看下派拉蒙影片公司列舉好萊塢票房巨星湯姆·克魯斯的諸多“罪狀”：癡迷“科學神教”、公然挑釁精神病醫療法、公開譴責好萊塢影星波姬·小絲產后吃抗憂郁藥物、與凱蒂·赫爾姆斯頗為扎眼的高調戀情…… 派拉蒙影片公司認為，湯姆·克魯斯近一年來頗為怪異的行為影響了他的公眾形象，導致票房收入銳減，表示將結束與這位超級巨星的合作。

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (08/19/06) Paramount Pictures has severed its 14-year-old ties to Tom Cruise's production company because of his off-screen behavior, the chairman of the studio's parent company said on Wednesday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.  The report signaled the end of one of the most lucrative production deals commanded by any A-list Hollywood star and followed other signs that Cruise's public stature had been damaged by his conduct during the past year. Cruise's representatives and officials from Viacom and Paramount did not have any immediate comment on the report. Days after his latest film, "Mission: Impossible III," opened to lower-than-expected domestic ticket sales in May, an opinion poll showed his star power in the eyes of the public had dimmed considerably. Months ago, Grey was one of several movie industry executives who publicly rallied to Cruise's defense to insist that his status and popularity were undiminished. They were reacting to a USA Today/Gallup poll in which half of those surveyed registered an "unfavorable" opinion of the actor. Many cited his off-screen behavior during the past year, including his outspoken defense of his religion, Scientology, and his blunt criticism of psychiatry and actress Brooke Shield's treatment for postpartum depression. Cruise also became the butt of jokes for his manic, couch-hopping appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last May to declare his love for actress Katie Holmes, who recently gave birth to Cruise's first biological child, a daughter they named Suri. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Redstone was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal report e-mailed to reporters. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount." (Agencies)

Vocabulary:

Scientology: 山達基教，又名科學論派、科學神教，新興宗教之一。山達基教認為人是精神個體，相信精神、心理療法。 postpartum depression: 產后抑郁癥 butt of jokes: 笑柄 （英語點津陳蓓編輯）