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Mar 16, 2011
Why Celebrities Love Scientology — AOL MoviefoneMore: blogs.villagevoice.com
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Gabrielle Dunn ,
Tony Ortega Source:
AOL Moviefone Over the weekend, notorious Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard celebrated what would have been his 100th birthday. The former science-fiction writer (born March 13, 1911) founded the religion Scientology in 1952 as a successor to his self-help series, 'Dianetics.'
Since then, Scientology has gone mainstream with the aid of big-name celebrity believers like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. But while Scientology's association with movie stars has gained it publicity, it's also revealed outlandish, dangerous and cult-ish aspects that leave many wondering ...
Jan 28, 2009
Scientology: Death by Devotion — Breitbart.com
Jan 20, 1998
Web not helping Scientology — Globe and Mail (Canada)More: link
Jan 28, 1997
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Sep 1, 1993
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Nov 12, 1991
Scientologywood // Putting the CULT back in Culture — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Russ W. Baker Source:
Village Voice And now, the next Walt Disney Studios— the Church of Scientology! That is, if entrepreneurs connected with the Hollywood based cult can muscle into the film business with their proposal to homogenize films by tailoring them to the tastes of the unwashed masses. It all began last July, when Future Films, a new, eccentric studio, began running ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter touting its revolutionary ideas. No one knew what to make of it all. The grand concept, to ...
Oct 11, 1991
Mixology // Da Doo Ron Ron — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Carpenter ,
Tim Kirk Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) PAY-TO-PLAY MAY RULE ON THE SUNSET STRIP, BUT WOULD-BE ROCKERS WILL BE glad to hear that there's still one Hollywood hotspot where the gigs are free, easy to book, and where an enthusiastic crowd is guaranteed. Sound like a rock & roll heaven on earth? Actually, it's the Scientology Celebrity Center (5930 Franklin Ave.), where every Sunday night at 7:30 you can find an open-mike talent show that ain't fooling when it boasts "Everybody Is Welcome." Whether you're an Operating Thetan ...
Jul 13, 1991
Auction delivers for birth center — Glendale News-Press (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
P.H. Wiest Source:
Glendale News-Press (California) The Gentle Birth Foundation hopes that by Sunday night it will be able to deliver a lot of money to the Friends of the Gentle Birth Center. The foundation, led by actress Karen Black and Richard C. Wallace, founder of the International Artists' Guild, is sponsoring "Invest in the Best Celebrity Art Auction and Show" to benefit the Glendale birthing center, which has been under investigation by the state medical board since January. Local authorities have charged that non-certified midwives were ...
Jun 25, 1990
The Scientology Story: The Selling of a Church // The Courting of Celebrities — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joel Sappell ,
Robert W. Welkos Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Testimonials of the famous are prominent in the church's push for acceptability. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are the current headliners. The Church of Scientology uses celebrity spokesmen to endorse L. Ron Hubbard's teachings and give Scientology greater acceptability in mainstream America. As far back as 1955, Hubbard recognized the value of famous people to his fledgling, off-beat church when he inaugurated "Project Celebrity." According to Hubbard, Scientologists should target prominent individuals as their "quarry" and bring them back like trophies ...
Apr 15, 1990
Hubbard hot-author status called illusion — San Diego Union-TribuneMore: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike McIntyre Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune In 1981, St. Martin's Press was offered a sure thing. L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp writer turned religious leader, had written his first science-fiction novel in more than 30 years. If St. Martin's published it, Hubbard aides promised the firm, subsidiary organizations of Hubbard's Church of Scientology would buy at least 15,000 copies. "Battlefield Earth," priced at $24.95, was released the next year in hardcover, rare for a science-fiction title. Despite mixed reviews, the book quickly sold 120,000 copies — enough ...
Jun 7, 1986
Followers singing the praises of Scientology – literally — Clearwater Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Wilma Norton Source:
Clearwater Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — Call this music cassette The L. Ron Shuffle . A celebrity group of L. Ron Hubbard's followers — including John Travolta, Chick Corea, Karen Black, Leif Garrett and Sylvester Stallone's brother Frank — have put together a pop-music cassette of 10 songs whose lyrics and music are said to have been written by the Scientology founder before his death. The cassettes have been mailed to more than 600 "various local people in Clearwater," Scientology spokesman Ludwig Alpers said, and will ...
Apr 27, 1986
Suit challenges tactics of church — New York TimesMore: nytimes.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marcia Chambers Source:
New York Times A former official of the Church of Scientology, testifying at the trial of his suit charging the church with fraud, says church staff members engaged in a pattern of lies, tricks and deception in efforts to keep him from disclosing how the organization operates. The former official, Larry Wollersheim, who says the church should pay him $25 million in damages because it ruined him financially and emotionally, has spent three weeks testifying before a Superior Court jury here. For its part, ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [Hubbard's "Freedom" army] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) [Picture / Caption: Commander Hubbard ] ''[L. Ron Hubbard] has now moved on to his next level of ... research. This level is beyond anything any of us has ever imagined. It is a level, in fact, done in an exterior state, completely exterior from the body. In this level ... the body is nothing more than an impediment, an encumbrance to any further gain. ... Thus, at 2000 hours, Friday, the 24th of January, A.D. [1986], L. Ron Hubbard discarded the ...
Apr 4, 1986
Inside Scientology — Finally [L.A.'s most conspicuous "cult"?] — L.A. Weekly (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ron Curran ,
Jennifer Pratt Source:
L.A. Weekly (California) L.A.'s Most Conspicuous "Cult"? Scientology is certainly no stranger to attention, and when the reclusive L. Ron Hubbard died of a stroke at his San Luis Obispo ranch, the bright light of public scrutiny was again cast upon his progeny. But despite the walls of defense evident at Scientology headquarters, the church has, ironically, done everything in its power to keep its product, if not its parishioners, in the public eye. For in the 35 years since Hubbard founded Scientology, basing ...
Aug 30, 1984
Right track founder presents plaque — San Bernadino American News (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
San Bernadino American News (California) Actor Michael Roberts, founder of the popular durg abuse prevention group, "RIGHT TRACK", was in Hollywood recently to present a plaque to best selling author L. Ron Hubbard, to acknowledge Hubbard's work in the field of drug abuse prevention. Hubbard's Public relations Officer, Sue Lawler, accepted the award on behalf of Mr. Hubbard. Hubbard has been honored across the country by mayors and governors with similar plaques and recognition, including a proclamation from Mayor Saldana of Catalina Island. Roberts said that ...
Aug 16, 1984
"Right Track" founder presents plaque — Voice (Riverside, California)
Apr 21, 1981
Bizarre brainwashing cult cons top stars into backing its drug program — National EnquirerMore: scientology-lies.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
David McCrindell Source:
National Enquirer Some of Hollywood's biggest stars have been duped into endorsing a controversial drug rehabilitation program called Narconon, which is actually operated by the bizarre brainwashing cult, the Church of Scientology. More than 170 celebrities' names have been used as "Friends of Narconon." I Although a few are Scientologists — such as Cathy Lee Crosby, Priscilla Presley and Karen Black — others were shocked to learn Narconon was an offshoot of the weird cult. [Picture / Caption: "NARCONON ALL STARS" Gregory Harrison ...
Oct 22, 1978
Scientology: Another pop psychology? — Chronicle-TelegramMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cynthia Roberts Source:
Chronicle-Telegram Forgive the digression, but as a child, I had a fool-proof method for falling asleep. If I were lying wide-awake in bed, I would categorize my thoughts, imagining my mind was a room full of filing cabinets. Into each of these files (not unlike the ones where the Mouseketeers kept their cartoons) went one worry or problem. By the time the data was transferred, I would be asleep. The point being that I viewed my mind as something akin to a ...
Aug 14, 1978
Up Front: Federal prosecutors unveil the astonishing intrigues of the Scientology church — People magazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cheryl McCall Source:
People magazine Since its founding by a science fiction writer named L. Ron Hubbard in 1954, Scientology has been among the growth stocks on the self-help market: a quasireligious, quasiscientific cult that has attracted three million U.S. followers (some highly touted celebrities among them) and estimated annual revenues in the hundreds of millions, much of it tax-exempt. Until recently Scientology's only certifiable vice was eccentricity, but within a week a federal grand jury in Washington is expected to hand down a bulging sheaf ...
Mar 20, 1976
Celebrities testify for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Celebrities from 1-B
Aug 2, 1975
Will real CIA agent please stand up? — Detroit Free PressMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chuck Stone Source:
Detroit Free Press ONCE THE PANDORA'S BOX of unsubstantiated allegations is pried open, it no longer becomes a question of, "Is there one?" but rather, "Who is the one?" Alexander Butterfield seems to have rebutted reports that he was the CIA's man in the White House. But is it even logical to assume such a direct contact exists? It is, if you know anything about Washington bureaucratic infighting. Is one of President Ford's 43 assistants and special assistants in league with the CIA? A ...
Sep 23, 1974
Scientology — NewsweekMore: link
Type: Press
Source:
Newsweek In the summer of 1950, an unusual book burst onto the best-seller lists and almost instantly became the focus of a national cult. "Dianetics," an extraordinary blend of Eastern philosophy, psychoanalytic technique and futuristic theory, had been concocted by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, a sometime explorer, engineer and science-fiction writer. The book offered a self-help answer to all manner of psychic and bodily ills, and the medical and psychiatric community responded with alarm. Partly for protection from these attacks, Hubbard in 1954 ...
May 6, 1973
Scientologists making impact on West Side // Church largest and fastest growing of its kind in the area — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John H. Hall Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Despite a 10-year running battle with the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Assn., Scientology appears to have finally arrived on the West Side. Aided by a 1971 federal district court decision, the Church of Scientology is not only a recognized religious science but the largest and fastest-growing pandenominational church in this area. And the greatest concentration of its members may well be here. There are 75,000 Scientologists in Los Angeles, according to the Rev. Glenn A. Malkin, executive ...
Mar 6, 1967
House of Commons / Official report / Parliamentary debates
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