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Battle of the Scientology Scribes: Is Tom Cruise The Prez or VP of Cult? Who Went ‘Undercover’ Enough?
2:40AM Defamer Hollywood | With two bursting-at-the-seams tell-all books out this month delving deeper than anyone wants to go into the demented world of Scientology, authors Ian Halperin (Hollywood Undercover) and Andrew Morton (Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography) are turning against each other, kind of like Xanax and cocaine. According to Halperin, the one who posed as a gay actor in order to uncover the Church’s reparative techniques, Morton’s book is “full of factual errors,” most twisted his claim that Tom is scientology’s second most powerful member: “A lot of people I met when I was undercover insisted Cruise was the number 1 man. Cruise is the star there, and, like in his films, no one at the Church got top billing over him. Church officials told me that everyone, including David Miscavige [scientology's Chairman of the Board] do whatever Cruise says. Basically, they act as his puppets.” More »
Nicole Kidman, Placenta Hijacker?
9:34AM Defamer Hollywood | Once upon a time, all the townsfolk claimed that Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor made a baby on the set of high-kicktastic Moulin Rouge. Well, maybe not a baby, but they made some placenta, according to a new tome by journalist Andrew Morton called Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography (you may have heard of it). Morton claims that little Placenta lived on, literally, in one of Nicole Kidman’s various homes, in the event of a paternity dispute from then-normal (and then-husband) Tom. But wait! No story about TC and baby glands would be complete without a statement from the Church of Scientology! More »
Helpful Media Outlets Continue To Provide Excerpts From Cruise Biography: Today We’ll Hear About His Special Friendship With James Packer
9:48AM Clem Bastow | Disappointed that we can’t buy and devour Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography in Australia?
Dry those weeping eyes! For the various news outlets in the country are determined to read us a bedtime story from the book every day, or so it seems – and today’s chapter concerns Tom’s Speedo-wearing Australian pal and rumoured Scientology recruit, James Packer.
Are you ready children? Then let’s begin:
“Dominated by his larger-than-life father (the late Kerry Packer), James Packer cut a sorry figure, overweight and out of shape.
“Not only had his One.Tel communications business collapsed, but his wife of just two years had walked out on him.
“His ‘ruin’ was obvious to anyone – and it did not take long before he was reading Scientology literature.”
Morton says Mr Packer was specifically targeted by Cruise, who by mid-2002 had resolved to dedicate his life to Scientology.
He suggests Cruise offered Mr Packer a role as a samurai extra in the film The Last Samurai solely to convert him.
Mr Packer was quickly seduced, saying later he admired Cruise for his humility, values and decency.
Aww, poor widdle Jamie! He told his friends about One.Tel – and then he had no friends! How kind of Tom Cruise to swoop in and cheer him up – after all, it’s Tom’s “responsibility” as a ScientoLOLogist to help out in situations of dire need – he is “the authorities”!
To celebrate this ongoing madness, here’s some vintage John Safran after the jump – Who Wants To Be An Operating Thetan Level VIII?
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