Tom Cruise

What is it this week and trash talking? The latest quasi-celeb to badmouth his former co-stars is, oddly enough, Bronson Pinchot, better known as Balki from Perfect Strangers. Believe it or not he was actually in other things too.

Katie Holmes talking fashion with Elle this month, and how hubby Tom Cruise helps with hers.

She said: "He usually likes everything, but sometimes I'll walk out and he'll say, 'I think that dress might be wearing you. You don't need that.' Tom has great taste." And he wonders why those rumors are always coming up.

Brad Pitt is taking a ride on the Trash Talk Express.

The actor insists that his new film, Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, is the greatest World War II movie ever made, and that it's much better than Tom Cruise's Valkyrie.

Pitt told German magazine Stern: “The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin put a cover on that pot. With Basterds, everything than can be said to this genre has been said. The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story.”

Katie Holmes' much-speculated appearance on So You Think You Can Dance has been confirmed.

Producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe announced the actress will appear on stage for the 100th episode of the hit reality TV show that for the hottest new dance talent.

Holmes will dance in a Tyce Diorio-choreographed tribute to Judy Garland on July 23.

Tom Cruise decided there's just something about Cameron Diaz.

The pair have signed on to co-star in a James Mangold-directed film entitled Wichita.

Cruise will reportedly play "a secret agent who pops in and out of the life of a single woman."

Well, that's not vague at all.

Maybe some of Diaz's rom-com likability will once again rub off on the reigning Prince of Scientology.

Nicole Kidman pulled a Miley Cyrus at the ACMs in Las Vegas last night.

She flashed major back.

And her hubby, Keith Urban, obviously approved.

That paw’s moving a little bit south, ain’t it, cowboy?

We love that Nicole towers over Keith, the same way she did over Tom, and he was no qualms about it. He’s so obviously proud of and in love with her.

Adorable.

If he weren’t wearing so much pancake foundation and bronzer, this would be an “Awwww” Moment.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

While all eyes were on Angelina and Brad and Jen and John on the red carpet at the Oscars last week, another famous couple was conspicuously absent: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

It's now being reported that Holmes, 30, was apparently too tired from a detox regimen she's on to make it to the ceremomy.

Let's get the painful worst out of the way first so we can end this year on the high note of what was great.

Worst
1. Hounddog
A terribly written, amateurishly directed, horrendously acted, self-important parable about lost innocence rife with Adam and Eve symbolism; the film’s major claim to fame is the rape of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. To call it offensively bad is to be kind. 

Many people commented that after Katie Holmes hooked up with Tom Cruise she started acting like a brainwashed zombie. But it appears it took a run on Broadway to really push her over the edge and into the realm of the undead.

Check out these shots of Holmes on her way to her nightly appearance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, sporting a cold sore on her lip, dark circles under her eyes, blisters on her feet and generally looking like she's on the hunt for human brains to feast upon.