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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O'Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A new book claims the Top Gun star had a tendency to chat to ashtrays, bottles and other inanimate objects Just a teeny tiny amount of space left to say, hey, guess what? Tom Cruise? He's a bit fricking weird! Yuhdoansay. In Blown For Good, the latest book by an escapee from the Galactic Confederacy, AKA Scientology, Marc Headley claims that Cruise would talk to inanimate objects "for hours"....
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The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In a new book about Scientology , Marc Headley talks about Tom Cruise. Headley says that Cruise took him through something called the "Upper I ndoctrination Training Routines," or "Upper Indoc TRs," in the abbreviation-filled jargon of Scientologists. And what did those entail? "You do a lot of things with a book and a bottle," Headley says. "It's known as the book-and-bottle...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
New revelations about the Church of Scientology suggest Tom Cruise is fast becoming the cult's figurehead, used to inspire the faithful to acts of greatness - and…
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The sh*t has really hit the fan for Scientology lately. Whether it’s rumors of Tom Cruise threatening to beat the crap out of underling Scientologists who were insubordinate (for refusing to beat the crap out of their underlings), to revelations that Tom made former Scientologist Marc Headley talk to a doorknob for hours at [...]
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Tom Cruise’s former Scientology auditor, Mark Rathbun, has a blog where he details his experiences in the cult. In August, Rathburn explained that in 2001 he was “personally assigned [by leader Miscavige] as Inspector General RTC – the second highest ecclessiastical position in the religion – to coordinate Tom’s divorce from Nicole and to serve [...]
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USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tom Cruise is arguably the Scientologist with the highest profile, which is why he’s also being used as an example for the entire community, that is, all the other members of the cult, a former Scientologist tells Radar Online. Marc Headley left the cult about five years ago and now, in a book called “Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology,” he plans to shed light...
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PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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 Scientology compound in Gilman Hot Springs, California are not allowed [...]
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Celebritology (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In July 2008, clips of Tom Cruise evangelizing for Scientology surfaced on the Web. (YouTube) Apparently talking to an ashtray is not considered a nutty kind of thing to do, as long as you're doing it under the guise of deepening your Scientology practice. Oh, and if Tom Cruise is the one telling you to do it. Just in time for the holidays, a new book exposing alleged details about not just Scientology...
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PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Uh oh! The cult church of Scientology isn't going to be too happy about this. A new book is being released by Tom Cruise' Scientology apprentice that reveals some bizarre deets about one of Scientology's most famous members. Marc Headley reveals he witnessed Tom spending three weeks talking to books, bottles and door knobs. Maybe [...]
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Bossip (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
If you were ever wondering what goes down at the church of Scientology…then this should be a good read for you: A new book released yesterday by author Marc Headley, Blown for Good, reveals details inside Scientology headquarters at the organization’s “Gold Base”, located near Hemet, California. Headley joined the organization at age seven when his [...]
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RadarOnline.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tom Cruise spent three weeks talking to books, bottles and door knobs while attempting to perform the (Scientology-related) task of auditing an underling, according to a 15-year veteran of the Church of Scientology, author Marc Headley , in his new book, Blown for Good . Headley, a longtime employee at Scientology's formerly secret Southern California headquarters, said he witnessed Cruise's bizarre...
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Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in 1990’s Days of Thunder A former Scientologist who worked for the organization for 15 years has penned an explosive tell-all book about his experiences. Marc Headley’s self-published book, Blown for Good, details the ways he was overworked and manipulated by cult. He was followed and threatened when he tried to [...]
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New Humanist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
When it comes to putting the boot into Scientology, things really seem to have opened up in the past couple of years. Famously litigious, the Church of Scientology always tended to meet criticism with legal threats (it even sent one to New Humanist in relation to this piece back in the day). But now, its attempts to silence the critics look more and more futile, as revelations from the inside and...
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Hollywood Backwash (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
An ex-Scientologist has spilled the beans on how Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes met and fell in love. Marc Headley told Britain's News of the World that after Tom split from Penelope Cruz in 2004 he confided in his BFF and church leader, David Miscavige, that he was having trouble meeting women. So his buddy [...]