I am a bit tired of hearing about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. It is not that I do not like them – au contraire. I have always liked Katie (check her out in Pieces of April – a great movie) and I used to be a big Tom Cruise fan. Notice I said, “used to.” It is very hard to get on the Tom Bandwagon now and I do not think I am the only one that feels that way.
It seems everywhere we turn now days; there is some type of scandal or controversy concerning Tom and/or Katie. There the couch jumping, Brooke Shields bashing, Tom’s Scientology vs. Katie’s Catholic upbringing, the wedding (or lack of it so far), the age difference between them, silent births, the list goes on and on. Now that their precious baby girl is finally here, there is a naming controversy.
If you have read my blogs, you saw the one titled Crazy Celebrity Baby Names. So when Tom and Katie named their baby girl Suri, I didn’t think much about it. We were originally told by Tom’s spokeman that Suri had origins in Hebrew and meant “princess” and in Persian, it means, “red rose.” But, some people disagree with this and I am think they have the qualifications to back it up! The name Suri, according to Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is bluntly translated in Hebrew to “get out of here.” Which, I saw the pictures of Katie days before the birth and I am sure that is what she was thinking, but still!
My question is why would Tom Cruise, someone who seems to have adamantly turned his back on all religions other than Scientology (and I say that tongue in cheek), give his child a Hebrew name? From what I know of the Jewish religion, they take naming a baby very seriously and for Tom to do this seems disrespectful as well as just plain dumb. Little Suri will grow up with a beautiful and exotic name and hopefully the “get out of here” translation will never be mentioned.
Mission: Impossible III opens soon and if Tom doesn’t get his act together, getting back his once good name in Hollywood may be a “mission impossible.”