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So, Tom Cruise Lost All His Sex Appeal In Oprah's Couch Cushions, Right?

By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Pajiba Love | Comments (46)



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Not content to dominate over on Warming Glow and Uproxx, our man Dustin is at the top of Persephone Magazine’s “Smexiest People Alive.” Let me tell you Pajibans, Persephone is a fantastic site. If you want proof, just look at the top three on this list. Smexy, riiiight? (Persephone)

Speaking of smexy, can we pinpoint the exact moment Tom Cruise became anything but? He used to be sexy, right? If a little short for my taste? The crazy ruins everything. If there was any doubt in your mind about the state of sexy affairs, check out this video of Cruise caterwauling and swiveling his hips at a Scientology retreat. It’s like watching your dad…mortifying. (
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To me, sexy is Serena Williams in a little red dress and killer heels. That posterior? Damn. (GFY)

Since the posthumous release of his authorized biography, a lot of folks are jumping on the “Steve Jobs was an *sshole” bandwagon. While that may be true, I think it’s unfair to make that assessment based on what you heard from someone who heard from somone who read the book. You didn’t all read the book, did you? I’d be impressed, it’s lengthy. Anwyay, “The Atlantic” has, at the very least, presented a more even look at the Jobsian legacy. (The Atlantic)

My favorite chameleon, Andy Serkis, gave The Hollywood reporter a fantastic interview. In it he discusses the art of a motion capture performance (of which he is king). It seems like maybe Andy Serkis thinks he deserves an Oscar. So do we, Andy, so do we. (THR)

Ah, and now for something completely frivolous. A map of the average penis sizes across Europe. Well, bonjour there, France. (BioTV)
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“An artist” has created an instillation of 30,000 piles of rice. Cool. Arty. How many peeps do you think we could have fed with that? (This Is Colossal)

Do you love West Side Story? Then go enter Nathaniel’s contest, tell him why you love it and win a 50th Anniversary edition Blu-ray. (TFE)

Oh, christ, I already despise Michelle Trachtenberg. Now she’s saying she was up for the role of Bella Swan? That’s a perfect storm of whiny uselessness. (Celebitchy)

If you guys are feeling amorous, Jean-Ralphio has some romantic advice for you. (WarmingGlow)

Uproxx has a quick review of Lady Gaga’s new autobiographical short film and it’s…positive??? (Uproxx)

If you have time, I urge you to read this super long piece on the gorgeous Rita Hayworth. It’s fascinating. Personally, I love it when she does that sh*t with her hair. (The Hairpin)

There are several ways you can download/pre-buy the new NIN soundtrack for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Some of them are freeeee! (NIN)

An epic battle between Screech and Urkel? My heart says no, but my TGIF-riddled brain says yes. (Unreality)

Finally, check out this awesome photo essay of a Dutch woman at a shooting gallery. The pictures go from 1936-2009. (Retronaut)

Here’s a collection of TV characters who never appeared on screen. It was a gimmick I sort of hated on several shows but absolutely loved on “Frasier.” Then again, I loved a lot of things about “Frasier.”

Thanks to Bierce Ambrose for this video of 6 famous paradoxes explored. For you trivial folk out there.

Joanna Robinson knows “Saved By They Bell” didn’t air on Friday, but TGIF anyway you guys, right? Also, “Oprah’s Couch Cushions” is emphatically not a euphemism.









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Comments

It's kind of amazing how Cruise is wearing sunglasses and the dude still has the crazy eyes. See what a great work ethic and membership in a cult that reduces you to an emotion-simulating automaton can do for you?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 2, 2011 2:11 PM

I had an EXTREME moment of inadequacy there, until I remembered that Europe uses that silly metric system.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 2, 2011 2:11 PM

And, wow, Dustin Rowles, that's some lofty company you're keeping in that list! Right behind Neil deGrasse Tyson and ahead of Idris Elba, with Neil Gaiman way down the list. Impressive.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at December 2, 2011 2:15 PM

I started to watch the Tom Cruise video but gave up midway. Somehow I paused it on the same finger guns blazing pose as the header pic. He brings the sexy every time...unlike Dustin who's invisible on that Persephone link.

Posted by: anikitty at December 2, 2011 2:16 PM

I was wondering why Europe was so small. Then I realized I'm actually a talking horse.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at December 2, 2011 2:17 PM

Gimmicky, yes, but I looooove Bob Sacamano.

