Tom Cruise and the cult of Scientology

«Trapped in the Closet» feat. Tom Cruise and Scientology : South Park explains what the Church of Scientology is really all about

It is what, the trick ? A comment of Jean-Luc Barbier (president of the AVDS) 

Female Fans Turned Off by Tom Cruise (NewsMax.com - August 27, 2006)

 

UK : Tom Cruise kills South Park episode (theregister.co.uk - 19th January 2006) 

 

War of Words over Cruise Site (Wed Oct 19, 2005)

 

Church of Scientology Doesn't See Humor in Tom Cruise Website (October 13th, 2005)

 

Shields slams Cruise's 'ridiculous rant' (breakingnews.iol.ie - July 2, 2005)

 

'Dangerous and Dishonest :' Tom Cruise has had his say – and then some (Dallas News - July 6, 2005)

 

Tom Cruise has always been somewhat of a strange fellow to me (www.askmen.com - ?, 2005)

 

Psychiatrists think Tom Cruise should have head examined (MSNBC - Jan. 21, 2004)

 

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Female Fans Turned Off by Tom Cruise

James Hirsen, NewsMax.com
Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006

The London Daily Mail recently reported that Sumner Redstone, the executive who kicked Tom Cruise off the Paramount lot, had an in-house lobbyist who influenced his decision.

Evidently, Paula Fortunato, the 43-year-old wife of the 83-year-old CEO, was "incensed" by Cruise's criticism of Brooke Shields' use of prescription drugs for postpartum depression.

Fortunato, who met Redstone while he was still married to his first wife of 55 years, reportedly told her husband, "I never want to see another Tom Cruise movie again." She also suggested that Cruise's comments had turned female fans off.

In commenting on the Cruise-Paramount fissure, Redstone made some unusually brusque public statements blaming Cruise's "unacceptable conduct" and "creative suicide" for the split.

source : http://www.scientomogy.com / 6 February 2006

Scientology South Park episode won't be shown in the UK because Tom Cruise is a "scroupzipsgnarf"

Dutch AG upholds decision in Scientology case (21 March 2005)

Scientologists loses copyright case (8 September 2003)

Scientologists gag Google (22 March 2002)

US Scientology critic free in Canada (8 June 2001)

Online Scientology critic jailed in Canada (30 May 2001)

Online Scientology critic seeks political asylum (19 May 2001)

Source : scienTOMogy.com  a site currently being sued by the Church of Scientology

War of Words over Cruise Site

 

The end is near for «ScienTOMogy».

 

The owner of a Tom Cruise-skewering Website that came under scrutiny from the Church of Scientology for its too-close-for-comfort URL has agreed to change the Web address.

 

"He said he would change it, so, we're waiting for him to do that," Helena Kobrin, an attorney representing the Church of Scientology, said Wednesday.

 

As of Wednesday afternoon, ScienTOMogy.info was still a valid address, and according to the site, a more popular than ever destination, thanks to recent headlines over its engagement with Scientology lawyers. But changes appeared to be in the works. A new URL, registered on Oct. 13, also was bringing users to ScienTOMogy's vault of Cruise parody videos.

The new Web address ? PassionofCruise.info.

 

In an interview with One News in his native New Zealand, the site's Glen Stollery was not exactly admitting defeat. Stollery said he planned to hold onto the ScienTOMogy moniker (the church had requested to be transferred ownership of the URL).

 

"There's nothing wrong with what I've done," Stollery told One News. "It makes it very clear it's not a Scientology site."

 

The matter of Scientology versus ScienTOMogy began in September, when a lawyer for the church informed the site that its domain name infringed on the Scientology trademark.

 

That ScienTOMogy.info featured pictures of Cruise, arguably the world's most prominent Scientologist, in a straightjacket (that's bride-to-be Katie Holmes in matching restraint-wear), and a video of Cruise "kill[ing]" Oprah Winfrey with a powerful electric current, wasn't an issue, the Scientology camp maintained. It was all about the "m"--the lone letter distinguishing ScienTOMogy from Scientology.

 

"You can't use somebody's trademark, regardless of what you're saying, if you haven't been given permission," Kobrin said.

 

What Kobrin called a fairly "routine" trademark issue became a fairly big news story this week when ScienTOMogy went public with the battle.

 

ScienTOMogy.info was launched in July in the wake of Cruise's couch-jumping declarations of love to Holmes and dead-serious dialogue about the dangers of prescription drugs. According to the site, it's dedicated to "exposing Tom Cruise's moronic behaviour [sic] in his relentless crusade to promote the cult, Church of Scientology." Mostly, it features clips of Cruise's most controversial TV talk-show stops--Oprah Winfrey, The Today Show, etc.--and several short parody videos.

 

No word on how Mel Gibson is taking to PassionofCruise.

Church of Scientology Doesn't See Humor in Tom Cruise Website

 

Published on : October 13th, 2005 12:01 am by: Scientomogy

 

(OPENPRESS) October 13, 2005 -- The Church of Scientology has threatened legal action in order to take over ownership of the domain name of a web site which links to the odd behaviour of one of the world's most famous scientologists, Tom Cruise.

