Cruise is on special mission
Tom Cruise skipped a Mission: Impossible III news conference in Paris today to hit the boutiques in search of outfits for his new baby, organisers said.
Hours later, he went by helicopter to La Defense, the sleek high rise complex on the western edge of Paris, where thousands of fans massed before a red carpet showing of his movie. Cruise treated them to autographs.
His fiancée, Katie Holmes, and their week-old baby girl, Suri, stayed at home while Cruise went to Europe to promote his role as super agent Ethan Hunt.
At the news conference, Mission: Impossible III director J J Abrams playfully asked actress Michelle Monaghan what it was like to kiss Cruise with Holmes on the set.
“Was it weird?” he asked.
“No way,” she said.
“Just in general to kiss Tom Cruise is, you know … an experience of a lifetime,” she joked. “I highly recommend it...I said to Katie: ’I understand why you keep him around.’”
The new baby girl is the first child for Cruise and Holmes. Cruise has a son and daughter from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
