Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise step out in matching suits (update: more photos)

Katie needs all the attention she can get. She’s been receiving lukewarm reviews for her Broadway performance, although ticket sales have been steady. Her cameo on Eli Stone premieres tonight.

MSat pointed me to this video on Perez Hilton’s site that shows Cruise pausing with Suri outside an ice cream store on 10/18. Perez suggests he’s exploiting Suri and they take too long with the photographers, but it looks to me like Cruise is just trying to be friendly and available to fans and can’t see that it’s making his daughter mildly impatient. There are plenty of photos of Suri looking incredibly upset out late at night with her parents and cowering from the paparazzi, including some below, although I don’t think the situation in the video that day was that difficult for her. You can tell she wants to get out of there, though. Look at the photos of her trying to pull her dad away.

If you’re a member of the Holmes-Cruise family, you’ve got to learn young that no one escapes the family duty to be available to the public. They’ve got to pay for those private jets and huge mansions somehow and at least Tom is gracious to his fans. Scientologists consider Suri a little person, and she’s only earning her keep.

Photos are of Katie and Tom last night out in NY and on Sunday with their family at Balthazar restaurant. Tom is shown with Suri out for ice cream on Saturday. Photo Credit: Bauergriffinonline.

Update: Here are more photos of Tom and Katie last night. There were at a tail party hosted by Hermes for the cast of All My Sons. Can you tell from the back who is who?

Additional photos credit: WENN

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