any scientologists out there? what's going on with tom cruise?

[catmother]

says he will not promote his next movie if they rerun south park joking about him and scientology. i don't watch it, but from what i've read they make fun of all religions. now many of us were complaining that muslims couldn't take a joke with cartoons. we said we want free speech and freedom of the press. so doesn't that apply to scientologists too?

on edit: this may have been posted. i havent' been too active on the boards in a few days. so if this is a dupe, please forgive.:hide:

[OnyxCollie]

1. The scientologist episode of South Park was pulled.

Isaac Hayes, who played "Chef", quit over the episode. Trey Parker and Matt Stone said (paraphrasing) "Isaac only got religious sensitivity when it was his religion."

Edit to add: I stopped watching South Park after their "Katrina" episode. Too much apologizing for the Bush administration. Fuck South Park.

[catmother]

4. i've never watched it. so i can't comment. so it got pulled

because scientologists didn't like it?:wtf:

[VTMechEngr]

6. The show worked on you then.

IF I recall correctly, the whole purpose is to offend everybody.

[OnyxCollie]

12. Ever hear of the South Park Republican?

The show, claiming to be an equal opportunity offender, does lean toward the right wing. The Katrina episode, supposedly balanced criticism, in no way reflects the amount of negligence and incompetence committed by Bushco.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. I agree

but Scientology is a nut ball cult so you can't really expect them to react much better than the muslim extremists.

[catmother]

3. my point exactly. wha't the big deal? maybe because tom

cruise was hiding in a closet? there have always been rumors that he was gay. but hey, lighten up.:crazy:

[Imagevision]

11. Tom Cruise And Rob Thomas Are Lovers

Tom Cruise and Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas are lovers!

No doubt that anyone with an Internet connection has read about Tom Cruise being gay. According to rumor lore, he has had a long-time boyfriend in Chicago who is an Asian pilot for American Airlines. This is an accusation that Cruise and more importantly Cruise's many attorneys vehemently deny.

Such stories have been around for years and Cruise has evidently attempted to counter them with a series of high-profile heteronormative relationships. First, Nicole Kidman, then Penelope Cruz, and most recently Katie Holmes. In each instance, the "relationship" is actually a contract that gives the women a boost to their careers, a lot of money, and an elegant lifestyle.

Here is where this particular rumor gets interesting. Not long ago, Marisol, the wife of Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas (who has had to contend with his own rumors of bi-sexuality) found her husband in bed with Tom Cruise causing Cruise's people to shift into high gear.

First, Mrs. Rob Thomas was bought off for an undetermined sum.
Second, Cruise and his handlers set out to immediately find Cruise a girlfriend. Second-tier actresses were targeted. A list was drawn up with Jessica Alba (#1 pick) and three other girls who fell out for various reasons. Originally targeted (#3 I think) but later rejected as "undesirable" was rumor queen Lindsay Lohan. Way down at #5 on the list was Katie Holmes, but that was the one with whom they were able to strike a deal.

[catmother]

25. i didn't know who rob thomas was. i just googled him and got

a picture. he's quite cute.:hide:

[Midnight Rambler]

39. Scarlett Johansen was apparently targeted by Cruise

She was supposed to play the female lead, but then he took her to a "dinner" at the Scientology center, and she got freaked out and high-tailed it. Then, she dropped out of the movie. Smart girl.

[hang a left]

42. Two celebrity scientologists that I have heard of were gay

Cruise and Travolta

I have some friends that went on a private cruise on a chartered sail boat in the Caribbean. The guests that went the week before them were Travolta, his wife, and a male companion whom shared a cabin with John.

[Imagevision]

5. Cruise's Days as a successful actor a numbered - Sham with Katie

has already been exposed - when is Tom getting married again?

[BayCityProgressive]

8. I am pretty confident

that he is a closeted homosexual. There have been many reports of his little 19 and 20 year old boy toys all over hollywood. IS homosexuality banned in scientology or something???

[ClintonTyree]

28. I don't think homosexuality is banned........

as long as Cruise keeps writing those big, fat checks to the Scientologists he can do just about anything he pleases. That's what Scientology (and many other religions) are about, isn't it? The Money!

[catmother]

32. you hit the nail on the head.

