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TOM'S QUACKPOT FE$T TO HIT CITY — New York Post
Type: Press
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David Seifman Source:
New York Post Scientology superstar Tom Cruise is coming here to promote his controversial "detox" project to 9/11 workers, and will host a mega-fund-raising gala for it. Tickets for the April 19 fund-raiser, which will star Cruise and benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, run as high as $100,000 for a table for eight. The downtown Manhattan clinic offers free Scientology-inspired treatments to firefighters, cops and other rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero. The program - which ...
Feb 5, 2007
'Tom Cruise' missile jokester arrested — CNET
Jan 1, 2007
The Church of Scientology: a hate group?
Dec 22, 2006
Tom Cruise Can't Put Out These Fires — FOX News
Dec 1, 2006
How many members do they really have? — Church Times (UK)
Nov 23, 2006
Scientologists' gifts to police provoke rethink — The Guardian (UK)
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Author(s):
Sandra Laville Source:
The Guardian (UK) An internal review of the hospitality policy of City of London police was ordered yesterday after revelations that officers had been accepting invitations, dinners and gifts from the Church of Scientology worth thousands of pounds.
Details of how the religious movement appeared to be cultivating officers in the force were revealed in a freedom of information inquiry made by the Guardian.
Officers ranging from constables to a chief superintendent received free gifts such as invitations to a premiere of Mission Impossible ...
Nov 22, 2006
Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police — The Guardian (UK)
Nov 21, 2006
Police officers accepted gifts from Church of Scientology — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ben Taylor Source:
Daily Mail (UK) Dozens of police officers have accepted film premiere tickets, banquet invitations and the use of a jazz band from the controversial Church of Scientology, it has emerged.
The wealthy religious movement has spent thousands of pounds cultivating contacts in the City of London police.
Officers have received sought-after free invitations to film premieres and £500-a-head charity dinners where the guest of honour is Hollywood superstar and renowned Scientologist, Tom Cruise.
They have even been provided with the free use of a ...
Nov 20, 2006
Exclusive: Honey Loon — Daily Mirror (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Graham Brough Source:
Daily Mirror (UK) The weird wedding of Mr and Mrs Cruise
TOM Cruise yesterday took his best man on honeymoon with him and new wife Katie Holmes after their lavish but bizarre wedding in Italy.
The 44-year-old star was allegedly spotted hopping on a private jet to the Maldives with senior Scientologist David Miscavige, 46, as other boozed-up guests headed for the US.
Cruise and Katie, 27, were already at Rome's Ciampino airport with the cult boss at 6am after leaving the £5.3million lakeside ...
Oct 28, 2006
Scientology - A question of faith // Did a mother's faith contribute to her murder? — CBS NewsMore: video.google.com
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CBS News (CBS) There was never a question who committed the murder of Elli Perkins on March 13, 2003. As correspondent Peter Van Sant reports, within hours, police had a confession. His jeans drenched in blood, 28-year-old Jeremy Perkins had just stabbed his mother 77 times. Weeks later, in a recorded interview, Jeremy told a psychiatrist what was going through his mind. "My mom, I thought she was out to get me," he said. "Like sometimes she’d be totally normal and then she’d ...
Sep 15, 2006
Brad Grey's Scientology Scare — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Bercovici Source:
Radar Online When Viacom kingpin Sumner Redstone cited Tom Cruise's personal conduct as the reason for killing his production deal with Paramount, the 83-year-old mogul's candor rocked Hollywood. But Radar has learned Redstone may have let Cruise off easy, particularly in light of allegations the actor dispatched goons from the Church of Scientology to intimidate Redstone's studio chieftan, Brad Grey.
According to a high-ranking media executive, Paramount Pictures honcho Grey had a highly unpleasant run-in with the Church during his tense negotiations with ...
Sep 14, 2006
Will Tom Cruise's legal team quash new book? — MSNBC
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeannette Walls Source:
MSNBC Hollywood insiders are wondering if Tom Cruise’s powerful legal team will quash a tell-all which makes some pretty shocking insinuations about the actor’s sex life.
