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War of the Words: Tom Cruise/Paramount
Aug 25, 2006, 12:20 GMT
Tom Cruise's representatives have attacked Paramount Pictures - the Hollywood studio that dropped the actor this week.
Sumner Redstone - the head of Viacom, the company which owns Paramount - ended their 14 year deal with the star on Wednesday (23.08.06) blaming Tom's conduct.
Redstone said: 'His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount. 'As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal.' Sumner's comments are believed to refer to a string of headline grabbing antics including Tom's couch-jumping display on 'Oprah' and his controversial views on the use of antidepressants, based on his Scientology beliefs. Now Richard Lovett - the president of the Creative Artists Agency which represents the 44-year-old actor - has hit back. He fumed: 'That a mogul like Sumner Redstone could make a statement so vicious, so pompous, so petulant as that he didn't want to make a deal with Tom Cruise because of his personal conduct - it tells you more about Sumner Redstone and Viacom than about Tom Cruise.' The 'War of the Worlds' star's lawyer, Bert Fields, has also got involved, branding Redstone's comments 'disgusting'. Fields also suggested 83-year-old Redstone had 'lost it completely' or had been given 'breathtakingly bad advice.'Copyright 2006 BANG Media International
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John RavoltaAug 26th, 2006 - 19:28:14
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