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CRUISE'S LAWYERS THREATEN TO SUE BRITISH NEWSPAPER Monday, April 19 2004 
Swiftly
responding
to
a
feature
story
that
appeared
in
the
London
Independent
only
on
Friday,
attorneys
for
Tom
Cruise
have
reportedly
demanded
a
retraction
of
comments
in
the
article
quoting
famed
drama
coach
Susan
Batson
as
saying
that
she
"was
asked
to
help
[Nicole]
Kidman
and
Tom
Cruise,
Kidman's
husband
at
the
time,
to
give
a
convincing
sexual
performance
in
Stanley
Kubrick's
Eyes
Wide
Shut."
MSNBC.com's
"Scoop"
column
quotes
Cruise's
attorneys
as
saying
that
Batson
(more)THE MARTIANS ARE COMING! (AGAIN) Wednesday, March 17 2004 
Even
as
the
Earth's
invaders
of
Mars,
Spirit
and
Opportunity,
continued
to
beam
down
pictures
of
their
progress
in
reconnoitering
the
red
planet,
word
was
being
circulated
in
Hollywood
Tuesday
that
Steven
Spielberg
is
planning
to
direct
a
new
movie
version
of
H.G.
Wells's
1898
classic
The
War
of
the
Worlds,
in
Martians
invade
Earth.
(More
famous
than
Wells's
sci-fi
classic
is
the
1938
radio
dramatization
starring
Orson
Welles,
which
is
said
to
have
touched
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Paramount and DreamWorks are rushing into production a new, effects-heavy version of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay was written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man) and Josh Friedman. Longtime Spielberg collaborator Kathleen Kennedy and Cruise collaborator Paula Wagner will produce. Although the project was announced in April, it was widely believed that it would be put on hold until after Spielberg completed work on his film about the 1972 Munich Olympics attack and until Cruise completed Mission: Impossible 3. Now, according to reports, those productions will be placed on back burners, while War is moved to the front. Published reports said that plans call for the film to go into production in November and to be released next year.
