10:05AM Defamer Hollywood | What would a week at Defamer HQ be without a Scientology scandal? To wit: What do you get when you cross closet case Will Smith and an old high school in Calabasas? Try the
New Village Academy, which the star
reportedly underwrote this week with an $890,000, three-year lease of the former Indian Hills High School and a
curriculum comprising a little bit of everything — Montessori here, constructivism there, and a liberal dollop of something called “study technology” developed by none other than education pioneer “L.R. Hubbard.”
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