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Re: Tom Cruise: Queer as a 3$ bill

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From: natch
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:42
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Jacob Oost <zork@insight.rr.com> wrote in message news:<s_zV9.75427$GF.20557206@twister.columbus.rr.com>...
> Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > He's probably going to have a hard time collecting it, but Tom
> > Cruise has just won a $10 million default judgment against a
> > Hollywood man who claimed to be the actor's gay lover.
> > 
> > In May 2001, Cruise filed the below $100 million defamation lawsuit
> > against Chad Slater, a porno actor whom, the complaint alleged,
> > claimed in a magazine interview to have been involved in a
> > "continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair
> > was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife, leading to their divorce."
> > 
> > The complaint flatly states, "Tom Cruise is not and has never been
> > a homosexual." When Slater--who is known professionally as Kyle
> > Bradford--last year defaulted on the lawsuit, Cruise filed a
> > request in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking a $10 million
> > judgment against Slater (who has been described in various press
> > accounts as a professional "erotic wrestler").
> > 
> > Judge Ernest Williams late last month formally approved Cruise's
> > application for the $10 million default judgment against Slater,
> > with the actor's victory being announced today (1/15) by Cruise's
> > legal team.
> > 
> > http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/chadslater1.shtml
> > 
> > 
> I love the irony of a so-called tolerant Hollywood modern man saying he was 
> defamed by being called gay.  I'd have thought he wouldn't have minded, 
> being an open-minded, liberal, Democrat sort of guy.  For those of you who 
> complain about me ranting about off-topic political posts, this post is 
> on-topic.


Why the heck would be a democrat or liberal equate to not minding
being called gay? Thats pretty damn dumb.
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