Bacall Blasts Dr. Cruise

Seeing the matter in a different light, the 81-year-old Bacall – a star since the 1940s – says of Cruise in the latest issue of Time magazine: "His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness."

Cruise, 43, raised eyebrows over his very public displays of affection with his 26-year-old wife-to-be Katie Holmes. His acts ranged from jumping up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch, to stopping and kissing her at each and every premiere of War of the Worlds, to announcing their wedding engagement at a Paris press conference for his movie.

But that was off the screen. How does Bacall rate the on-screen performances of the male heartthrob? As she tells Time: "When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise."