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Mar 22, 2006
What Scientology needs most is to be ridiculed — The Times (UK)
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Michael Gove Source:
The Times (UK) Isaac Hayes, the wonderfully gifted singer who sang the theme from Shaft, reached No1 with Chocolate Salty Balls in 1999. The song was one of a number that Hayes performed while playing the school Chef in the US cartoon series South Park. Among the other Chef tunes, the Christmas song stands out, with its seductive lyrics, which I believe ran: I’m gonna lay you down by the Yule log I’m gonna love you right Baby, I’m gonna deck your halls And ...
Mar 2, 2006
Cruise, Travolta: Rolling Stone Gathers Moss — FOX News
Feb 23, 2006
Inside Scientology — Rolling Stone
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Janet Reitman Source:
Rolling Stone The faded little downtown area of Clearwater, Florida, has a beauty salon, a pizza parlor and one or two run-down bars, as well as a bunch of withered bungalows and some old storefronts that look as if they haven't seen customers in years. There are few cars and almost no pedestrians. There are, however, buses — a fleet of gleaming white and blue ones that slowly crawl through town, stopping at regular intervals to discharge a small army of tightly organized, ...
Jan 9, 2006
Cops probe Tom Cruise guru — National Enquirer
Dec 18, 2005
Tom Cruise and Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Claire Hoffman Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church.
GILMAN HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Nearly 30 years ago, the Church of Scientology bought a dilapidated and bankrupt resort here and turned the erstwhile haven for Hollywood moguls and starlets into a retreat for L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion.
Today, the out-of-the-way 500-acre compound near Hemet has quietly grown into one of Scientology's major bases of operation, ...
Dec 17, 2005
Scientology's inland empire — Los Angeles Times (California)
Dec 14, 2005
Tom Cruise Blasted by 9/11 Firefighters — Hollywood.com
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Hollywood.com HOLLYWOOD - Outspoken actor Tom Cruise has been criticized by firefighters suffering the effects of smoke inhalation from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks for his controversial views on their treatment.
The Scientology devotee has urged emergency services victims to give up their medication and inhalers as part of a 'purification rundown,’ which favors sauna sessions, ingestion of cooking oil and large doses of niacin as cures instead.
As co-founder of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, Cruise has also ...
Nov 30, 2005
Scientology's War Against Psychiatry — CNN
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Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN Tom Cruise has a new bone to pick with psychiatrists. He's boasting that he has helped think nearly half-a-million kids off of meds. Tonight, we reveal what Scientologists don't like about psychiatry. You're going to hear from a church member. Also tonight, are we on the brink of a mini ice age? Some experts say things could be getting much colder in some parts of the world. We will tell you what makes them so concerned. From America and around the ...
Nov 8, 2005
Cruise dumps sister for veteran publicist — CBC
Nov 3, 2005
The Today Show: An inside look at Scientology, Katie Couric interview with Michael Rinder — NBC
Nov 2, 2005
In brief: Cruise donates £2m to Scientology — Guardian Unlimited
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Guardian Unlimited Tom Cruise has emerged as the biggest ever donor to the controversial Church of Scientology. The actor and his pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes were given a standing ovation at the cult's annual gala in East Grinstead, Sussex at the weekend, where Cruise received a Diamond Meritorious Award for donating £2m. Cruise became a vocal member of the Scientologists 15 years ago. [...]
Oct 29, 2005
Tom Cruise parody site defiant in face of Scientology threats, demands its day in court — Wikinews
Oct 19, 2005
Spoof site faces religious lawsuit — TVNZ
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TVNZ A New Zealand website spoofing Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and his religion of choice is facing legal action from the Church of Scientology. The church is not amused by scienTOMogy - which features spoof videos of the star - and says it is breaching copyright. When Cruise engaged in some sofa stomping, he coined a new phrase called jumping the couch - the defining moment when someone has gone of the deep end. From that moment Glen Stollery has been chronicling ...
