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While we were responding to the Cruise-Holmes engagement by marinating in a self-annihilating soup of warm bathwater and our own blood, sister site Gawker was on the IM horn with flack-star Lizzie "PowR Girl" Grubman, who provided some publicist perspective on the couple's carefully-orchestrated move toward the altar:

Gawker: Why would she agree to this?
Grubman: Why wouldn’t she? For Katie, it’s all about exposure.
Grubman: Within weeks on their announcement, she has become a full-blown superstar. [...]
Grubman: As for his sister, his new PR girl… Well, Tom’s not listening to anyone. He makes the rules.
Gawker: Right, but don’t younger fans see him as a crackpot?
Grubman: No, they don’t. And I definitely think they will 100% get married.
Gawker: Gross. Do you think that they’ll sleep in separate beds?
Grubman: No, I think they will have hot passionate sex.

We hope that Grubman enjoys the basket of fine vitamins and the selected science fiction works of L. Ron Hubbard that is certainly on its way for her generous mention of the couple's "hot passionate sex." As for us, back to the tub!

Also: Goldenfiddle has the line of the day: "Before your career dies, you see the ring."