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The answer to the first question is that Peter Letterese is suing them all in the Southern District Federal Court in Florida for allegedly committing Civil RICO. The answer to the second question is that this “bombshell” was brought to the world of media tabloidism by a “self-styled investigator”, shorthand for a PI without a license, Paul Barresi when he released some of the papers to the New York Daily News last month. Barresi was kind enough to offer us first option on his “exclusive state...   [read the full post]

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Rate Tom Cruise’s bizarre Scientology ‘book-and-bottle’ ritual revealed

Original at Thaindian external link    19 hours ago

Melbourne, November 07 (ANI): A new book has revealed that Tom Cruise spent three weeks talking to books, bottles and door knobs, as part of Scientology ritual. Marc Headley, who has an experience of 15 years in the Church of Scientology, has claimed in his book ‘Blown for Good,’ that he joi...

Rate Scientology Employees Forced To Watch Tom Cruise Videos

Original at Snitch external link    Fri, Nov 6

By Perez Hilton Yikes! That sounds like our personal hell! Marc Headley left Scientology after being involved for 15 years and is publishing a tell-all book called Blown for Good about the bizarre religion and he talks about Tom Cruise's supreme influence on its members. Those working at the Scientolog...

Rate Enquirer: Brad Pitt calls Tom Cruise “Dr. Strange”, old grudges resurface

Original at Cele external link    Fri, Nov 6

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By Kaiser When Brad heard that Tom was grousing about it, he started calling Cruise “Dr. Strange” said the source. “Brad felt Tom big-leagued him. He wasn’t gracious and acted aloof around Brad,” said the friend.” From the National Enquirer, print edition, November 16 2009]

Rate Dina Lohan: My Daughter Punched Me in the Face [Gossip Roundup]

Original at Gawker external link    Fri, Nov 6

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By Azaria Jagger Dina Lohan recounts corporal punishment at daughter Lindsay's hands, Tom Cruise converses with doorknobs, Rue McClanahan is hospitalized, footage of Joanna Krupa at Snoop Dogg's Girls Gone Wild party surfaces. Come, stroke the supple hide of Friday's gossip.

Rate Dina Lohan: Lindsay Punched Me in the Face [Gossip Roundup]

Original at Gawker external link    Fri, Nov 6

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By Azaria Jagger Tom Cruise once spent three weeks talking to "books, bottles, and door knobs" as part of a Scientology exercise to "rehabilitate your ability to control things. And to be controlled," explains Scientology expert Marc Headley, whose books, Blown for Good, is begging for a gay Tom Cruise j...

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Rate Tom Cruise Controls Books and Bottles With His Mind [Scientology]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Nov 3

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By Hamilton Nolan Scientology refugee Marc Headley has written a book called Blown For Good—featuring a dramatic, action-scene-type cover—detailing his 15 years of work inside Scientology. The Village Voice interviewed him about his 1990 "auditing" session performed by Days of Thunder-era Tom Crui...

Rate Scenes (Songs) We Love: 'Wise Up' Magnolia

Original at Cinematical external link    Mon, Nov 2

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By Jessica Barnes So it really doesn't matter what you tell me about how ridiculous you thought it was when the frogs fell from the sky, or that Anderson is an overindulgent director, or even that Cruise was just playing himself. Nothing will diminish my love for this movie that is in equal turns funny and hear...

Rate Preclears On Your List? Shop The Scientology Holiday Catalog

Original at Jezebel external link    Mon, Nov 2

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By Dodai Before you open the catalog, there's the cover picture — a snowy scene captured by world-renowned photographer L. Ron Hubbard. Or, as he was called by a former coworker, Enron Hubbard. Defections, Court Fights Test Scientology [AP]

Rate Tom Cruise's Wedding Cook Exposes Scientology's Scary Retention Practices

Original at gawker.com external link    Sun, Nov 1

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By Foster Kamer They were searched for anything on Cruise, and then went through a "Sec" process, where they're rehabbed back into Scientology. They went through this once more before finally leaving for good, and the extent Scientology worked to get them back is absurd.

