Jumping the Shark -- Tom Cruise GAY!

Tom Cruise made the perfect ass of himself on Oprah. Note: Websites that were hosting the actual video of this amazing 'performance' were asked to remove the media by Cruises' lawyers. Cruise did an amazing verbal attack on Brooke Shields who was courageous about admitting to post-partum depression and seeking mental help to deal with this. He has since been 'fired' by Paramount Pictures for not accepting a salary that was commensurate with his current earnings. Well, he has inked a deal with a group that includes the owner of the Washington Redskins. From the LA Times:

Tom Cruise Cuts New Deal
Tom Cruise has cut a deal with a group that includes the owner of the Washington Redskins to finance the overhead costs of his film production company, sources close to the negotiations said today.

Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder, chairman of Six Flags Inc., is said to be a leading investor in an agreement that would give Cruise less than $3 million annually to finance staff and office expenses. In exchange, Snyder and the others will have the ability to finance movies developed by Cruise and his producing partner, Paula Wagner.

The two-year deal gives Cruise less than the $3 million a year that he reportedly turned down from Paramount Pictures to renew his longtime deal with the studio that expires Thursday.

Cruise and Wagner had been receiving an estimated $10 million annually from Paramount to cover their overhead under the soon to be expired deal.

When Cruise was publicly dismissed from Paramount by the studio's owner, Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone, last week, Wagner claimed that the team had lined up financing from hedge funds to cover the much larger cost of developing movies. The team was seeking at least $100 million, according to sources. The name of the hedge fund remains unknown and Cruise's lawyer Bertram Fields said last week there was no hedge fund deal.

Several top banking sources said they had not heard of any deal struck by Cruise with a hedge fund.

Another M. Jackson in the making? If not, at least a major shark jumping event... MI-3 was fun -- the baseballs scene was clever but it was more flash and bang than substance. A good rental or late-nite TV movie.