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Today I read somewhere that Katie Holmes went to a Hollywood party without Tom where the rule was "no guests," but that she brought a Scientology handler who wouldn't let her out of her sight. People said that Katie looked "dead in the eyes" and that everyone was talking about her. I looked through my browser history and did a google search and I cannot for the life of me figure out where I read this article. Did I dream it up? Is it old news? If you've seen this article, please comment here with the link.
Sorry for the half-story without a link, but I did read that and tried to figure out where I found it for about 20 minutes. That is forever in Internet time.
Here are some new pictures of Tom and Katie outside a stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were in Utah to see Beckham play soccer and could have possibly stopped to see if that couple involved in an accident was hurt, and we reported yesterday, but it still sounds like a PR stunt to me.
Update Thanks to the commentor who pointed me to Perez Hilton's site for the news. Katie did attend a girls-only party with a Scientology guard. Creepy!
Tom and Katie are also shown backstage at Cirque du Soleil on May 3rd. Thanks to Pink is the New Blog and KatieHolmes.com for these pics.
MSNBC's The Scoop borrows our unoriginal observation by calling Suri the "Loch Ness Monster of celebrity babies."
One rumor is that protective pop Top Gun is reluctant to trot out the child because he’s worried about kidnapping threats. His spokesman denies that buzz — and even denies that Cruise is “reluctant” to show Suri.
“He hasn’t been reluctant,” spokesman Arnold Robinson tells the Scoop. “They will be making a decision to release the photographs [of Suri] shortly.” Will the pics be released to a single or few media outlets, or will it be a general release? “That’s part of the decision they’ll be making shortly,” he said.
Yeah, they'll make that decision, uh, shortly. Just like they'll get married any day now. All those preparations at the Celebrity Scientology Center were indeed for a big party as we reported, and not for a supposed wedding or non-existent Suri's Scientology baptism. It was their 37th anniversary of brainwashing people, and John Travolta and Kelly Preston showed up, lest the Scientologists reveal their darkest secrets. TMZ has a video of Travolta dancing or something at the party, but it didn't load for me. I'm so dissapointed.
Penelope Cruz said she'd met Suri, but then totally backtracked and made a weird roundabout statement about how she didn't want to have to lie anymore.
Here are two guys who work at a radio station protesting outside a Scientology center in Portland. They're "demanding the Cruise baby." You really don't have to watch this, you get the point.
The best is their protest sign with Cuba Gooding Jr. saying "Show me the Baby!"
"Where are here, do si do, show us Suri then we'll go." "It's not fair, we all lose, please show us Suri Cruise"
They ask "Will we ever see the Polaroid of that little baby mongloid?" OMG That is so un-pc, I'm sorry, but it made me laugh.
Posted to Babies | Cults | Katie Holmes | Scandals | Tom Cruise | TomKat | Video
Someone please stop Madonna before she's damned to hell. She's using the same old tired "offend all the Christians" gimmick to generate controversy over her geriatric tour. She refused to take the hanging on a cross bit out of her show for the televised version of her concert, and she also declined to take it out when she plays Rome right near the Vatican. Now she's upped the ante a bit by inviting the creepy Pope himself to her show:
Ersilio Cardinal Tonino, speaking on behalf of The Pope, said yesterday, "This concert is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be ex-communicated. To crucify herself during the concert in the city of Popes and martyrs is an act of open hostility."
Madonna's spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg tells the New York Daily News, "I think the Pope would enjoy the show and would applaud her performance. He has an open invitation to see for himself the eloquence and beauty that Madonna expresses for humanity while performing her poignant song 'Live To Tell.'"
That's so fucking stupid! Madonna can't stand being out of the spotlight for five minutes, and she has to offend everyone who isn't a member of her crazy cult religion.
I'm not religious at all, but I just think that's ridiculous. Madonna can put all the sexy bits in that she wants, but why does she have to mess with religious symbolism so blatantly?
Yeah sure, Madonna, the Pope's going to be impressed by your tribute to "humanity." Give me a break.
Posted to Arrogant | Cults | Madonna | Music
The PopBitch e-mail newsletter claims that Tom Cruise is scoping out Neverland ranch and may possibly purchase the freaky estate from heavily in debt Michael Jackson:
Cruise has to know that this would be an incredibly stupid move. It doesn't matter how nice the property, zoo, and amusement park are. It would tie him to weirdo Michael Jackson and the press would have a field day.
The newsletter goes on to say that Suri might just have a big birthmark and that could be the reason why she's been shielded from view:
That's possible, and a very clever excuse if Tom's camp made it up. Why has nary a bundle, car seat or covered up little baby been seen though? I don't buy it!
Meanwhile there are preparations underway at the Celebrity Scientology Center for what Pink is the New Blog speculates could be Suri's unvieling or Tom and Katie's wedding.
Rebels-Rebels had these pictures of the chandelier and tents covering the compound, and Mollygood has an eyewitness report that they seem to be gearing up for something.
DListed says that there's a "37th Gala Event" on August 5th though, which just means they're having some sort of Scientology party.
Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith's wife, says that she's seen Tom and Katie's supposed daughter and that she's beautiful. Her quotes are much more believable than Leah Remini's, especially since she's a cult outsider, but I'm not buying it:
Pinkett Smith and her husband Will Smith have visited with Suri twice, both times at Cruise and Holmes's Beverly Hills mansion.
"She's beautiful and they're very happy and they need to be left alone," says Pinkett Smith, who described Suri while talking to PEOPLE about her participation in last weekend's Philadelphia anti-violence event, Party 4 Peace, run by pal Charles "Charlie Mack" Alston. "She's the cutest little baby. She's got a head full of black, beautiful hair."
The Daily Mail calls the rumors that Suri doesn't exist "conspiracy theories" and says that they're "crazy" and "clearly inaccurate." It's not inaccurate to say she's never been seen, and it's easy to dismiss a good argument by labeling it a conspiracy theory without addressing its merits. It's not a conspiracy theory if it's true!