Rate Tom Cruise's Wedding Cook Exposes Scientology's Scary Retention Practices [Great Escapes]

Original at Gawker external link    Sun, Nov 1

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By Foster Kamer They were searched for anything on Cruise, and then went through a "Sec" process, where they're rehabbed back into Scientology. They went through this once more before finally leaving for good, and the extent Scientology worked to get them back is absurd.

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Rate Tommy Davis: Scientology's New Angry, Unstable Pitchman [Field Guide]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Oct 27    15 related articles

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By John Cook Tommy Davis, the latest chief spokesman and outraged-interview-cutter-offer for the Church of Scientology, is a callow Hollywood brat, Tom Cruise hanger-on, and "drug revert" who thinks "L. Ron Hubbard is the coolest guy ever."

Rate Paul Haggis Throws His Dummy Out Of Scientology’s Pram

Original at hecklerspray external link    Tue, Oct 27

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By Stuart Heritage He’s also a Scientologist. Or at least he was a Scientologist. Paul Haggis has just decided to leave Scientology, and he’s decided to do it by basically writing a letter to Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis saying that Scientology is stupid and it doesn’t like gay people and it’s awful and t...

Rate Scientology Spokesman Tommy Davis Walks Out On Nightline Interview Part 2

Original at Glosslip external link    Mon, Oct 26

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By Queen Really Tom? Giddy Up L. Ron! So getting back to Scientology spokesman Mr.Tommy Davis. Davis: In a religion. Davis: I mean it gets used every day by Scientology counselors. Pretty snakey of Hubbard. Disgusting perversions of Scientology? So what gives Tommy? No worries Tommy…

Year 2009

 

Rate Quick List: Celebrities With The Worst Reputations

Original at Cinematical external link    Thu, Oct 22

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By Jessica Barnes Actors take inspiration from all kinds of places, but you can't help but wonder if Bale saw something that we would all be made painfully aware of: the 'crazy' side of Cruise. And it was that same energy that worked so well in P.T. Anderson's Magnolia when Cruise played motivational speaker Fr...

Rate Bronson Pinchot Thinks Tom Cruise Is Weird [Gossip Roundup]

Original at Gawker external link    Tue, Oct 20

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By Hunter Walker 100% straightperson Tom Cruise "made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments on the set of Risky Business according to Bronson Pinchot, who played Balki Bartokomous on the 80's sitcom Perfect Strangers. Balki says Cruise "always talked about himself like he was a mega-supe...

Rate Local News Airs Set Explosion From Tom Cruise's 'Wichita'

Original at Cinematical external link    Sun, Sep 27

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By Jen Yamato Diaz stars as a Midwestern woman romanced by a secret agent (Cruise) who gets swept up in his globe-trotting secret agent shenanigans; Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, and Paul Dano co-star. I'm guessing that this action-comedy might play a little something like True Lies, but I can't quite de...

Rate Deconstructing Tom Cruise

Original at Glosslip external link    Sun, Aug 30

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By D That unidentifiable quality that had eluded me, is quite simply: Tom isn’t real. Not to sound all LRH here, of course Tom’s real, but what we think is Tom Cruise doesn’t even exist. Tom Cruise is essentially whatever he allowed so long ago for Scientology to put into him. It’s as though Cruise w...

Rate Brad Pitt claims he was misquoted, ‘Inglourious Basterds’ debuts strong

Original at Cele external link    Mon, Aug 24

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By Kaiser On Friday, we reported on People Magazine’s interview excerpt from Stern, in which Brad Pitt allegedly said Tom Cruise Hitler-assassination film Valkyrie was “a ridiculous movie”. Within hours, it seems one of Brad’s reps contacted a few outlets and claimed that the statement was a mis...

Rate Will Robert Downey Jr. Be the Next Lestat?

Original at Cinematical external link    Sat, Aug 15

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By Elisabeth Rappe Lestat was the hero of most of Rice's vampire novels. Blond, bisexual, and a blend of poetry and snark, his seductive powers led him into all kinds of scrapes. He seduced men and women, ran around with the Devil, swapped bodies with humans, seduced the first vampire (who just happened to be an...

Rate Opinion: TOM CRUISE: Love him? Hate him? Maybe both...

