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Tom Cruise's Comeback Tour

The actor is back in the public eye—without the couch jumping.

Tom Cruise has been blazing a trail through the New York media world in support of his new Nazi epic, Valkyrie, which (finally!) opens on Christmas Day. This morning, he sat down and made nice with Matt Lauer, admitting that his last Today interview (when Tom had some harsh words for Lauer about antidepressants) was “arrogant” and “not what I had intended.” Though he dodged the Scientology questions this morning, he opened up about his religion last night at a screening at Manhattan’s 92nd St Y. “I've studied many, many religions and I think the way that I was raised…I was always raised to have an open mind and to be able to think for myself.” A little less arrogant, but still just cryptic enough. Cruise is back.