That same crappy article recycles a made up quote by Katie's dad, who originally was said to have complained about Katie's "Buff Brides" workout plan. They changed it around to make it sound like he was disagreeing with Scientology, but the original quote was about her fitness plan. I know it was fake because the article also featured a fake quote by Sue Fleming, the creator of Buff Brides and a family friend.
Here's the quote from the article:
Here's the original, totally bogus quote:
The truth is that no one knows how Katie's parents feel about her involvement in Scientology, or about the fact that they supposedly haven't seen their grandchild. Maybe they realize that she doesn't exist and they're in on the scam. Regardless if Jada Pinkett Smith has seen the little changeling, why has nary a bandle been photographed by the ever-present paparrazi?
People can claim that the baby's being shielded by the Scientologist freaks, but wouldn't someone take her out for a walk at least once in the more than three months that she's supposedly been on the planet?
Posted to Babies | Cults | Jada Pinkett Smith | Katie Holmes | Scandals | Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise was said to be on Spielberg's bad side after diverting promotion from "War of the Worlds" to his own crazy cult battle against the pharmaceuticals he so desperately needs. It turns out there's yet another reason for Spielberg to be pissed at Cruise: Scientologists showed up to protest the very psychiatrist Spielberg lauded to Cruise in a personal conversation:
Although Cruise was said to have assured Spielberg that he was not behind this incident, it infuriated the director and (perhaps more important) Kate Capshaw, also known as Mrs. Spielberg. For a time, it seems, the Spielbergs waited in vain for the star to explain how, exactly, those protesters happened to appear at the doctor's office.
Meanwhile Cruise might be dropped by his studio, Paramount. MI3 didn't overwhelm at the box office, and Spielberg's Dreamworks is now owned by Paramount, making Tom's relationship with Spielberg even more important.
Cruise showed up at the Chicago film festival's tribute to Spielberg in an attempt to make up with the director and salvage his tanking career.
It was also rumored that Cruise went to Spielberg's office a month ago with non-existent baby Suri to do a personal photo session with Spielberg. This is obviously untrue, and Spielberg's spokesperson says that the question of the pictures existing "will never be answered."
People say Spielberg looked uncomfortable with Cruise at the film festival tribute, and you can see the photos below.
Cruise's involvement with Scientology has only hindered his career and damaged his relationships with key players. Either he's too brainwashed to get out now, or the cult has such powerful secrets against him that he will never try.
Maybe we'll all find out what's going on, or at least be entertained by more juicy gossip, when Andrew Morton's tell-all Cruise biography comes out.
Here are pictures of Cruise with Spielberg at the film festival that we published earlier.
My two-year old son has very weak front teeth with some visible plaque and chipping. It's not decay and he rarely drinks juice or eats sugary food. My husband and I consulted dentists in Germany and the US and they both said that his teeth never calcified properly while he was in utero and that it was most likely the result of something that happened in the fourth or fifth month of pregnancy when the buds were forming, probably an illness I had.
When I was five months' pregnant I rushed over to a 3D ultrasound place to learn my baby's sex a couple of weeks before my OBGyn was able to schedule the regular sonogram. We got a little DVD set to music and phenomenal pictures in which you can really see his features. My husband says there's nothing to feel guilty about but I keep wondering if that powerful sonogram damaged my son's budding teeth, and I would never have one again. That's the only thing I can remember happening during that time of my pregnancy.
Thanks for reading my rambling story, but the moral is that ultrasounds can damage tiny fetuses in unpredictable ways, and there's almost no way to tell if a birth defect or small change in a baby is due to an ultrasound. Doctors say they're safe, but are cautious to recommend that they're used sparingly. I've been thinking about the mystery of Suri, and remembered how Tom bought an ultrasound machine and was talking about how much he loved checking out his unborn child. People really criticized him for it at the time:
Few studies of ultrasound have been conducted on the human fetus (for ethical and logistical reasons), and there's no smoking gun to suggest that the machines are causing harm. We've known for a long time that ultrasound heats up human tissue—that's the rationale for its application in physical therapy. Several experiments conducted overseas have shown an increase in left-handedness (or at least a reduction in right-handedness) among those exposed to prenatal ultrasound, which suggests that the test could have neurological effects...
Is Tom Cruise putting his baby—or his fiancee—at risk? It depends on what kind of machine he's using, and whether he's got a trained sonographer to help him out. He may have a machine that doesn't have the more dangerous high-power settings.
The article goes on to say that cumulative sonograms aren't necessarily more damaging than individual sonograms.
There are studies showing ultrasounds are relatively safe, and that there is no connection between prenatal ultrasounds and birth defects. These studies are using old technology, though, and Tom undoubtedly had a 3D ultrasound for Katie's pregnancy:
No one can say with certainty that the higher-energy ultrasonic devices cannot harm a fetus, says Vorhees. Heat isn't the only way in which ultrasound might theoretically damage tissues, he adds. Sound waves may cause microscopic bubbles in body fluids to oscillate and sometimes collapse, Vorhees says. Scientists don't know whether such problems can injure the fetus.
The scientific uncertainty over ultrasound led the Food and Drug Administration to advise against sonograms during pregnancy unless there is a problem such as bleeding, a family history of birth defects, or some other medical reason for the procedure, including advanced maternal age. FDA specifically warns against using ultrasound "frivolously" -- simply to watch the baby float in the womb or to learn the baby's sex.
Now that Suri hasn't emerged, and her "birth certificate" is highly suspect, one wonders just exactly what is going on. She may not exist, she may be under Scientology house arrest, or she may have a disorder or delay of unknown origin. You know that Cruise got one of those 3D machines because he's rich as anything and wouldn't just buy a regular old model. I really suspect that my son's teeth were damaged by one and wonder if little Suri suffered any ill effects from Tom's crazy curiosity.
Katie Holmes is quoted in the upcoming Us Weekly saying that "Suri's doing great!" but some quote from Katie or her publicist isn't reassuring at this point.
The Toronto Fashion Monitor says that little Suri could be being raised under strict Scientolgy "no noise" conditions, in which little children are shielded from noise coupled with bad experiences because it can create a bad memory they call an "engram."
Scientologists don't believe in comforting hurt little children, either. They think that if they stumble and hit their head on a rock, for instance, they should be made to lay their head back on the rock so that the bad energy and pain will flow back into it.
Even if "Suri" or a baby facsimile emerges at this point, I'm never going to believe that she's the product of Katie and Tom. Something highly suspect is going on, although I hope I'm not right that the baby does exist and is suffering from a defect or illness.
Posted to Babies | Cults | Katie Holmes | Scandals | Tom Cruise | TomKat
This baby just does not exist or something is wrong with it. People claim that Cruise is holding Suri back because of his wacko cult religion, Scientology, or because he didn't get enough cash for the photos, but there hasn't even been a bundle photographed. Now his celebrity friends claim to have never seen the mystery spawn, either:
Even if they wanted to shield the baby from the negative influence of the media or whatever, we still would have seen Katie or a nanny/Scientology handler out walking with a stroller or holding a covered bundle.
Katie even went to her parent's house in Ohio at the end of May, and there were no photographs of the supposed baby.
All we have to vouch for Suri's existence is a report from an "eyewitness" who saw a bundle from very far away.
Readers of Celebrity Baby Blog came up with several plausible theories to explain the Suri mystery:
WTF is going on? They better procure a baby that sort of looks like them fast, because this is turning into one of the biggest Hollywood scandals ever.
Header image is an original illustration by the Grumpy Old Indian Man. Images of Tom Cruise from late June. [via]
J.Lo's first ex husband, Ojani Noa, is unable to publish a tell-all book about their relationship now that Lopez won a case against him publishing the book. He signed a confidentiality agreement with Lopez in late 2005 as part of his settlement payout for a breach of contract lawsuit against her. Noa claimed that Lopez had him unfairly fired from his manager position at her Pasadena restaurant, Madre's.
In April Noa told Lopez's attorneys that he'd put the book out unless she paid him a cool $5 million. Of course the diva wasn't having that and sued him in an attempt to block the book, which is said to have juicy details like J.Lo cheating on P.Diddy in 1999 with Marc Anthony. Unfortunately J.Lo was successful and we won't be able to get our hands on the novel, but one detail did come out: Noa claims Lopez does Santeria on her enemies to get back at them:
I believe this, because Lopez was said to have consulted a Santeria advisor at the time of her upcoming wedding to Ben Affleck. The voodoo guru told her to call it off:
Santeria fuses Roman Catholic beliefs with traditional West African religions. It's preserved by an oral tradition and rituals involve animal sacrifice, dancing, chanting and magic spells. Animals,usually chickens, are sacrificed to bring good luck and forgiveness of sins, and to please the saints.
That's pretty funny and we hope more dirt gets released on Lopez even though the book was blocked. If she's gullible enough to believe in voodoo, maybe Lea Remini will successfully convert her to Scientology.
Here she is in the videoshoot for "I'm gonna be alright," which was released in 2002. [via]
Having failed to convert Britney Spears to Kabbalah, Madonna is trying to bring Lindsay Lohan into the fold. Lohan is in need of some spiritual guidance in between all of her exhausting bed hopping, and
admitted to being interested in the cult back in March:
Now that Lohan has stuck her little toe into the expensive Kabbalah tap water, Madonna has renamed her in an attempt to prime her for full-on indoctrination:
People who stay in cults are so gullible. (There's no shame in getting caught up in a cult or being born into one. Staying active in one for years by your own will and trying to convert other people is another thing.) Madonna may think she's the queen of pop music, but she's giving all her cash to some shysters in exchange for their bubble-gum insight and a sense of superiority. It may feed her smug attitude, but maybe she'll realize at some point what's going on and feel like the fool she is.
If you don't think Kabbalah is a cult, read cult expert Rick Ross' articles on it. Kabbalah and its founder, Philip Berg, have ruined lives and ripped off thousands of people. Lohan is about to be next. She loves spending money, and she's about to get a chance to throw some down the dark hole of manufactured spiritual enlightenment.
Here's a link to a good overview of the characteristics and techniques of cults. It's not just about losing money. A lot of families, friends, and personal identities get washed out too.
Here is Madonna with her daughter, Lourdes, in NY on 6/27, [via] and Lindsay Lohan at the opening of club Social Hollywood also on 6/27. [via]
Madonna is wearing blue slippers in these pics, and she's not wearing her wedding ring.
Maddona is pissed off at Britney because she showed some sense for once and rejected the money pit Kabbalah cult.
But not long ago, Spears publicly ditched the mystical offshoot of Judaism, writing on her Web site: “I no longer study Kabbalah, my baby is my religion.” Spears, who was raised a Baptist, has allegedly been consulting with a “Christian Life Coach” about her troubled marriage to Kevin Federline.
“Madonna spent months teaching Britney the Kabbalah system and splashed out thousands on the ancient scripture for her,” according to a source quoted by Virgin.net, which is further reporting that Madonna is demanding that Spears return the twelfth-century book on Kabbalah that she gave her as a wedding present. Madonna’s rep had no comment by press time, but the source said: “She feels she has wasted time, money and precious gifts on Brit.”
A few years ago I was dating this uber-hot but kind of slow guy. I had misgivings about him, but it was when I found out he was involved with Amway I realized I had to bolt.
Cult members are compelled to convert everyone they know. It's the ultimate insult to tell them that you're not interested in their "religion."
Madonna tried to tie her fading star to Britney a few years ago, and was flattering herself by thinking she could mold the pop star in her own crazy image. Now Madonna may have a semblance of a career back while all Britney has is her very public misery, but at least Britney didn't get sucked into a cult. Madonna thinks she has all the answers, but she leans on Kabbalah like a crutch while they get rich off her gullibility. Let's hope Britney gets her life on track soon. There are no quick fixes to enlightenment, but standing up for yourself and finding your own way is a good start.
Posted to Britney Spears | Cults | Madonna
Tom Cruise called Angelina Jolie while she was still in Namibia to congratulate her on the birth of Shiloh Nouvel, but he soon tried to sneak his creepy cult Scientology into the conversation - by asking Jolie to pick up an "award" for her charity work from the Celebrity Scientology Center in Hollywood:
The man once touted as the “world’s greatest movie star,” but now not selling so good, reportedly urged Jolie to stop by Scientology HQ to pick up an award for her charity work.
But the former Tomb Raider made it clear that wasn’t an artifact she was interested in.
Rick Ross of CultNews.com points out that Cruise forgot that Jolie's significant other has a lot of experience with the cult. Brad Pitt reportedly dumped idiot Juliette Lewis back in the early 90s due to her involvement with Scientology.
Now that the details of the prenup between Tom and Katie have been worked out, Katie's parents are reportedly anxious for her to marry Tom and get her hands on the dough. She stands to make $3 million for every year she's marrie to the crazy half-pint, with a $33 million cap on her divorce settlement. If she leaves Tom now, she could lose custody of the supposed baby, according to an "insider," but if she marries him she stands to get some cash and has a better chance at keeping Suri.
Where the hell is Suri, anyway?!
The header image was taken during in Aberdeen during promotion for MI3. [via]
Posted to Angelina Jolie | Cults | Tom Cruise
There's a report in Life and Style that Tom Cruise is upsetting Katie by putting baby Suri on a "Baby Einstein" regimen geared toward helping the newborn infant become a genius. "Baby Einstein" is based on psuedo science and isn't effective, but Tom Cruise believes that vitamins can cure depression so it's understandable that he would fall for their marketing.
What's most telling about the article is the fact that Tom is dictating the care of the baby and Katie's time with Suri is limited:
The friend also details - according to the report - that Katie believes this may be pushing the two-month old infant too far and Tom may be expecting too much.
"Just when Katie thought things were settling down, now she has to deal with flashcards and DVDs," the friend tells L&S.
"Her quiet time with Suri has been reduced to only a brief period before bedtime."
Babies learn by interacting with others. "Baby Einstein" offers a decent collection of DVDs to pop in if you need to take a shower or get a break from your baby, but they are not educational, according to most experts. Poor Suri and Katie need to spend time together playing and relaxing, but if this is true Tom is imposing his manic over-the-top expectations on his tiny newborn.
This may be made up, though. People seem to like to invent stories that make Tom seem like the Napoleon character he comes off as in interviews.
Suri may be made up too. We haven't seen pictures of her yet, and the paparazzi hasn't managed to score a single candid - even far-off - of the newborn. Katie Holmes was said to have brought Suri to Ohio with her to visit her family. If that's true, she must have brought the Scientology security force along too, because resourceful photographers didn't get a single snap. We've already seen Kingston Rossdale wrapped up leaving the hospital, and Shiloh's pictures are coming out in People soon. What the hell is going on with Suri?
Our readers think the Scientologists are holding back pictures and media coverage of the little one due to their arbitraty belief system, and that may be true. No Scientologist "friends" of Cruise, like Kirstie Alley, John Travolta or Kelly Preston have visited the newborn or vouched for her existence. We just wonder if she's real.
Posted to Babies | Cults | Tom Cruise
Katie Holmes has left Hollywood for the sanity and security of her parent's home in Ohio. She brought baby Suri with her, and left controlling Tom at home. Sources say she had a huge blowout with Tom and is relieved to be rid of him:
“He told Katie he wasn’t going, considering the bad relations between him and her family,” an “insider” told the mag. “Katie was really happy he said that, because she’d been afraid to admit to him that she didn’t want him to go.”
The couple allegedly had a “huge argument” which ended with Katie declaring, “I’m doing this and you can’t stop me.” Her rep denies the story.
Cruise reportedly decided to fly his fiancée and tot to Toledo, drop them off and fly back to pick them up.
The episode, however, may be giving Holmes second thoughts. A “confidant” of hers told the mag: “Katie’s very unhappy and beginning to realize she may have made a major mistake being with Tom.”
We do not like Tom and are not defending him - but it was nice of him to fly Katie to see her parents even if he's too stubborn to go too. Hopefully Katie's family will talk some sense into her and help her escape controlling Tom and the Scientologist handlers. Yesterday's report that Tom won't marry Katie until she's fully brainwashed by Scientologists may simply mean that Katie has real misgivings about the relationship and isn't ready to hand over her life and will to a crazy cult.
As an aside - wouldn't it be great if the first pictures published of Suri are paparrazi photos taken in Ohio? That would really rock.
Posted to Babies | Cults | Katie Holmes | Relationship trouble | Tom Cruise | TomKat
Star Magazine says that Tom Cruise has postponed his nuptuals to Katie Holmes, pending her complete submission to the cult of Scientology:
And he's willing to delay any nuptials to make certain - the report claims.
"There will be no (Nicole Kidman like) wiggle room," a source named Skip Press reveals to the weekly. "In the coming months, Press says, "Katie will undergo intensive training on how to spot and avoid anyone critical of Scientology."
"At the same time - the former Scientologist claims - "Her exposure to the outside world will be censored while she's flooded with Scientology doctrine.
Cruise's rep denies the story.
This seems like speculation from a former Scientologist based on his experiences with the cult. If he still has ties to the community and people are blabbing about Cruise's plans for Katie, it could be true.