Original at inthenameofmovies (WordPress) external link    Sat, Aug 15

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By zoeyclark My fav. look on Tom Tom with Kidman Tom with Holmes Tom Cruise as a teenager who gets to party home with friends and a hooker. 1983. Dustin Hoffman won Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of the autistic older brother to Tom Cruise's character. It is an amazing road trip. Fun and deep. 1988.

Rate Opinion: Today, A Dick Joke Involving Child-Rearing Expert Tom Cruise Becomes Even Funnier [Gossip Roundup]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gawker external link    Sat, Aug 1

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By Foster Kamer Michael Jackson's doctor is still just as sketchy as before. Tom Cruise will raise your kids for you. Jude Law's new baby's name, rappers, witches, Heroes, Gossip Girls, and Ashton Kutcher's fake life. Presenting an epic Saturday Morning Gossip Roundup:

Rate Tom Cruise Stars In Mission: Impossible 4 - This Time It’s Unnecessary

Original at hecklerspray external link    Fri, Jun 19

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By Stuart Heritage So Tom Cruise is going to make Mission: Impossible 4. Let’s get all the obvious gags out of the way now, shall we? So the good news is that there’s going to be another Mission: Impossible movie and Tom Cruise is involved and everything. AP reports:

Rate Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept It: Make Tom Cruise Viable Again

Original at Gawker external link    Thu, Jun 18

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By Richard Lawson Perhaps sensing the acrid, cotton-candyish whiff of defeat in the air, fading megastar Tom Cruise has reteamed with Jackie Joyner Abrams to produce the next Mission Impossible flick. No, he's not yet signed on to star in the flick, which would be the fourth in the franchise, so that's stil...

Rate Opinion: Tom and Connor Catch a Lakers Game

Original at Snarky Gossip external link    Fri, May 22

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By Julie Bonner Last night (May 21) Tom Cruise and his son Connor Cruise were court side at the LA Lakers vs Denver Nuggets game. They sure had some of the best seats to one of the best games! I’m a Nuggets fan and was watching last night. I had no idea Tom and Connor were in the audience.

Rate Opinion: Dragonball: Evolution – Justin Chatwin interview

Original at IndieLondon external link    Tue, Apr 7

By Rob JUSTIN Chatwin shot to prominence playing Tom Cruise’s son in War of the Worlds. He’s now landed the lead role of Goku in Dragonball: Evolution, a new film based on the popular manga comics. He talks to us about getting into shape for Dragonball, rapping with co-star Chow Yun Fat and what he le...

Rate Scientology Spaghetti Western -Travolta and Cruise Set To Remake Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Original at Glosslip external link    Mon, Apr 6

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According to the Sunday Express, L. Ron Hubbard worshipers Tom Cruise and John Travolta are mulling over the idea of starring together in the remake of the Paul Newman (sniff, we miss you!) and Robert Redford movie classic, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

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Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Jan 23

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By rss@youtube.com (CoSQaws) Hello Church Of Scientology, this is a message from Anonymous. It is time for us to review the year of 2008, to establish how the game is progressing. 1) You had some epic wins with your high profile converts, John Travolta and Tom Cruise. Getting Tom to jump up and down on Oprah's sofa was a strok...

Rate Opinion: Tropic Thunder

Original at IndieLondon external link    Thu, Jan 15

By Rob BELIEVE the hype, Tropic Thunder is one of the funniest Hollywood comedies you’re likely to see this year. The bigwigs back in Hollywood, meanwhile – including a bullish studio head (Tom Cruise) and Tugg’s loyal agent (Matthew McConaughey) – weigh up the cost of a rescue mission.

Rate Opinion: A conversation with Tom Cruise

Original at The #1 Tom Cruise Resource external link    Sun, Dec 28

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By Chantal Rough, indeed. After two decades of unparalleled popularity, the world seems to have turned on Cruise over the past few years. Think of that uproar over his couch-jumping on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show. Or his being fired from his special relationship with Paramount because of “his behavior...

