The New York Daily News says today that Tom Cruise has been named in a $250 million federal lawsuit against the Church of Scientology. Hahahaha, you suck Tom Cruise. Goofy bastard. THE NYDN says…
Ex-Scientologist Peter Letterese, a longtime critic of the church, filed suit in Southern District Court in Florida on July 15 alleging, among other things, that members of the church harassed him after he left.
In court papers provided to The News by investigator Paul Barresi, Letterese claims a member of the church phoned his lawyer at home, and when the lawyer's wife answered, said he was her husband's homosexual lover.
Letterese calls the church a "crime syndicate" and wants it broken up under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization law, just as the feds have broken up Mafia families.
He singles out Cruise, who's made no secret of his religion, saying that Scientology head David Miscavage is "aided and abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, his right-hand man for foreign and domestic promotion, as well as for foreign and domestic lobbying. He has assisted the syndicate in acquiring funds and [made] his own donations of money believed to be in the multiple tens of millions of dollars."
This guy is crazy. Scientology is legit. I took their personality test one time and it turns out I like to have fun. And I thought about it and they were right. Just a week earlier I had hit my thumb with a hammer and I didn’t care for that at all. How did Scientology know?!?!?! Here’s some money, tell me more!!!
Much is being made today of the fact that Katie Holmes has been seen while filming her cameo on the ABC show "Eli Stone" either hiding her hands (above) or wearing gloves (here). One picture in particular (this one) seems to have some in a breathless tizzy because her hands kinda sorta look purple (close up here). Perez is saying her hands are turning weird colors because of some radical and dangerous Scientology purification program called Purif. He called her hands “freakily discolored”. I have no idea if she’s in scientology detox or not, but all of these pictures were taken on the same day as the one in question, and for the most part her hands look normal (here). So I think what we’ve learned here is that sometime pictures do lie. Like this one. I don’t think they even make banana phones, so how could he be talking to someone?
Jared has some pictures up today showing a very stately Tom Cruise. He’s been 5’6” for 20 years but as of last night he’s a damn giant. Maybe it's forced perspective or whatever but they’re the same height, at best, and last night Katie was wearing 3-inch heels, yet Tom still looks taller. So this can only mean he’s wearing lifts. Which is funny. I hope this is his new thing. I dream of the day he gets out of the limo and clomps his feet down and sticks his arms out and waves them in big circles to keep his balance as he steps down the red carpet in KISS boots from 1978, all while grinning like an idiot and pretending none of this is happening.
Will Smith has yet to officially announce that he is now a follower of Scientology, despite strong ties to the cult for almost three years, but now Life and Style (via PopCrunch) says the evidence that’s piling up is pretty hard to ignore.
Life & Style spies claim Will was chatting up the unorthodox religion to anyone who would listen on the set of his new film, Hancock, opening July 4th.
“He gave out Scientology-like pamphlets at the end of the shoot,” says biographer Andrew Morton, who published an unauthorized biography on Kooky Cruise last Winter.
“It’s also been said that he and Jada are homeschooling their children in Scientology methods,” Morton insists.
Will and Jada are also rumored to be financing the New Village Academy, a Scientology-associated school to open in Calabasas, California this Fall.
Morton explains: “So between that, the pamphlets, the school in Calabasas, and his close friendship with Tom, it seems all the evidence leads one to conclude that he is a part of this organization.”
Will Smith seems smarter than this, but he’s an actor and actors are idiots so I guess it's not surprising. Actors will fall for anything. If you can get really one big one the rest will follow and do what he does. You could get a Moose costume and tap dancing shoes, then all you need to do is convince George Clooney that TapaMoose can tap, tap, tap away your insecurities with tophats and razzmatazz, and by the end of the week you’d be rolling around in mountains of money like Scrooge McDuck.
"Loveline" and "Celebrity Rehab" host Dr. Drew has an interview in next months Playboy magazine, and in it he makes a casual reference to Tom Crusie. Drew said…
"A lot of people in the public eye who behave strangely have mental illness we can learn from, and much of it is based on childhood trauma, without a doubt. Take a guy like Tom Cruise. Why would somebody be drawn into a cultish kind of environment like Scientology? To me, that's a function of a very deep emptiness and suggests serious neglect in childhood - maybe some abuse, but mostly neglect."
And since Tom Cruise will attack anyone who speaks out, his attorney Bert Fields had a comment for Page Six:
"This unqualified television performer who is obviously just looking for notoriety is so grotesquely unprofessional as to pretend to diagnose Tom and others without ever meeting them. He seems to be spewing the absurdity that all Scientologists are mentally ill. The last time we heard garbage like this was from Joseph Goebbels."
Keep in mind two things: 1) Dr. Drew is not a “television performer.” He’s a board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist who teaches at USC. 2) Tom Cruise has admitted on several occasions that he suffered abuse as a child from his father, whom his mother left when he was 12. Cruise attended 11 different schools as kid, all across the US and Canada, and says he was frequently a victim of bullying. In other words, Drew was 100 percent right, but whatever. You can bet Scientology isn’t done. They’ll sue him, and Playboy, then they’ll get some voodoo woman to sneak up behind Drew and blow some powder in his face and he’ll wake up 4 days later covered in warts and thinking his furniture is made of snakes.
Tom Cruise wore a very handsome sweater to yesterdays MTV Movie Awards, a perfect indicator for how hip and edgy this thing has gotten lately. After this he played with the thermostat for a while and then listed places around town with the cheapest gas. Then he settled in with a nice cup of chamomile and went nitey-nite. What an evening!
