Tom Cruise apparently "always wanted to kill Hitler"

While promotoing "Valkyrie" in South Korea this week, Tom Cruise let the public know that he had always harbored desires to kill Hitler ever since childhood. It's not a terrible thing to have said, but when considering the source, it is. PR success has escaped the international star for close to five years running at this point and he still seems like a runaway train. Sure a real beloved blockbuster would probably absolve him of all guilt, but the likelihood of that happening is quickly evaporating. On the other hand, his PR situation is not as bad as it should be considering his bullying of a depressed mother, morning TV show host, Oprah's couch and Katie Holmes' frontal lobe.

This childhood dream of killing Hitler does break a traditional American mold of suburban boyhood aspirations. Every kid in his neighborhood may have chased the ice cream man and played stickball, but Cruise wanted more. He wanted to put an end to the Furor's reign of terror. Noble it may have been, but when it comes from the mouth of a celebrity that is clearly going batshit crazy, a subtext of lunacy must be mentioned. He must have been disappointed when he found out that Hitler had killed himself long before he got a crack at him. You'd think that a pilot, a racecar driver or a sports agent would have been the rolls that fulfilled his boyhood dreams. Instead, a lifelong desire was fulfilled when he threw on an eyepatch, faked a German accent and conceived a plot to kill Hitler.