Cruise Nailed Over Hitler's Ball

Posted Jan 2nd 2009 8:00AM by TMZ Staff

As if "Valkyrie" weren't crap enough on its own, Tom Cruise is in trouble for allegedly using a replica of Hitler's favorite globe in the movie.

Robert Pritikin, an SF ad exec, tells the New York Post he owns the globe Hitler used to plan U-boat attacks, among other things, and was shocked to see a replica of it in Cruise's movie. Pritikin claims he owns the copyright to the globe's likeness so it couldn't be co-opted by neo-Nazi groups.

Lawyers for Pritikin, who created the Rice-a-Roni jingle, say the whole thing could be just an "oversight." Cruise's reps couldn't be reached.

Filed under: Movies, Tom & Katie


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1. Who F************ cares about a damn globe!

Posted at 8:48AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by walt

2. First off.. his movie is GOOD. I hate this site it's so f'ing mean--Just mean. What good does that do anyone, especially before work. My NY resolution.. NO MORE visiting this site that I find to me very mean spirited.

Posted at 8:51AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by lisa

3. This just sounds ridiculous... a copyright to an object that Hitler used... come ON - that is a part of history and should not be ABLE to be copyrighted.

Posted at 9:27AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by Ms_Tell_It_Like_It_Is

4. I LOVE Rice-a-Roni

Posted at 9:29AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by GayGuy

5. The movie is good to you, not to others. I'm an other.

Posted at 9:30AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by itstrue

6. The only film in which Tom Cruise was credible as a character was "Risky Business". All the rest are nothing but THAT character in different clothes and settings. The baby face worked for a while but NO MORE!

Posted at 9:41AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by Roger C.

7. Just another cheap marketing ploy for an over-advertised pile of poop. I bet the movie critics that gave Valkyrie a good review, are laughing all the way to the bank. Hmmmm

Posted at 9:45AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by phot

8. Come on, stop bashing Tom and this movie - my husband and I really liked it

Posted at 9:47AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by bridgelover

9. The movie is horrible and Cruise is probably the worlds worst actor.

Posted at 9:51AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by Zoomza

10. The only reason Tom's movie is making any money is because whenever any Scientologist's movie comes out, all of the poor Scientologists are forced to watch it out of their own money at least 10 times each.

Posted at 10:18AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by lrh

11. GREAT MOVIE! Top 3 box office xmass weekend...When open in EU this will be a top 1-2 $ maker.

As far as the globe GMAFB!

Posted at 10:50AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by UFCFaker

12. Tom needs a new pair of balls. Get rid of the globe and get a pair! I love the South Park episode about TC and scientology. Funn y as hell. =)

Posted at 10:56AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by xcalibur

13. Maybe this idiot Pritikin should be sent to a concentration camp, since he seems to be such a huge fan of Hitler and the Nazis!

Posted at 10:57AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by Dizzle

14. They would've sucker more people into seeing this piece of poop if they didn't use Tommy in any of the trailers. Especially Tommy saying "We have to kill Hitler' in an American accent. lol

Posted at 11:19AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by lol

15. Everyoe ends up dead.
Why would you go see such a movie over the holidays?
The movie may be good,I don't know, but the release date was bad timing.

Posted at 11:30AM on Jan 2nd 2009 by Joe

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