There really is no press tour(宣传巡演) like a Tom Cruise press tour – which is why there have not really been any Tom Cruise press tours for a very long time indeed. We’re now at the stage of(到了……的阶段) this one where even the interviewers have been forced on to the interview circuit(巡回圈) to defend their interviews.
真的，没有哪场宣传巡演比得上汤姆·克鲁斯的宣传巡演——正因如此，很长一段时间里，其实根本就没出现过什么汤姆·克鲁斯的宣传巡演。如今这场巡演已经到了这个地步：连采访者本人都被迫走上采访巡回，去为自己的采访辩护。
Anyway: Cruise. The guy has one child with ex-wife Katie Holmes who dropped his surname(姓氏) as soon as she was legally allowed, and two Scientologist children widely reported to be effectively estranged(疏远的) from their mother, Nicole Kidman. The divorces from Kidman and Holmes were clearly deeply strange and traumatic events for both women, and have remained shrouded(笼罩、被遮掩) in unusually watertight(滴水不漏的) and presumably contractual secrecy. Yet you can currently find Tom Cruise promoting his latest movie not being asked about any of this stuff, or indeed any of his other extensive “stuff” – as always – but instead doing things like giving Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast a lecture on the benefits of VistaVision.(然而眼下你看到的汤姆·克鲁斯，是在宣传新片时不被问及任何这类事情，或者说，一如既往地不被问及他其他任何一大堆“事情”，取而代之的是给特拉维斯和杰森·凯尔西的播客上了一堂关于VistaVision好处的课。) Hate to say it, but(不想这么说，但) a woman could never.
总之，说回克鲁斯。他和前妻凯蒂·霍尔姆斯有一个孩子，这孩子一到法定年龄就改掉了他的姓；另有两个信奉科学教的孩子，据广泛报道，实际上已与他们的母亲妮可·基德曼疏远。与基德曼和霍尔姆斯的两次离婚，对两位女性来说显然都是极其诡异而创伤性的事件，且始终笼罩在异常严密、想必是合同规定的保密之中。然而眼下你看到的汤姆·克鲁斯，是在宣传新片时不被问及任何这类事情，或者说，一如既往地不被问及他其他任何一大堆“事情”，取而代之的是给特拉维斯和杰森·凯尔西的播客上了一堂关于VistaVision好处的课。不想说，但一个女人绝无可能。
At some level, you have to admire the mad image-industrial complex that labours to keep “the last movie star” from having to talk about the things all the other movie stars are required to lay on the line in order to promote their wares.(在某种程度上，你不得不佩服这个疯狂的形象工业复合体，它竭力让“最后的电影明星”不必谈论其他所有电影明星为推销作品而不得不摊开来讲的那些事。) Only a few weeks ago, Kidman was on the cover of Vogue being required to pick over(细细剖析、翻来覆去地检查) her two marriages in what was otherwise the most saccharine(甜得发腻的) of interviews.
在某种程度上，你不得不佩服这个疯狂的形象工业复合体，它竭力让“最后的电影明星”不必谈论其他所有电影明星为推销作品而不得不摊开来讲的那些事。就在几周前，基德曼登上《Vogue》封面，在一场原本甜得发腻的采访中被要求细细剖析自己的两段婚姻。