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J. Lo Made Tom Cruise an Offer He Couldn't Refuse
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:50 AM on April 8, 2008
Once upon a time, a godfather was a man whose chief mission was to guide a child's religious beliefs. But nowadays, it's just a regular guy who's friends with the parents and buys stuff for the kid ... or so J. Lo and Marc Anthony would have us believe. The "Catholic" couple, whose twins Max and Emme were born on February 22, have reportedly asked Tom Cruise to be their babies' godfather. Yeah, you read that right.
Reports claim that Cruise has already bought the twins your average baby essentials: You know, like $200,000 worth of christening clothes and a giant aquarium for their nursery. So why the interest in these particular babies, we wonder?
It's well-documented that L. Ron Hubbard was obsessed with numbers, and the fact that Lopez gave birth to 2 babies on 2/22 seems a little unusual. Also unusual? Choosing a godfather for your children who - at least as far as the public knows - has not been part of your life for more than a year. Oh, and did we mention: J. Lo's father, David Lopez, has been a Scientologist for 20 years. So call us crazy, but either Scientology skipped a generation, or some big-bootied girl, who inexplicably shot to stardom after years of mediocrity, isn't telling the truth about which church she's been praying in for the last decade.
Tags: jennifer lopez | marc anthony | scientology | the godfather | tom cruise
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CourageousCoward
Posted 8:37 AM 8/4/08
Can anyone confirm if Ms. Lopez had the requisite "quiet birth?"
CourageousCoward
pureblarney
Posted 8:33 AM 8/4/08
There's weird latent symbolism in the way they're pointing to her uterus.
pureblarney
nick_r
Posted 8:27 AM 8/4/08
Who's that dude in drag next to Cruise?
nick_r
CourageousCoward
Posted 8:17 AM 8/4/08
@bichon: That hurt to read. May I suggest ESL at a local community college?
CourageousCoward
Old No.7
Posted 8:16 AM 8/4/08
I call bullshit - to be a godparent in the Catholic religion, or even a official witness, for that matter, the participant must be a fully indoctrinated member of the Catholic Church (meaning baptized & confirmed)... also, the SPOUSE must also be of the Catholic religion as well.
Unless J-Ho indeed gave birth to the antichrist twins, in which Professor Glib and his boy bride is the PERFECT fucking match.
Old No.7
bichon
Posted 8:10 AM 8/4/08
Jennifer really does have no friends, does she?
bichon
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 8:09 AM 8/4/08
Now the truth can finally be told. Tom Cruise is chief baby procurer for CAA. It all makes sense.
Sweet Panda Love
Benovite
Posted 8:02 AM 8/4/08
Ah yes, the second coming of L. Ron.
Benovite
brechtgirl
Posted 8:01 AM 8/4/08
It's like Rosemary's Baby but instead of Guy making the deal, Rosemary went ahead and did it herself.
brechtgirl
Victor Ward
Posted 9:01 AM 8/4/08
I would just like to focus on how creepy this picture is.
I am really starting to believe that Tom Cruise gets his hair glued on. Katie Holmes is apparently wearing a costume from The Fifth Element. Jennifer Lopez has such an inexplicably Fall of the House of Usherish makeup treatment, paired with a mutant claw of a hand poised to tear the (negligible as it may be) flesh from Marc's shoulder. And Marc is, well, ugly.
And what is a star commenter? I am a gold star gay, but that, I'm sure, is completely different.
Victor Ward
CourageousCoward
Posted 8:43 AM 8/4/08
Can anyone confirm that Ms. Lopez had the requisite "quiet birth?"
CourageousCoward
IKnowThings
Posted 9:42 AM 8/4/08
@Old No.7: That's not exactly true. My husband and I are godparents, and only I am Catholic- he's Baptist (though neighter have us has gone to church in at least a decade, because church is boring.) Also, our daughter's godparents are 1 Catholic/ 1 Lutheran. ANd we all did the baptism classes and all that hoo-hah. Tom can be the godfather (actually, Christian Witness) if they choose a straight up Catholic Godmother.
IKnowThings
bonniegrrl
Posted 1:32 PM 8/4/08
Ya know somewhere Val Kilmer is wondering why no one picks him as a godfather.
bonniegrrl
LLH
Posted 2:03 PM 8/4/08
to be god parents don't you have to actually go to a church that has a god? space aliens don't count.
LLH
raincoaster
Posted 2:33 PM 8/4/08
@brechtgirl: You nailed it.
raincoaster
pixie-stix
Posted 3:54 PM 8/4/08
How creepy. Poor kids.
pixie-stix
nyobserver
Posted 11:37 PM 8/4/08
Are they all that short or is Katie freakishly tall?
nyobserver
Oxytone
Posted 3:46 AM 9/4/08
@Old No.7: I had thought that Tom Cruise was officially Catholic as in baptised and confirmed, and wasn't Katie Holmes Catholic as well?
Oxytone
Lavolanges
Posted 1:19 PM 8/4/08
Yes, a baptized non-Catholic Christian can be a 'Christian witness' at a Catholic's baptism (only those baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit need apply) but Tom doesn't even qualify as that by virtue of his adherence to Scientology. No priest in his right mind would consent to this. Of course, the children only require one godparent so J-Lo & Mark Anthony can just pick one practicing Catholic to be godmother to both children and outside the church they can assign the role of godfather to anyone they want.
Isn't Tom just the person you'd ask to help you raise your child in the Catholic faith?
Lavolanges
Snarky1
Posted 12:11 PM 9/4/08
Ugh.
What I'd give for one lone person, with brass balls, to just sit Cruise down and tell him to go the fuck away...like, from EVERYONE...
Snarky1