There’s a lot of room between the two of them….hmmm….maybe it’s symbolic!? (Or maybe I just wish it was)

Suri’s getting big!

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MORE: Another picture of Katie on set here!  Did you see these pictures of Suri at Grier’s (Brooke Shield’s daughter) birthday party?

As she shoots her latest movie, Mad Money, in Shreveport, La., Katie Holmes is making sure her fellow cast and crew members – all 200 or so of them – are well fed. For the third consecutive Friday she brought in a special treat.

“We got cupcakes,” one cast member told PEOPLE. “They were good, too.”

Holmes, who is costarring with Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton and Ted Danson in the comedy, started the Friday tradition on April 27, when she treated the set to 300 ice cream cones – a nice break as temperatures climbed into the high 80s.

The next Friday, Holmes arranged for more than 80 pizzas to be flown in from Chicago and baked locally before being delivered to the set.

“It was a lot of pizza,” one fan says. “We had veggie, sausage, pepperoni. It was good pizza.”

Meanwhile husband Tom Cruise and baby Suri have been making their own scene on the set. During one rainy day of filming, he introduced the talking and singing 1-year-old – who appeared “just as happy as could be” – to the cast and crew, telling her to say hi, which she did, a source says. After everyone oohed-and-ahhed over Suri, she waved “bye-bye” to the group as the trio left.

Says the source, “They all truly could not have looked happier. … They were just like any other family in the South.”

In a move that further dispels rumors of marital strife, Tom Cruise has plunked down $35 million for a Beverly Hills home for himself, Katie Holmes and baby Suri, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The star, 44, had been renting a home in Beverly Hills for the past several years (he and Holmes, 28, married last November), but that lease runs out next year, according to the paper.

The new address, which reportedly was not even on the market when Cruise made his offer, is described as a ” traditional-style residence.”

Originally built as a 10,000-sq.-ft. structure in 1937, the house was expanded four years ago and currently contains seven bedroom and nine bathrooms, say those familiar with the property.

The Cruises will have their privacy: the house sits on 1.3 acres behind gates and a lengthy driveway, and sports a tennis court and a pool.

As for the Cruises’ current residence, according to this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the compound also serves as a gathering place for Cruise’s children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman: Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12. (Suri is 1.) The actor’s mother, Mary, 70, also lives there.

“Tom and Katie will get in the kitchen and make this amazing popcorn with chocolate,” says a pal, Internet mogul Sky Dayton. “Suri is there playing. Kate feeds her a bottle and then Tom feeds her.”

In addition, Cruise and Holmes’s pals, Victoria and David Beckham have bought a multi-million-dollar house only two minutes away. They plan to move in July.

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Jada says: 

I met Kate through Tom – I didn’t know her before Tom. I think everybody has this image: Poor little Kate, she doesn’t have the strength to take care of herself. People don’t know that behind all that grace is a tiger. I’ve witnessed it! I’ve had conversations with Kate personally where the tigress comes out of her, that fight.

There was one incident when I turned to Will – we were in their dining room, just the four of us, we were sitting and talking – Kate made a comment, and that was the moment I was like, “You know what? I can ride with her.” She made it very clear she wasn’t standing for people messing with her family. She is extremely protective. But at the same time she’s so graceful.

I can see how people wouldn’t see this, but when you look at Kate now [compared to] when she first met Tom, she’s more confident and more knowing who she is than ever before. You can see it in her pictures. She looks more beautiful and more confident and more assured. I’ve watched that metamorphosis – how Kate has blossomed into this woman. Because her life changed very quickly, she moved from one person into another.

On reports that Holmes is a ‘prisoner’:
It burns my soul – I see her in the house with Tom; he doesn’t have that on her! It kills me. ‘Tom’s this monster and he’s got her chained up in the basement and he’s forcing Scientology down her throat’ – it’s bulls—. Let me tell you: Kate ain’t no little wimpy kitty cat. It’s not that ballgame. For real.

I see how protective she is over her family and her husband. She very much carries the idea that people better not [mess] with my family. She gets fired up. When she gets to that mode, it makes me step back. I was like, ‘Okay!’ And Tom looks at me and goes, ‘See? See? Did you see that?’ And I go, “Yeah, I saw that – hell yeah.’ It amazes me.

She’s got a quiet thunder. When she walks into a room, or you see her in a magazine – it’s a thunder that people are attracted to. It’s quiet and it’s very subtle, but it’s extremely powerful. What’s great about Kate is that she doesn’t wear who she is on her sleeve, and that makes people so interested in her. That in itself is quite a power, and she knows it. Kate is smart, let me just put it like that.

People think Tom and the Church of Scientology got something on Kate? They don’t. Kate is running her own show. And she’s a great mother. Her kids – Connor, Bella, Suri – are some dynamic children and are extremely happy. And her husband is very, very happy.

They are a happy family. And they’re strong. The forces they have right now are amazing. They’re like any other loving family that just wants peace and harmony and to be able to thrive in a nurturing environment, in an energy that supports their union. And at the end of the day it’s really nobody’s business.

BUT WAIT, IT’S NOT OVER… MORE OF THIS BS STORY AFTER THE JUMP! (more…)

I’m sorry… I know I’ve said it a million times - but Katie looks so miserable.  Just really really sad.  That picture of her smiling for the fan - just says it all…doesn’t it?

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Victoria is learning more about the Scientology, the religion practiced by friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, sources suggest.

Posh is reportedly trying to mend their friendship after it cooled following a lack of interest in the religion.

But Posh is said to be giving in - and told Tom and his wife that she will study the religion, after the Hollywood couple helped the Beckhams find their new mansion in LA, claims the Daily Mail.

A friend of Posh’s told the paper: “Tom has made it clear their continued friendship depends on a commitment to Scientology.

“The way Tom sees it is that he has shown them a great deal of commitment during their move to LA.”

However, the English couple’s publicist told the paper that they would never become involved in the religion, with David apparently very sceptical and worried about the effect the religion would have on their three children.

The source added: “Victoria is agreeing to study more about Scientology - but at the moment David is less sure.”