The Great Tom Cruise Backlash

Let it begin now. Let it start with a wry askance glance and evolve into full-fledged annoyance and then move into raging hell-bent OK that’s quite enough now please stop before we slap you silly.
 
Note to Tom Cruise: You are maxing out. Wearing out the welcome. Becoming less the tolerable and moderately talented and mildly likable megastar and more like an itchy boil on the deranged ferret of popular culture, requiring lancing.
 
The signs are all in place. The crazy ranting, the jumping on couches, the crazed grins, the enormous piles of money, the incessant photos of you sucking the face off your new and bewildered and child-like fiancee, the weird diatribes about psychiatry and mental health, the relatively common knowledge that you are super-seriously involved at the highest levels with one of the creepier money-hungry pseudo-religions in the nation.
 
Also: the assigning of a “handler” from said cult to tag along with your new bewildered young fiancee everywhere she goes to “keep her on the path” and make sure she doesn’t, I don’t know what. Talk about the nightmares? Break down in a heap and confess that it’s all a staged setup? Reveal your true lizard identity?
 
Yes, Tom Cruise is getting weirder, more annoying than ever.

 
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