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May 17, 2000
Stay in touch: Critics go into battle — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
[...] If you run into a Scientologist today, don't do the usual thing of crossing the road/city/country to avoid them. Instead, look sympathetically on them, maybe even give them a hug of consolation, for we think there may be some mourning happening among the followers of L. Ron Hubbard. The first reviews are in for the multi-multi-million-dollar film based on one of L. Ron's off-the-planet science-fiction yarns (and no, we don't mean Dianetics), Battlefield Earth, and they don't make for pretty ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 15, 2000
Travolta's Religious Battlefield: Critics say movie bolsters Scientology — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
John Travolta insists that Battlefield Earth, his $90 million screen homage to L. Ron Hubbard, has nothing to do with his longtime devotion to the Church of Scientology. Hubbard is both the founder of that controversial religious movement and the author of the 1982 science-fiction novel that forms the basis of Travolta's latest movie. Battlefield Earth is just a great story, Travolta says, and he finally has enough Hollywood leverage to push his pet project onto the big screen. Mark Bunker ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 12, 2000
Battlefield of dreams — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Tobin
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
L. Ron Hubbard said he didn't want his science-fiction work to be a press release for the church he founded. Nevertheless, the connections between Battlefield Earth and Scientology are worth noting. Put him in front of a typewriter and L. Ron Hubbard's fingers flew. He did not "piddle around" with his prose like other writers, as his friend and fellow science fiction author, Robert A. Heinlein, observed in a 1982 letter. Known in the 1930s and 1940s as a writer of ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 11, 2000
'Battlefield Earth': Film Dogged by Links to Scientology Founder — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Rick Lyman
Source: New York Times
HOLLYWOOD, May 10 — The anticult networks are kicking up a fuss. Discussion on Internet movie sites is picking over the potentially sinister implications. Anonymous e-mails are whizzing around the country charging that, among other things, subliminal messages are being used to recruit unsuspecting moviegoers. Big summer action movies, filled with stars and special effects, don't often come with such fascinating accessories. Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta as a nine-foot alien with talons for fingers, will open in more than 2,000 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 9, 2000
Is Scientology above the law? — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Denise Everton
Source: Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
John Travolta is a staunch supporter. So are many other Hollywood celebrities and it is from them that The Church of Scientology gets its best publicity. Yet while the promotion comes through association with high-profile names, there is rarely a lot actually discussed about the church. That is set to change with this French documentary (narrated in English and featuring subtitles) that examines the relationship between the Church of Scientology and the law in France, Germany and the United States. Incorporating ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 5, 2000
Television: Unmasking Scientology — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
RELIGION in all its forms sparks intense debate but none more so in recent times perhaps than the Church of Scientology. A relatively young religion created by science fiction author Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Scientology's profile has risen sharply with the support of such high-profile acting identities as John Travolta and Juliette Lewis. Yet while most people would have an opinion on the church's ideology, there rarely seems to be much open debate about it in the social arena. That changes next ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Apr 3, 2000
Interplanetary film wars — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Glenn Whipp
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
[...] What's left after these travesties and Mission to Mars? Two big-budget entries are slated for mid-year. The first, Battlefield Earth, finds Scientologist John Travolta starring in this adaptation of movement founder L. Ron Hubbard's evil alien novel. The script has drawn derision on Internet sites, and photos of Travolta in alien makeup have only made things worse. [...]
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Mar 27, 2000
Travolta and Will Smith caught in religious rows — Guardian Unlimited
Type: Press
Source: Guardian Unlimited
In yet another fine weekend for protest groups, the anti-scientology group FactNet has warned that "lawsuits may soon be flying" over John Travolta's upcoming Battlefield Earth. FactNet accuses the movie - adapted from a sci-fi novel by cult founder L Ron Hubbard and starring celebrity scientologist Travolta - of accommodating "subliminal messages to surreptitiously recruit new members from the movie audience". FactNet goes on to allege that the would-be religion - beloved of Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and other film stars ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 24, 2000
VIP treatment / Mr. Costner, would you like a film deal with that Martini? — Wall Street Journal
Mar 19, 2000
Life as Satanist propelled rocketeer — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Cecilia Rasmussen
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
I height [sic] Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never knew sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. –John Whiteside Parsons * He was an unorthodox genius, a poet and rocket scientist who helped give birth to an institution that would become mankind's window on the universe. He was also a devotee of the black arts, a sci-fi junkie and host of backyard orgies on Pasadena's stately Millionaires' Row. John ...
