“We don’t know where Tom Cruise was.”
David Letterman to sit down with him in his Los Angeles theater. And just a few days after the Academy Awards, the former late-night host was apparently in the mood to gab about Hollywood.
“This was a sensational moment for the country and the network and yourself,” Letterman told the host of his third timet you? You are the prince of Hollywood.” He then added, “Congratulations, because you resurrected this carcass, and the network and the Academy ought to be very grateful, nice going.”
By contrast, when Letterman hosted the award show in 1995, he joked, “It was such a bomb, the Academy thought maybe it had been terrorists.” He went on to gush over the bit he “truly enjoyed” in which Kimmel, but Letterman wasn’t having it. “The show was so bad that the Academy got together and they said, ‘We can never let this happen again!’” he joked, “so they shut down the film industry for one year.
But then, Letterman finally shifted from self-deprecation to punch up to an even bigger celebrity target.After a short pause, Kimmel replied, “We don’t know where Tom Cruise was. We heard ‘production issues.’” When Letterman called that “nonsense,” Kimmel said, “Exactly, itleading up to the ceremony, themovie overseas while other rumors indicated that he was trying to avoid a run-in with ex-wife Nicole Kidman.
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