It puts the Xenu in its head or else it gets the hose again.

Shumina

Why do I feel sorry for her???? Is it because she's so young and didn't stand a chance against the machine?

I would not be surprised if she were to have an "accident" within the next 12 months. Kidman was to high profile at the time, she is not.

jackass penguin

@Juancho:

Right? I should know -- I grew up an hour from there.

I was picturing Ohio in the dead of winter, but point taken. So I shall acknowledge the 4 days of good weather the Rust Belt enjoys all year.

icallthebigonebitey

Lack of food/sleep makes brainwashing go that much faster.

REPTILE-DYSFUNCTION

@icallthebigonebitey: Toledo is lovely this time of year.

Juancho

Bat! Shit! Craaazy!

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

Xenu fills my stomach with the fruits of aliens.

Leviticus_71

Truly makes a trip to Ohio to visit the Holmes in-laws seem like three weeks in Cabo.

icallthebigonebitey

@Juancho:

small town in Michigan an hour west of Toledo.

*****

I was curious about the "Boot Camp" and got excited thinking that maybe Jackie Warner from Bravo's "Workout" might be there running it, since she does them on her show. And then my synapses really started firing when i remembered that Jackie is from Ohio too! And that maybe she could slowly win Katie's confidence and then attempt a daring "Katie Rescue". But THEN i realized that as a lesbian, Jackie wouldn't be allowed anywhere near Gold Base. Because homos are BAD and Tom might catch GAY.

icallthebigonebitey

@icallthebigonebitey : what, Findlay?

@jackass penguin: Nicole wasn't exactly high-profile at the time they got together.

It's taking every ounce of strength I have not to make a Tom Cruise/colonics/gay joke.

Juancho

Now come on, guys. Maybe her e-meter results were askew.

Whiteboyfunfark

Dear Katie: Don't go chasing any baby squirrels now, hear? And stay away from the transformer room no matter what occurs.

[www.holysmoke.org]

inkydinkydo

@Shumina: do you hear the lambs screaming?

bess marvin, girl detective

Looks like Tom's sending Katie away for some retooling.

jasonelias

Maybe Tom realizes her scrawny body is a yell for help to old fiance/suri-daddy Chris Klein. If I recall, he made some interesting remarks in the past about how skinny he likes his women to stay for him.

TootieFields

@inkydinkydo: I noticed that too. Holding her prisoner has aged him...

jasonelias

If Katie's due for retooling, then Tommy is due for a turkey-necktomy. I'm just sayin'. Maybe for some delish Scientology Soup? Who's got gizzards?

inkydinkydo

Were Scientology any other religion, the federal government would have raided their "camps" by now for investigation of abuse.

Perhaps this is a Stepford Wives (the good one, not the fetid pile of cr*p with Nicole Kidman) type of scenario; Katie's been acting a little too independent of late, so she must be replaced by a new, improved model that spends less time running marathons and lunching with other celebrity wives and more time raising Tom's spawn locked in his Telluride facili, er, home.

cinerama

@inkydinkydo:
you make me giggle. me likey.

gwiliandre

@Juancho: @icallthebigonebitey:

woot woot for the north Ohio/Michiganites! I'm from the area too (now transplanted overseas).

My brother lives in Toledo and knows people who know the Holmes family. (He also says that the news there covers Katie quite a lot as she is the hometown girl.) She's got a lot of siblings and one of his pals knows a bro that is a lawyer (I think her dad is one too).

I'm really sad for her. I figure that if she tried to leave he'd want custody of her baby, and she's seen the power he has with his $cientology lawyers, so I bet she feels totally trapped.

That's all just speculation on my part - I think she was stupid to get involved in the first place, but I bet she does not have an easy way out now.

applejuice

@FlangeSqueal: Ask the Clintons about their buddy John Coale.

Crazydogggz

As depraved a state as Texas is, even THEY finally had enough of the mormon polygamists - - so why, tell me - is the government not investigating this shoddy pyramid-scheme CULT of $cientology and closing them down ?

Go to www.xenu.net and read up on Teeny Tom's 'faith.'

FlangeSqueal

@applejuice: I'm from Cleveland, but I did college time in Toledo and I have friends in the area still. I have much affection for Toledo/Detroit.

Katie Holmes's dad is indeed a prominent lawyer in Toledo. He reportedly had Tom over a barrel on a pre-nup. There was a lot of talk when they got engaged that Tom was going to buy a mansion in one of the tonier suburbs so she could be close to her family, but it never came to pass.

I feel for the Holmes family. Everything I've read heard indicates that they're a tight-knit, traditional Catholic family who are very active in their parish. Katie went to Notre Dame Academy, which is run by the same order of nuns that runs my high school. They're probably torn between wanting to see their daughter and her child and getting them away from the goofball they got involved with.

Juancho

Is "purification process" like a colonoscopy?

jeckyl

@Juancho: I'm originally from the Cleveland area too! My family is now spread out across the whole North Ohio area though.

Yeah, from what I hear Katie's dad deals with family law (divorce etc). I'd heard about the pre-nup but I still think that the CO$ would probably play really dirty if they were to break-up and she has got to be aware of that. I just keep imagining myself with my kids (now that I have them) and think how awful it would be to feel trapped in a situation where I would be afraid to lose full custody of my babies if I left. :(

Again, all just speculation from what I have heard....

applejuice

Ever notice how much Scientology mirrors "The Ministry Of Truth" in George Orwell's 1984?

Hanapana

I'm skeptical about this. Any Scientology "handling" that Katie would have at Gold Base would not be as severe as what regular people are subjected to.

I am thinking it might be more like three days of love-bombing and cajoling, rather than the type of deprivations other Scientologists go through.

NotReadyForPrimeTime

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VencentioCadimillac

@Juancho:

True about Kidman's profile..but she moved pretty fast after To Die For..and now you MUST make the Cruise/Colonics/Gay Joke!

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