Pierce Mattie Public Relations New York & Los Angeles

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are a publicist’s dream. Just as Cruise’s new film Mission Impossible 3 is about to hit theaters, virginal fiancé Katie Holmes delivers the couple’s first child, Suri, a baby girl weighing in at a healthy 7 pounds 7 ounces. Coincidence? Another publicity stunt? I guess only a DNA test could really tell the truth. While almost everything the couple does seems to garner some sort of media coverage in celebrity weeklies, the couple did not fail to disappoint with the production orchestrated prior to Suri’s silent Scientology birth, right down to the baby’s naming which alone has attracted mountains of media coverage and confusion over the origin and meaning of them name.

Last year, in rather perfect timing, Cruise and Holmes announced they were a couple, danced on some couches and got engaged just in time for the publicity tours of both of their films, Batman Begins and War of the Worlds. I refuse to believe this was not an extremely well thought out publicity stunt designed to bring attention to the couple’s respective films and raise the celebrity status of Holmes, a former D-list actress. All this among industry rumors of Cruise’s homesexuality and Holmes’ vow to remain a virgin until after marriage. I’m not buying it!

Oh, and Brooke Shields gave birth to her second daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy, straight down the hall from Holmes in the same Los Angeles hospital and is reportedly already addicted to anti-depressants.