It could be bad news for the doe-eyed actress and new mother, whose identity has already been completely changed during her relationship with the crazy half pint. On the other hand, if Katie is being forced to submit to more Scientology bullshit that means she's resisting somewhat. If she doesn't buy into the cult wholeheartedly Tom isn't going to marry her. If the cult keeps pushing her she may get fed up enough to leave. According to her prenup she'll get a sweet deal even without marrying him and she may get her life back in the process.
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Britney Spears has been getting deep beyond her ability to comprehend. She made a couple statements recently that reveal that she's trying to come to terms with the spiritual side of life, and is failing miserably.
She made a strange brief statement on her website, her first in over a year, saying she's given up Kabbalah.
She is also quoted as saying that she considers herself a sort of prophet:
Britney, you may not have realized it consciously at the time, but when you have sex without protection you can get pregnant. So you had more of a biology revelation when writing that song than a spiritual awakening.
It's a good thing Britney has given up the Kabbalah cult, though. She doesn't need any more complications in her life.
Britney is pregnant with her second child, which is rumored to be a girl.
Here she is with an unknown male outside a studio in Hollywood on 5/12. Kevin Federline is shown on the same day outside another studio.
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Tom Cruise has said that the gossip columnists who make fun of his erratic behavior are simply unhappy people:
Tom may have been referring to a recent interviewer who dared question Scientology's ability to cure the reading disorder dyslexia, from which Tom admittedly suffers.
Tom then got pissed when the reporter mentioned Kidman and his adopted children and stormed off. At least the re are foreign journalists willing to state the obvious about Scientology. Tom certainly can't stand to be challenged, although he does give fabulous quotes!
Saying that someone is motivated by unhappiness is an obvious oversimplification. It's like a mom telling her grade school child that the bully is jealous of him. Cruise should stick to vague, happy quotes and try not to get upset or bring any more attention to the fact that he looks like a fool to everyone.
And here he is at a press conference for Mission Impossible 3 in Rome, and at the London premiere last night. Yes, he did attend, and supposedly Katie gave him permission.
Other stars pictured at the press conference and premiere include Keri Russell, Michelle Monaghan, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his supposed girlfriend, and Maggie Q.
Update: Cruise spent 4 hours talking to fans outside of the MI3 premiere in London last night!
Christopher Masterson from Malcolm in the Middle, and Laura Prepon of That 70s Show have been a couple for over five years and live together in a house in LA. They don't get a lot of press since they seem to live a low-key lifestyle.
Prepon's series, That 70s Show, will air its last episode on May 18th:
This underrated sitcom, which revolved around the kids in the basement including Mila Kunis, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon and Wilmer Valderrama, brought aboard loads of guest stars. Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Alice Cooper and Mary Tyler Moore dropped in.
"The reason the show was a hit is simple. It was groovy," said Tom Werner, executive producer.
That 70s Show may have worn out its welcome after Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher left last season. Still, most people on the website Jump The Shark think that the show has yet to go downhill.
We knew that Chris Masterson's brother, Danny Masterson of That 70s Show is a Scientologist, and unfortunately a half-assed Google search confirmed that Laura and Chris are also involved in the pop-psychology cult. According to the website The Truth about Scientology, Laura has completed 7 of the cult's courses while Chris has completed 11, suggesting that he is more involved than Laura.
Let's hope this cute couple is keeping their distance from the evil cult, and that they each make the transition onto the big screen.
Masterson's new film, Intellectual Property, was screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, where these pictures were taken. Prepon does not have another project lined up at the moment, according to IMDB.
Star Magazine is reporting that Tom is breaking Katie's heart by asking her to sign away custody rights to the newborn in case they break up:
Tom told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in a Primetime interview that the baby would not be baptized by a priest, which upset Katie’s parents. Katie seems to be worried about the changes, as well. A source tells Star, “Katie’s at a point of bewildered confusion.
She describes [converting to Scientology] like a personality transplant. One day she’s for it, and the next she’s terrified of morphing into someone else. She whispers into the phone that Tom and his people – she calls them “Team Tom” – are promising her the world if she’ll put her old life – and all the people in it – into the past.
That's scary as hell and maybe Katie will be able to eventually get her old self, and her child - out of that oppressive environment. I can't imagine my husband asking me to sign away custody rights - right after the baby was born! How evil.
Meanwhile the name the couple picked out of a baby book may not mean what they think it does. According to language experts, the name Suri is totally ironic:
So whenever someone says the name "Suri," they're really telling the little girl to go away. That's what the Scientologists have been doing to the real Katie all along.
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Update: This is post number 666. Spooky.
Another Update: Reader Carrie, who hooks us up a lot, has pointed out that BabyNames.com lists the origin of "Suri" as Armenian. Carrie writes:
"Wealthy" - that's accurate.
Posted to Babies | Cults | Katie Holmes | Tom Cruise | TomKat
Tom Cruise has tried to strike a compromise between a hospital and home birth for his fiance, Katie Holmes, by building a $250,000 in-house hospital for her:
Three medics from his Scientology cult - a midwife, nurse and obstetrics expert - have also been hired to be on hand when Katie gives birth.
According to a source, Cruise created the delivery room to provide Holmes with the right kind of environment for the Scientology 'silent birth'.
A tabloid quoted the source as saying: "Tom thinks his delivery room is the best way of providing a quiet environment. But if there are complications, she will be taken to hospital."
Tom told Diane Sawyer in an interview that aired on Friday that he runs "seminars" to teach his children and family members how best to adhere to the Scientology birthing rules.
As part of L. Ron Hubbard's arbitraty guidelines for childbirth and newborn care - which we mention every chance we get - the mother should be in a silent environment when she gives birth, the baby must be left alone for a full day after it's born, the mother shouldn't have contact with the baby for three days after birth, and the mother should refrain from talking to the baby for a week. Hubbard also discouraged women from breastfeeding and recommended a barley-based formula for babies.
Cruise told Sawyer that a silent birth is about creating a quiet environment for the mother, and that Katie can make as much noise as she wants. No one has questioned him about Scientology's recommendation that the baby be left alone for a day, however.
