HOLLYWOOD - Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone wants to heal his rift with Tom Cruise and said he can't understand why "that nut case, that flake, Tom Cruise" doesn't want to be his friend. Cruise hasn't spoken to Redstone since Redstone told the Wall Street Journal last year that Cruise had been given the boot by Viacom's subsidiary Paramount because of his bizarre personnel behaviour. Redstone was referencing the fact that Cruise couch-hopped on Oprah Winfrey' talk show while proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes, criticized the use of antidepressants, claimed that postpartum depression doesn't exist, and became combative with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show while defending his loony opinions.
"I was very disappointed," Redstone said, "that the weirdo took my comments out of context. I just can't understand it."
