You may have heard that when the film Thank You for Smoking screened at Sundance this week, the absence of a sex scene between Aaron Eckhart and Katie Holmes came as a shock to those who had seen the movie at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival last fall - including the filmmakers.
Of course, everyone assumed that the unexpected snip was the result of a vast Scientologist conspiracy. (Silly media! What on earth have Tom Cruise and the Scientologists ever done that would warrant such suspicion?)
But no sooner did US Weekly and the like run with the “Tom doesn’t want anyone seeing Katie with another man, even in a fictional film!” story than Smoking director Jason Reitman fingered the real culprit: “something went wrong with the reel.”
Yes, Jason. Something went wrong with the reel. Something that excised the whole of a self-contained, 12-second scene and no other footage. Sure. See, Jason, the thing about being quoted in print media is that no one can see the gun that Lee Anne DeVette is pointing at your temple.
Reitman insisted, however, that the scene will be restored in time for the film’s March 17 opening. And then his bullet-riddled body was found at the bottom of Salt Lake.
No ‘Smoking’ sex for Katie [Yahoo!]
now if they could only lose the marlon brando sex scenes from last tango in paris. scientology needs to get right on that.
scientology rules! *hahaha
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