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CRUISE CONTROL: The American Psychiatric Association on Monday sharply criticized Tom Cruise for declarations about psychiatry and antidepressant drugs during last Friday's confrontation with Today host Matt Lauer. On behalf of the 36,000-physician-strong APA, the group's president, Dr. Steven Sharfstein, said in a statement: "It is irresponsible for Mr. Cruise to use his movie publicity tour to promote his own ideological views and deter people with mental illness from getting the care they need." And on Friday, actress Brooke Shields, whom Cruise criticized for taking antidepressants to help with her postpartum depression, called Cruise's comments a "ridiculous rant." Remarks like those made by Tom Cruise, do "a disservice to mothers everywhere," she wrote in an op-ed piece in the New York Times. "To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general."
WHITHER WINFREY?: Fashionistas and social commentators alike are asking if Oprah Winfrey's rejection from the exclusive Hermès luxury store in Paris on June 14 was racially motivated, or if she was simply turned away because the store had closed? Winfrey's friend, Gayle King, who was in Paris with the media queen, told Entertainment Tonight, "Oprah describes it as 'one of the most humiliating moments of her life.'" Winfrey plans to discuss the incident in the context of race relations on her highly influential show when it returns to the air this fall, said her production company. Hermès contends that the store was closed, and issued an apology to Winfrey.
ROYAL FURY: Prince William's 10-day visit Down Under to carry out his first official solo royal engagements coincided with this week's publication in Britain of excerpts from a new book, Diana: the Last Word, by the late princess? friend, alternative therapist Simone Simmons. Among its claims: that Diana slept with John F. Kennedy Jr. and tried cocaine. She also alleges that William's 20-year-old brother, Prince Harry, underwent a DNA test to prove that Prince Charles is indeed his father. "These allegations are rubbish," a source told PEOPLE, saying that William "is angry and disgusted. He gets angry seeing his mother's name yet again being dragged through the mud."
IDOL MATRIMONY: American Idol runner-up Bo Bice and his girlfriend, Caroline Fisher, got married in their home state of Alabama, PEOPLE confirmed Thursday. "It was a small, intimate wedding," Bice's publicist, Roger Widynowski, told PEOPLE. The couple have been together for almost two years. Fisher, 24, met Bice, 29, before he stole the spotlight on FOX's talent hunt – when he worked as a guitar store clerk and frequented the Ragtime Cafe in Hoover, Ala., where she waited tables.
