Top Gun Out of Bullets? Tom Cruise Denies Marriage With Katie Holmes a Flash in the Pan

Gossip update! Now it's being said that Katie Holmes has dumped her friend Victoria Beckham (AKA Posh Spice) under pressure from Tom and Scientologists. Although the cult put the full-court press on for Tom to recruit the Beckhams, the attempt fizzled,and Cruise made it clear that his "friendship" was about recruitment.

Original gossip follows.

Who could forget Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch? Or attacking Brooke Shields for getting medical help for post-partum depression?

I've almost finished Andrew Morton's Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography. Frankly, not only Scientology is scary stuff, but Cruise is too: a total control freak, narcissistic guy who keeps re-creating his own biography.

Cruise built a career on the Navy Pilot "Top Gun" image. But the real Tom Cruise is a different person. Reports that Katie Holmes has tired of the Stepford wife role have been floating for awhile.

Morton said that Cruise had a GPS tracker put into Holmes' cellphone. Other problems: the Scientologists have viewed Holmes with suspicion because of her lawyer father. Scientologists, Morton reported, run Tom Cruise and his life, and he lives in a cocoon of Scientology.

Will Katie run for her life? The "Free Katie" website is discussing reports that the battle over daughter Suri may be underway. Nicole Kidman lost her kids to Scientology and Cruise when the Cruise-Kidman marriage ended.