Tom Cruise did the most cliche of things this week: he proposed to his girlfriend Katie Holmes [left] on top of the Eiffel Tower early in the morning. Then, he said something even more cheesy:

"Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."

Cheesy is not that bad. Maybe the man is truly in love. Although a 42-year old Hollywood superstar falling for 26-year old Katie Holmes so madly that he proposes to her after six weeks seems a little bizarre. The media shy Cruise has done nothing but promote his love for Katie Holmes (best known for her role in the TV serial Dawson's Creek and now in the summer blockbuster Batman Begins), repeatedly calling her "magnificent."

He even jumped up and down on Oprah's sofa [left], apparently to express his love, which according to him is very "cool". Oprah looked too shocked to be cynical, but others have not shied away from suspecting that the whole 'romance' is a publicity stunt by Cruise to promote his movie War of the Worlds. Also, there is that quiet suspicion that he wants to forever stamp out other rumors about his love interest, which no-one (including us) dares to write about lest we be stripped and sued to hell and back by Cruise's lawyers.

But are we just being too cyncial? Maybe true love is possible in six weeks and Katie really had him at hello.