In building an in-home hospital, Cruise wants to make sure that he controls the environment and that no one in the public sphere will witness the cruel way they're planning to leave the baby alone.
Now that Tom Cruise has brought public awareness to the inhumane practices of Scientology, cult expert Rick Ross notes that it's one of the most unpopular religions in America. According to a CBS poll, only 8% of Americans view Scientology favorably.
Here is Katie shopping for even more shoes that will never fit her on 4/15 at Neiman Marcus. She's seen on the same day in a different outfit leaving Maxfields in LA. No purchase will be able to fill the hole in her heart from not being able to have contact with her baby for three days.
Yesterday we reported a lukewarm rumor that Katie Holmes may have given birth. This was based on the fact that she hadn't been seen outside of the Cruise estate for several days. Pictures came out of Katie shopping for shoes at Barney's yesterday, so that theory is blown.
We said it before, but it's silly to shop for shoes right before you give birth. Your feet are totally swollen and there's no way you can tell if they'll fit properly.
Regardless Katie is trying to get out and that's good for her. She looks quite miserable, as A Socialite's Life, who alerted us to the pictures, notes. They also point out TMZ's video of Katie shopping. (link will launch a new window.)
Tom Cruise's interview with Diane Sawyer comes out tonight. Some details have been leaked, including:
Tom has clarified the hype around a Scientology "silent birth," stating that it's "really about respecting the woman. It's not about her not screaming."
It doesn't sound that bad, but the fact that the baby will be ignored for a day and separated from its mother for three days is certainly worrying.
Here are pictures of Katie shopping yesterday.
Star speculates that Katie is having second thoughts about her involvement in the Scientology cult and having a Scientology birth because she's spending 8 hours a day at the Celebrity Scientology Center with Tom, which means that she needs extra convincing:
"If they're going to the center together regularly, it means that she is definitely resistant to something," a Scientology expert who prefers to remain unnamed tells Star.
"It wouldn't surprise me if Katie secretly wanted out of Scientology, out of her relationship with Tom, or both." The source says that at the center, "they are probably putting tremendous pressure on Katie to find out if she has any second thoughts about Scientology."
If the Scientologists were clever about it they would let off from Katie and let her come around gradually and think it's her own idea - kind of like Stockholm syndrome.
While the media focusses on the fact that she's supposed to remain silent during the birth, no one has really picked up the story that her baby will be left entirely alone on its first day in the world, and then removed from her and cared for by Scientology handlers for three days. That's even crazier and more cruel than asking a woman to stay silent during childbirth.
Fellow cult member Kelly Preston tries to clarify that a silent birth is all about being polite:
Here's Katie out shopping yesterday for paper goods. A commenter on the board where we found the pictures (although they're originally from Just Jared) said that her Scientology handler(s) had enough sense to keep out of the picture.
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Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and Todd and Rod Flanders on The Simpsons got extremely offended by a minor veiled reference to Scientology written into The Simpsons and had it cut. Cartwright is a member of the cult of Scientology, and like Isaac Hayes she could always threaten to quit if her precious cult was satirized:
One guess who must be the first “freakiest”?
Cartwright certainly got the joke, but she didn’t like it, so the show dumped it according to insiders.
So even a purported allusion to Scientology got the axe at the Fox show.
No one would dare cross Cartwright - she's essential to the show as the voice of Bart and it would be impossbile to replace her. The Simpsons did kill off one character. Maude Flanders died when it was rumored that voice actress Maggie Roswell asked for a raise in 1999. The Simpsons' cast also held a strike in the spring of 2004. It was resolved within a few weeks with a new multiyear contract, the details of which were not disclosed.
Scientology is such a powerful cult that they can dictate the plot of the worlds' most popular and longest running cartoon series. That's fucking wrong, and those people need to be stopped. The best way to counter Scientology is by learning about how ridiculous and exploitive it is and talking about it with people you know. It's not a legitimate religion and it should not have tax free status in America.
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Tom Cruise has denied reports of an adult-sized pacifier that was custom-made to keep his girlfriend, Katie Holmes, silent during childbirth in accordance with Scientology edicts.
Hi publicist "dismissed the reports as nonsense," so we can rest assured that Tom's publicist doesn't think it exists.
Here is Katie supposedly out to do some shopping yesterday. Commenters on the bulletin board where we found the pictures note that her stomach looks weird, but it may just be her outfit.
We hope this story is not true, because it's quite ridiculous. Supposedly Cruise has ordered a custom-made pacifier for Katie Holmes to gnaw on during childbirth so that she can keep quiet while squeezing the baby out in accordance with Scientology edicts:
"He commissioned an adult-sized 'binky' for her to clench between her teeth, hoping that it'll squelch her screams," a source tells the mag. "In keeping with a Scientology silent birth, Tom is prepared to do whatever it takes to muffle Katie's moans and groans during the delivery."
Cruise's PR rep, Arnold Robinson, denied the existence of an adult pacifier. As for its manufacture, a spokeswoman for NYU's School of Dentistry told Lowdown: "We haven't heard of it, but it doesn't mean a dentist wouldn't do it."
Actually it doesn't matter if this is true or not, because we know for certain that Kate is supposed to keep quiet during childbirth and that's bad enough. I personally had a drug-free childbirth and it's possible with hypnosis and a lot of preparation, but I could not imagine trying to keep quiet in the pushing stage. It's really hard to get the baby out and there's nothing wrong with making a little noise.
Someone on the JJB board (board is down now or I would link to it) mentioned that Scientology was created by a man in the 1950s who was a failed science fiction writer. There's so much more to it than that, including nefarious motivations and some truly evil practices, but that about sums up L. Ron Hubbard's knowledge of childbirth.
The Scientologists also recommend a barley-based formula for babies, although many Scientologists deny that the cult discourages breastfeeding.
