TMZ reports that Becks thinks Tom Cruise is wise.

At a presser today, the soccer stud said he phoned his wee BFF the other night to ask for advice about the paparazzi. "He's a very wise man and a very good friend of mine," said Beckham of Cruise, "and to have his experience and have him explain some things to me to be prepared for, that's going to be a big help."

I nearly fell off my chair laughing at that one. Tom Cruise, wise? Wise enough to give Becks directions to Alpha Centauri, maybe. Here I was thinking Becks was smart to take the money and run, maybe even kick a ball or two, for the L.A. soccer team. Heck, Poshie's plastic enough that she would love the La-La Land lifestyle, and his career looks like it's winding down to mostly endorsements anyway. Why not retire in the land of sunshine, earthquakes, wildfires, and mudslides? But take advice from the king of punch lines, Tom Cruise? Puh-leeze.

This nonsense I've been reading about Becks changing the face of soccer in the U.S. and making it bigger than NFL is a total crock of, well, you know . . . It's all about the money. Unless all of South and Central America moves up here, soccer's never going to take this country by storm. Let him rot away on the Left Coast. I'm all for it.