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    Hollywood Breakdown

    Tom Cruise in the News

    Kim and John discuss the business side of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce.

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    By Kim Masters • Jul 5, 2012 • 3m Listen

    Kim and John discuss the business side of the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce. With Katie Holmes filing for divorce from Tom Cruise -- and sole custody of their daughter -- the movie star is back in the news and the studios who are depending upon his box office appeal aren't happy. Celebrity watchers are speculating that Cruise's long history with Scientology has something to do with this divorce but so far there's no proof that that is at issue. Still, the public conversation around the couple's demise has revived an old theme that Cruise had hoped he'd defeated and threatens to affect his public image which he's worked hard to restore after a spate of bad PR years ago.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Los Angeles Times

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