Wednesday,
September
06,
2006
Los
Angeles
(Reuters):
Actor
Tom
Cruise's
infant
daughter
made
her
debut,
as
freshman
CBS
Evening
News
anchor
Katie
Couric
broke
the
story
of
Vanity
Fair
magazine
landing
the
much-anticipated
first
photos
of
baby
Suri.
The
photographs
of
the
dark-haired
baby
born
to
Cruise
and
actress
Katie
Holmes
on
April
18
were
televised
yesterday
about
midway
through
the
newscast,
marking
the
first
public
glimpse
of
the
actor's
first
biological
child.
Given
to
CBS
News
by
Vanity
Fair
as
an
exclusive
to
promote
the
magazine's
22-page
Suri
photo
spread
hitting
newsstands
on
Wednesday,
the
pictures
were
taken
by
celebrity
photographer
Annie
Leibovitz,
magazine
spokeswoman
Beth
Kseniak
said.
One
shot
aired
by
CBS
News
and
later
circulated
on
the
Internet
was
the
cover
photo
showing
the
smiling
parents
with
their
daughter
peeking
out
from
inside
the
actor's
leather
jacket.
A
second
showed
Holmes
lying
on
her
back
holding
the
baby
over
her.
The
photos
put
an
end
to
speculation
that
had
swirled
in
the
tabloids
about
why
baby
Suri
had
remained
out
of
the
public
eye
for
so
long,
including
rumors
questioning
the
child's
existence.
The
pictures
were
shown
during
a
segment
called
''Snapshots,''
part
of
the
revamped
format
inherited
by
Couric
as
she
began
her
tenure
as
the
first
woman
solo
anchor
of
a
major
US
network
newscast.
''We
knew
this
would
be
a
very
exciting
show
--
that
everyone
would
be
curious
to
see
Katie
on
her
first
night.
So,
what
better
place
to
debut
Vanity
Fair's
exclusive
cover
featuring
baby
Suri
and
her
parents,''
Kseniak
told
Reuters.
She
said
the
magazine
paid
nothing
for
the
photographs
and
unlike
pictures
of
Angelina
Jolie
and
Brad
Pitt's
first
child
together,
there
was
no
distribution
deal
tied
to
charity.
Suri
was
born
after
months
of
nonstop
publicity
generated
by
the
courtship
of
Cruise
and
Holmes,
which
burst
into
the
open
in
May
2005
when
the
actor
giddily
professed
his
love
for
the
actress
during
a
notorious
couch-hopping
appearance
on
''The
Oprah
Winfrey
Show.''
A
month
later,
Cruise
announced
he
had
proposed
marriage
to
Holmes
at
the
Eiffel
Tower
in
Paris,
which
was
followed
later
by
Cruise's
statement
that
his
fiancee
had
embraced
his
faith
in
the
Church
of
Scientology.
Cruise
made
headlines
again
last
month
when
Viacom
Inc
Chairman
Sumner
Redstone
revealed
that
his
Paramount
Pictures
studio
was
severing
ties
with
the
actor's
production
company
after
14
years,
citing
the
star's
off-camera
behavior.
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