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Sometimes we look around, think about where we were a year ago, and know that we've made absolutely no progress. No, we're not suddenly introspective about our miserable, shallow lives, we're just floored about how Tom Cruise has so effectively sequelized last year's publicity-attracting shenanigans. Think about what's happening in Cruise II: Still Crazy After All These Years: Cruise is out promoting a blockbuster, clowning around with Germans, jumping on couches, publicly and uncomfortably making out with Katie Holmes, and as you'll see in this morning round-up of Cruise-related nonsense, still yammering about his Scientological detoxing abilities:

· Cruise tells GQ about how he has personally—personally!— helped people get off drugs. You know, again: "I've always found the 'if it makes me feel better, it's OK' rationale a little suspect. I think it's appalling that people have to live a life of drug addiction when I have personally helped people get off drugs." [WENN]
· Cruise preps for a Matt Lauer-like showdown with Diane Sawyer by practicing his threatening finger-jabs and looking up synonyms for "glib" in the thesaurus: "On Friday, Cruise will open up to Diane Sawyer about his relationship with Holmes and her family, the birth of their child and how he deals with the constant rumors swirling around them." [ABCNews.com]
· And in other Very Famous Scientologist News, the Church's anti-psychiatry beliefs seem to be doing no favors for John Travolta's reportedly autistic son. [Hollywood Interrupted]