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Published on Tuesday, October 07, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
When Meg Ryan was busy promoting the recent comedy "The Women," she took the opportunity to tell the world that ex-husband Dennis Quaid had been unfaithful during their marriage.
Ryan played a scorned woman in the film, but if she was somehow using her personal history to pump up interest in the movie, it didn't work.
Her movie still bombed.
There seems to be a lesson here about how much, if any, personal information that stars - even a fading one - should divulge while selling their film to the masses.
Look at the late, great Paul Newman . In more than five decades of stardom, he never seemed to lose his dignity and the public never stopped watching his movies.
Newman certainly never jumped on couches proclaiming his love for wife Joanne Woodward the way his "Color of Money" co-star Tom Cruise did for Katie Holmes on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Cruise has yet to recover his once-unrivaled box office appeal. His next test will be the thriller "Valkyrie," out Dec. 26
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