I was perusing Popmuse today, as is my wont, and this entry got me to thinking. Mainly because I have nothing to do at work today, I decided to poke around trying to get to the "bottom" of the whole Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise "romance."  (Specifically, I was wondering if this meant Chris Klein is also gay.)

Instead I found a link to this website, which is just snippets of conversations people overhear in New York!  It's cleverly titled "Overheard In New York". 

Apparently, Katie was overheard in a Starbucks talking about Tom's jet, and she wasn't making a pun.  I just hope this relationship goes better than Tom's romance with Penelope Cruz!  That one started just before the release of Vanilla Sky, and ended after the film completed its global publicity tour.  It's so sad.  I really, really thought they had something in common other than their homophonic names.  I guess without the EXCITEMENT and THRILL of press junkets to keep you occupied, the romance of being alone with a woman is just not thrilling enough to keep a confirmed bachelor like Tom Cruise interested. 

Katie's been doing the right thing, however, and conducting their hand-holding in front of photographers, so hopefully this will relationship will work. Next thing you know, Katie will be appearing in small-but-important women's films with hairy armpits showing, and Tom will be back in rotation among the lesser starlets looking for a break.  At the very least, there's been so much speculating about how fake the relationship seems that no one is mentioning how creepy it is for a 42-year old man to date someone who is, quite literally, old enough to be his daughter.  If I had a moment alone with Tom, and if he could shut the hell up about Scientology for a minute, I'd explain it to him.  Repeatedly.

That is all.