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Jun 1, 2008
Scientology Scandals — The Skeptic (Australia)
May 13, 2008
'Valkyrie' release to be postponed — Spiegel
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Spiegel "Valkyrie," the Tom Cruise movie about the 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler, was beset by problems right from the start of filming in Berlin last year. Now reports say the release of the film has been put back until February 2009 to re-shoot scenes after test audiences were unimpressed. The release of "Valkyrie," the Hollywood movie in which Tom Cruise plays Adolf Hitler's would-be assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, has been delayed for the second time and is now ...
May 11, 2008
Tom Cruise's Adolf Hitler film put back into Hollywood bunker — The Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Brooks Source:
The Times (UK) The fortunes of Hollywood actor Tom Cruise have suffered a blow with the news that his next big film has been postponed until 2009. The release of Valkyrie, which tells the story of the 1944 assassination plot against Hitler, was first postponed from this summer to the autumn and is now not expected to appear until next year. “We were originally expecting the film to be released in June,” said a senior executive at one of Britain’s leading cinema chains. “I ...
May 11, 2008
Tom put on cruise alert — Daily Star (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Parker Source:
Daily Star (UK) TOM Cruise and other Hollywood stars are being urged to have urgent medical checks after an asbestos scare on board a Church of Scientology cruise ship. The $2million Freewinds was said to be “under seal” on the Caribbean island of Curacao after cancer-causing particles were found on the 40-year-old vessel. According to local reports, deadly blue asbestos dust was released during refurbishment of the ship – used by the church as a floating “education centre” and for VIP parties. As well ...
May 10, 2008
See ya, Tom: Packer quits Cruise's church — Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Hornery Source:
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) THE Church of Scientology has lost its grip on James Packer. The billionaire's closest friends have revealed that he has quietly distanced himself from Scientology, labelled a cult by some former members, as it faces international controversy about its anti-psychiatry stance. Members of Mr Packer's inner circle have confirmed that the billionaire, who had ranked as Scientology's wealthiest member in the world, was no longer undertaking Scientology courses and had slowly moved away from the religion, telling his closest friends he ...
May 10, 2008
The internet pranksters who started a war — Channel 9 (aka ninemsn) (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Shaun Davies Source:
Channel 9 (aka ninemsn) (Australia) They've become the sworn enemies of a controversial religion, famous for unsettling online video attacks and protesting en masse in creepy masks. But the elusive internet group known as Anonymous didn't start out with a concrete plan to bring down Scientology. Before they got serious, Anonymous members say, they were only in it for laughs. In the years before "declaring war", the group's stock-in-trade was the creation of internet jokes revolving around, for instance, kitsch 1980s singer Rick Astley. Anonymous's transformation ...
May 9, 2008
Matt Lauer to Tom Cruise: No Hard Feelings — People magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeffrey Slonim Source:
People magazine Tom Cruise's recent Oprah Winfrey interview included several new revelations — like admitting that he regrets his infamous argument with Matt Lauer. Unfortunately, the Today show host tells PEOPLE, he didn't get to watch Winfrey's two-hour Cruise-a-palooza. "I was traveling," he said on his way into a N.Y.C. dinner celebrating Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World issue on Thursday night. "I didn't see the interview. Somebody told me a little bit." Lauer — who sparred with Cruise in 2005 ...
Apr 30, 2008
Tom Cruise Sends Katie Holmes To Scientology's Version Of Guantanamo — Defamer
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Molly Friedman Source:
Defamer Apparently all of Katie Holmes' recent naughty behavior has prompted loving husband Tom Cruise to reprimand her with a punishment that's slightly more severe than asking her to not only wash the dishes but dry them, too. After eating too little with bad influence Victoria Beckham and daring to consider a promising role on Broadway later this year, Cruise decided to step up her Scientology training with a fun-filled three-day vacation to Gold Base. And Canyon Ranch it is not. Gold ...
Apr 29, 2008
Beghe begging for his Scientology records — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Veteran TV and movie actor Jason Beghe wants his records back, and I do not mean "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Aqualung." On Monday night, Beghe — whom this column told you all about in his exit from Scientology after nearly 14 years — posted a message on a public forum at OperationClambake.com. He wants returned to him the mountains of folders, files and tapes that were compiled about him by the sect. So far, they’ve refused. Herewith is that ...
Apr 29, 2008
Cancer on the Lido Deck: Scientology Cruise Ship Rife with Asbestos? — Radar OnlineMore: radaronline.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tyler Gray Source:
Radar Online Better cancel that thetan-eradicating vacation on the S.S. Scientology. Message boards are abuzz with the news that the Freewinds, the church's massive cruise ship and floating top secret training compound, has been sealed by Caribbean authorities. Its captain allegedly hid the presence of cancer-causing blue asbestos in the ventilation system, even as workers at a dry dock company refurbished the 40-year-old vessel. The St. Martin newspaper the Daily Herald has allegedly printed the story, and a photo of the article, showing ...
Apr 29, 2008
Former Scientologist Actor Wants His Confessional Files Back — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Two weeks ago, in a YouTube video and an interview in the Voice, Jason Beghe denounced Scientology as a "rip-off" that "brainwashed" its members. A veteran actor of films and TV, Beghe recently left Scientology after 12 years in the controversial church, during which he estimates he spent a million dollars on classes and training in Scientology’s arcane practices.
Beghe went public with his newest offensive against the church last night by posting online a letter addressed to Scientology leader David ...
Apr 29, 2008
Glosslip Exclusive: Scientology Cruise Ship Freewinds Hides Asbestos Danger — Glosslip
Type: Commentary
Author(s):
Dawn Olsen Source:
Glosslip The Scientology cruise ship, the Freewinds is at the center of a scandal in the Caribbean today because of dangerous levels of blue asbestos being found on the luxury liner.
