Oprah Spells Damage Control For Tom Cruise...Sort Of

In celebration of Tom Cruise's 25 years in the business, Oprah delivered taped messages from a bunch of random star friends of Cruise - actors Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith, Renee Zellweger, Dustin Hoffman; soccer player David Beckham and singer Victoria Posh Spice Beckham; director Steven Spielburg. They all praised him as an amazing actor, but above all, a good, real human being. You've got to hand it to Tom's new PR outlook: how could any of us have poked fun at this family man who takes the time to chat with movie set caterers, professes love for his in-laws, dresses up as Santa Claus, still dreams to work with Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro, has a blue-eyed baby and a beautiful wife who makes sure to have cupcakes around (all pastelled and fluffy, noless) whenever company is coming? In fact, sugar and cupcakes were how wife Katie Holmes first won over his children from his first marriage (with Nicole Kidman), Tom revealed.