Oct 13, 2005
Silent Night? Holy Crap! / Tom and Katie's scary Scientology birth plan — Slate Magazine
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Dana Stevens Source:
Slate Magazine At first I thought it was a tossup which news item was scarier: the bombing of a peaceful Smurf village in a new UNICEF commercial, or the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are expecting a child. But after reading up on Scientological birth practices, the choice is clear. Even the loss of Smurfette to carpet bombs, and the subsequent abandonment of Baby Smurf, who ends the 20-second public service announcement alone and weeping amidst what one New York tabloid ...
Sep 1, 2005
Celebrity triggers tumult over psychiatric care: Did the news media make things worse? — Psychiatric Times
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Michael Jonathan Grinfeld Source:
Psychiatric Times Take years of research, clinical observations, technological advancements and scientific discovery, and then subject them to derision and skepticism during a celebrity rant that's part of a promotional tour for an upcoming movie, and suddenly it's a media event. Sounds odd, but it describes what happened after Tom Cruise decided to take on psychiatry while hawking his new movie, War of the Worlds , and the news media decided to turn the story into the latest shouting match for talking heads. While ...
Sep 1, 2005
Tom Cruise, Scientology bash psychiatry; APA fires back — Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
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Amanda Chesworth Source:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry “It is irresponsible for Mr. Cruise to use his movie publicity tour to promote his own ideological views and deter people with mental illness from getting the care they need.” —– So states Dr. Steven Sharfstein, president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), in response to recent talk show activities of actor Tom Cruise. Weeks earlier, Cruise had criticized actress Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants for postpartum depression. Cruise believes all psychiatry to be pseudoscience, chemical imbalances to be imaginary, and ...
Aug 16, 2005
After spending half of her life in Scientology, she found truth & freedom in Jesus Christ — Baptist Press
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Baptist Press Posted on Aug 16, 2005 | by Staff
ATLANTA (BP)–Karen Pressley has heard it all before.
The talk of space aliens having come to earth a millennia ago, the authoritative worldview, the buffed movie star glibly handing out solutions to personal conflicts.
Movie star Tom Cruise may be spouting the truth according to the Church of Scientology these days, but Pressley has lived in that world longer than Cruise and knows firsthand the nightmare it entails.
“Tom Cruise is doing exactly ...
Aug 11, 2005
Scientology vs. Psychiatry; Scientology Explored — CNN
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Anderson Cooper Source:
CNN COOPER: It's no secret that Tom Cruise is a devoted, outspoken member of the Church of Scientology. That has not always been the case. There was a time when the subject of his religion was off limits to reporters and to interviewers. Not so now. Just ask Matt Lauer who got lectured by Cruise weeks ago on what the actors says are the evils of psychiatry. Now, while some are surprised by the chance in Cruise, former Scientologists insist it's really ...
Aug 5, 2005
Debunking a movement / Scientollywood — Pasadena Weekly
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Carl Kozlowski Source:
Pasadena Weekly Exposing some of the unsavory claims that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and other celebrities would rather you didn't know about Scientology
For nearly 20 years, Tom Cruise has been Hollywood's Golden Boy. The star of Top Gun," "Risky Business" and, most recently, "The War of the Worlds," Cruise has attributed his vast success to being a follower of Scientology, a self-help movement-turned-religion which claims the ability to "clear" its followers from all their problems. It seemed like the perfect match: the ...
Aug 5, 2005
Margarita Lopez stays mum through Scientology flap — Downtown Express
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Paul Schindler Source:
Downtown Express The Manhattan borough president campaign of Margarita Lopez was knocked off stride this week by a one-two punch — from the right and the left as it were — about ties between the Lower East Side city councilmember and the Church of Scientology. In a series of three stories and an editorial that began Monday, the New York Post reported that Lopez was the key City Council player in securing $630,000 in city funds for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification ...
Aug 1, 2005
The A-listers' belief system — New Statesman
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Boyd Farrow Source:
New Statesman Why was there a Scientology tent on the set of War of the Worlds? Boyd Farrow explains how this cult religion, whose followers believe that people are immortal spiritual beings, is gaining ground thanks to support from Hollywood's biggest stars The summer blockbuster season has been dominated by an evil galactic ruler who, 75 million years ago, blew up 178 billion abducted alien souls with hydrogen bombs planted in earth's volcanoes and bundled them into clusters that now cling to every ...
