Raphael made the remarks in a letter he has written in his book 'Last Post'. He accused Tom, along with the filmmaker's wife Christiane Harlan and her brother Jan of being responsible for his unflattering Wikipedia entry and trying to write him out of the director's "history".
He wrote: "There has been an incessant campaign, led by the Harlans, whom I never met during the two or three years of addressing myself exclusively to you, to deny that I had anything much to do with the final version of 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
"The Harlans and Master Cruise have managed to insert some derogatory stuff in my Wikipedia entry.
"There must be some way of excising the libel, but I lack the modern skill or the dreary energy to pursue the matter. Their sullen purpose is to establish your grand-masterliness...
"I have never been called a liar by anyone as I have been by the Harlan clan and by Tom Cruise, egocentric control freak to whom I have never spoken.
Frederic's remarks are believed to refer to a Wikipedia entry which cites Roger Ebert's 1999 interview with Tom, who had blasted the writer's memoir 'Eyes Wide Open' for his critical account of working with Kubric.
It quoted Tom Cruise saying: "He [Raphael] wouldn't have written it if Stanley had been alive. Opportunistic. Self-serving. Inaccurate. I don't know that man at all and I've never met him. It's been interesting seeing how people have behaved afterward."
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Source: crowrivermedia.com