Rate Film Review Walkyrie by Manish Jaiswal

Original at Film Reviews external link    Sat, Dec 27

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By News and Reviews Hollywood Film Review Walkyrie by Manish Jaiswal By Manish Jaiswal USA Hollywood Film Review Walkyrie by Manish Jaiswal Over all “Valkyrie” is a decent movie. You may want to watch it with your family and friends. I will be happy to rate it 3.50 on 5.00 stars. By Manish Jaiswal USA

Rate Opinion: "Valkyrie" Box Office Numbers

Original at Snarky Gossip external link    Sat, Dec 27

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By Julie Bonner According to People.com, reviews are mixed for Tom’s performance as Claus von Stauffenberg. Here’s what some news agencies and other media are saying about Tom Cruise in “Valkyrie”: The Seattle Times: “Tom Cruise the movie star never disappears into Claus von Stauffenberg the brillian...

Rate Valkyrie review by Roger Ebert

Original at The #1 Tom Cruise Resource external link    Sat, Dec 27

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By Chantal Source: Roger Ebert) Roger Ebert says of Tom’s performance: “Tom Cruise is perfectly satisfactory, if not electrifying, in the leading role.” Read his article here: “Valkyrie” is a meticulous thriller based on a large- scale conspiracy within the German army to assassinate Hitler, le...

Rate Podcast: Interview: 'Valkyrie' Producer and Writer Christopher McQuarrie

Original at Cinematical external link    Thu, Dec 25

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By James Rocchi Best known as the writer of The Usual Suspects, Christopher McQuarrie has an impressive number of films on his resume (including his criminally overlooked directorial debut, The Way of the Gun), but Valkyrie -- opening nationwide this week -- saw him also serve as a producer alongside d...

Rate Opinion: In defense of Tom Cruise

Original at The #1 Tom Cruise Resource external link    Tue, Dec 23

By Chantal There have been many other excellent ones along the way. The Firm, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, The Last Samurai. There have been some clunkers, and it seems more of them have come lately. Minority Report, with Spielberg; Eyes Wide Shut, with Kubrick; War of the Worlds, again with Spielberg....

Rate Katie Holmes Distracts From Tepid Reviews With Wacky Clothes

Original at A Socialite's Life external link    Fri, Oct 17

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By Lisa Timmons A USA Today article of Katie Holmes' performance on stage of All My Sons on Broadway gave Mrs. Tom Cruise a mildly encouraging review. A USA Today article of Katie Holmes' performance on stage of All My Sons on Broadway gave Mrs. Tom Cruise a mildly encouraging review.

Rate Podcast: MD185 - Tropic Thunder: Red Carpet PremiereVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at blip.tv external link    Tue, Aug 12

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Tropic Thunder got its Red Carpet Premiere at the Westwood Village Theater this week, and we spoke to several attendees from producers, to actors, to stars tagging along for the ride. Tropic Thunder Tropic Thunder Reviews Tropic Thunder Trailer Robert Downey Jr. Jack Black Tom Cruise

Rate Angelina Jolie Steals Tom Cruise’s Job: Scientology Shockingly Not Involved

Original at hecklerspray external link    Mon, Aug 11

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By Ian Dransfield The poor tiny man - his wife’s gone and done a runner, for a bit at least, he’s all alone and now he doesn’t even get to be a spy in a film he was supposed to be in for ages. It’s probably affected his thetan levels too, bless his little face. But hecklerspray can’t see Tom Cruise doing anything but a g...

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Rate Rose speaks » What Does the Church of Scientology, Google, Yahoo and Tom Cruise Have In Common? Why did Paul Barresi Leak those Papers?

Original at Rose Speaks from Legalese to English external link    Mon, Aug 11

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By Rose Turner The answer to the first question is that Peter Letterese is suing them all in the Southern District Federal Court in Florida for allegedly committing Civil RICO. The answer to the second question is that this “bombshell” was brought to the world of media tabloidism by a “self-styled investigator”, shorthand for a PI without a license, Paul Barresi when he released some of the papers to the New York Daily News last month. Barresi was kind enough to offer us first option on his “exclusive statement” about the subject of the lawsuit, but we declined. I believe after you read it at Mediabistro.com you will see why Rose Speaks.com elected not to publish it for Baressi, but hopefully he will keep our number handy for future takes on strange happening...   [read the full post]

Rate Podcast: MD183 - Tropic Thunder: Tom Cruise Cameo, Fan ReviewsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at blip.tv external link    Sun, Aug 10

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Tropic Thunder premieres this Wednesday, August 13th, so we went out to a pre-screening and interviewed fans who had just left the theater. We gaged their reaction, and asked them about the amazing Tom Cruise cameo, and Robert Downey Jr.'s intriguing performance. We also chanced upon one o...