 

www.ScienTOMogy.info has apparently received dozens of faxes and emails in under a week from Scientology representatives including lawyer Ava Paquette of Moxon & Kobrin threatening lawsuits of up to US$100,000 if the domain name ownership is not transferred. This type of letter is often called a cease and desist letter.

 

There have been criticisms from civil liberties and free speech groups that cease-and-desist letters are often used by wealthy individuals and corporations to bully their less-monied opponents into silence, as many people will comply with even an unjustified cease-and-desist letter due to their unwillingness to engage in an expensive lawsuit. Such groups call this a chilling effect on free speech.

 

The owners of http://www.scienTOMogy.info who are based in New Zealand have posted the complaints and their replies, saying that the site simply expresses opinion, does not make any claims, and clearly states that it has no connection to the Church of Scientology. "The site was put up as a single source to view all the recent hype Tom has made about the church - it does nothing but show Tom, so we are at a loss as to why the church is acting so rashly."

The Church of Scientology is notorious for pursing legal action against its critics, under the name of the "Religious Technology Center" (RTC). It previously made headlines when it used the US's Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove xenu.net, a site critical of Scientology, from Google's listings. In the past the church has been accused of sueing all those who oppose their views rightly or wrongly simply as "nuisance suits" aimed at eventually driving the critic into silence.

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Shields slams Cruise's 'ridiculous rant'

source : http://breakingnews.iol.ie

02/07/2005

Brooke Shields' war of words with Tom Cruise has taken another twist after the Suddenly Susan actress slammed Cruise's recent rant against psychotherapy and anti-depressant medication on US TV show Today.

Cruise, who is a devotee of L Ron Hubbard's Scientology religion, lashed out Shields in an interview last month for condoning the use of drugs she used to help overcome post-partum depression.

But Shields is determined to have the final word - and she is even thankful to Cruise for increasing public knowledge about the debilitating mental illness.

Shields tells the New York Times: "I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.

"To suggest that I was wrong to take drugs to deal with my depression, and that instead I should have taken vitamins and exercised shows an utter lack of understanding about postpartum depression and childbirth in general.

"If any good can come of Mr Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease.

'Dangerous and Dishonest :'

Tom Cruise has had his say – and then some

 

http://www.dallasnews.com

Dallas News, July 6, 2005

 

Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum has had enough of Tom Cruise's wackadoodle public behavior and Scientology-inspired obnoxiousness. "If the media stopped treating this like a bit of chuckleheaded fun and asked Cruise some real questions," growls Mr. Drum, "Americans might be a wee bit less tolerant of his dangerous and dishonest clown show."

 

His point is well taken when considering the real harm to people struggling with mental illness that could be done by Mr. Cruise's assault on psychiatry.

 

The actor has been attacking actress Brooke Shields for using Paxil to treat severe postpartum depression, insisting that psychiatry is nonsense and that Ms. Shields ought to have relied on "vitamins and exercise and various things." The actor, who is not a doctor – nor does he play one on TV – also declared that there is "no such thing as a chemical imbalance" in the brain.

 

That's absurd. The hormonal shift that occurs when a woman gives birth can spark chemically induced depression that can be severe and lasting. Many such patients have been helped by antidepressant drugs. Sadly – even tragically – some sufferers believe their medical condition is a sign of weak character and resist medication that could deliver them. Mr. Cruise's ravings only add to their burden.

 

It is certainly fair to ask whether our society overmedicates itself, but that's not what Mr. Cruise is really getting at. Scientology holds the fraudulence of psychiatry as a core religious dogma. He is entitled to believe whatever he likes, but he ought to be called on it. Mr. Drum has some excellent questions for interviewers to ask America's No. 1 Scientology evangelist :

 

• "Do you believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler named Xenu deposited trillions of paralyzed alien bodies on Earth and then destroyed them with H-bombs ? "  

 

• "Do you believe that the souls of these creatures, known as 'thetans,' inhabit the bodies of present-day humans, and that 'clearing' our bodies of thetans is the key to mental stability ?"

 

• "Is that the reason Scientologists believe that psychiatry and antidepressive drugs are damaging and unnecessary ?"

 

If Mr. Cruise is not prepared to answer these questions, he should change the subject. And if interviewers are not prepared to ask them, they shouldn't give this popular celebrity a platform to harass without challenge clinically depressed people and the doctors who help them.

But his diverse love interests aren't what boggle my mind; it's the fact that he is a Scientologist. Okay, it's not even that. It's actually that he constantly harasses people to embrace his beliefs.

 

What's the deal ?

 

If that wasn't bad enough, it seems that he sent packages to some reporters.

 

The packages contained plaques listing the 12 rules of Scientology. If that wasn't enough, he also made a donation to the Church of Scientology in their names. Uh, weird-o yo. Next thing you know, he'll be going door to door in Beverly Hills, asking people to convert.