Ok, silly question: how da feck is it that the baby took no poops between birth in April and August 18?

And some people still wonder why Tom got sacked by Paramount.
Sean P. Dailey | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 2:17 pm | #

I'll wait for the abstract polychromatic canvas of the baby's first projectile vomit.

Are these things going to start showing up in future Cruise films?
Old Zhou | 08.31.06 - 2:20 pm | #

This is absurd on so many levels...
Chris-2-4 | 08.31.06 - 2:42 pm | #

"Ok, silly question: how da feck is it that the baby took no poops between birth in April and August 18?"

As the article says, it is her first solid stool.
Scott W. | 08.31.06 - 2:46 pm | #

Sean, I think the key is that this was her first *solid* poop.

If this is for real, it says a lot of about Tom Cruise that he trots out bronze casts of his daughter's poo before he let's anyone take a picture of her.
Judith M. | 08.31.06 - 2:48 pm | #

Alright, this artist is getting WAY too much press. First it was the nude birthing Britney Spears sculpture, then the Hillary Clinton bust, and now this. The real work of art that this guy has created is the way he is fashioning the media to do his will of self-promotion.
Ronny | 08.31.06 - 2:49 pm | #

First solid anything is arbitrary--what test of cohesion or gelatinousness did the immediately preceding movement fail that this one passed?

PVO
mulopwepaul | 08.31.06 - 3:07 pm | #

Thanks for clarifying, Scott and Judith.
Sean P. Dailey | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 3:14 pm | #

I am now SO tempted to believe in reincarnation: P.T. Barnum lives on in the body and mind of Daniel Edwards!
Emkay | 08.31.06 - 3:22 pm | #

Also, Old Zhou - may we have some decorum in the comments, please? Polite people do not write "vomit"; they prefer to use the accepted euphemism: yawning in Technicolor. I, too, await this artistic achievement from Ms. Suri.
Emkay | 08.31.06 - 3:43 pm | #

Holy Crap!!!

I get the feeling little TomCat isn't on breast milk.

When in the heck are they feeding that poor baby?

I know some 50 year olds who would kill to have a BM that large.
paul scheibmeir | 08.31.06 - 3:52 pm | #

Oh. My. God.
CatholicYouthMinister | Homepage | 08.31.06 - 3:57 pm | #

Um . . . is this a Scientology thing?

And can you imagine when Suri's Senior Prom date arrives to pick her up? Not only will the poor sap be subjected to her baby pics & the latest from Xenu, but her first doo-doo, too!

File this one under: Folks who have too much money.
Gene Branaman | 08.31.06 - 4:24 pm | #

This work of "art" is what it signifies.
John Hearn | 08.31.06 - 4:48 pm | #

If this is what they did with their baby's first *solid* poop I wonder what they did with her very first pooped diaper... cover it in gold and put it on display in their personal Suri museum along with the gold-covered wipees, maybe?

As for the placenta, I think Tom had a culinary recipe for it... not that truly wanted to know that... ugh.
Veronica | 08.31.06 - 5:13 pm | #

I may be wrong, but I think that the claims of the origin of this sculpture are full of... well, you know.

The (scam) artist, Daniel Edwards, has managed to get himself in the news no less than three times in the last five months. Each time was by making a sculpture featuring or related to a celebrity with a controversially imaginative twist on his subject, accompanied by "deep thoughts" from himself about the significance of the work that seem more like thinly veiled mockeries of obsession with said celebrities. His schtick is being a celebrity artist making art about celebrities that appears to glorify celebrities, but then upon reflection mocks them, while after still more reflection just exploits them and our own obsession with celebrities in order to advance his own career as a celebrity artist. The guy works the media for free PR like putty in his hands, we can't get get enough of it, the his fame increases, and after all is done he takes it to the bank.
Ronny | 08.31.06 - 6:31 pm | #

I wish they had put a dollar bill next to it for scale. As it is, that sucker looks huge!
Mark R | 08.31.06 - 8:20 pm | #

Is there anybody left that doesn't think that Cruise is an absolute wack job?

Now, if that were mine... I always do tell my kids that the bathroom smells like a breezy spring day after I've been in there a bit...
Steve | 09.01.06 - 9:16 am | #

I just hope the "artist" wasn't receiving a government grant!
Kate | 09.01.06 - 10:24 am | #

"Springtime for Hitler" bad. Is this Edwards guy just funnin' us?
Bradamante | 09.01.06 - 6:17 pm | #

Bradamante,

As I pointed out, yes he is -- and he's laughing all the way to the bank in the process.
Ronny | 09.02.06 - 11:23 am | #

I have changed too many diapers in my life to want to keep the contents of any of them!
Christine W. Meyer | 09.03.06 - 1:03 am | #