Mar 3, 2000
A cry for justice — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
A Times Editorial: Despite a reversal in the autopsy report of Lisa McPherson, the state attorney still has an obligation to prosecute those his office believes to be responsible in her death in a Scientology hotel room. The tragedy of Lisa McPherson's death in a Scientology hotel room has turned into a sad, convoluted mess that cries out for justice. An unexplained reversal by Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Joan Wood has prosecutors reviewing their case and raises questions about Wood's competence. Meanwhile, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 29, 2000
Report urges dissolution of Scientology church in France / Europe: Panel calls group a danger to the public and a threat to national security — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Jan 18, 2000
Master of lateral movement finds freedom in expression — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Dec 16, 1999
State of Florida Department of Health v. David Ira Minkoff, M.D. / Case no. 1997-15802
Nov 28, 1999
John Travolta's alien nation — Washington Post
Oct 5, 1999
Travolta shocker / The gay charges and the truth about his marriage — National Enquirer
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology's revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Aug 5, 1999
Battlefield Travolta — NOW Magazine
More: groups.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Enzo Di Matteo
Source: NOW Magazine
Scientology's biggest star comes to Canada to make a movie that will bring church's values and villains to a theatre near you Members of the Church of Scientology were in Yorkville this past holiday weekend, questionnaires in hand, to collect opinions about the church from passersby. It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about its application for charitable status. But positive PR may be ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 14, 1999
'Eyes' in focus — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Patrick Goldstein
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
Q&A: Tom Cruise, co-star of Stanley Kubrick's final opus, talks about the challenges and rewards of working with the director he says was wrongly labeled as an eccentric. When Stanley Kubrick was first wooing Tom Cruise about starring in "Eyes Wide Shut," the director learned that Cruise was a pilot, as Kubrick himself had been before he crash-landed one day and never flew again. So the most all-controlling cinema master of our time decided that if Cruise was going to zoom ...
Jun 28, 1999
Defenders of the faith should stand at ease — Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Bart
Source: Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)
THE MOST MAIL Daily Variety has received this year about a single article has come in response to a story that the newspaper will never run. The subject was Scientology and its influence on Hollywood. The story was in the process of being researched by our film editor, Dan Cox, who recently left the paper to accept a job as a literary agent without finishing the article. In approaching his story, Cox was impressed by the fact that the Scientologists, who've ...
Jun 17, 1999
Psychiatrists should be made accountable — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s): John Kidman
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
SYDNEY, June 17 AAP — Psychiatrists who argued for the release of convicted child killer John Lewthwaite should be held culpable if he reoffended, human rights activists said today. "If that were the case, then the psychiatric profession might not be so quick to judge dangerous criminals fit for release," Citizens Commission on Human Rights spokeswoman Lyn Cottee told journalists. "They might also use proven, workable rehabilitation programs and testing if they were made accountable for the results." Lewthwaite, one of ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jun 16, 1999
Nationwide General News // Australian General News // Diary Thursday Add June 17, 1999 Sydney — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
1030 - The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights will protest against the state's parole process, following the decision last week to release convicted child-killer John Lewthwaite. Outside the parole board, Hospital Road, Wynard. Contact: Lyn Dunnachie 0415 719 282.
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Jun 8, 1999
Protest to be held at Lewthwaite's parole hearing — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
LEWTHWAITE SYDNEY, June 8 AAP - A public protest will be held outside the controversial parole hearing of child killer John Lewthwaite in Sydney tomorrow. The protest has been organised by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights against the use of psychiatric behaviour programs in prisons and psychiatric testimony in parole hearings. Commission spokeswoman Lyn Cottee said she did not trust the use of psychiatric testimony in parole hearings. Lewthwaite had been receiving anger management treatment and was having the case ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Apr 1, 1999
The Thetans' revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Feb 25, 1999
Public service ads banned from buses — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 7, 1999
Scientology Pals Kicked In $50,000 Toward U.N.'s Big Elephant Statue — New York Observer
More: link
Jan 29, 1999
Cult film — Washington City Paper
Jan 28, 1999
PSTA aims to avoid ad flap — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 1 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
Type: TV
Source: Arts and Entertainment Channel
ANNOUNCER: On December 14, 1998, this is “Investigative Reports”. BILL KURTIS: Hello, I’m Bill Kurtis. It is America’s most controversial religion. Some, in fact, say it’s not a religion at all. For 40 years, the Church of Scientology has flourished in this country, while under constant attack by the government, the media, and the psychiatric profession. It’s been perceived as an organization interested only in money making, which brainwashes its members and then bankrupts them; all untrue, say its leaders and ...
Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 10 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
Type: TV
Source: Arts and Entertainment Channel
outside Celebrity Centre; newspaper article titled “Scientology–A Long Trail of Controversy”; another shot of Celebrity Centre; part of newspaper article title “struggle for credibility” VO: Over its rocky 45- year history, Scientology has driven for mainstream acceptance. DAVID MISCAVIGE (interview): People have been searching for thousands of years for spiritual release and freedom, and what we have in Scientology is the answer. How to achieve that. JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit): Ultimately, the whole purpose is to ...
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