No, this is not time travel back to World War although it’s like the plot for a Hollywood movie. There’s this overpaid Brit who plays this weird game they call football (and we call it soccer). This is the game played by women over here in the US. I think our girls won a gold medal at the Olympics a few days ago, but that Beckham is not a girl, of course, although he does wear a sarong. But this is not good theme for a talk ’cause Beckham wears a lot of strange things. Well, let’s not go there. This Beckham guy is hanging out with the stars in LA and now Tom Cruise is boasting that he’s lost 10 pounds in six weeks thanks to Beckham’s advice. So kicking a ball can help you lose weight. You don’t have to be a scientologist to figure that one out. But Cruise has been under pressure from Katie Holmes who’s fifteen years younger than him. This was a great argument. But, gotta give Cruise credit. Most other A-listers would have been quietly popping drugs like Acomplia - the top European weight loss pills. But Beckham must have a diet book coming out, so Cruise is out there pitching for him. If he has lost weight, perhaps he’s quietly taking Acomplia. But let’s not go there. The moral of this is: if you can’t hang out with top Brit footballers who dress like girls, you can take Acomplia and lose weight the easy way.