Nov 01: With their first wedding anniversary just around the corner, Tom Cruise reveals what being married to Katie Holmes is like.The actor, in an interview with Entertainment Tonight's Jann Carl, insists that married life is "all very good, all very lovely."Of his wife, he insists that he couldn’t have found a better person. "I feel lucky. I have a lot of respect for her as an artist, as a woman," a website quoted him, as saying."She's a very strong, gracious woman. She's very funny, a great comedian."He also opened up about how they were coping being parents to their 18-month old daughter Suri."Just like everybody else, you just work it out. You make it work. We've gotten pretty good at organizing everything.""I don't sleep much anyway," he added.

The soccer ace - who has become good pals with the Hollywood actor and his wife Katie Holmes - admires the couple's beliefs but insists he does not regularly discuss Scientology with Tom or Katie.David - who is married to Posh Spice Victoria - said: "We respect their religion. We respect everything they do and believe in."But they have never turned around to us and said, 'You have to be part of this', because that's not what they're about."It's never been about that. There's been nothing shoved down our throats because friends don't do things like that."

For actor Tom Cruise and his partners, getting half a billion dollars to finance films amid the ongoing credit crunch might seem like "Mission: Impossible."But that didn't happen. United Artists, the storied film label that Cruise, producing partner Paula Wagner and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. are reviving, said Thursday that it had secured the $500 million it had been seeking through Merrill Lynch to finance 15 to 18 films over the next five years.Although the deal was widely expected, the financing from investors in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa comes amid a tightening credit market on Wall Street that has made some deals appear shaky. That has raised concerns that the crunch could affect Hollywood studios and production companies, which have relied heavily on financing from investment banks, private equity firms and hedge funds to help bankroll movies.The announcement came nine months after MGM Chairman Harry Sloan struck a deal with Cruise and Wagner to return UA to its roots as an artist-driven production company. MGM owns 65% of the unit; the remainder is owned by Cruise and Wagner."The closing of this financing is an important milestone for the new United Artists," said Wagner, who is UA's chief executive. "It leaves us perfectly poised to realize our vision of making movies that are both important and commercial.