Tom Cruise camp offered screenings for ‘nice’ words

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The Scoop
Tom Cruise's Nazi film, "Valkyrie," is garnering some negative reviews. That's not the fault of his PR people, who reportedly offered a private screening if radio-station employees would say "nice things" about the film.

Distractingly bad," and "unengaging Nazi escapade" are among some of the reviewers' comments attached to "Valkyrie," Tom Cruise's film that opens Christmas day.

Cruise's people can't be happy —for the obvious reasons — but also, according to a source with radio station K-Earth 101, the Cruise camp was willing to go to great lengths to garner some positive publicity. In fact, they went so far as to offer a screening for anyone at the station and their friends at the Cruise home, if only they'd "say 'nice things' about the movie," according to the source.