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Oct 30, 2009
Scientology faces multiple setbacks within one week // The past few days have not gone well for the secretive religion known for its celebrity followers — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Gumbel Source:
The Guardian (UK) Most religious organisations can weather a high-profile defection or two. Many might successfully explain away a fraud conviction in a foreign criminal court, or deal with the spectacular suicide of a member, or muddle through a less than stellar public performance by a prominent spokesman. Rarely, though, does a religion have to face up to all these challenges in the same week. The past few days have been little short of a nightmare for Scientology, the strange, secretive religion that thrives ...
Oct 27, 2009
Scientology's new face — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kim Masters Source:
The Daily Beast In his first detailed interview since walking off Nightline last week, church spokesman Tommy Davis talks to Kim Masters about Monday's startling public defection by Paul Haggis, addresses drug allegations—and explains his relationship with Tom Cruise. Plus, his former colleague speaks out. Tommy Davis has been busy lately. In the past week, the spokesman for the Church of Scientology tore off his lapel microphone and stormed out of an interview when Nightline correspondent Martin Bashir tried to question him about whether ...
Oct 27, 2009
Tommy Davis: Scientology's new angry, unstable pitchman — Gawker
Oct 23, 2009
Nighline: How Scientology attracts celebrities — ABC News
Oct 20, 2009
Gala concert raises thousands for local charities — East Grinstead Observer
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East Grinstead Observer HOLLYWOOD actress Anne Archer presented cheques totalling £50,000 to eight charities at a Saint Hill gala concert on Sunday. The Academy Award nominated star hosted the event, now in its 12th year, on behalf of the L Ron Hubbard Foundation and the Church of Scientology. The concert was headlined by international jazz icon, Chick Corea and covered a wide spectrum of music. Also on stage were Mark Isham, award winning composer; Alexander Markov, virtuoso solo violinist; David Pomeranz songwriter and recording ...
Sep 21, 2009
Scientology: The web's first copyright-wielding nemesis — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s):
Julian Dibbell Source:
Wired The Church of Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by pulp science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it's been run by his successor, David Miscavige, since 1987. But for the past year or so the public face of Scientology has been a man named Tommy Davis. Son of Hollywood actress (and longtime Scientologist) Anne Archer, Davis has a stylish mop coif and boyish (not to say Tom Cruise-ish) good looks that have been put before the media's cameras every time ...
May 14, 2009
Der Scientology-Plan / Wie der Psychokonzern Deutschland erobern will [German, with unofficial English subtitles on Youtube] [English: The Scientology Plan / How the psycho-corporation plans to conquer Germany] — ZDF (Germany)More: Youtube part 2 , Youtube part 3 , original
Mar 13, 2009
Scientology gets its ass kicked in the desert — Village Voice
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Wise Beard Man tipped us recently that KESQ, a local television station in Palm Springs, California, has put together a pretty terrific 5-part investigation of Scientology. Why Palm Springs? Well, one of Scientology's stranger facilities is located in the California desert, well away from the prying eyes of big-town journalists. For years, the Hubbard cabal in Hemet, California has been able to push around local politicians and law enforcement, convincing them, for example, that protesters at the desert site should be ...
Apr 16, 2008
Actor Jason Beghe: Scientology is 'brainwashing' — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a "brainwashed, robotic version of you." He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes. He was so successful as a ...
Sep 9, 2007
Friends, thetans, countrymen — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Jul 15, 2007
The Actualizer — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mark Oppenheimer Source:
New York Times Giovanni Ribisi called me. Burt Reynolds asked me to call him at home. The director Joel Schumacher called me from Romania between takes for his next movie. Anne Archer and I played phone tag for two weeks. A-list, B-list, stars of stage, stars of screen, they were all eager to talk. The Tony winners John Glover and Tyne Daly. Edie McClurg, the dippy secretary in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” David Carradine. Put the word on the street that you’re writing about ...
Oct 23, 2006
Devotees mix with doubters at Scientology ceremony — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Terry Kirby Source:
The Independent (UK) Tom Cruise was, unfortunately, absent, along with his partner and biggest recruit, Katie Holmes; and John Travolta, that other high-profile Hollywood convert to the Church of Scientology, was away filming. So those who turned up in rain yesterday for the opening of its imposing new premises in London had to make do with a pipe band and the solid figure of Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley, local divisional commander of the City of London Police. There cannot have been many such occasions ...
Oct 23, 2006
Let it rain: Scientology glitterati join followers to launch £24m centre in heart of the City — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Sandra Laville Source:
The Guardian (UK) The rain bounced off a podium fit for an Oscar ceremony, soaking the lavish red carpet, and pouring down the collars of celebrants sporting incongruous California tans and sunglasses. And still they smiled. Each wore a lapel badge marking them out as followers of one of the most controversial and fastest growing "religious" movements in the world, the Church of Scientology. For two hours yesterday Hollywood glitz supplanted British mundanity on the streets of London as the most senior figures within ...
Apr 13, 2006
Tom & Katie's Planned 'Silent Birth' — CBS News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Vanessa Mizell Source:
CBS News (AP) Tom Cruise has been practically shouting from the rooftops about his love for his pregnant fiancée, Katie Holmes. But when their much-anticipated baby is born, the superstar dad probably won't say a word. Cruise, a longtime Scientologist who introduced Holmes to the faith, is likely to follow Scientology's practice of quiet birth. Followers believe the absence of talk and other noise in the delivery room is more healthful for mother and baby. No one's saying publicly where baby Cruise will ...
Jan 12, 2006
Scientology vs. Science — Southland PublishingMore: lacitybeat.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Gumbel Source:
Southland Publishing Even before I start writing this column, and pretty much regardless of what I say, I know I am going to tick off the Scientologists. I know this because I have ticked them off already. A few days ago, I visited their new anti-psychiatry museum in Hollywood, thinking, correctly, that it would offer an intriguing window into the thinking of a notoriously secretive organization. With a name like "Psychiatry: Industry of Death," the exhibit was not exactly going to be coy ...
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