2005

Alors que les épouses précédentes de l’acteur international avaient préféré conservé leur nom (Mimi Rogers et Nicole Kidman), Katie Holmes planifierait devenir madame Cruise tant sur le plan personnel que professionnel. Il se pourrait aussi que Katie change son prénom pour Kate, le surnom amoureux que lui donne Tom sans arrêt. « Tom a l’habitude de l’appeler Kate, alors il a suggéré à sa douce d’utiliser ce prénom professionnellement », de rapporter un témoin au magazine America’s in Touch Weekly.

Quant au mariage imminent de Cruise et de Holmes, nous avions appris, il y a peu de temps, que les deux acteurs souhaitaient une noce grandiose aux airs de chevalerie arabique. La noce mirobolante devrait se dérouler au luxueux hôtel mexicain Maroma. Il faudra s’attendre à un des mariages les plus coûteux parmi la gent artistique.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - La star hollywoodienne Tom Cruise et sa fiancée Katie Holmes attendent un bébé, a annoncé mercredi l'agent du comédien.

Katie Holmes, 26 ans, "est enceinte", "ils attendent un bébé, ils sont très heureux", a indiqué Lee Anne DeVette, la soeur et l'agent du comédien de "Mission Impossible" et de "Top Gun".

Elle n'a pas précisé pour quand était prévue la naissance du premier enfant du couple. Mais elle a souligné que la grossesse de la jeune comédienne se déroulait bien et que Katie Holmes ne "s'était jamais sentie aussi bien".

Tom Cruise, 43 ans, et Katie Holmes, qui était presque inconnue avant de jouer cette année dans "Batman Begins", avaient annoncé leurs fiançailles, en juin lors d'une conférence de presse à Paris. L'acteur avait précisé avoir demandé à sa compagne de l'épouser, lors d'un dîner romantique à la Tour Eiffel. "Ils n'ont pas encore fixé de date pour le mariage", a déclaré Lee Anne DeVette.

Tom Cruise a déjà deux enfants de 10 et 12 ans, qu'il a adoptés avec son ex-femme, l'actrice australienne Nicole Kidman, dont il s'est séparé en 2001, après dix ans de mariage. Il a ensuite une liaison pendant trois ans avec l'actrice espagnole Penelope Cruz.

Dès le début, la presse américaine avait émis des doutes sur l'histoire d'amour entre Tom Cruise et Katie Holmes, soupçonnant une opération de relations publiques au moment où les deux acteurs participaient à la promotion de leurs films respectifs, "La guerre des mondes" et "Batman begins".

Autrefois très discret sur sa vie privée, Cruise s'était affiché ostensiblement avec sa petite amie, l'embrassant à pleine bouche devant des dizaines de photographes à chaque première de son nouveau film.

Il avait en outre livré une performance inédite à la télévision en sautant à pieds joints sur un canapé dans l'émission d'Oprah Winfrey, la papesse du "talk-show" américain, pour professer son amour pour Katie Holmes.

Mais Tom Cruise avait affirmé que Katie Holmes était le nouvel amour de sa vie et déclaré qu'il ne serait jamais plus heureux.

"Hide-and-seek with brother Tom," said a headline in the Shanghai Morning Post above pictures of Cruise's white van pulling away from the plush Four Seasons hotel where he is staying.

Cruise wasn't shown in any of the pictures.

The Hollywood star arrived in the city early Monday aboard a private jet, Shanghai media reported.

He was reportedly spotted strolling near his hotel on Monday evening, but has otherwise stayed clear of the media and fans.

Newspapers said Cruise would begin filming scenes tomorrow in Xitang, a village of old tile-roof stone houses perched along waterways about an hour outside the city center.

He is expected to stay in Shanghai for up to 10 days, newspapers said.

Cruise's management couldn't immediately be contacted and Yvonne Mu, a public relations officer with the Four Seasons, declined to give details about his stay.

Cruise is the latest international star to film in Shanghai, recently featured in The Painted Veil, starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, as well as The White Countess, with Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson.

Cruise is both starring in and co-producing the third instalment in the Mission Impossible series, which has also filmed scenes in Rome and at an 18th-century palace north of Naples, Italy.

Directed by J.J. Abrams, the film is due to be released on May 5, 2006.

Meanwhile Cruise has made an unusual purchase for his fiancee Katie Holmes - one that will let them see the development of their baby.

''I bought a sonogram machine,'' Cruise says on ABC's Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2005, to air on November 29.

