1:40AM Defamer Hollywood | The now-peaceful world of onetime international megastar Tom Cruise, who had recently settled in to a quiet life of running a studio that could produce the kind of
personal, little-seen vehicles that would help reduce his public profile enough to free him up to attend Redskins games and personally accompany daughter Suri to her ball-crawl romps at the Celebrity Centre’s in-house Gymboree, has been temporarily rocked by accusations made in the new Andrew Morton tell-all
Tom Cruise: An Unauthorised Biography, explosive excerpts from which were
published in The Daily Mail this weekend. Scary Hollywood Lawyer and Designated Protector of the Cruise Brand Bert Fields was already hurling himself upon the grenades Morton had lobbed in the direction of his prized client (whom the author says has ascended to the position of the vice-pope of Scientology), especially a headline-grabbing, “sick and bizarre” section that claims some Scientologists believe that Suri is L. Ron Hubbard’s baster-baby, according to the
Mail:
[Fields] criticised a passage in which Morton claims some “fanatical” Scientologists believed Suri Cruise was actually the result of a sperm donation by Scientology’s dead founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Morton writes that Ms Holmes may feel she was in “the horror movie Rosemary’s Baby, in which an unsuspecting young woman is impregnated with the Devil’s child”.
Mr Fields said: “It’s not being published in England. The American publishers criticised the libel laws in Britain because they require an author to tell the truth. Well, thank God for the British libel laws.” [...]
Of the bizarre beliefs Morton ascribes to some Scientologists about Cruise’s third wife, Katie Holmes, whom the actor married in a whirlwind romance, the author says, incredibly: “Some Sea Org fanatics even wondered if the actress had been impregnated with Hubbard’s frozen sperm.
“In her more reflective moments, Katie might have felt as if she were in the middle of a real-life version of the horror movie Rosemary’s Baby, in which an unsuspecting young woman is impregnated with the Devil’s child.”
Mr Fields described the passage as “sick and bizarre”.
“It’s a pack of lies,” he said. “The book suggests Scientologists somehow run his career. I’ve represented him for over 20 years and I’ve never discussed his business with David Miscavige. It’s poorly researched and badly written, and it’s not really even about Tom Cruise – it’s an attack on Scientology.”
Mercifully, Fields was content to dismiss the Suri story without issuing a detailed description of the lovemaking session between Cruise and Katie Holmes that led to their daughter’s conception, trusting that the public neither wants nor needs a procreational play-by-play to accept the disturbing and surreal falsity of the
Rosemary’s Baby scenario. Additionally, the suggestion that the actor’s career is steered by the Church seems ridiculous on its face, as even the least experienced Level VII Development Executive would have passed on both of Cruise’s initial United Artists projects,
Lions for Lambs and
Valkyrie, preferring that the star crank out another far more lucrative, tithe-generating crowd-pleaser from the
Mission: Impossible franchise instead of some talky political tract or historical drama about failed Nazi-hunters.
Diana author names Tom Cruise as ‘World Number Two in Scientology’ [Daily Mail]
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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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