Porn producer Paul Barresi is writing a book, “Pellicano’s Enforcer,” about how he allegedly helped incarcerated former private-eye-to-the-stars Anthony Pellicano protect celebs from negative stories.
In one chapter that’s been posted on an Internet site, Barresi tells how someone came to him trying to sell a story about Cruise — similar to the one that Cruise ...
Sep 8, 2006
The real reason Tom Cruise got fired — Slate Magazine
Sep 3, 2006
Tom says sorry for drugs jibe — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Javier Espinoza Source:
The Observer (London, UK) American actor Tom Cruise has apologised to Brooke Shields for criticising her use of antidepressant drugs while suffering postnatal depression after the birth of her first daughter. According to Shields, Cruise, a member of the Scientology cult which condemns the use of antidepressants, came to her house and apologised last Thursday. 'He came over to my house and he gave me a heartfelt apology,' Shields said on Friday on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 'And he apologised for bringing me ...
Aug 28, 2006
Paramount-Cruise plot thickens: Spielberg left in dark — Seattle Times
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Author(s):
Phyllis Furman Source:
Seattle Times This summer's biggest Hollywood breakup has left Steven Spielberg caught in the middle. The director was blindsided by Paramount Pictures' decision to dump Tom Cruise, Spielberg's spokesman said Thursday. Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount parent Viacom, dropped the bombshell in an interview in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. Spielberg is a Paramount powerbroker, but he "had no advance knowledge of Sumner Redstone's position," rep Marvin Levy said Thursday. "The story broke when Steven was on an airplane. He found out when the ...
Aug 27, 2006
Film magnate's wife 'threatened boycott of Cruise movies' — NZ Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Hiscock Source:
NZ Herald HOLLYWOOD - A novel theory of what lay behind the sacking of Tom Cruise by his Hollywood studio has emerged: he got up the nose of the main man's wife. Reports are circulating that the star so angered Paula Fortunato, wife of Sumner Redstone, boss of the studio's parent company, that she told her husband she was "boycotting Cruise's product for ever". Some film-world blogs have suggested this statement - provoked apparently by Cruise's criticisms of Brooke Shields's use of prescribed ...
Aug 24, 2006
Bruised Cruise — CNN
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CNN [...] COOPER: Oh, the video of Tom Cruise in happier times with Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone. Earlier this week, the actor's production company was dumped by Viacom's Paramont Pictures division. Cruise, who in the past – that's Sumner Redstone on the left. Yes. Cruise, who in the past has enjoyed tremendous popularity with audiences and has been a powerhouse, of course, at the box office, seems to be kind of losing at least some of his appeal. One of the issues, ...
Aug 24, 2006
Tom Cruise's behavior and Scientology: A link? // The debate continues as the controversial religion thrives — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bill Blakemore Source:
ABC News "In my opinion," says Rick Ross, who has spent years studying cults and religious groups, "(Tom Cruise's) meltdown is likely attributable to Scientology. He's made some bad career choices lately. He's damaged goods. How do you go from the world's biggest movie star to someone Viacom dumps?" The New York Times this morning said simply that Cruise has gone "into full Scientology mode." Indeed, his recent responses to Matt Lauer, inveighing against modern psychiatric care, reflect Scientology's claim that its own ...
Jul 24, 2006
Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg Spat Explained — Newsmax.com
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Newsmax.com A new report finally reveals the real reason why director Steven Spielberg was angry with Tom Cruise during the promotional tour for their movie "War of the Worlds” – and not surprisingly, it has much to do with Scientology. At the time, the New York Post reported that Spielberg was furious with Cruise because he had been "ranting” against "the widespread use of Ritalin to treat unruly children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder.” Spielberg was upset because he knew children who ...
