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Friday
28Nov2008

TomKat to 'Tango in Paris'?

Ewww.

The word from The Guardian is that Tom Cruise is looking for a "sexy film" in which he would co-star with Katie Holmes, who, at least according to the paperwork, is his wife. But wait - it gets better (or worse). The papers cites an unnamed "studio boss" who says that the couple wants the movie to contain "some intense sex stuff...they're looking at remaking Last Tango in Paris but anything sexy with a good story appeals."

The last time Cruise tried to prove his manhood onscreen with his wife, it flat killed Stanley Kubrick. But Last Tango in Paris is a landmark film, a symbol of both the sexual revolution and the end of Marlon Brando's important work. You really can't remake it with any effect, because so much of the film's success was the shock value. Nothing like that had really been done before, at least not commercially. The same thing goes for The Exorcist, released that same year.

Now, we all know what a target for rumors Tom Cruise is. It didn't just start with TomKat; Cruise has been tabloid fodder for nearly two decades for one reason or another. But because he made Eyes Wide Shut with Nicole and because Katie Holmes is still a very attractive woman, this rumor might have some truth to it.

The Last Tango thing seems like a bit of a reach - would Cruise really have a scene in a movie where he sodomizes his real-life wife? - but maybe if feelers are being put out there Cruise is looking for something like that film.

We do need a good sexually-driven drama that explores sex and isn't related to the rest of the world's problems. But do we need the Cruise family doin' the dirty for that to become a reality?

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