Jul 12, 2005
Tom, three questions for you — The Times (UK)
Jul 6, 2005
A Method To Cruise's Madness? — Radar OnlineMore: web.archive.org
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Radar Online From the looks of it, Tom Cruise’s televised crackup is actually helping the Church of Scientology's recruitment efforts. Since he declared his eternal love for Katie Holmes in early May, visits to the Church’s official website have shot up 263 percent to a peak of 375,000 visitors per day last week, according to site traffic tracker alexa. A lot of those visitors must have come through Google, which listed “Scientology” as the 10th-fastest-gaining query for the week of June 27. While ...
Jul 5, 2005
Live Q&As // Scientology: Frank K. Flinn — Washington Post
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Frank K. Flinn Source:
Washington Post Frank K. Flinn , adjunct professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., was online Tuesday, July 5, at 3 p.m. ET to discuss Scientology. Flinn received his undergraduate degree from Quincy College, a Bachelor of Divinity, magna cum laude, from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Special Religious Studies from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. He also serves as an expert in forensic religion, testifying on the legal definition of religion and religious practices in the ...
Jul 5, 2005
Scientology courts the stars — MSNBC
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Kari Huus Source:
MSNBC By his account, Tom Cruise owes his cool head, defeat of dyslexia and, in a way, his unstoppable stardom to Scientology. But Scientology has much to thank Tom Cruise for as well. His glowing adherence to Scientology and the initiation of his bride-to-be, actress Katie Holmes, into the off-beat and oft-maligned system of beliefs has stirred a surge of interest. The search engine company Lycos reported that “Scientology” had leaped into the top 50 search terms last week for the first ...
Jul 3, 2005
An expanding universe // Scientology believes in aliens - and in buying lots of Manhattan real estate — NY Daily News (New York)More: rickross.com
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Author(s):
Adam Nichols Source:
NY Daily News (New York) TOM CRUISE's leap of faith into Scientology is a visible example of the religion's hold on its followers — but the Church of Scientology already has a multimillion-dollar grip on Manhattan. The controversial group, now blitzing the media after Cruise became its most outspoken advocate, has a massive city empire used by tens of thousands of devotees. And New York's church president the Rev. John Carmichael said, "Interest is increasing markedly." Its huge seven-story city headquarters was opened last year at ...
Jul 1, 2005
Scientology's war on psychiatry — Salon
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Katharine Mieszkowski Source:
Salon The controversial church, whose founder called shrinks "terrorists" and which labels mental illness a fraud, is closer than you think to implanting its extreme beliefs in the nation's laws and schools. It may be easy to dismiss Tom Cruise's recent outbursts against psychiatry as the ravings of an egomaniacal celebrity. Comedians have certainly had a field day with Cruise, a fervent disciple of the Church of Scientology, ever since he scolded Brooke Shields for taking prescribed medication to treat her postpartum ...
Jul 1, 2005
War of Words — New York Times
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Brooke Shields Source:
New York Times I WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression. ...
Jun 30, 2005
Scientology Timeline // Important dates for Scientology — ABC News
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ABC News May 9, 1950: "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" by L. Ron Hubbard is published. June 7, 1951: Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation established in Elizabeth, N.J. May 1952: The Wichita, Kan., Dianetics training center is moved to Phoenix. Hubbard publicly announces the formal establishment of the philosophy of Scientology and the formation of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. July 1952: "Scientology: A History of Man" published. February 1954: Church of Scientology founded in Los Angeles. 1956: The church is ...
Jun 30, 2005
War of words ignites over anti-depressant use — Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Schwed Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer It was supposed to be a simple publicity tour for the movie "War of the Worlds," but it has turned into a war of words. The movie's star, Tom Cruise, has been on a crusade that has nothing to do with the movie and a lot to do with his religious beliefs in the Church of Scientology. First, Cruise publicly attacked Brooke Shields for taking the anti-depressant Paxil for postpartum depression. Then he went after "Today" anchor Matt Lauer for not ...
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