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L. Ron Hubbard's unearthed "goof the floof" explanation of Scientology's "Supreme Rulah" Xenu—remixed into something danceable. [YouTube]
L. Ron Hubbard's unearthed "goof the floof" explanation of Scientology's "Supreme Rulah" Xenu—remixed into something danceable. [YouTube]
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Tom Cruise's Life Is Imploding
It's been an awful week from Tom Cruise at the movie studio he nominally operates, United Artists. His inner circle is gone, including a president who left in mid-July, an executive vice president who was said Monday to have fled and Cruise's former agent, who was pushed out as CEO of the foundering studio Wednesday. Now, from the Post, comes word that Cruise himself is about to be "neutered" within United Artists by controlling partner MGM because he doesn't know what he's doing, a humiliating second defeat in the wake of his 2006 ejection from Paramount by Sumner Redstone. Add this to Cruise's other recent setbacks: More »
The Redemption Of Tom Cruise?
"It doesn’t spoil a thing to say that [Tropic Thunder] is worth seeing for Mr. Cruise’s performance alone, or that we hope this might usher in a new era for the strange, secretive actor." [Observer]
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Tom Cruise's Aggressive Private Investigator
Remember Anthony Pellicano, the thuggish Hollywood private eye recently convicted of racketeering and wiretapping? He worked frequently with attorney Bert Fields, Fields' celebrity clients and other lawyers at Fields' firm. And he reportedly worked for Tom Cruise. But now that Pellicano is lost to the justice system, Cruise, still represented by Fields, has a private investigator named Paul Barresi defending his interests. And Barresi just did a strange thing: He provided to the Daily News federal court papers accusing Cruise of helping lead misdeeds by the Church Of Scientology, including harassment of this lovely sort: More »
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Greta Van Susteren Bays For Blood Of Anderson Cooper
As a member of two vindictive cults — Fox News and Scientology — cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren is an absolute pro at channeling rage. Witness the blog post she typed up on the 4th of July holiday. The executive producer of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 last week called Susteren's On The Record "not a news program. It's missing-person of the day." Hoo-boy. Susteren's 1000-word response swiftly pinned blame for the comments on Cooper, since he should be able to control his producer, then basically called the silver-haired anchor a coddled, commercialized, Katrina-exploiting, polygamy-obsessed pretty boy. Susteren, meanwhile, has a magical law degree that obviates the need for a teleprompter, ever. A breakdown (and partial refutation) of her rant, after the jump. More »
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Tom Cruise Starting A Cable Company, Says Sketchy "Source"
In the world of newsgathering, there is thin sourcing, there is sketchy sourcing, and then there is this post, the sourcing for which is, admittedly, atrocious. It comes from what is said to be an internet conversation between a blogging anti-Scientology crusader and an anonymous purported member of the Church of Scientology. In it, the Scientologist claims knowledge of some big plans on the part of movie star and church bigwig Tom Cruise. So, right there, we have, like, a billion things that could go spectacularly wrong, accuracy-wise. That said, the source claims to know of a move Cruise is about to make on the business front: More »
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Tom Cruise Will Pay To Be On Your Blog
It's not like Tom Cruise can just sit back relaxing, sipping secret anti-aging formula and reading L. Ron Hubbard books and waiting for the world to stumble onto his awesome new website. So he's out there working with Google AdSense to direct your attention to his important site, chock-full of Tom Cruise-approved Tom Cruise information! Click to enlarge this screengrab of the wacky star's internet marketing plan in action.