'He called about 3am and we got to talkin'

Posted by: John G. at December 2, 2011 2:17 PM

Poor Latvia and Lithuania. Apparently they didn't have enough dicks to qualify.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at December 2, 2011 2:21 PM

It's okay DarthCorleone, it appears that the poor men of Bosnia and Herzegovina have penises too small to measure.

Posted by: THRILLHO at December 2, 2011 2:24 PM

Does the name now need to be changed from the Irish curse to the Romanian curse?

Posted by: Jast at December 2, 2011 2:25 PM

Love the unseen characters vid, but this wouldn't be a comments section if it were not for someone pointing out some glaring omissions:

Where is Robin McMasters from Magnum?

Posted by: Thomas Magnum III at December 2, 2011 2:28 PM

I always suspected that if American men ever realized that something 4 inches long would now be 10 centimeters, the US would have converted to the metric system long ago.

Posted by: Tranjo at December 2, 2011 2:30 PM

Please, PLEASE don't start using "smexy" here? It sounds like head cheese, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: snapnhiss at December 2, 2011 2:32 PM

Scientology has its own religious cruise ship.

No wonder they don't believe in heaven. They have it right here on earth.

Posted by: PaddyDog at December 2, 2011 2:35 PM

They did that study in the Kinsey report. The largest penis sizes on average and in order went to the French, the Native Americans, African Americans and then Latinos.

Posted by: scorzi at December 2, 2011 2:40 PM

Sorry...how this... Anyone notice that Hungery is well hung?

Posted by: Luke at December 2, 2011 2:49 PM

how = about

In my mind anyway

Posted by: Luke at December 2, 2011 2:50 PM

Never sexy.

Posted by: googergieger at December 2, 2011 2:50 PM

But the problem with the typical American male is that centimeters will always sound small, regardless of the number attached to it. You could leave the word "centimeters" off, but personally I'm not in favor of that kind of unit sloppiness.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at December 2, 2011 2:53 PM

Is it wrong that I really wanted to see a smexy photo of Dustin too? Is it?

Posted by: Amberlark at December 2, 2011 2:53 PM

Good God, man. That Rowles quote on P-Mag is one of the most eloquent, beautiful things to ever make me pee myself. I salute you, good sir.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at December 2, 2011 2:58 PM

What, no Carlton the Doorman from Rhoda! Travesty. Unseen and unremembered...RIP big fella.

Posted by: 1PunkInDrublic at December 2, 2011 3:21 PM

I seem to recall a short-lived series called "Mrs. Columbo", so I think she is disqualified.

If Tom Cruise were the other last guy on earth, I'd have bad tennis elbow, in both arms.

Posted by: Drake at December 2, 2011 3:23 PM

had an EXTREME moment of inadequacy there, until I remembered that Europe uses that silly metric system.

Yep. 16.51 cm = 6.5 inches. So about normal.

Poor Russians and Portuguese are working with a full inch less. I'm sure Cristiano Ronaldo's ladies don't mind though.

And speaking of size...Tom Cruise. Without getting into his belief system (and inciting the "Well every belief system is bullshit" crowd), I think his problem was that he couldn't manage the transition from sex star to elder stateman.

Look at people like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. As they aged, they involved themselves in causes and became activists -- Redford with his Sundance Foundation and Newman with the Hole in the Wall Gang. You can see it also with George Clooney and his campaigning for Darfur or Brad Pitt and his Make it Right! Foundation. It's part of a leading man's maturity to not just be a playboy, but a philanthropist.

It seems like Cruise tried to make Scientology his cause and, well, it backfired on him for various reasons.

Posted by: Fredo at December 2, 2011 3:31 PM

The list of things that I'd let Serena Williams do to me is long, varied and unwholesome.

Posted by: Groundloop at December 2, 2011 3:54 PM

I am so bored at work. I have read all of the articles and clicked all of the links. I have performed my daily ritual of both cursing, and grudgingly admitting the validity of, the blocks that prevent me from seeing YouTube from the comfort of my desk. I have work things to do. Boring things. Are you bored at work? Are you, perhaps, bored in another milieu? Did I spell and use milieu correctly? I'm too bored to care. This is boring. Bored people are boring. I'm boring. Not like Mad Men where they wallow in ennui and pretentious metaphysical malaise, this is regular boredom. Plain boredom. Homespun boredom. I’m bored verging on being angry at how bored I am. I do not want to do my boring work and thus increase my boredom. Maybe if it involved boring into someone’s skull, I wouldn’t be so bored. After a while, after you clean up the mess, I bet even that gets boring. Perhaps it’s cleaning up the mess that makes it boring. I'll go do my boring work things. Boring like in bored or boredom, not boring like that skull thing I mentioned before.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at December 2, 2011 3:59 PM

Mrs. Julien, I can only say this about your rant: I read "Mad Men" as "Mad Max", and was confused for a while. "Mad Max" about boredom and ennui? Did I miss something? .... OH.

