Tom Cruise's lawyers apparently don't scare "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. At Saturday's New Yorker Festival's panel "Anarchy & Animation," interviewer Tad Friend asked them what they would say if Cruise asked them to do a live-action movie.

"Tom Cruise is gay!" Parker deadpanned. "And he lies about it all the time!" (Memo to Cruise's pit-bull attorney Bert Fields: The audience laughed loudly, suggesting that it regarded Parker's statement as ridiculous hyperbole.)

[ source: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ]