Tom Cruise has broken his silence and is defending his controversial role as the German colonel famous for a failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

“All I can say is, ‘Save your comments until you see the movie,’ ” Cruise, 49, tells the German weekly, Bunte, regarding the German politicians and media who have attacked his religious beliefs and his decision to play one of Germany’s greatest heroes in his new movie Valkyrie.

“I want to think positive and concentrate on the film,” the actor says in the magazine. “I carry a great responsibility to the Germans, for whom a man like [Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von] Stauffenberg means so much.”

“And I feel this responsibility to the man himself. The more I learn about him, the greater my respect and my admiration of him,” he adds about his character in the wartime thriller surrounding a failed plot by high-ranking military officers to blow up Hitler. Stauffenberg was the man who placed the bomb.

Cruise also reveals that when director Bryan Singer approached him about the role, he tossed a script on his desk with a picture of Stauffenberg on the cover. Says Cruise, “Intuitively I saw a similarity in the profile of this man with myself. Naturally that’s something that makes an actor curious.”

And he insists that filming had to take place in Germany. “We wanted the inner truth, so to speak, and location helps with that.”

Cruise says that he enjoys living in Berlin with wife Katie Holmes and daughter Suri. A personal highlight is Berlin’s Tiergarten park. “To my great delight I’ve discovered that my family and I can walk in the park at night and it’s not dangerous. Fantastic.”

In the 2006 indie film Friends With Money, Jennifer Aniston played a moneyless maid who was surrounded by buds with bucks. But in real life, according to Star magazine, Jen is known to her poorer pals as a bountiful babe who spares no expense when it comes to footing the bill. I do not know Jennifer, but I do know that she has shown grace and patience with people of the world. I believe she has shown how to walk through hard times, and stay healthy at the same time. I think the level of gossip and tearing people down is way out of control and has been for some time. I am looking forward to seeing Jennifer in more movies. So look out every body Jennifer is all ready at the top she has grace! And health! We shouldn’t be criticizing an actor just for the heck of it. Look at her ain’t she one of the most beautiful people you have ever seen. Man lets give in that’s whatever bad that has been circulated about her please forget it coz she’s here to stay.

Oliver Hudson and his actress wife Erinn Bartlett are first-time parents of a boy.

Wilder Brooks Hudson was born Aug. 23 in Los Angeles, the couple’s rep said Monday.

“I’m so tired, but I’m on a high, and I want to take in all of it,” Hudson tells

He said the baby was born a few weeks before the due date.

Hudson, 30, star of the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement, and Bartlett, 34, who appeared in the movies Rumor Has It and Raising Helen, have been married for more than a year.

After a four-year relationship, they were engaged in 2004 and married in June 2006 in Mexico in a beachside ceremony attended by Hudson’s sister Kate Hudson, her then-husband Chris Robinson, their son Ryder, now 3, plus Hudson’s mom Goldie Hawn and her partner, Kurt Russell.

“I want babies,” Oliver Hudson told after his engagement. “I think I’ll be a great dad.”

American actor Matt Damon blames his daughter Isabella for his recent neck injury. The Bourne Ultimatum star was spotted in Germany with acupuncture needles in his ear after a spasm in his neck. Hey, Matt, Just wait until the little “rug rat” is old enough to be a “crumb snatcher”! That’s when it REALLY gets dangerous! (It’s also one more precious time you will have with her.) But on a lighter note and not blaming the kid, she is after all just a kid and at 14 months she probably is so innocent that she even does know what her mischief has caused. I just love to have a daughter (I have a son and he is so beautiful that just watching him smile and play are feeling that cannot be put to words). Kids are naughty and like to have a free wily with their parents’ coz their parents are the persons they most often see during childhood and then whatever strikes their minds the play it out with their parents. Lucky Matt I would say.