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Tom Cruise Proves Sanity By Calling Shrink A Nazi
Drew Pinsky is downright respectable, at least by TV doctor standards. Unlike "Dr. Phil," he has an actual medical degree, practices medicine and even teaches psychiatry. His reality show, Celebrity Rehab, is both more gripping and responsible than other celebrity "reality" vehicles. But Tom Cruise has allowed his lawyer to compare "Dr. Drew" to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, because the doctor told Playboy the following about movie star Cruise's fevered devotion to the Church of Scientology: More »
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London Police Protect Scientology From Teen's Sign
The Brits are rather less enthusiastic about the whole "free speech" concept than the US is. A 15-year-old kid was holding a sign that said "Cult" at one of the Anonymous protests against Scientology in London. The precocious young scalawag had even memorized a 1984 UK court ruling in which a judge called the science fiction-based religion a "cult." But the police gave him a summons and confiscated his dangerous slogan-bearing poster, and now he has to go to court to defend himself. More »
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New York To Receive Tom Cruise, Wife, Their Insanity
So Katie Holmes' long-running negotiations to come to Broadway have finally borne fruit, and the wife of Tom Cruise is now officially committed to take on some sort of role in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons this fall. The Church of Scientology is a just a few blocks away from the theater, the Observer noted, and at least one tabloid report has hubby Tom tagging along for the duration of Holmes' season in New York, presumably in case she needs some more reprogramming. Holmes, meanwhile, is intent on escaping Cruise's shadow and reinvigorating her acting career. And maybe, you know, saving a few accident victims around town, since there's no one else who can really do anything. [Variety via Observer]
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Scientology's Party Boat Docked Due to Asbestos
Hey, remember where Tom Cruise held his birthday party? Jog your memory with Gawker's EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the embarrassing 2004 celebration. That's right: on the MV Freewinds, the massive "cruise ship" training center for the highest level members of the Church of Scientology. Bad news for aspiring OT VIIIs: the ship's been sealed and docked in Curacao due to the discovery of "significant amounts of blue asbestos" all over her. Blue asbestos is the insulating material that's been banned in the US for years because of all the lung cancer it causes. And, obviously, the 40-year-old cruise ship has been contaminated with it since day one—putting the lives of nearly all OT VIII Scientologists at risk! According to a CNN I-Report: "An affidavit filed in 2001 by Lawrence Woodcraft, a former Scientologist and trained architect, claims that Woodcraft encountered the fibrous minerals while working on the ship in 1987, and promptly informed Scientology leaders." And they didn't do anything about it for 20 years. So where does a Scientologist go when he dies of mesothelioma? More »
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Why The Church Of Scientology Won't Let Me Show You Their Propaganda Videos
Why did the Church of Scientology buy a channel on YouTube? Well, remember how a video of Tom Cruise babbling about Scientology cropped up on YouTube? And how the Church got the video taken down so we put it on Gawker and then another copy stayed on YouTube? Well the Church tried to fight its critics with a regular user account, but that didn't work; the organization had no more visible cred than the anonymous people accusing it of suppressing free speech. So now the Church bought themselves this fancy channel stocked with 82 videos about their religion. Most are just bland, and some are delightfully creepy, even if they lack the star power of Tom Cruise. But I'm not allowed to show them here. More »
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Tom Cruise's Fling With Cher Ends Gay Talk
Oh, look, Tom Cruise did a very straight, manly thing back in his formative days that will finally make everyone stop looking for signs the Hollywood star is a homosexual: He boned Cher! Cruise had a fling with the noted heterosexual icon and pop diva in the mid-1980s after running into her at a White House fundraising event, which apparently had to do with raising money for people with learning disabilities. Cruise was 23 and Cher 39. Cruise's breakthrough hit Risky Business had just come out. Cher told Oprah all about the affair recently at a show taping in Las Vegas. Oddly, things were a little awkward, according to a summary of Cher's comments in the Daily Mail: More »
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When Craigy Met Xenu
Because it's a lovely spring Friday (with birds and sun and loud, thumping reggaeton) and because I'm on a never-ending quest to ruin this website, I thought I'd post another video blargh by everyone's favorite Broadway nut, Craig Stevens. Yeah, yeah. I know. He's a made-up character named after a voice teacher at NYU, but whatever. The videos are funny and depressing. In this installment the lil' diva recounts adventures at Spamalot, worries about work, gushes about some warbly Wicked actress, and reveals that (unbeknownst to him) he was hoodwinked by rascally Scientologists. Enjoy it after the jump. Or go outside. More »
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Jason Beghe's Anti-Scientology Video Cancelled In YouTube's Area
The Church of Scientology scored another victory on Google's YouTube, where administrators suspended the account of the church critic who recently posted a video interview with actor and former Scientologist Jason Beghe. The effect of the suspension is to break embedded copies of the video on sites like Gawker and to help muffle Beghe's criticism of the cult as financially and emotionally exploitive. At the moment, one other copy of the interview exists on YouTube, uploaded yesterday, but it's unclear how long that copy will live. After the jump, Gawker's own copy of the Beghe video, a video posted to YouTube about the account suspension, and comments from a tipster who thinks the suspension will be as temporary as YouTube's January yanking of Tom Cruise's Scientology indoctrination video. More »
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Celebrity Ex-Scientologist: "Let Will Smith Know That His Shit Was Fucking Recorded"
Jason Beghe, the television and film actor starring in a blunt video about his Scientology days, has begun a media campaign to spread what he knows about the cult, and his latest salvo is a Village Voice interview in which he calls the Church of Scientology a "gossip factory" and says that it tapes all of its auditing sessions using secret cameras. "He's been cheating on his wife," he was told of one actor he wanted to cast in a recruiting video. He also has some dirt on Tom Cruise: More »
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