It would appear that Tom Cruise wants his angelic fiance to appear as unsoiled as humanly possible. At the Sundance film festival showing of Katie’s latest flick, filmmaker Jason Reitman was startled to see that Katie’s sex scene had mysteriously vanished from the satirical “Thank You For Smoking.”

After a thorough investigation, Reitman’s official explanation for the lack of fornication was that the footage containing the sex scene was located at the end of a film reel and had been accidentally overlooked when the reels were spliced together. Somehow I doubt that is the true explanation for the absence of that gratuitous footage, but Reitman professed high hopes that the sex scene would rematerialize when the movie hits theatres in March. Nice try at plugging your film, buddy, but I certainly won’t be buying a ticket in order to find out.

Aw c’mon, Tom. It was only twelve seconds of footage between Katie and some sleazy tobacco lobbyist character. Perhaps he’s afraid of the sexual transmission of body Thetans via the inclusion of certain steamy sex scenes.