Samuel L. Jackson is desperate for a cameo role in the new Indiana Jones movie - so he can stay ahead of Harrison Ford as the world’s box office king. The Pulp Fiction star passed Ford as Hollywood’s most successful actor after appearing in a string of blockbusters, but now he fears the aging icon will reclaim his crown when the fourth Jones movie is released. I think that this is just another media friction that the two are head to head trying to prove whose the king of the box office in Hollywood, both of them are undoubtedly supreme actors and their box office records are impeachable. But to try and create a notion or a sort of scenario that the two are gunning to be office box moguls is a piece of shi* that can only be a Hollywood gossip. No importance should be attached to this story and I hope that the two continue to entertainment us for a lot more time to come. Jackson felt sure he had the upper hand after movie mogul George Lucas told him he’d find him a role in the new Indiana Jones film - when the two worked on the final Star Wars saga together.

Sheriff’s deputies raided the home of rapper DMX on Friday, seizing several pit bulls and finding the remains of three other dogs but making no arrests.

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office received a tip more than a week ago about dogs being kept in inhumane conditions at the Phoenix-area home, said Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Detectives visited the home and then called one of the rapper’s lawyers and told him that the conditions for the animals at the property needed to be improved or deputies would take action, Arpaio said. The dogs were not being fed or given water.

Authorities returned to the home Friday.The 36-year-old musician and actor, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was not at home during the raid.

Simmons’ lawyer, Murray Richman, said Simmons hasn’t been in Arizona for at least two months and was “extremely disturbed” to hear the animals weren’t being cared for properly.

“We had a caretaker that wasn’t taking care, that’s what happened,” Richman said. “He loves dogs — he loves these animals. Those dogs are practically his family.”

Richman said he hadn’t been notified of problems at the property until he learned of the raid Friday. Sheriff’s officials said they had contacted another lawyer who works for DMX.

Arpaio said the deputies who served a search warrant at the home Friday seized 12 pit bulls tied up on the property and took them to an old jail that has been converted into an animal shelter.

Deputies found the buried dogs when they dug up the back yard. One had apparently been burned and the cause of death on the others was unknown because the bodies were decomposing.

Deputies also found a variety of firearms, Arpaio said. Authorities sought additional warrants so they could check the guns to determine if they were legal.

DMX’s albums include “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot” and “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood” and “Year of the Dog … Again.”

Mandy is off to show everyone that she’s not just the good girl next door. She will be showing off some bad ass tattoos, fake ones of course, for an upcoming guest spot on the sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’. The actress/singer plays Amy, a tattooed party girl that Ted locks lips with while painting the town.

Mandy has expressed how excited she was at the concept of playing someone who is very much unlike her. When she was offered the spot, she could not pass it up. She says she’s nervous but excited at the same time.

Her spot airs on September 24 on CBS.

It seems like getting your own bed is one thing, but your own bedroom is quite another. It’s like, we are married during the day but at night we are single and would rather not be around each other. I don’t blame Katie, who would want to sleep with Tom Cruise? He might look like a little hunk and be recognized by some as the world’s most powerful movie actor. But for me he is that breed of actors who can never ever get out of his egoistic world that puts him at the helm of their entire requirement and cocoons them to feeling safe in their own living room. The couple is moving into a bigger house later, were they will continue to have separate bedrooms, as they do now. Ya that might be their lovely hyped up relationship null and void of emotions yet being together for their lovely daughter Suri. Have breakfast in the morning and leave for work and then return at night to sleep in your private cells. Can’t see them having a better life! Screwed up life rather!

 Sienna Miller was spotted in Ibiza, Spain doing some topless tanning,

and we all have to admit, she looks Pretty Good.

Eleven extras have been injured after falling off a truck on the German set of Tom Cruise’s latest movie, Valkyrie. One man was seriously injured in the accident, which happened when the side of the vehicle burst open as it drove around a corner, Berlin police said. Yeah but look Mr. Cruise could not find time to visit or inquire about the well being of the one person that was seriously injured or about those who were wounded/hurt. Like he is one of those star’s who look like they are never concerned about the well being of the crew and other members working on his movie sets. The movie is more interesting and the plot to kill Hitler in 1944 and a movie on it should be more interesting than Tom Cruise the man himself. Hopefully this is just a one off incident and it does not happen again. Poor guys, they get paid meager amounts to do these scenes in the movies and to get hurt while just sitting in a vehicle can be really innocuous way to get hurt.