Tom Cruise Shoots Self in Foot, Career Follows

Six months after actor Tom Cruise went off the deep end with rants about psych meds, mental health treatment, 'dissing pregnant women's health care choices and scaring poor Oprah half to death, the star finds himself in a career tailspin. He's just been rated the coldest star in Hollywood--cold as in terms of box office chill and, inevitably, difficulty putting togetehr new deals. Tough shit, Maverick!

There was a good piece to all the attention on Cruise's statements about anti-depressants. A poll was done that showed two-thirds of the American public believed him to be wrong on the facts of treating mental illness. Good news. However, lost in all of this was that Cruise made one salient point: We are using too many powerful meds in order to treat mental illness, especially in youngsters. Too bad he was arguing that from religious orthodoxy, not from evidence.