Nice shoes.

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Actress Katie Holmes stops for a snack and a cup-o-joe after a work-out this afternoon. I think Katie looks absolutely adorable dressed down; not that she doesn’t look stunning on the red carpet, but I think she’s definitely a less-is-more sort of gal. She’ll never be able to shake that girl-next-door look!

Check out more photos of Katie strolling the streets of Beverly Hills, Calif., below:

Doesn’t Suri look happy!

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In 2008, Tom Cruise jump-started a stalled movie career with his turn as Les Grossman in Ben Stiller’s ‘Tropic Thunder’.

Considering the success of his character, Tom quickly said he would star in – and produce the spinoff movie himself. Now, according to MTV, there’s already a script!

The 2008 comedy smash Tropic Thunder spawned some memorable characters, to say the least. From Robert Downey Jr.’s very method actor Kirk Lazarus to Jack Black’s drug-fueled Jeff Portnoy, there could have been any number of characters from the film that earned their own spin-off movie.

Of course, since no one in the industry has quite the same pull as Tropic Thunder’s sleazy, rap enthusiast movie honcho Les Grossman (played by a transformed Tom Cruise), there’s no surprise that it’s him.

When MTV News caught up with “Saturday Night Live” funny man Bill Hader at the first-ever Comedy Awards (which air Sunday, April 10 at 8p.m. on Comedy Central, VH1, Spike TV, Logo, CMT, TVLand, and online at thecomedyawards.com) he told us that the Les movie is written and is getting closer to arriving in theaters.

Hader, who appeared in a few Les Grossman skits in anticipation for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, confirmed that his friend, actor/writer Michael Bacall (who previously penned Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and is currently working on the upcoming remake of Fright Night) “wrote it and he’s told me some really funny scenes from it.”

While Hader admitted he was vague on the details of what the plot for the movie based on Cruise’s loud, boorish exec would actually be about (”I just know the broad strokes. Michael just telling me, ‘I just wrote this scene where blah, blah, blah and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s funny, man!’”) or when it would finally make it to theaters (Cruise will be busy with Rock of Ages soon) he was sure of one thing, “It’s gonna be great.”

I wonder if the movie could be any good. I’m not really a fan of spin-off’s… I tend to think that the original’s are generally the best. And I’m also not sure if Tom Cruise’s character could carry an entire movie. What do you think?

Photos: Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes go to Magnola Bakery in New York City for lunch this afternoon. (INF)

Katie Holmes went on the Jimmy Kimmel show last night to talk about her new miniseries ‘The Kennedy’s’ which recently premiered on Reelz Channel. While the show has ended up being much less controversial than The History Channel thought, critics have been harsh on Katie’s performance. One reviewer wrote Holmes plays the part with “absolutely no nuance and only the occasional flash of spirit, intellect and inner strength.”

She also talked about Suri, her daughter with Tom Cruise, who turns 5 this month. She admitted to Jimmy that she likes to dedicate the “whole month” to celebrating Suri’s birthday – which she called her “favorite day of the year”. The whole month? Really?

Katie admitted, “I want her to be happy, so she really plans her own party.” Katie said in the years past she has planned Suri’s party herself, and ended up with a very un-happy daughter, so from now on – she’ll let Suri plan the party herself. “There have been times where I’ve done it all and she says, ‘This isn’t the cake.’ ” (Yikes!)

“She wants her friends to come over, and have a slumber party. We make lists, and we have meetings. She picks out things, and we make the cake together.” We have meetings!? With a 5 year old?

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Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres in an episode of her show set to air Friday, Katie Holmes explained the situation behind the photos snapped of Suri with some X-rated candy.

“Recently, I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time,” she said. “It’s for kids. The clientele is children. We go in and we are waiting for a table and she grabs some gummies that are boy part gummies. I was horrified.

“They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it,” Holmes continued. “She was holding the box and I was like ok, wow we don’t need that right now. Because I thought if I said put that back and then she’s going to say, what is this? And I really didn’t want to have that conversation. I was like, why are selling these here? This is for kids. And then it was on the cover of a magazine that I’m giving her those gummies. They were taking photos of it. I was like, oh my god, no. We put them back. You know so sometimes it’s like no, wait, hold on.”

Katie also came to the defense of her troubled mini-series, ‘The Kennedy’s’.

While critics say the show unfairly portrays the family in a harsh light, Holmes told Entertainment Weekly that she gained a stronger admiration for her character.

“I had my idea of this lady, but I didn’t realize the extent of what she did for our country and her influence on foreign policy, how she brought such elegance to the White House,” Holmes said. “Her manners were impeccable. She created the idea of Camelot. She was so very wise. You never really know, playing a real character like that. The challenge was honoring her and also making it my own.”

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Katie Holmes’ troubled ‘The Kennedy’s’ is finally seeing the light of day, as it premiered in Beverly Hills last night.

The troubled mini-series was originally dropped by The History Channel, and ultimately picked up by Reelz Channel. The network through the cast a debut party last night in Beverly Hills.

Tom Cruise pants/shirt combo looks strange.

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