Sumner Redstone - the head of Viacom, the parent company of Paramount Pictures - isn’t done ripping into Tom Cruise just yet. Nine weeks after he leveled Cruise in the press and effectively fired him from Paramount, Redstone says he doesn't regret a thing:
"He was embarrassing the studio. And he was costing us a lot of money … (My wife), like women everywhere, had come to hate him … His behavior was entirely unacceptable … he just didn't turn one [woman] off, he turned off all women, and a lot of men."
Redstone estimates that Cruise's public meltdowns cost Paramount between 100 and 150 million dollars, saying that "Mission: Impossible III was the best picture of the three, and it did the worst," so he has no regrets if he embarrassed Cruise:
"The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money is over. And it is! I would like to think that what I did, or what we did, has had a salutary effect on the rest of the industry."
Cruise really needs to tapout. Redstone has him in the armbar and this is over. If this victory gets any more one-sided, Cruise will end up sleeping on a bed stuffed with hay.
source = Page Six