We really wish Katie the best and think it's terrible how much pressure is being put on her to conform to the ridiculous and misguided rules of Scientology. Childbirth is hard enough without having to be quiet and hand your baby over to strangers after it's born.
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Tom Cruise opens up about his painful childhood in an upcoming interview with Parade magazine. He could not rely on his father, who was unpredictable and abusive:
The headline-making celebrity says the poor treatment actually taught him a lot. "It was a great lesson in my life -- how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang!" he says. "For me it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.' There's that anxiety."
Tom said that he felt like an outcast as a child and had "no really close friend." His battle with dyslexia served to further isolate him and was "an absolute affront to my dignity."
We feel sorry for Tom, and have some insight into his character. It's still not a good enough excuse for him to serve as a spokesperson for the cult of Scientology.
Liz Smith points out that it doesn't matter if Tom gets bad press - as long as he continues to get press. Tom made a fool of himself while promoting War of the Worlds on Oprah and The Today Show. War of the Worlds was a big hit though, and Smith predicts MI3 will be, too.
Tom seems to realize this, and has even pledged to go back on the Today Show with Matt Lauer!
Smith also provides insight as to why Cruise would be sharing stories of his dysfunctional childhood at this point in his career:
Meanwhile press-hungry Tom has confirmed that he plans to marry his pregnant fiance Katie this summer. He may not have have much time to spend with his new bride while he's promoting Mission Impossible 3.
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Each group’s top recruiter has come knocking on the door, Tom Cruise from Scientology and Madonna for her beloved Kabbalah Centre.
Certainly, whoever gets “Beck” and his wife Victoria will draw the attention of soccer fans worldwide, not to mention celebrity watchers, waiting for the next trend.
Cindy Adams reports in The NY Post that Lindsay Lohan is also wearing a red string. We pointed out that she had a Kaballah string on at the GM fashion show at the beginning of March. It is indeed not a one-time thing and she mentions to Adams that's she's clinging to anything in order to get some sanity:
There are much healthier, safer things to get you through the day Lindsay. Exercise, music, even an occasional drink for one. You're better off with a hangover and some embarassing pictures than getting involved with the Kabbalah cult.
In terms of Posh's choice, she may have picked the lesser of two very real evils.
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Katie Holmes was photographed going for a walk in Beverly Hills last night after her baby shower at the Scientology Center earlier that day. She was walking with her mother and Tom's mother and told a photographer that her baby shower was "Lovely."
An unsubstantiated report that Katie gave birth in Toledo, OH on Friday shows the press' obsession with the pregnant star. The media is now said to be on "baby alert" and is anxiously awaiting the newborn that the cult of Scientology likens to the second coming.
You know the Scientologists did some freaky initiation rite for Tom's spawn at her "baby shower." We just hope that the poor thing isn't traumatized for life after it's left alone for a day then cared for by the brainwashed automatons for the first three days of its life. It's probably a lot easier to stay silent during childbirth than it is to hand over your newborn.
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No matter what happened, Hayes is never going to talk. Scientologists gather personal secrets about converts in the early stages of indoctrination in a process called "auditing." Eliciting confessions is a common practice of cults and gives them leverage if a member criticizes their practices or tries to leave the fold.
John Travolta and Tom Cruise are said to have gay experiences in their past that would be released by the Scientologists if they ever attempted to leave. Indeed, Scientology is known for releasing personal information and often hires private detectives to dig up information on critics.
Hayes did not admit to seeing the popular South Park episode that depicts the death of his character, Chef. He is said to have "left it behind him" and is now looking forward to the upcoming birth of a baby with his fourth wife.
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We have no clue if Independence Day has some significance to the cult of Scientology, although the movie of the same name certainly has some parallels with their belief system. Rumor has it that Tom and Katie plan to get married on the Fourth of July according to the magazines Celebrity Living and Star:
[The Post Chronicle] reported earlier in the month that Tom and Katie are set to tie the knot on July 4 at the Scientology center in Los Angeles, according to Celebrity Living. The latest issue of Star magazine confirms this report.
An insider tells the magazine: "The dynamic duo will tie the knot at the Scientology centeR in Los Angeles in a four-day celebration. This is going to be a four-day bash; the biggest Tom has ever given."
This isn't the first time we've heard about upcoming wedding plans for the two, so take this for the rumor that is is. We are still waiting for news of Tom's ex, Nicole Kidman's supposed upcoming wedding to Keith Urban. It is a smidgen more substantial now that two gossip rags have jumped on the news.
Here are pictures of Katie and Tom out last night.
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I wanted to write another story about how disgusted I am at the way the Scientologists treat little babies, but there's a lot more going on, so here's a recap of all the crazy shit that's been happening with Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and their cult religion.
yesterday for no clear reason except publicity. Gambling site 911daily, which is taking bets on the fetus' name, has an insider's view of the proceedings. Tom actually did jump on a couch, arm wrestled Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, and said that Katie was having his "third child" in a "few weeks." Tom flew himself to the event, and was 45 minutes late due to the weather. He jumped in a Ducati off the tarmac and ran through the Yahoo! campus to get to the event. Katie came in separately.
Meanwhile blogs are buzzing that Yahoo! staffers see Cruise's visit as a lame attempt by Yahoo! to go Hollywood.
Cruise is being lambasted for his role as the most visible spokesperson for the cult of Scientology. A new ad claims that a woman was stabbed to death by her schizophrenic son because he was treated with vitamins instead of psychiatric drugs in accordance with the church's belief system.
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So now Tom says via his publicist that he didn't threaten Viacom to not publicize MI3 if South Park's "Trapped in the Closet" aired again. This seems untrue in light of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's hilarious statement:
Yeah, I know you've already read it, but it's quite clever. Cult expert Rick Ross points out that the Latter Day Saints can take a joke much better than the Scientologists.
You've probably already seen these pictures too. Here are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at Conner's softball game on Saturday. I'm sure he's thrilled to have his dad and his dad's girlfriend there along with the team of photographers that follow them everywhere.
