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Jul 14, 1999
'Eyes' in focus — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Patrick Goldstein Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Q&A: Tom Cruise, co-star of Stanley Kubrick's final opus, talks about the challenges and rewards of working with the director he says was wrongly labeled as an eccentric. When Stanley Kubrick was first wooing Tom Cruise about starring in "Eyes Wide Shut," the director learned that Cruise was a pilot, as Kubrick himself had been before he crash-landed one day and never flew again. So the most all-controlling cinema master of our time decided that if Cruise was going to zoom ...
Jul 14, 1999
Tom Cruise's PR firm seeks extensive TV restrictions — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Brian Lowry Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Television: As interviews for 'Eyes Wide Shut' begin, the actor's representatives go to new lengths. The publicity machinery surrounding "Eyes Wide Shut" raised the hackles of some television news organizations this week by attempting to place restrictions on TV accounts regarding the film's star that would ratchet up control over information to a new level. PMK, the publicity firm that represents Tom Cruise, distributed a waiver at the movie's press junket asking to see rough cuts in advance of any TV ...
Jun 28, 1999
Defenders of the faith should stand at ease — Daily Variety (Hollywood, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Peter Bart Source:
Daily Variety (Hollywood, California) THE MOST MAIL Daily Variety has received this year about a single article has come in response to a story that the newspaper will never run. The subject was Scientology and its influence on Hollywood. The story was in the process of being researched by our film editor, Dan Cox, who recently left the paper to accept a job as a literary agent without finishing the article. In approaching his story, Cox was impressed by the fact that the Scientologists, who've ...
Apr 2, 1999
Die dunkle Seite von Scientology // Ein film von Mona Botros und Egmond R. Koch — ARD (Germany)
Apr 1, 1999
The Thetans' revenge — New Times Los Angeles
Jan 31, 1999
Scientology: A church and its foes / Bitter partings — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: link
Dec 14, 1998
Investigative Reports: Inside Scientology [Part 9 of 10] — Arts and Entertainment Channel
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Arts and Entertainment Channel Crowd of people outside Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles; picture of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman VO: The high profile role of Scientology’s celebrities– which include America’s most popular actor, Tom Cruise– adds to Scientology’s mystique. footage of Travolta being presented with a “1998 Celebrity with glamour of the year” (?) award from somebody (glass trophy with red and blue hand prints painted on it) JOHN TRAVOLTA (on movie set in Army camouflage outfit) (voice of and on camera): I’m part ...
Aug 25, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 3 — FACTnet
Aug 24, 1998
Jesse Prince interviews – Tape 2 — FACTnet
Feb 24, 1998
Review & Outlook / The Secrets of the Universe — Wall Street JournalMore: link
Feb 13, 1998
Scientology's Star Roster Enhances Image — New York TimesMore: link
Jun 7, 1997
Germany will place Scientology under nationwide surveillance — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Alan Cowell Source:
New York Times BONN, June 6 — The German authorities decided today to place the Scientology movement under nationwide surveillance for one year, their sharpest action yet in a long battle against a group they say is bent on undermining their democratic society. The decision, which critics called authoritarian and impractical, means that Scientologists' mail may be intercepted, their phones tapped and their offices infiltrated by undercover agents posing as adherents. The organization said it would contest the decision in court. By making public ...
Mar 30, 1997
The true story of a false prophet — Mail on Sunday (UK)
Feb 18, 1997
Albright plays down dispute over Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Feb 1, 1997
Germany says it will press on with Scientology investigations — New York TimesMore: link
Feb 1, 1997
Nicole Kidman — Good Weekend (Australia)
Feb 1, 1997
Victims or VILLAINS? — The Weekend Australian
Jan 28, 1997
Love secrets of Tom Cruise's sexy marriage — Star magazine
Jan 28, 1997
Word War Two — Star magazine
Jan 27, 1997
U.S. challenges German stand on Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas W. Lippman Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) WASHINGTON — The State Department's annual survey of human rights conditions around the world will contain expanded, toughened language criticizing Germany for restrictions on the Church of Scientology and its members, administration officials say.
The report, to be issued Wednesday, will chastise Germany for what a senior administration official called "a campaign of harassment and intimidation" against the controversial church. He said the United States, seeking to protect religious freedom, has urged Germany through diplomatic channels "not to prosecute people for ...
