The news that Paramount has abrogated their relationship with Tom Cruise's production company is one of those things that makes my eyes glaze over. That I or anyone should care what happens to a centi-millionaire like Tom Cruise is something I can't fathom.

However there is one element of this story that I find fascinating, particularly when combined with Mel Gibson's travails.

You can apparently conduct your life in anyway you want to in Hollywood as long as you can make the call. Drugs, sex, illegitimate children--no problem.

Religion?

A career killer.

To be fair, child pornography will also make you persona non grata, but that only highlights how much religion has become anathema in liberal Hollywood. Now you can have a religion, and many actors do, but you've got to keep it very quiet--very low key--sort of like Rock Hudson's homosexuality.

Both these gentleman are proven rainmakers--capable of producing millions in profit for any project they are involved in. In more than passing strange that Hollywood would turn its nose up on so much money merely because these gentleman have "an overdeveloped interest in religion".

I suspect that Sumner Redstone and others actually find religious aflliation to be a sign of mental instability and they are simply cutting the mooring ropes before these characters sink beneath the waves completely.

They may come to regret that.