In a message dated 1/23/2006 7:47:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just searched the web for this. From what I can tell, Cruise was "jumping for joy" at the idea of being in love with Katie Holmes. The conversation at the time centered around the romance. While Cruise's actions may be considered over the top, I don't really see them as being much different than many other over-enthusiastic responses and actions when people are in love, or have won a big jackpot, or gotten that big promotion. The phrase "jump for joy" has been around a lot longer than Tom Cruise.
Have you never had an outburst of some sort that was uncharacteristic of your usual behavior when you were feeling especially happy, or excited, or exhilarated? Shel ======== It's been a bit more than that, though. I saw a clip of the interview he had with Matt Lauer where he was criticizing Brooke Shield for using medication to help with post partium depression. His attitude was -- he implied he was privy to inside information -- knew more about the mind than psychatrists/psyschologists. Okay, that's Scientology speaking. But he was quite arrogant and a bit over the top. Whether you like it or not, Shel, the consensus is he has been acting weird in interviews lately. You don't need to agree, but probably 90-95% of people do and would. Later, Marnie aka Doe

