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!
Wesley Snips is so screwed - Wesley Snipes will spend the next three years in jail after a Florida judge gave him the maximum sentence possible for evading federal income taxes from 1999 to 2001. This was even after the judge referred to the case as a misdemeanor, saying, "In my mind these are serious crimes, albeit misdemeanors." Snipes fucked up. He should have done this stuff in California. Cops there don’t do shit. A movie star could dump anthrax into the water supply and, at worst, the courts would make him eat a really spicy pepper or something.
Tom Cruise is going back on Oprah - For the first time since his now very famous couch-jumping-up-and-down incident. Tom Cruise will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. People magazine says…
The show, which will appear in two parts during May sweeps, will celebrate Cruise’s career since his breakout role 25 years ago in Risky Business. One part will be shot in-studio before a live audience. In the other, Cruise will show Winfrey around his Telluride mountain retreat and do a portion of the interview at the home.
To learn more about Toms long career, check out this months copy of Crazy Ass Lunatic magazine.
Jimmy Fallon to replace Conan - The Hollywood Reporter says that Jimmy Fallon has signed a deal to replace Conan O Brien as host of Late Night after Conan becomes host of the Tonight Show next year. Will Fallon smirk smugly at the camera and crack up at his own jokes like he did on Weekend Update. Golly, I sure hope so. That was so charming
Jennifer Tilly is ageless -Jennifer Tilly walked the red carpet last night at the palms in Vegas for the premier of the movie "Deal". Which is only noteworthy because, in September, she turns 50. 50. This bitch is 50 years old, yet still looks less run down than Lindsay or Britney or fifty dozen other Hollywood fuck ups you could name. I think she might be the devil.
Actor Jason Beghe was best man at the wedding of David Duchovny and Tea Leoni. He starred as Demi Moore’s love interest in "G.I. Jane." He’s been in TV shows like "Criminal Minds," "Numb3rs" and "CSI." He's also been a scientologist since 1994. I think maybe he’s not a scientologist anymore. Fox News says…
…it's quite easy to understand the point he's making. After 14 years and a tremendous amount of money, he's seeing Scientology in a different light. Beghe has completed so many courses that he's considered a top Scientologist, or "OT 5" — similar to Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. But Beghe reveals: "The further up the bridge, the worse you get."
Tom Cruise could be training an army of roller skating kitty cats with lasers on their heads that would turn non-believers into sandwiches, and it would still be the most rational and level headed thing I’ve heard about scientology in years.
For a few weeks now people have been wondering why Suri Cruise suddenly dropped out of sight. Then yesterday Tom Crusie showed up at a public park with her. Man, what a coincidence. We don't have any close-up pictures from this spontaneous afternoon, because the paparazzi do what they always do at times like this, and that is stay a respectful distance away so big stars can have some privacy. Even still, Suri, as always, looked like they just pulled her out of the dryer. Is she okay? She always looks so confused and disoriented. Katie Holmes didn't make the trip with them, as she had a busy afternoon planned of crying in the bathroom and taking laxitives. Because she's so fat.
