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John Travolta Is A Scientologist ‘Now And Forever’
6:00AM John Cook | John Travolta’s rep is knocking down reports that he is contemplating leaving Scientology. Of course, Scientology can be a tough habit to kick if you are, say, a closeted gay man who was forced to privately confess in auditing sessions. More »
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Travolta Acknowledged Son’s Autism, Broke Scientology Doctrine
12:08AM John Cook | According to a Bahamian police report taken in February after his son Jett’s death last year, Travolta acknowledged in his own words that “Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and was autistic.” That’s a big no-no in Scientology. More »
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Jim Carrey Blogs A Blog About Vaccines
2:48AM Pareene | Oh, good, Arianna Huffington is using her “Huffingtontowne Evening Post-Gazette” to promote the idiotic vaccine conspiracy nonsense of Earth Girls Are Easy star Jim Carrey. For the last fucking time, celebrities, vaccines do not cause autism. More »
10:15AM Kyle Buchanan | About Time: It was only a matter of time before the week’s two big autism stories collided, but let’s thank Access Hollywood for hastening things along. Billy Bush caught up with “cleavage and veggies” advocate Jenny McCarthy to get her comments on Denis Leary’s assertion that autistic kids are stupid and lazy, and she described a scene that sounded as though it had come straight out of a Sarah Palin rally. “Whoo! First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] ‘Go kill him!’ ‘Go yell at him,’” she told Bush. “[But] it’s so hard to even get up enough juice in me or energy in me to even try to fight someone that is obviously stupid.” Really? Jenny, consider your guest-blogging privileges at Defamer revoked. [Us] More »
