Hollywood Flashback: 15 Years Ago, Tom Cruise Clashed With Matt Lauer on 'Today'
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hollywoodreporter.comAs anniversaries go, June 24, 2005, is probably one Tom Cruise would rather forget. That was the date of his notorious showdown with Matt Lauer on Today — but in truth, the whole monthlong press tour for the Cruise/Steven Spielberg blockbuster War of the Worlds could have benefited from a do-over.
The problems began in late 2004, when the megastar fired his longtime press agent, Pat Kingsley, and replaced her with his sister Lee Anne De Vette. "He had never been to my office before," Kingsley later told THR. "[After] a few minutes of chitchat … he said, 'I want you to know I've decided to make a change.' " By April 2005, the twice-divorced Cruise, then 42, went very public with his new relationship with Katie Holmes, then 26.
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