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Tom Cruise, Scientology’s Fundamentalist Spokesman
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mkress
Mark Oppenheimer has spent the past year reporting on Scientology, and his articles for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and elsewhere are some of the most informative and balanced that you’ll find anywhere. Mark has now turned his attention to Tom Cruise’s Scientology video, and in an article for Beliefnet he makes the case…
Is Suri the Test Tube Baby of L. Ron Hubbard? No, But Wouldn’t That Be Cool?
By
Paul O'Donnell
Andrew Morton, author of two biographies of Princess Di, is used to getting blowback from his subjects’ defenders. And he expected his new book on Tom Cruise to raise the considerable ire of both Scientology and Cruise himself. (His publisher, Pan-Macmillan, was so worried about legal repercussions that they won’t be releasing the book in…
Five Questions for… Carmen Rasmusen
By
lmarcus
Carmen Rasmusen finished in the Top 6 on the second season of “American Idol.” A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she and her values sometimes clashed with the expected behavior of a pop singer. Carmen talks to Beliefnet’s Lilit Marcus about her new memoir, Staying In Tune, and how…
New Cruise Video Stresses “Responsibility” and “No Vacation”
By
Esther Kustanowitz
Last night, I saw this video celebrating Tom Cruise’s role in promoting Scientology to the world, in commemoration of his winning of the Freedom Medal of Honor award (a church honor). I understand that they were playing on “Mission: Impossible” (the famous theme song music, looped endlessly and playing for the duration of the nearly…
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