Mr Damian asks the question on everyone's lips, has Hollywood star and movie hearthrob Tom Cruise finally lost it?

Film lovers have had to endure some strange behaviour from the celloid legend in recent months, from his whirlwind romance and engagement to the Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes, through to his infamous appearance on Oprah.

Cruise famously let one go on national TV

Many feared that the wheels were coming off, and that the former Top Gun star was becoming 'too religious by half' - a fear that will only be compounded by a recent interview Cruise gave Mr Damian in a Manhattan public convenience.

The diminutive star suggested that alcohol, doughnuts and having fun were all 'unchristian' and disputed the need for surgeons to use anaesthetic when performing operations.

'Mr Damian, Mr Damian, you don't even - you're glib. You don't even know what anaesthetic is,' he said.

When I pointed out that I was a medically trained doctor who had been performing surgery around ther world for over three decades, I was given short shrift from the short one.

'If you start talking about pain surpession, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, okay? That's what I've done. I know the truth. You can't handle the truth.'

Cruise continued by noting that:

- the world is flat,
- he'd recently had tea with the Loch Ness Monster,
- he once played golf with Bigfoot,
- Paris Hilton is a reincarnation of Isaac Newton,
- the US really did land on the moon and
- that he is 100% straight, never even having thought of trying brown love with a lucky lady.

Obviously we just laughed, and told him that was a load of rubbish, with one exception. We've always known that Paris Hilton was really Isaac Newton for the new millennium. Cruise simply confirmed our suspicions.

The other Paris Hilton

Posted by damian at June 26, 2005 03:11 AM