
See? The similarities are endless ...
That all being said, there is one big difference.
The boyfriend and I are interesting but, if you're going by the VF story, these two Chiclet-smiling beauties are dull, dull, dull.
The pictures are saccharine sweet and the story is like: We're so happy but the tabloids are big meanies and they talk about us and put photos of us in their magazines even though we stage publicity stunts all the time (Eiffel tower proposal; the infamous couch episode; over-the-top apology to Brooke Shields about the post-partum depression debacle) and we can't be happier but we hate the tabloids. But did we say we're happy? Oooh, we're so happy at our 400-acre refuge where there are no tabloids!
The good news for VF readers is there is a story about a fascinating couple in this month's issue: There's an excerpt called The Man Time Forgot about the two men who started Time newsmagazine: Henry Luce and Briton Hadden.
Hadden was the genius but died early and so, according to this piece, Luce got all the cred.
The story is an interesting read for anyone who's interested in journalism, reading and magazines although it's also humbling: Hadden believed that if you hadn't made a name for yourself by the time you were 30, forget about it. You're over the hill: "Anyone over 30 is ready for the grave," he said during his rise to prominence.
(Good freakin' thing I'm still 178 days away from the big 3-0!)
Luce believed in journalism so strongly, that anything else, including sex, was just a distraction: "He confessed that with his then wife, Lila, he 'simply did it and then rolled over and thought about Time.' "
So, Hadden died young at age 30 (and apparently was quite the drinker and had a string of bad relationships which didn't help his health) and Luce cut out life's luxuries to build Time and, eventually an empire that included the publications Sports Illustrated, Life and Fortune.
Maybe these dudes had it all - or maybe they actually needed some balance in their lives.
If she had been around at the time, a sit-down chat with Oprah, the queen of balanced living, may have done the trick ...
This week, we finally got the mag with its 22-page spread and, quite honestly, it's like looking in a mirror: Tom Cruise falls for significantly younger (and stunning) woman and has a baby with her to expand his brood.
The boyfriend falls for significantly younger (and stunning) woman and has a baby with her to expand his brood.
Tom Cruise jumps on couch on Oprah show to profess his love.
Sandwiched between the DVDs and flannel PJS, the boyfriend plays salsa music in Costco and swirls me around a couple of times to profess his love.
Tom and Katie have brown hair.
The boyfriend and I have brown hair.
See? The similarities are endless ...
That all being said, there is one big difference.
The boyfriend and I are interesting but, if you're going by the VF story, these two Chiclet-smiling beauties are dull, dull, dull.
The pictures are saccharine sweet and the story is like: We're so happy but the tabloids are big meanies and they talk about us and put photos of us in their magazines even though we stage publicity stunts all the time (Eiffel tower proposal; the infamous couch episode; over-the-top apology to Brooke Shields about the post-partum depression debacle) and we can't be happier but we hate the tabloids. But did we say we're happy? Oooh, we're so happy at our 400-acre refuge where there are no tabloids!
The good news for VF readers is there is a story about a fascinating couple in this month's issue: There's an excerpt called The Man Time Forgot about the two men who started Time newsmagazine: Henry Luce and Briton Hadden.
Hadden was the genius but died early and so, according to this piece, Luce got all the cred.
The story is an interesting read for anyone who's interested in journalism, reading and magazines although it's also humbling: Hadden believed that if you hadn't made a name for yourself by the time you were 30, forget about it. You're over the hill: "Anyone over 30 is ready for the grave," he said during his rise to prominence.
(Good freakin' thing I'm still 178 days away from the big 3-0!)
Luce believed in journalism so strongly, that anything else, including sex, was just a distraction: "He confessed that with his then wife, Lila, he 'simply did it and then rolled over and thought about Time.' "
So, Hadden died young at age 30 (and apparently was quite the drinker and had a string of bad relationships which didn't help his health) and Luce cut out life's luxuries to build Time and, eventually an empire that included the publications Sports Illustrated, Life and Fortune.
Maybe these dudes had it all - or maybe they actually needed some balance in their lives.
If she had been around at the time, a sit-down chat with Oprah, the queen of balanced living, may have done the trick ...
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