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Restaurant Staff Comes to TomKat's Rescue

Posted Sep 11th 2006 3:09PM by TMZ Staff

Tom Cruise's dinner date with baby mama Katie Holmes had all the elements of a big screen action film -- romance, thrills and even a dramatic escape.

After the paparazzi spotted the couple quietly dining at Il Ristorante di Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica Saturday night, chaos quickly ensued. The photogs were locked and loaded outside the restaurant waiting for the famous couple to exit, when an army of restaurant employees came to the rescue by holding up their aprons and obstructing the cameras as best they could.

Even Giorgio Baldi himself stepped in, jumping in front of the lenses of the lingering photographers.

Guess Tom left one heck of a tip!

Tags: il ristorante di giorgio baldi, IlRistoranteDiGiorgioBaldi, katie holmes, KatieHolmes, paparazzi, rescue, staff, tom cruise, TomCruise

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1. Damn...what a WEE man...She towers over him!!! She looks like she is taking out her 8 year old son because he made the honor roll!!

Posted at 3:23PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Lutty

2. Who do these dumb waiters think they are? Don't they have other tables inside to wait on??

Posted at 3:29PM on Sep 11th 2006 by careless

3. Is it my imagination, or do ALL Popperatzi Suck?

Posted at 3:32PM on Sep 11th 2006 by brian miller

4. Moron waiters.

Posted at 3:34PM on Sep 11th 2006 by careless

5. Making a living is one thing, but photographers who act like that should be run over...insensitive jerks...

Posted at 3:46PM on Sep 11th 2006 by stella

6. Why doesn't this pair of irritating crapolas go hide in a cave and spare us their bulls'it? The irony is that in trying to get back into the good graces of his lost public, the closet queen is driving them further away. It's getting to the point where people can puke just by looking at him flashing those false teeth. What a public pain in the ass!!!

Posted at 3:49PM on Sep 11th 2006 by The Maven

7. Why can't the paparazzi take pictures without being rude?

A.D.M.F.

Posted at 3:51PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Lisa

8. I saw run sleazy papaRATzi over

Posted at 4:09PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Justin

9. These two cheap tactics of showing up at HIGH PROFILE eating establishments , only goes to re-enforse my feelings that they will DO ANYTHING FOR PUBLICITY.

Tom and Katie know that RESTORANTE Di GIORGIO's is protrolled constantly with popperatzi's looking for a PHOTO OP. It' has a huge celebrity clientele.It's not the place you go for privacy.

. Let me guess ? They didn't bring the baby. DAHHHHH. I bet they rented that baby for their layout in Vanity Fair. I wouldn't put it past either of them. What new parents do you know that GO EVERYWHERE WITHOUT THEIR BRAND NEW BABY? My baby was with me every moment . Most parents enjoy that. What a bunch of HYPE. These 2 are so transparent I'd like to use them for window dressing.
They must get sick of always playing a CHARADE. Katie's got that stupid grin on her face the second the camera's are on. Then when it's not, you hear accounts of how miserable she looks. WHAT A JOKE !! It is so contrived. This farse will never LAST. I am so on to them. If you want a quiet dinner he can afford to rent the entire resturant. Arrange to go in an hour before they noramally open. But, Nope ! They have a reason to be out at the prime time. To get photographed. THEY NEED TO APPEAR AS A HAPPY COUPLE. This whole fiasco will blow up in Tom's face very soon. I will be tunning in to see the fall out.

Posted at 4:20PM on Sep 11th 2006 by THE WISE OLD OWL

10. Huh...their desperate effort for 'good' publicity is SOOOOOO evident!

Posted at 8:59PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Trisha

11. Huh...their desperate effort for 'good' publicity is SOOOOOO evident!

Posted at 4:36PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Trisha

12. Jesus , THE WISE OLD OWL, you're such an ass!

Tom never had any privacy.
He tried small and discreet restaurants, and there is nothing to do, people call up, friends and paps coming.

Are you saying he HAS TO stay at home all the time because he is extremely famous and popular all across the world and say no to pleasure like Baldi's food?

LOl he is rich and as such , get the best food.
Also he has some friend sover there.

Why don't you mind your own fatass big joke?

Posted at 4:37PM on Sep 11th 2006 by ann

13. And the circus continues.....

Posted at 4:42PM on Sep 11th 2006 by the wife

14. Rather peculiar, don't you think... no "baby' in sight? *rolls eyes* (((A))) pretty decent start to start showing off their beloved daughter, and yet, "she's" not there.

THERE IS NO FU|CKING BABY... or the baby is horribly disfigured (possibly Down's Syndrome) and the Vanity Fair was just a well made doll.

Posted at 5:16PM on Sep 11th 2006 by NelTelNet

15. And the Tom Cruise hatin' continues. I will credit the conspiracy theorists with an imagination, even if they must repeat each other. On the one hand, we learn THERE IS NO BABY, and on the other the baby is horribly disfigured. People cannot, for some reason, accept that Tom Cruise produced a cute baby. And let's face it, "cute baby" is basically redundant. All babies when shot in the right light are cute.

Your sense of judgement (as well as your sense of self) is a bit clouded. Parents don't take young babies out to dinner with them, especially if the'yre going to get mobbed by paparazzi.

Again, when dealing with 24 hour Cruise haters it's useful to imagine how they would respond in other scenarios. Had Cruise brought the baby, then he's just even more "obviously" a plubicity whore. He doesn't bring the baby, then not only is he still a publicity whore, but the baby doesn't exist yada yada yada. Just lots and lots of unfalsifiable nonsense.

How many public dinners in public places have Cruise-Holmes gone to in the last three weeks? Is it a lot? I don't know; I try not to follow these things. Although, I also won't begrudge him for trying to get favorable coverage, given how everyone flipped out ever since he jumped on Oprah's couch. The venom spewed against this guy, on this site and others, is just beyond the pale.

Enough slummin'. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take a shower now.

Posted at 5:17PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Jim

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