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Babydoll said:just for the record, suri means knife in an indian language.
Bonochick said:
It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew.
MrsSpringsteen said:
"My mission impossible was to be here today," Cruise told reporters in Rome
Bonochick said:http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/23/cruise.holmes.reut/index.html
Cruise baby name puzzles Israelis
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel.
It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew.
News of the naming puzzled even those Israelis who thought they had seen it all after pop diva Madonna turned the ancient Jewish mystical tradition Kabbalah into a faith for the famous.
"I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "It's pretty blunt."
Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel's Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri's proud parents: "Why didn't you just go back to your ancestors' language, and call the kid 'Scram Cruise'?"
A Cruise family spokesman said last week that Suri has its origins in ancient Hebrew, as a variant on Sarah, the biblical matriarch. But that pronunciation is all but unknown in Israel.
There are exceptions. Jerusalem journalist Surie Ackerman said her name was a formalized version of a nickname given by fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews in her native United States.
"It sounds strange to me that a non-Jewish, Scientology baby should be called Suri," Ackerman said, referring to the alternative church which counts Cruise among its devotees.
"But there are plenty of strange names in the world
MrsSpringsteen said:Breaking news-Tom ran over to the Vatican and jumped up and down on the Pope's chair
Cruise: So Suri we called you Pickpocket
08:19am 25th April 2006
After accidentally naming their new daughter 'pickpocket' in Japanese.
Tom Cruise and fiancé Katie Holmes have revealed there was no divine inspiration behind their choice.
They simply picked the name Suri - which also means "princess" in Hebrew and "red rose" in Persian - from a book.
Cruise said: "Some friends sent us these baby name books. It was the second we looked at and, all of a sudden, we saw 'Suri'.
"We looked at each other, said 'Suri' and that was it - bam! It took a couple of minutes and that was it."
Cruise will tear himself away from his newborn baby daughter today to attend the UK premiere of his new film.
Cruise, 43, will join other cast members for the first screening of the action-packed thriller at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London.
In the film, Cruise returns to the big screen as secret agent Ethan Hunt to take on arch-villain and black-market arms dealer Owen Davian, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Part of the adrenaline-fuelled film was shot in Rome, the city where Cruise and Holmes, dubbed TomKat by the media, first made their romance public in April 2005.
Co-writer and director J J Abrams, creator of the television series Lost, will also attend the premiere along with Cruise's co-stars Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Keri Russell, Maggie Q and Simon Pegg.
Mission: Impossible III will open across the UK and Ireland on Thursday, May 4.
Lila64 said:
New Rule: Tom Cruise must eat his baby and rename his movie. Apparently the sequel to "Mission: Impossible II" isn't "Mission: Impossible III." It's "m:i:3." That's "m-colon-i-colon-3." I guess Tom just likes fitting in colons. And on the...and on the home front, he's already announced plans to eat his baby's placenta...with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Tom, just go ahead and finish the whole thing, because that kid is going to be one screwed up little Martian anyway. Even Michael Jackson is thinking, "Wow, I never literally ate a kid." They get cranky later on in the evening.
MrsSpringsteen said:
YBORCITYOBL said:
Shouldn't he be Jumping off of a couch?