Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes are reportedly preparing their four-year-old daughter Suri Cruise, for a career in the entertainment industry.
The pair, who tied the knot in 2006 are encouraging Suri, already famous for her high heels and fashion sense, by giving her classes on performing, Showbiz Spy reported online.
“They are giving her singing, dancing and acting classes to help prepare her. Tom is a real stage father, making sure Suri puts expression into her lines when she puts on her little shows, and he encourages her when she does a good job,” a source said.
“Suri is showing talent already. She loves to put on shows for the whole family, asking her big sister, Isabella, to help her make ‘tickets’. She’s always asking Katie to book tickets for Broadway musicals so she can watch other performers sing and dance.”
“Tom and Katie aren’t afraid of Suri becoming a child actor — even with all of its pitfalls — because they feel she’ll be fine with their firm guidance,” the source added.
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‘Men worse at multitasking than women’
London: Women have always cribbed that men are incapable of doing more than one thing at once. Now, a study has confirmed that men really are worse at multitasking than the fair sex, though it does depend on the task.
Psychologists have carried out the study and found that when both women and men work on a number of simple tasks — such as searching for a key or doing easy math problems — at the same time, women are much better at multitasking. In fact, according to them, females are better able to reflect upon a problem, while continuing to juggle their other commitments, than men, the Daily Telegraph reported.
“We have all heard stories either men can’t multitask or women are exceptionally good at multitasking. But there did not appear to be any empirical evidence for this. It was all based upon folklore and hearsay when I looked through the scientific literature,” Prof. Keith Laws, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, who led the study, said.
The psychologists gave 50 male and 50 female students eight minutes to perform three tasks at same time — carrying out simple math problems, finding restaurants on a map and sketching a strategy for how they would search for a lost key in an imaginary field. —PTI