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...writing, of course, about Suri Cruise. (I'm told the newscast was also the debut of some lady from the Today show.) Since Suri's birth in April, she had not been seen, spurring a flood of rumors. Was she a hoax? Sick? An alien? Then the House of Cronkite broke its big scoop by flashing the exclusive Vanity Fair photos, with the adorable, ebony-maned head of what even die-hard Internet rumormongers had to concede was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' actual, intact, human baby...
...this case, their credibility. In what was already the year of the celebrity baby--Britney Spears playing hot potato with Sean Preston, Angelina Jolie posing like Madonna and child with Shiloh Nouvel--Suri inherited her dad's aura of mystery and its baggage. Cruise is one of those figures about whom there was always an official story and an unofficial story: the stuff you were allowed to say about him in respectable media and the stuff people actually cared about. The Scientology business, for instance. Cruise was a notoriously litigious member of a notoriously litigious institution. The press owns only...
Then came Oprah's couch. Then came Brooke Shields and South Park. Most damaging, then came underperforming movies and Paramount's decision to break off its relationship with him. And Suri became a metaphor for everything the public suddenly found suspicious about him. Keeping her unseen, Cruise was pretending that he was still Untouchable...
...fallen? Look at Vanity Fair's Annie Leibovitz cover photo. Cruise holds Suri, nestled inside his bomber jacket; Katie Holmes peers at--but doesn't touch--her baby. It is a brilliant, sly metacomment on the whispers about Cruise: Is he too controlling? What creepy power does he have over his wife? What is he hiding? It is the sort of thing that, one suspects, a more powerful Cruise would have vetoed and that the media would have been scared to death to pull...
...With her distinctive raven locks, little Suri, it seems, has now merely been marked for easier recognition by gawkers and lensmen. The good news is, pretty Suri has got years to go before her awkward phase. And by that time Lindsay Lohan's tot should be ready to crawl up and take some of the heat...