Apr 26, 2008
Glosslip Exclusive Interview: Church Of Scientology Used As Private Dating Service For Tom Cruise — Glosslip
Apr 25, 2008
Marc Headley interview on Glosslip — Glosslip
Apr 18, 2008
Tom Cruise, John Travolta: Homo-Novis — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Is it a conspiracy or just bad luck? The anti-Scientology video we told you about on Monday afternoon featuring actor Jason Beghe has been removed from YouTube. Sort of. The original video, put up by videographer Mark Bunker, is gone. YouTube pulled it late on Thursday. In the video, which Bunker made, Beghe describes his 13-year membership in the sect and why he left. Bunker thinks YouTube took down the video under pressure from Scientology. It’s possible, of course, but unlikely. ...
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 ...
Apr 8, 2008
Scientology's first celebrity defector reveals church secrets // 'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe — Village VoiceMore: web.archive.org , rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that hit the Internet on March 14. Long-held frustrations with the church motivated Beghe to leave Scientology seven months ago, after he had spent about 12 years in the organization as one of its most celebrated success stories. Over the course of about a year, he negotiated his "disassociation" with the church, trying to give every indication ...
Mar 17, 2008
Cult Friction — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Cook Source:
Radar Online Cult Friction
After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match?
By John Cook
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Masked hackers have declared war on Scientology. Could the celebrity-friendly religion be in its final days? (Photo: Sam Comen)
This article is from the April issue of Radar Magazine. For a risk-free issue, click here
Clearwater is prepared for its enemies. It's a warm, if ...
Mar 16, 2008
Protesters bid to unmask Scientology — Sunday Star-Times
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Sunday Star-Times THE CHURCH of Scientology in New Zealand has laid a complaint with police after allegedly receiving death and bomb threats from an internet-based protest group that has waged an online war against the religion. The group, calling itself Anonymous, held a worldwide action day yesterday, with about 20 people gathering at Britomart in downtown Auckland and in other centres, handing out fliers attacking Scientology as a dangerous cult "that scams members with pseudo science". The project was started in response to ...
Mar 12, 2008
Scientology fights back in court — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Robert Farley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The church is seeking a restraining order to stop a new round of protests. CLEARWATER - With the Internet activist group Anonymous threatening a second round of protests against Scientology this weekend, the Clearwater-based church went to court late Tuesday, filing a petition for a temporary restraining order. The petition was filed just before the close of court Tuesday afternoon, and the St. Petersburg Times could not obtain a copy of the petition. Pat Harney, a spokeswoman for the Church of ...
Mar 11, 2008
What to get L. Ron Hubbard for his birthday — Village Voice
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tony Ortega Source:
Village Voice L. Ron Hubbard, the pulp fiction writer who gave the world Battlefield Earth, as well as a nuisance known as Scientology, would have turned 97 years old this Thursday, March 13. Ron’s been worm food for more than a score of years now, so it probably won’t matter to him that the best birthday party being held in his name will take place a couple of days late. On Saturday, March 15, the surprisingly upstart, leaderless movement known as “Anonymous” will ...
Feb 25, 2008
Media Watch: Tom Cruise goes missing // Reporting on the protest — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: TV
Source:
Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News Watch Tom Cruise goes Missing [G, 2:51min.] (Help):
Play The video But there are some people whose tender feelings receive a lot more consideration from the News Ltd empire. On the same day that News's website carried a link to The Australian's piece about Carey's childhood, it carried another story right next door. Global Scientology protests begin in Australia.
— News.com.au website, Global Scientology protests begin in Australia But what's this? A pixelated poster? What can it have ...
Feb 25, 2008
Revenge Of The Nerds: The War Between 4chan & Scientology — Salient (Victoria University of Wellington)
Feb 21, 2008
Scientology: An evasive corporate cult — OratoMore: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Duignan Source:
Orato A new demand for transparency and justice from netzins... In late January, news media across the world picked up on a phenomenal development on the Internet. A virtual civil rights movement had arisen from a most unlikely source: Internet gamers. It all kicked off when an in-house video of Tom Cruise preaching to members of his faith, the controversial Church of Scientology, was leaked onto the Youtube internet video sharing site. Indeed, Cruise is a frightening spectacle and his incoherent rant ...
Feb 15, 2008
Scientology angers Internet; but Internet strikes back — Virginia Tech
Feb 15, 2008
The faith business: Scientology in NZ — Sunday Star-Times
Type: Press
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Sunday Star-Times Accountant Andrew Yong was near his office in the Panmure shops in east Auckland when he met a man who would change his life. Andrew Wenborn was from the Church of Scientology, headquartered a few hundred metres away. An Australian on secondment from Sydney, Wenborn persuaded Yong to take a Scientology "stress test", using an electrical device called an "e-meter". Sure enough, Yong was stressed and his health poor, Wenborn told him, and Scientology could help. What's more, said Wenborn, he ...
Feb 13, 2008
Psychologist attacks Tom Cruise — Illawarra Mercury (Australia)
Feb 11, 2008
Activists decry attempt to quash Cruise video — New Haven Register
Feb 11, 2008
Letter to the Editor / Scientology should be met with tolerance — Variety
Type: Press
Source:
Variety Dear Peter, I was disappointed by your recent column on Scientology and Tom Cruise. You say some things that are surprising coming from a man of your intelligence and education. You seem to recognize that, in America, we are all supposed to be free to practice – and even preach – the religion of our choice. Then, you appear to deny this fundamental right to Scientologists because of "their beliefs and protocols." You add "To be a Scientologist is not like ...
Feb 11, 2008
Masked protesters hike up pressure on Scientologists — The Scotsman (UK)
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