Tom Cruise, his fiancee Katie Holmes and his ex-wife Nicole Kidman won dishonor at the annual Golden Razzie awards, an Oscars spoof held a day ahead of the big awards.
Tom Cruise and his pregnant paramour on Saturday scooped the lowest award in the Razzies newest category, "Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets" of 2005, but they had to share their shame with "Oprah Winfrey's Couch," "The Eiffel Tower" and "Tom's Baby."
Cruise, 43, famously announced he was in love with Holmes by jumping on talk show queen
Winfrey's sofa during a broadcast last year, Cruise then proposed to Holmes, 26, atop Paris' Eiffel Tower in June and announced they were expecting in October, all amid a massive glare of tabloid publicity.
Razzie founder John Wilson said the formerly ultra-private Cruise deserved the award because he made a spectacle of himself when he decided to "suddenly propose in front of reporters on the Eiffel Tower and jump up and down like the monkey in Curious George on Oprah Winfrey's couch."
Cruise's Oscar-winning ex, Kidman, shared the Razzie award for the worst screen couple of 2005 with Will Ferrell for their movie version of the 1960s
television show Bewitched.
The gross out romantic comedy Dirty Love, written by and starring former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy, took home the most gold spray-painted statuettes with three at the 26th annual Razzie Awards held in Hollywood.
The blonde bombshell McCarthy won for worst actress and worst screenplay, while her former husband, John Asher, took home worst director dishonors at the mock movie awards.
US comic actor Rob Schneider was disgraced with the award for the worst performance by an actor last year for his slapstick feature Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, while heart-throb Hayden Christensen won worst supporting actor for his role in Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of
the Sith.
Paris Hilton won for worst supporting actress for her role in the camp horror flick House of Wax, while Son of the Mask, a badly thought-out sequel to Jim Carrey's 1994 hit minus the star, was chosen worst remake or sequel.
But none of the shamed stars took the lead from last year's winner Halle Berry and showed up an the ceremony to collect their gold spray-painted plastic raspberries, which organizers say are worth around US$4.97.
"For me this year was one of the worst so it's good for us," said event organizer Chip Dornell.
"The very worst movies are those that you can watch over an over again and see the different cliches each time and never get bored," he said referring to this year's horrors such as Son of the Mask and Dukes of Hazzard.
The proud losers of the Razzies, organized by the tongue-in-cheek Golden Raspberry Foundation, were determined by mailing ballots to about 750 film professionals, film journalists and film fans from 41 states and 15 countries.
Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen may never see US$9.5
million a court ordered his former business manager to pay after she failed to respond to allegations of stealing from his retirement
savings, Cohen's attorney said last week.
A Superior Court judge granted Cohen, 71, the default judgment against Kelley Lynch in response to a lawsuit alleging she siphoned US$5 million from the musician's personal accounts and investments.
Cohen, known for such reflective songs as Suzanne, may never be able to collect, his attorney, Scott Edelman, said. ``She's hard to get in touch with. I don't know where she lives now, and I don't have a phone number for her,'' Edelman said. ``We don't know what she did with the money. ... But she knows what's going on because she leaves me phone messages at all hours.''
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