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YEAH, OK, TOM, YOU LOVE HER

By PAULA FROELICH
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June 8, 2005 -- Katie Holmes' whirlwind romance with Tom Cruise is taking its toll on her friendships and career.
Holmes, who is now living with Cruise in his Beverly Hills mansion, has stopped talking to many of her old friends who are not into her new religion, Scientology. One friend who worked with Holmes on "Pieces of April" said, "This relationship is becoming as weird as Liza Minnelli's and David Gest. It was exciting at first that Katie was dating Tom, but then when she started drifting away and I realized it was because we weren't into Scientology, it got a little weird."
Other friends claim they can't get Holmes — who has been surrounded during her "Batman Begins" junket at the Regent Beverly Wilshire by several Scientologists, including Cruise — to "return any calls."
Cruise even took Holmes' parents, who are from Ohio, to the Scientology Celebrity Center last weekend.
Another friend added, "Before Katie moved into Tom's place, she gave a bunch of Scientology pamphlets to her doorman at the El Royale apartment complex with instructions for [him] to pass the pamphlets out to residents."

Meanwhile, Cruise reportedly convinced Holmes to back out of "Factory Girl," the biopic of Andy Warhol scenemaker Edie Sedgwick. Now, spies say, due to the attention on her relationship with Cruise, Holmes was passed over for "A Prairie Home Companion" — a role which went to Lindsay Lohan — and a Curt Johnson movie, "Rock It Girl."
A rep for Holmes declined comment.