Anyone See a Parallel???

Maybe it's just me . . .

I think it is safe to say that Tom Cruise just isn’t all that concerned with his media image these days. One could hazard a guess that he’s gone all loony – what with his creepy jumping on couches all willy-nilly like a monkey; conducting a creepy romance in public rather than private in a really creepy way – right down to his creepy proposal/press conference of marriage . . .there are not enough ways to say “Ew” here.

Until today.

According to today's San Francisco Chronicle, (so it must be true): "Tom Cruise reportedly will splash out millions of dollars on an "Arabian Knights"-themed wedding when he marries fiancée Katie Holmes."

Now, correct me if I’m wrong – but The Arabian Nights (not Arabian Knights) were a series of stories told by Queen Scheherazade that started on the eve of her wedding to the King Shahryar in an effort to stay alive. You see, that rascal the king respected women so very much that he married one every day, only to have the bride executed on their wedding night. He would marry again the following day. Scheherazade proceeded to delay her execution by entertaining the king with exciting folk tales – stringing him along by telling only one per night, then promising to tell another the following night. According to legend, she kept this up for one thousand and one nights – thereby saving her life when he determined he could not live without her stories (there’s some job security for ya). The best known of these stories are Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad the Sailor - and the stories are considered as an entity to be among the classics of world literature. Now, I’m not sure if it was Tom or the Chronicle that wasn’t clear on the correct spelling of the title of that classic collection – but would it be correct to call it irony that Cruise has selected a theme for a wedding that pays homage to a woman desperately attempting to stave off being executed by her powerful husband?

Just curious . . .