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Travolta's Religious Battlefield: Critics say movie bolsters Scientology

Title: Travolta's Religious Battlefield: Critics say movie bolsters Scientology
Date: Monday, 15 May 2000
Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Author: Don Lattin
Main source: sfgate.com

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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 ... [Read the rest at sfgate.com]