Jan 27, 1997
U.S. criticizes Germany on Scientology — Washington PostMore: highbeam.com
Jan 17, 1997
'Mission' a German hit despite boycott — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Judy Brennan ,
Mary Williams Walsh Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Movies: The success of the film, targeted by conservatives because it stars Scientologist Tom Cruise, eases studio fears about releasing other films featuring members of the movement. Despite the much-publicized boycott in Germany of "Mission: Impossible" because its star, Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist, the film grossed about $24 million, considered a huge success for the important German market by Hollywood studios, and ranked eighth in Germany for 1996. The results could help assuage the Hollywood studios that are preparing for ...
Jan 15, 1997
U.S. celebrities defend Scientology in Germany — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Jan 11, 1997
German policy on Scientology attacked — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mary Williams Walsh Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Europe: Open letter to Kohl draws analogy to treatment of Jews before World War II. Politicians respond angrily. BERLIN — A running battle between German government officials and the Church of Scientology escalated this week, with 34 prominent Americans from the entertainment industry denouncing Germany for allegedly treating Scientologists as it treated the Jews in 1936, and the German foreign minister accusing the celebrities of "falsifying history." "It's out of the question that there's persecution of Scientology in Germany," Foreign Minister ...
Jan 1, 1997
Is Scientology keeping Hollywood straight? Celebrities are dropping off the fay rumor mill by joining the religion of the stars — GirlfriendsMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephanie Tarnoff Source:
Girlfriends When L. Ron Hubbard penned his ground-breaking book, Dianetics , a shot rang out in Hollywood. The book, now available in more than 32 languages, has sold over 16 million copies since 1950. It has also attracted legions of famous followers to its Church of Scientology in Hollywood and its castle-like Celebrity Centre located in the heart of Tinseltown. During John Travolta's Golden Globe acceptance speech, for example, the church member — long rumored to be gay — thanked L. Ron Hubbard ...
Sep 1, 1996
Germany finds Scientology to have menacing mission — Indianapolis Star (Indiana)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Barbara Demick Source:
Indianapolis Star (Indiana) Lawmakers are looking at barring its members from teaching, police work, other government jobs. HAMBURG, Germany — As the politicians see it, Germany, is being threatened by an evil plot to infiltrate business and government. "A giant octopus . . . that will stop at nothing in its desire to spread its blind ideology" is how Labor Secretary Norbert Blum has described the plot against Germany. Claudia Nolte, another member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet, warns, "They aim at world domination ...
Aug 19, 1996
John's Secret Powers: 'Travolta Cured Me' — New Weekly (Australia)
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New Weekly (Australia) The star of Phenomenon claims the movie is close to real life and says he can cure people with his bare hands — but is it just cult fiction? In John Travolta's latest movie, Phenomenon , the once disco-dancing star plays an ordinary man who is miraculously given supernatural abilities. It sounds like fantasy — but in real life John believes he, too, has weird powers. Behind that famous smile, the 42-year-old gentle family man is an obsessive cult follower who claims ...
Aug 11, 1996
Scientologists face German boycott — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)More: link
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Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia) THE Church of Scientology has attacked what it called "religious apartheid" in Germany after a Bavarian move to bar its members from public service and calls to boycott Tom Cruise's latest film because the star is a Scientologist. In a communique issued in Bonn, the church said "officially-sanctioned religious apartheid" was "the result of years of unsubstantiated emotional propaganda against the Church of Scientology and other religious minorities in Germany". It was "incredible" and "blatant hypocrisy" that the Christian Democratic Union, ...
Aug 11, 1996
Tom Cruise's religion may affect his pocketbook in Germany // Scientology isn't well received there — CNN
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CNN (CNN) — Actor Tom Cruise may have a movie blockbuster in the United States, but in Germany, the star of "Mission: Impossible" faces a controversy that could hit where it hurts: the pocketbook. Germany's problem is not with the movie plot or dialogue. It's with the star and his religious beliefs. Cruise is a member of the Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology, a credo that critics say is steeped in science fiction more bizarre than any cinema plot. Opponents of Cruise's ...
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