:applause:

[hang a left]

43. I am pretty sure they shun homosexuality.

[Blue Belle]

9. Just as soon as TomKat can work out the child custody matter...

in the pre-nup agreement! :eyes:

[catmother]

16. yes. i heard that he wants full custody of the fetus.

[Cleita]

26. What happened to Tom not being able to have children?

Wasn't that the reason that he and Nicole adopted? Didn't he accuse her of being unfaithful when she got pregnant? And now he's gotten this girl pregnant? What's the real story? Incidentally, there have been rumors about his gayness for years.

[catmother]

33. i always wondered why they adopted. i didn't know she had

gotten pregnant. i thought maybe she couldn't have children. he was married to mimi rogers before nicole. she was older than him. supposedly he left her for nicole. :dilemma:

[Cleita]

38. She found out she was pregnant when they were going through

the divorce. She had a miscarriage. I guess the stress got to her. My husband thought that was the reason he divorced her. He didn't think the baby was his, but Nicole insists that it was Tom's.

[ClintonTyree]

27. His new movie, "Mission Impossible MXLVIII" or whatever the hell...

it's called is due out this July. Cruise and company are hailing it as the "box office hit of the summer". :eyes: I'm willing to bet that it fails miserably. I think people are fed up with his childish, schizoid-tology ass and will stay away in droves. It's rumored that he and his latest, Katie Holmes, are already calling it quits before their child is born.
Ton Cruise is a certifiable nut-case, as is evidenced by his divorcing one of the most beautiful and talented women on the planet; Nicole Kidman. The little runt, all scientologists for that matter, are completely brainwashed by Hubbard, who himself is certifiably nuts.

[catmother]

34. i don't watch movies like that. i had enough of the james bond

stuff when i was younger. he was really good in "interview with a vampire" playing LeStat.

i could never understand why he's was supposedly so great looking. he's short and has a funny nose. :shrug:

[CBGLuthier]

40. I am really loking forward to MI 3, but not why you may think

They have waited for that offensive POS movie to be done to release the only thing worth having the name Mission Impossible, the TV series on DVD.

So I will happily ignore this one like I did the last one. Did see the first one becasue I didn't know it was going to be nothing like MI.

[Cleita]

7. So John Travolta has yet to surface to denounce South Park.

It seems that they are programmed to go on the offensive when their "religion" is poked fun at. I think it proves South Park's point.

[BayCityProgressive]

10. Come on people

the "religion" was made up by a cult leading science fiction novelist. Give me a break. I support alternative spirituality, I practice alternative nature/pagan spirituality but no one claims to be a supreme leader and there are no stupid laws and regulations like these nuts have.

[catmother]

14. yes. like a woman has to stay quiet while giving birth. she cannot

groan or cry-out. i'm all for alternative religion myself. i tried reading dianetics years ago and i felt like i was reading hubbard's dissertation. couldn't keep my interest. there are so many alternative religions out there that make sense to me, but not this one.:shrug:

[genieroze]

20. like a woman has to stay quiet while giving birth

I would have been kicked out. I had three, wasn't quiet during any of them. Just the opposite. Hey L Ron Hubbard, let me shove a lemon in the hole where you as a male urinate and let's see if you can be quiet. Typical religion where a male tries to tell a female how to act about her body.

[catmother]

22. well i have to say i was very good when i gave birth, but of

course, i was asleep. that was back in 1960. i went through the labor pains and then they gave me twilight sleep. when i got into the delivery room a mask went over my face. i believe it was either. but afterward, with stitches and hemorroids. OMG:blush:

edited for date: it was 1961.

[Blue Belle]

I don't know if Tom Cruise has publically denounced the South Park Episode

but if he did, I would wager that his dilligence to do so would be spurred on more about his likeness in the closet than his religous affiliation (however... I'm sure his relgous affiliation would be the "excuse").

[catmother]

18. you're probably right. i think it was last week bill maher made

some joke about closets. he said that tom cruise's closet was so full it hardly had room for him. i thought it was cute, but i guess maher had seen the south park episode and that's where it came from. :shrug:

[Imagevision]

13. Google: "Tom Cruise caught in bed"

[catmother]

21. i just did. interesting it made me think of mick jaeger and one

of the articles mentioned mick jaeger and david bowie in bed together. i remembered he was allegedly caught but couldn't remember with who.

so really what's the big deal. it's probably fun to be bi-sexual. have sex with either a man or a woman. please don't flame me for being to "librul". lol:hide:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. I don't have to Google it. Years ago my inlaws lived in the same apt. bldg

in Manhattan as Tom Cruise, and was always bringing young guys back home with him.

