While Tom Cruise missed out on a Golden Globe nod, Glen Ridge High's most notorious thespian does get recognized for his year long performance away from the Big Screen by making the list of the "Ten Most Pathetic Media Meltdowns in 2005".

Advertising Age's Media Guy, Simon Dumenco, gives Tommy Boy the gong in the mag's December 19 online edition.

Tom Cruise’s toothy tantrum on Oprah was an instant classic that joined Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” on the shortlist of All-time Greatest Moments in American Television Infamy. But don’t forget that Tom’s attempt at bludgeoning us into buying his true l-u-v for Katie Holmes was almost topped by his own Scientology-fueled "Today" show outburst, in which he took on psychiatry, pharmacology, Brooke Shields and interviewer Matt Lauer. (“No, you see, here’s the problem: You don’t know the history of psychiatry,” he told Lauer. “I do.”) Unfortunately for Cruise, just about everyone concluded that his talk-show freak-outs were fatal PR malfunctions.

Any suggestions as to to else who might make the list for PR blunders in Baristaville?

December 21, 2005 in Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (6)

...that is America's foreign policy for some real whacking. Now that Tony's long dream sequence is over (we hope), it's time for some major blood flow on the Sopranos. Is Adriana history? And what about the out-of-control cousin Tony? Most important, will we see any familiar locations in our favorite filmed-in-Essex-County show tonight?

UPDATE: One down, one to go. And just when it looked like TV was getting its first major poster child for ulcerative colitis! Oh well. No whacking during the big Memorial Day holiday next weekend. So you have two weeks to plan your Sopranos Finale parties. The last episode -- possibly until 2005 -- is June 6.

May 23, 2004 in Pop Culture | Permalink | Comments (1)