He wasn't the Messiah, but just a very naughty boy, according to his mom.
But like it or not, Brian, the unwitting savior, is making a comeback. The producers of "The Life of Brian," Monty Python's 1979 film, are re-releasing it as an "antidote" to Mel Gibson's fraught epic, "The Passion of the Christ." In one classic scene, political revolutionaries heatedly debate the Roman occupation. "All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health...what have the Romans ever done for us?" their leader complains.
Alas, it seemed like an onomastic match made in heaven, but Cruise and Cruz have called it a day. Tom and Pen have ended their three-year relationship, according to Cruz's publicist Robert Garlock, who told People magazine that the couple remained "good friends." He said that Cruz had not become a Scientologist like Cruise and his religion was not a factor in their break up.
