So Tom Cruise was Christian Bale's model for alpha-male killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho. Could it have been Corrie's Phyllis Pearce who was behind Bale's Batman?Even by Tom Cruise's standards, this hasn't been a particularly great week for Tom Cruise. On Wednesday his publicist was forced to address comments made by Bronson Pinochet from Perfect Strangers - who accused Cruise of making "constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments" during the filming of Risky Business.