Rate Opinion: Tom Cruise on Oprah: 'stolen' Scientology videos, Brooke Shields and 'child drugging'Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Fri, May 2

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By ESNEAD On his Brooke Shields comments: "What I regret is even discussing Brooke in any way," Cruise says. She later attended his wedding to Katie in Italy. You can see the rest of the Oprah-Tom chat Monday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." What do you think? Can Tom Cruise get his career back on track?

Rate Patch: Tom Cruise 'Saved' By Daughter Suri - Entertainmentwise

Original at Entertainmentwise external link    Thu, Apr 3

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Tom Cruise 'Saved' By Daughter Suri  UK - Apr 3, 2008 It has been the toughest patch Tom has had since his divorce from Nicole Kidman, Katie [Holmes] has been there for him, of course, and she's his rock, ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Most overpaid celebrities, Tom Cruise’s turn-ons, Liza Minnelli, Tony cheats on Eva, and more [Snarky Gossip]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at b5media Celebrities Channel Feed external link    Thu, Dec 13

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By Wendy The 55-year-old former Baywatch star, who has battled alcoholism for years, checked himself into Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai Medical Center on 3 December and again on 5 December, following drinking binges - his fourth hospitalisation in two months. The National Enquirer claims he was di...

Rate How To: Control the Wii with your fingertips

Original at Digg external link    Mon, Nov 12

Using the above video as tutorial, you can turn use a Nintendo Wii remote for making a finger-controlled interface à la the film Minority Report (and you thought Tom Cruise was using thetans to control the monitor ...). All you need is an array of infrared LEDs and some reflective tape.

Rate Patch: Tom Cruise battles Hitler

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Fri, Jul 20

Images of Tom Cruise in Nazi uniform and an eye patch pinged through cyberspace Thursday, the first photos released from the set of "Valkyrie," the film that sparked fierce debate in Germany over the star's Scientology connections.

Rate Weekly Blend Audio Show: 100 Podcasts Strong

Original at Cinema Blend external link    Sun, Jul 8

By rafe@cinemablend.com This week marks our 100th Episode – quite an accomplishment for what started out as a fifteen-minute single man show. We celebrate by discussing a few subjects we usually refrain from touching: Michael Moore and Tom Cruise. Is Sicko as good as everyone thinks? What has Michael Moore stolen...

Rate Podcast: Casting of Scientologist Tom Cruise as German hero raising ire

Original at AZ Central.com external link    Tue, Jun 26

Cruise, one of Scientologys bestknown adherents, is to play Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg the aristocratic army officer executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944 in director Bryan Singers new film Valkyrie.

Rate Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise and Suri at the beach at Saint-Jean Cap ...

Original at In Case You Didn't Know external link    Tue, Jun 19

By Jocelyn Those are weird fitting shorts…

Year 2006

 

Rate Rosie On Tom Cruise: "I Was Mad At Oprah. Oprah, Couldn't You Have Said, 'Tommy, Come Here! Don't Jump"...

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Sep 4

By The Huffington Post You might think that Tom Cruise doesn't have a single fan left, but you would be wrong. We found one. Her name is Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie may not be the last person who still loves Cruise--Katie Holmes? his mother?--but she's probably the only one who blames America's favorite talk-show host f...

Rate Tom Gerdy: Uncle Gandhi Needs You!

Original at Huffington Post external link    Thu, Aug 31

1. Fox News uses Don King and Richard Simmons as post Katrina experts 2. John Mark Karr not guilty or even connected 3. CBS touches up Katie Couric's picture to make her look thinner 4. Tom Cruise is dumped by Paramount

Rate Opinion: Paramount caved in to politics with decision to boot Cruise

Original at USA Today external link    Sun, Aug 27

The incredulity at Paramount Pictures ending its relationship with Tom Cruise is answered by one familiar word: politics (" Cruise not of Paramount importance," Life, Wednesday). The fact that Cruise has unambiguously and courageously opposed the proliferation of Ritalin and antid...

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