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Cults trap members into what cult expert Margaret Singer called a "closed system of logic" where only pro-cult rhetoric is permitted. Cults seek to impair and dismiss personal reasoning skills so that members can't think themselves out of the situation.
Case in point: Juliette Lewis, 32, and Kirstie Alley, 55, long term members of the cult of Scientology. Lewis, appearing with her band Juliette and the Licks at the SXSW music festival in Austin on 3/17, wore a skin tight lemon-yellow body suit with criss cross metal buttons. Alley fared slightly better while also wearing a skin tight outfit at Celebrity Fight Night 12. Alley donned a fitted lingerie slip with a lacey flared bolero jacket.
Whether these two could benefit from the psychiatric drugs forbidden by their cult is up to debate. We think they might dress better if they were simply able to think for themselves.
Tom Cruise stopped a re-airing of the infamous "Trapped in the Closet" episode of South Park on Comedy Central by telling parent company Viacom that he wouldn't promote Mission Impossible III if it was shown. The episode makes fun of Cruise's cult religion, Scientology, and suggests that the actor is gay. You can watch it here. Isaac Hayes, who plays chef, recently quit the show after the same episode offended his cult sensibility.
For their part, Comedy Central said that they pulled the episode because they wanted to pay tribute to Chef with different episodes that feature Hayes.
Meanwhile Cult News reports that Cruise may have his wide-eyed paramour, Katie Holmes, give birth on a boat or in a Scientology compound so he has maximum control over the event. Scientology edicts require the mother to stay silent during the birth and stipulate that the baby should be left alone for a day and removed from the mother for three days after birth. Katie is said to be resisting the separation from her newborn. She is due in a month or two.
Here are pictures of the two at the World Baseball Classic in Angel Stadium last night.
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No wonder they're fighing so much. The Enquirer is set to report that Tom and Katie got married in a tripped-out Scientology ceremony at sea eight months ago:
Cruise and Holmes, who met a few months earlier, are said to have exchanged rings emblazoned with triangular Scientology symbols during a Caribbean cruise aboard the sect's ship the Freewinds. (They supposedly wear their rings only at church functions.) Holmes, who once claimed she would remain virginal until her wedding day, wore white, says the tab.
After the ceremony, the couple walked across a tiny bridge — a Scientology symbol for the journey to "total freedom," sources claim. Scientologists John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are said to have been on the ship, where guests also celebrated Cruise's 43rd birthday.
Katie's family was not there, and of course Tom's rep is denying it.
They were married in some freaky ritual. Now when they break up all of Katie's thetans will come back to torment her with their memories of mass extinction and she'll never achieve a state of clarity like Tom Cruise.
Posted to Cults | Katie Holmes | Tom Cruise | TomKat | Weddings
Madonna is such a good mother. She's making sure her kids will be even more fucked up when they grow up by ensuring that they're indoctrinated into her sham religion, Kabbalah. Here she is leaving the Kabbalah center with her spawn on 3/3/06.
Meanwhile Lourdes, 9, has a stylist to help her turn into a little slut like her mom:
"I think her stylist was trying to go for 'The Littlest Pussycat Doll' look," says celeb stylist Shane Cisneros. "Lourdes has the ability to wear anything just like her mother - here, she's channeling mom's Danceteria days."
And yes, you read that right - the 9-year-old has a stylist.
Whatever the look, it's clear from this picture that Lourdes is precocious, says behavioral analyst and body language expert Maxine Lucille Fiel.
"The way she's standing shows that she may be coming into early womanhood," Fiel says. "I think she's now entering a very interesting phase of adolescence and I wish Madonna luck.
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Cult expert Rick Ross reports that Katie Holmes' friendship with Victoria Beckham is not all that it seems, and that Tom and Katie have been working together to recruit the Beckhams into Scientology:
“Victoria has become a mother hen to Katie and was thrilled when she asked her to be her birthing partner. Victoria remembers how scary it was when she had her first child. She can’t imagine how difficult it will be for Katie to give birth [Scientology style] quietly and without any pain killers” a source told the press.
Well, maybe all that pain will be worth it if Scientology’s top star can recruit the most popular British celebs outside the royal family.
The Beckhams certainly are dumb enough to get recruited into Scientology, and it would not be surprising if they converted.
It's amazing how many celebrities get recruited into dangerous and expensive cults. Other celebrities involved in Scientology include Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis, Kirstie Alley, Jason Lee, and musician Beck.
Katie is due to give birth in a month or two depending on who you believe. Life and Style, not known for accuracy, reported twice in mid-February that the two had split. Cruise threatened to sue over the story, but did not follow through.
Posted to Beckham | Cults | Katie Holmes | SmartSmartSmart | Tom Cruise | TomKat | Victoria Beckham
Madonna is looking for holy real estate in Isreal to help spread the word of the Kaballah cult:
One woman who owns an old stone cottage in this designated space for future miracles says she will happily sell her home to Madonna for double the going price, a cool $1 million dollars.
The pop star supposedly wants to renovate whatever property she picks up into a reading room for her Kabbalah cronies.
Cult expert Rick Ross reported earlier that Madonna's relationship with Guy was in trouble due to his healthy suspicions of to her involvement with the harmful cult.
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In yet another disturbing chapter of the TomKat saga, Mike Wallace of the National Enquirer reports that Scientologists plan to commandeer Katie's baby for three days after its birth. What's more, the baby will be isolated for a day after it's born. Despite reports that she's spending 8 hours a day being indoctrinated into Scientology, Katie has come to her senses and is questioning this counter-intuitive practice:
Any human who's not brainwashed would agree that it's harmful and cruel to leave a newborn baby alone at any time, especially on its first day in the world. It's also quite difficult, if not impossible, to breastfeed if you don't start up within the first three days after birth. This is wrong for so many reasons.
Scientology is a cult that ruins lives, even the most vulnerable ones, to rake in big bucks.
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