by tabasco1776 » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:34 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160192,00.html">www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...92,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Katie Holmes' Missing Days<br>Tuesday, June 21, 2005<br>By Roger Friedman<br><br><br>The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining <br>to do to her friends and family.<br><br>There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to <br>know where she was.<br><br>Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the <br>premiere of "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway.<br><br>She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a <br>couple of other friends. They were there to support Rebecca<br> Gayheart, who was making her Broadway debut.<br><br>I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the<br> play's intermission. She said she had just moved into her <br>New York apartment and was looking forward to seeing the <br>city.<br><br>I also know that on April 4, she had not yet made the <br>acquaintance of Tom Cruise. She briefly dated Josh Hartnett<br> after breaking up with actor Chris Klein.<br><br>Hartnett, Klein, Cruise: Which of these three is not like the <br>others?<br><br>Klein and Hartnett are young and tall. Cruise is middle-aged<br> and height-challenged.<br><br>On the other hand, he's the biggest movie star in the world.<br> They are not.<br><br>Holmes was busy during that first week in April. On April 7, <br>she was photographed at the Fragrance Foundation's FiFi <br>event.<br><br>Four days later, Holmes was still in New York and was <br>photographed at VH1's "Save the Music" concert. She still <br>had not met Cruise.<br><br>Sometime that week, her friends say, she flew to Los <br>Angeles for a meeting with Cruise about a role in "Mission: <br>Impossible 3." The meeting took place after April 11.<br><br>The next time anyone heard from Holmes was on April 27, <br>when she appeared in public as Cruise's girlfriend and love <br>of his life.<br><br>Where was she during those 16 days?<br><br>Somewhere during that time, she decided to fire both her <br>manager and agent, each of whom she had been with for <br>years and who were devoted to her.<br><br>The manager, John Carrabino, also handles Renée Zellweger<br> and is beloved by his clients.<br><br>Holmes also acquired a new best friend, Jessica Feshbach, <br>the daughter of Joe Feshbach, a controversial Palo Alto, <br>Calif., bond trader.<br><br>The Feshbach family, according to published documents, <br>has donated millions to the Church of Scientology. Jessica's<br> aunt even runs a Scientology center in Florida.<br><br>According to Richard Behar's now famous 1991 story in Time<br> magazine about Scientology, the Feshbachs were the <br>subject of congressional hearings in 1989.<br><br>Behar wrote: "The heads of several companies claimed that <br>Feshbach operatives have spread false information to <br>government agencies and posed in various guises — such <br>as a Securities and Exchange Commission official — in an <br>effort to discredit the companies and drive the stocks down.<br><br>"Michael Russell, who ran a chain of business journals, <br>testified that a Feshbach employee called his bankers and <br>interfered with his loans. Sometimes the Feshbachs send <br>private detectives to dig up dirt on firms, which is then <br>shared with business reporters, brokers and fund <br>managers."<br><br>The risk-taking Feshbachs, known the world over for making<br> their fortune "shorting" stocks, and the level-headed, <br>conservative Holmeses would be a difficult mix at a dinner <br>table.<br><br>Katie's father, Martin Holmes, is the senior partner in a <br>large and respected Toledo, Ohio, law firm. His son, Martin<br> Jr., has recently joined the firm. He's a Harvard graduate.<br> Katie's mom, Kathy, is frequently cited in Toledo for her <br>charity work.<br><br>There is some fear among Holmes' close circle that her <br>instant romance with Cruise is not as organic as portrayed.<br><br>For one thing, Holmes was raised a strict Catholic. Also, <br>gone from the picture are two close Holmes friends who <br>used to be with her when she did publicity for a film.<br><br>One of these is Meghann Birie, a childhood friend who has <br>suddenly disappeared from Holmes' world. Another, a local <br>TV producer here in New York, was too afraid to discuss the<br> situation with me.<br><br>We know that Cruise auditioned several actresses for this <br>role before settling on Holmes. This column reported a story<br> about Jennifer Garner. There have been published stories <br>about Kate Bosworth, Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba being<br> approached.<br><br>A newer one involves Scarlett Johansson, who ran for her <br>life when presented with a fait accompli dinner at the <br>Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.<br><br>And history has been rewritten since the April 27 unveiling.<br><br>Curiously, since the Cruise-Holmes situation popped up, we<br> have heard over and over again that Cruise was the young<br> actress' idol when she was growing up.<br><br>That's certainly interesting because all of the publicity that<br> used to run on Holmes — still found all over the Internet —<br> lists another Tom as her favorite actor.<br><br>That would be Tom Hanks. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=tabasco1776>tabasco1776</A> at: 6/21/05 1:34 pm<br></i>