Tom Cruise is immature and homophobic...fact or fiction?

While being interviewed by "The Onion A.V. Club," Bronson Pinchot accused fellow "Risky Business" actor Tom Cruise as inappropriate and homophobic.

Pinchot and Cruise spent quite a bit of time together on the set of the 1983 box-office hit. In his interview, Pinchot stated that Cruise was “tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments.”

In response to this allegation, Cruise’s representative reported to "Entertainment Weekly" that “Obviously, this [the allegation] is so far removed from who Tom Cruise is as a person, this must have been said in jest.”

Not only is this allegation far-fetched, but the statements supposedly made occurred 26 years ago, when Cruise was 20 years old and probably immature and unaware of the repercussions of his jokes.

From a public relations angle, by negatively name-dropping Cruise, Pinchot created bad buzz for himself. There was no need to attack a fellow actor so long after working with him. Also, Cruise’s response should have addressed the time aspect of the allegation and Pinchot’s lack of proof. Saying his supposed statement was made “in jest” might evoke that he regularly jokes about homosexuals and has not matured since this incident. If he receives more media attention from this allegation, he should re-think his response.