The 43-year-old actor said the couple would do their own ultrasounds to look at their unborn baby.

Cruise said he will donate the machine to a hospital after the baby is born.

Ultrasound machines range in cost from $US25,000 ($A33,953.55) to $US200,000 ($A271,628.41).

Holmes' pregnancy was announced in early October. The couple, who have been dating since April, became engaged in June.

''We are gonna get married next summer or early fall,'' Cruise told Walters.

''We don't have a date set yet.''

Cruise said he didn't know if the baby was a boy or a girl. He has two children, Connor, 10, and Isabella, 12, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.

It will be the first child for 26-year-old Holmes.

While Holmes spent the day shopping at such Madison Avenue boutiques as Barneys, Donna Karen, Ralph Lauren, Miu Miu and Chloe, her husband-to-be didn't come out of the hotel until dinner time, whereupon he scored high marks with the bartender at the Post House steakhouse, despite the fact that, as a Scientologist, Tom doesn't imbibe.

"He seems like a regular guy," the bartender tells PEOPLE. "He was very nice."

After the midtown feast with a group of about a dozen people, Holmes's pre-birthday celebration (she turns 27 on Sunday) continued at Fifth Avenue institution FAO Schwarz, which was closed to the public by the time the Cruise contingent arrived around 9:30 p.m. The toy store was ready for them, too: festooned with balloons tied to small white tiger dolls and 7'-tall stuffed giraffes.

But the real show was put on by Tom and his pregnant fiancée, with both of them performing on top of the store's giant piano, jumping, bouncing, trying to tickle out a tune on the ivories. At one point, Tom did a handstand.

Katie must have approved: She clapped and laughed before the couple embraced and shared a long, 30-second kiss.

The emporium also had a surprise in store of the birthday girl: cupcakes with candles, which she blew out with Tom's help. The party then moved downstairs, near the videogame area, and by 11:30 p.m., the pair were ready to move on, thanks to a caravan of four SUVs.

But the night wasn't over. Despite some nasty rain with some sleet thrown in, Tom and Katie took to Central Park's Wollman Rink (the same one that King Kong and Naomi Watts use onscreen in the new movie epic) and skated, in between hugging and kissing.

They remained on the ice for about half an hour, after which Katie took refuge inside while Tom continued to skate a little longer. Around 12:30 a.m., the group left the park and returned to the hotel, hopefully to get the mom-to-be into some dry clothes.

The engaged pair, who spent Thursday dining, shopping and ice-skating in New York City to celebrate Holmes turning 27 on Dec. 18, arrived in Miami on Friday afternoon. Also in town: Will Smith (in the city to perform at the Y 100.7 Jingle Ball on Saturday) and wife Jada Pinkett Smith, Cruise's costar in the 2004 movie Collateral.

Early Friday evening, sources say, Cruise watched Will Smith rehearse at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.; later, Cruise, Holmes and the Smiths dined at Miami Beach eatery Barton G. The Restaurant.

At about 1:20 a.m., the two couples hit the South Beach rock club Snatch, where they chilled for nearly an hour in a roped-off area on the second floor. (Also partying at Snatch was baseball slugger Sammy Sosa.) Holmes, who is expecting her first child with Cruise, kept her arms around her fiancé, even hugging him from behind as they all left through a back door. (The next night, says a source, when a well-wisher asked why Holmes hadn't ridden the club's mechanical bull, Cruise joked, "If she wasn't pregnant, she would have been on the bull.")

On Saturday, the four friends spent the afternoon on a private yacht touring the bay off the Florida coast, and stopped for lunch on the exclusive Fisher Island. Later, Cruise and Holmes headed to the BankAtlantic Center for the Jingle Ball. As they hung out backstage waiting for Will Smith's performance, they took photos with all who asked.

Finally, Smith took the stage, arriving via a sleigh that "flew" over the audience on wires. After two songs, he brought out his wife and their daughter Willow, 5, as well as Cheryl Romero, whom he described as a woman "who had a tough time this year." He handed her several gifts, then said, "I have another Christmas present for you and the audience. I want to bring out someone who has never been to Miami before: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes."

As the crowd exploded in applause, the couple walked out hand in hand. "How's it going?" Cruise asked the audience. "This is my first time in Miami and I love it. Is it always like this?" Smith replied, "It is every time I come here."

"Then I can see why you keep coming back," Cruise said. Before he and Holmes left the stage, he added, "I'd like to wish you all a happy holiday and Merry Christmas and just a great year."