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Tom Cruise Comes Face-To-Mask With ‘Anonymous’
8:36AM Kyle Buchanan | Tom Cruise has finally been confronted by the one red carpet presence more troublesome than Billy Bush: The anti-Scientology, V for Vendetta-masked group known as “Anonymous.” More »
Will Smith Interrupts Dinner to Fend Off Latest Scientology Rumours
7:25AM STV | The revelation that the Will Smith-funded New Village Learning Academy will offer a uniquely Hubbardian curriculum came as little surprise to us last May, back when the star couldn’t go a week without some new Scientology-related scandal consuming his painstakingly OT-free public persona. Finally, after taking a summer off, the NVLA controversy crept back into view last night when Smith attended the premiere for Lakeview Terrace, which he co-produced; despite his bodyguard’s best efforts at suppertime interference, Smith confronted the issue head-on with Fox gossip Roger Friedman: More »Tracey Spicer Reviews ‘Boned’
9:19AM Clem Bastow | We told you some time ago about the anonymous “novel” that had Channel Nine quaking in its collective Windsor Smiths, Boned; well, it’s finally on the shelves, and given its uncanny similarities to the career paths (and ends) of many female newsreaders, our friends at the Daily Telegraph have had the foresight to get a female newsreader to review it.
Enter stage left, Tracey Spicer! Cue not-so-hilarious gags from the Tele subs to the tune of “Tracey Spicer gets boned”!
Fortunately, Tracey’s review of the book is actually quite hilarious and biting:
What 40-something television presenter devours coffee, cigarettes and Red Bull for breakfast? More like an egg white omelette, herbal-tea- for-my-complexion then Botox for brunch.
Somehow she manages to have a “generous curve of the hips” AND a “pilates-honed butt”, the result, no doubt, of some bizarre genetic engineering involving Jennifer Lopez and Madonna.
Apparently, women viewers find Kate “intimidating” because she is single and childless. So I guess there’s no hope for Sandra Sully, Tracy Grimshaw and Liz Hayes, all single, childless and hugely popular.
And what self-respecting, hard-hitting current affairs presenter reads the horoscope? “Oh, I think we should do a story this week on Hezbollah launching an offensive on Israel because Jupiter is in Sagittarius.”
Tracey! Who knew she entertained Dorothy Parker-esque critical aspirations? Then again, I guess there’s only so much snark that can be fit into her magazine, Out And About With Kids.
As for Boned, I’ll either a) read it half-heartedly next time I’m killing an hour at the airport, or b) wait (probably not for a very long time) until it hits the $4.99 book sales. More » 
Did ACP Hack ‘4 Inch Heels Only’?
10:06AM Clem Bastow | You have probably heard by now of the anonymous blog, 4 Inch Heels Only, which has the ACP building in a spin (ACP, for those of you who don’t spend ridiculous amounts of money on fashion and “women’s” magazines, publishes Cosmo, Cleo, Dolly and Madison, amongst many others) thanks to its unsavoury insider know-how as to how things work at the publishing empire.
Most of the fuss is because “the call is coming from inside the house”, to use horror flick parlance – it’s assumed that whoever is writing the blog is an ACP staffer.
However, as of this morning, 4 Inch Heels has been hacked to within an inch of its life. You’ll notice we’ve not linked to the blog itself, that’s because the hack is so ridiculously NSFW our computers would probably explode if we linked to it, and you’d be fired before you even clicked through. Yes, said l337 hax0r has covered 4 Inch Heels with images of bot-sex porn and naked boosies and noo noos (hey, we’re just trying to escape your filters).
In fact, the only bit we can show you is this:
Making this kerfuffle even sweeter is the fact that all media outlets (including the news.com.au piece we linked to above) who are linking to the blog are now sending their readers into a cesspit of split-beaver shots.
The question, thus, needs to be asked – did someone at ACP slip a tenner and a crate of 2 Minute Noodles to a willing hacker to do the deed? There is no other reason (other than spectacular coincidence) why anyone would bother hacking an industry blog to this extent.
And if it was organised by someone within ACP, doesn’t that suggest that everything 4 Inch Heels Only said was true? We expect the plot to thicken throughout the day. More » 
Channel Nine To Be Boned By… ‘Boned’?
10:21AM Clem Bastow | We’re beginning to think it might be worthwhile getting the tech dudes to create some sort of “trouble at mill” generator for Channel Nine stories, since they’re coming thick and fast these days.
The latest woe-betide-those-at-the-happy-network tale concerns an “anonymous” novel, Boned (comedy platinum!), the thinly-veiled contents of which could potentially blow the place to smithereens.
You know, with the power of readin’ ‘n’ shit.
Nine publicists refused to comment on the text when contacted today, but insiders say executives have been nervous about its pending publication for some time.
It is due for release in June – and this is how it is being plugged by publishers Michael Joseph:
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‘Anonymous’ Shows Its Face, Sort Of, For Scientology Protest On Hollywood Blvd.
4:03AM Seth | Remember, remember the … 10th of February? There were no spectacular fireworks flying out of the Hollywood Scientology Center set to Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” yesterday afternoon, but there were an awful lot of folks in Guy Fawkes masks protesting the somewhere-in-the-Pacific-Ocean-based organization. It was one of several such demonstrations held throughout the world yesterday. For those out of the internet-meme-activism loop: More »A Horse Knows It’s A House Knows It’s A Schoolteacher
12:03PM Jess McGuire | Yesterday the group of online pranksters known as Anonymous (yes, these guys – TRULY EPIC LULZ!) began their attack on Scientology with protests in Sydney.
About 150 people gathered at the Church of Scientology building in the Sydney CBD this morning, most of them carrying picket signs and wearing costumes or masks.
At 11am, when the protest was scheduled to start, staff inside the building set up a video camera pointed at the street below and locked the front doors. Two security guards stood outside the building and were later joined by several police officers.
The protestors, who said they had worn masks to remain anonymous and prevent possible legal action or retribution from the church, chanted “Church on the right, cult on the left”, “Religion is free” and “We want Xenu”.
After reading the article on Sunday, we went to the official Scientology Sydney website and began admiring the glossary of Scientology terms, specifically this one -
“A=A=A=A: anything equals anything equals anything. This is the way the reactive mind thinks, irrationally identifying thoughts, people, objects, experiences, statements, etc., with one another where little or no similarity actually exists. Everything is everything else. Mr. X looks at a horse knows it’s a house knows it’s a schoolteacher. So when he sees a horse he is respectful”
We would link to it but the site seems to be offline at the moment.
IS THIS YOUR DOING, ANONYMOUS? More » 