Jun 14, 2006
60 Minutes: The Cruise Effect — Channel 3 (New Zealand)
Jun 13, 2006
When Elfmans explode — TMZ
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TMZ If Tom Cruise's recent public displays weren't evidence enough, Scientologists Jenna and Bodhi Elfman prove that they, too, are willing to go to great lengths to defend their religion. Indie film director John Roecker tells TMZ he was walking to his car with a female friend in LA's trendy Los Feliz neighborhood last Sunday when he was approached by a shirtless man and a tall blonde. "Hey, man, you're making fun of my religion," said the stranger angrily. Roecker quickly recognized ...
May 26, 2006
Scientologist speaks out — San Diego 6 (XETV-TV)
Apr 30, 2006
Tom Cruise's manic meltdown // If we didn't know better, we'd say it's time for Cruise to see a shrink — Canoe
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim Slotek Source:
Canoe Are we ready to feel sorry for Tom Cruise yet? Perhaps the most maladroit celebrity since ... well, if not ever, then at least since Michael Jackson, Cruise seems incapable of doing or saying anything in front of cameras and tape-recorders that doesn't come off strange and/or weird. Take the blessed event of the birth of his daughter Suri by girlfriend Katie Holmes. Never mind the rumours about Scientology-dictated "silent birth." Here was the the birth of an innocent, and a ...
Apr 19, 2006
Mission Implausible ..or Tom Cruise and the riddle of the 'rigged' internet poll — Daily Mirror (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ryan Parry Source:
Daily Mirror (UK) TOM Cruise fans have been accused of rigging a poll to save the star from ridicule over his bizarre antics. Some 15,100 out of 18,000 votes in a magazine's internet survey - 84 per cent - blamed the media rather than the Mission: Impossible hero for his poor image. But suspicious bosses found 14,000 of the pro-Tom ballots came from just 10 computers. Alexis Collado, a spokesman for the magazine, Parade, said: "One computer was responsible for nearly 8,400 votes, all ...
Apr 18, 2006
Cruise says he was joking about eating placenta — KOAT Albuquerque
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KOAT Albuquerque NEW YORK – For those of you who took Tom Cruise seriously when he said he was going to eat Katie Holmes' placenta, there's been a clarification.
He was joking.
Cruise told Diane Sawyer he was only kidding when he said in GQ magazine that he was going to eat the placenta and umbilical cord right after Holmes gave birth because they're "very nutritious."
But several days later, there are stories on the Internet taking him seriously.
Several reports about the ...
Apr 18, 2006
Did Tom Cruise's cronies skew a parade Mag poll in his favor? — Huffington Post
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Huffington Post TOM Cruise's cronies seem to have put a lot of effort into skewing a Parade magazine poll in his favor. Parade.com recently asked online readers whether they thought Cruise was responsible for his disastrous public relations year or if it was the media's fault. A shocking 84 percent of respondents blamed the press. But Parade publicist Alexis Collado tells us: "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of ...
Apr 13, 2006
Tom & Katie's Planned 'Silent Birth' — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vanessa Mizell Source:
CBS News (AP) Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancée, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word. Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby. No one's saying publicly where baby Cruise will ...
Apr 5, 2006
Interview with Glen Stollery of ScienTOMogy.info — Wikinews
Mar 29, 2006
Scientology foes blast Cruise in ad — MSNBC
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeannette Walls Source:
MSNBC The battle between Tom Cruise and Scientology and its foes is heating up. Cruise and Scientology have been in the news lately because of an allegedly censored “South Park” parody of the religion — and now Scientology and the “Top Gun” star are being blamed for a woman’s death. “Thanks, Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology, for your expert advice on mental health,” blasts an ad in LA Weekly. The ad goes on to say that a woman was killed ...
Mar 26, 2006
Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Sullivan Source:
The Times (UK) We have a new cartoon-blasphemy scandal. No, it’s not Islamists burning down Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in Pakistan because a few Danish cartoonists had the gall to draw the prophet Muhammad. Now it’s Scientology versus the popular and hilarious cartoon television programme South Park. And the Scientologists, like the Islamists before them, are winning. South Park is a potty-mouthed series created by two young iconoclasts, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. It features a group of nine-year-old cardboard cut-out pals whose adventures ...
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