[Minnesota Libra]

15. Hopefully someone put a sock in it for him nt

[Mrspeeker]

17. so we wont have to see commercials for Mr.Kewls new movie..

if we run the banned south park about scientology!
YAY Please run it Viacom!
We wouldn't want to hurt Mr Kewls feelings hes always saying...
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, unless I'm some super kewl guy who make big budget films about things like making cocktails or racing cars, then comments about anything could hurt and damage my huge ego!

[LiviaOlivia]

19. It has now been dubbed "Closetgate"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-channel18mar18,0,2690713.story

Clamor Outside 'South Park' Closet
"Mission: Impossible" studio joins Cruise's camp in denying it strong-armed scrapping of Scientology repeat.
By Scott Collins
Times Staff Writer

March 18, 2006

Closetgate is heating up! Paramount has joined Tom Cruise's public relations rep in denying reports that the movie star strong-armed the studio into spiking a "South Park" episode that ridicules him and Scientology. According to the site Hollywood Interrupted, Comedy Central yanked a scheduled repeat this week of "Trapped in the Closet," a now-notorious "South Park" episode that first aired in November, after Cruise threatened to halt his promotional activities on behalf of Paramount's "Mission: Impossible III," which opens May 5. Viacom is also alleged to have ordered "South Park" producers and co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker not to discuss the incident (although the pair reportedly issued a joking statement that seemed to lend credence to the notion that some arm-twisting occurred). Paramount and Comedy Central are Viacom properties.

"Trapped in the Closet," which satirizes Scientology and also pokes fun at questions regarding Cruise's sexuality, may have claimed one casualty already. Earlier this week, soul singer and Scientologist Isaac Hayes, who has voiced the character of Chef since 1997, asked to be released from his "South Park" contract, presumably because of the "Trapped" episode. Stone said he would grant Hayes' request. Midday Friday, Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said that Cruise "hasn't ever threatened not to support" the publicity campaign for "Mission: Impossible III." Cruise rep Paul Bloch said the actor "had nothing to do with any programming" on Comedy Central. "At no time did Tom Cruise say he would not do publicity" for "M:I III."

OK, but one problem: No one at Viacom has publicly offered a satisfactory explanation of why the repeat, scheduled for Wednesday night, was pulled. A Comedy Central rep said he could not comment but referred to a statement issued Thursday to the New York Post saying the episode was pulled because "we wanted to give Chef an appropriate tribute by airing two episodes he is most known for."

That's a transparently ridiculous claim. If the network wanted to give Chef an appropriately disrespectful "South Park"-style send-off, it would have re-broadcast as scheduled the episode that prompted him to quit in a huff, not suddenly knocked over tables and chairs in a mad rush to memorialize the "episodes he is most known for."

~snip~

[tammywammy]

23. Check out this link

www.clambake.org to learn a lot of the secrets of Scientology. Very interesting, I spent a whole day looking it over.

[catmother]

24. thanks for the link. i took a quick look. i'll go back when i have

more time.

[leftofthedial]

29. nothing is going on

he's still gay

he's still an insane member of a wacko cult

he still can't act, unless maybe they cast him as a 2X4

[shayes51]

30. I wouldn't go see a Tom Cruise movie anyway after the

ignorant remarks he has made concerning mental illness and medications for such.

[Imagevision]

31. Kidman & Cruz served their purpose and career improvements

some of the perks for hangin with Tommy-boy

[Zookeeper]

36. I think it was Olbermann who reported....

that a recent poll of women regarding who they would rather have sex with, actually put Saddam Hussein ahead of Tom Cruise. I find that hard to believe (and I'm not a Tom Cruise fan), but...:shrug:

[catmother]

37. well saddam looked pretty good after they cleaned him up.

maybe it's because he is masculine-looking whereas cruise looks like a little boy.:eyes:

[Rex]

41. Tom, come outta the closet.

Oh my Gawd!