There, have I entertained you?

Posted by: MM at December 2, 2011 4:04 PM

Mrs. Julien is starting to lose it.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at December 2, 2011 4:08 PM

The list of things that I'd let "Oprah's Couch Cushions" do to me is long, varied and unwholesome.

Posted by: Redacted at December 2, 2011 4:11 PM

...speaking of boring...

Most boring movie titles ever.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at December 2, 2011 4:13 PM

Ireland, I am disappoint.

Posted by: Zirze at December 2, 2011 6:39 PM

if anyone knows Serena and she's into middle-aged engineers hook a brother up!

Posted by: logan at December 2, 2011 7:35 PM

Mrs. J, start drinking at work. It's the Mad Men approach to problem-solving.

Posted by: Stinky at December 2, 2011 7:40 PM

Start drinking? Good one!hahahhahahaha

Posted by: logan at December 2, 2011 7:48 PM

I, too, forgot about the metric system, and gasped (as well as pulled out my pocket English-Hungarian dictionary to brush up on my skills before impromptu trip), then realized...

No longer in awe. Just aww.

Posted by: Stinky at December 2, 2011 7:52 PM

Not sure which bores me more: this article and the attached posts or Tom Cruise.

Fuck. Tom Cruise wins. He always does. He is Mr. Most Boring.

Posted by: klingonfree at December 2, 2011 11:25 PM

the only zing, the penis-list proves, is what dirty filthy liars the french are!

Posted by: hans at December 3, 2011 4:15 AM

I used to say that I am half-Romanian. I will now change that to "approximately 125% Romanian."

Posted by: firedmyass at December 3, 2011 4:43 PM

Tom Cruise had sex appeal? Huh.

Posted by: eliza at December 3, 2011 8:52 PM

Well, it would seem that either A) the so called "Irish Curse' has some merit, or B) the men of Erin are some of the most honest men in all of Europe. I'd say the Russians are on par with them, but it's so damn cold there, I have no doubt many of them will fall back on the whole "shrinkage" factor.

Psst! Hey! France. Yeah you. C'mere. Really fellahs, you got quite a few things going for you already. There's really no sense exaggerating the height of your Eiffel Tower. I mean if she's already snacking on your escargot, and tolerates the pungent struggle between your three-day old man sweat and that cloud of gigolo musk you call cologne, believe you me she's really not gonna care if the trip to the Observation Deck is a few extra flights or not. You already have a positive reputation, just ride it for what it is. If she's happy shooting the Parisian rapids, don't try to sneak in that they're really waterfalls. It won't help your game. Nobody like a bullshit artist. I cannot tell you if size ultimately matters or not, but I'm fairly confident honesty does. Besides, it's my understanding self-confidence does more than boost the ego if you catch my drift.

Posted by: bleujayone at December 3, 2011 9:05 PM

Does the name now need to be changed from the Irish curse to the Romanian curse?

Posted by: Jast at December 2, 2011 2:25 PM

Watchit, bucko!

But yeah, yet ANOTHER reason to move to Paris.
Peace out!

Posted by: Kateshi Rinkichiku at December 4, 2011 8:18 AM

I hear Tom paid a visit to or plans to visit the Taj Mahal. As I understand it, Tom and the Taj make two things that are much smaller than most people think they are.

Posted by: , at December 4, 2011 2:25 PM

The color coding for that map of Europe is interesting. Evidently, as you move from beige (Causcasian) to black, your dick gets bigger.

(Insert your own racial stereotype punchline here.)

Posted by: , at December 4, 2011 2:31 PM

Never mind measurements, let's answer the important questions: does one measure from the 'top' of the base (the part you see looking down), or from the tip down to the testicles? Because one is longer than the other.

Not that it matters, but I have a friend who worries about my penis size. I mean his.

Posted by: Nick at December 4, 2011 10:51 PM

"Serkis: Absolutely, and that's happening really with Wii and Nintendo Connect. That's how it should be."

Ahh Serkis, even with all the technology you're around constantly and being in multiple games you're still completely clueless about them :D Love it.

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