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GET OVER YOURSELF

By LINDA STASI June 27, 2005 -- TOM Cruise and Oprah Winfrey should really find better uses for their TV bully pulpits than as venues to whine--about themselves.

What the heck planet are they on anyway? Oh wait, in Cruise's case, it's better not to ask.

They like to act like everyday Joes. But when the hand-made Hermes glove fits, they show how unlike us they really are.

Unless you were in a space ship last week, you know the best pals made big news: Oprah for not being allowed to shop after Hermes in Paris had closed and Cruise for berating Matt Lauer on "Today" for "not knowing" the history psychiatry, which he called a "pseudo-science."

He made a complete ass of himself reiterating his silly attack on Brooke Shields, proclaiming that there is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in the body, hence no need for her to take anti-depressants.

Excuse me? He's not a woman nor ever even been married to a woman who's had his babies--and for sure has never had pre- menstrual symptoms that cause our hormones to go as wacky as a Scientologist outer space convention.

If I want answers to an actual medical issue--or about life for that matter--trust me, I'm not going to an actor who can't stay married, and whose religion was invented by a sci-fi writer with a bad dye job.

So how do I justify my wild-eyed remarks if I have never been a Scientologist myself? I'm glad you asked.

I may not be a Scientologist, but I have been threatened by members for writing about it. Until it was stopped legally.

Then there's Oprah, who made bigger news than a Lindsay Lohan sighting after she was barred from entering a Hermes store in Paris. After it was closed. And now plans a whole show around it.

Excuse me? How many stores have opened for you after-hours? In France? Exactly.

According to The Washington Post, the clerk at the door gave Oprah a business card asking her to come back the next day. It doesn't sound like a race issue at all--and making it out to be seems flat-out wrong.

So how do I know it wasn't about racism since I'm not black?

I just happened to be in France researching a book at the same time. I arrived in Carcassone at 9 Saturday night and was promptly turned down for a seat at three separate restaurants. All said the kitchens were closed--even though people were still eating inside.

I too was stuck outside staring in seconds after the joints had closed. Three times.

Thinking, acting, be lieving that you're smarter, better, more equal than the rest of us, and using TV to push your agenda isn't going to fly with fans.

Tom and Oprah should both think about hopping the next flight back down to earth--where the fans who made them celebrities in the first place still dwell.

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