Cruise, Holmes pay disrespects

By The Arizona Republic
Can suspiciously fake love get any creepier?Try suspiciously fake love at a funeral.Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes engaged in their trademark public groping at services in Australia for late media tycoon Kerry Packer, the New York Daily News reports. Holmes and Cruise, a pal of Packer's son, James, were all over each other during the service at the Sydney Opera House, according to the tab. Afterward, it was time for the traditional après interment sunbathing aboard the Packer family yacht.In other TomKat news, reports that Cruise attack lawyer Bert Fields has put on his lucky litigation hat have failed to dissuade Life & Style from its righteous crusade to out the couple as over.The magazine's Web site practically begs the Cruise camp to take legal action - with all of the free publicity that might ensue - with a tease to this week's cover story that features the tag line, "They're acting like a happy couple in public, but in private friends say IT'S GETTING NASTY!" According to the always anonymous "insider," the couple's smiles during their recent Australian respects-paying/tanning trip disappeared once the cameras left. Also, it was leaked, Holmes hates being a cog in the Cruise PR machine.