Articles tagged with: Scientology
A doctor, Playboy and Nazis. With just three clues we want you, our intrepid readers, to guess what this story could possibly be about. Though that does mean ignoring the picture next to this text. And the headline. Hmm... That's right, it's Tom Cruise News! Was there ever any doubt? Yes, it would seem we live in a world where it makes more than enough sense for a comment in Playboy magazine by a TV doctor to result in said doctor being likened to a Nazi, on behalf of the Cruiser's legal representation. We at hecklerspray are confused and annoyed by this world, but we soldier on.
What a week; Iron Man, GTA IV and an anti-climactic interview between Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey- we're being spoiled here. Did you know that Tom Cruise was set to appear on Oprah? Did we mention that to you at all? Well, it's happened - Tom Cruise's long-anticipated rematch interview with Oprah Winfrey happened today and, boy oh boy, was it ever spectacular! And if you're one of those disgusting cynics who thought that this was just a deliberate attempt by Tom Cruise to publicly soften his controversial stance on Scientology and the use of psychiatric drugs in the softball presence of an old friend eager for viewers? Turns out you might have had a bit of a point.
Tomorrow's the big day - the day when Oprah Winfrey goes toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise for a slightly creepy-looking interview. But tomorrow's too long to wait! We want to know the skinny about the Tom Cruise/ Oprah Winfrey interview now! So it's just as well that some poor Oprah-slave has leaked out details of the interview in a not-at-all cynically pre-planned effort to boost Oprah's ratings tomorrow. So what hardball questions can we expect Oprah to ask Tom Cruise tomorrow? Well, according to the source, Tom is grilled on his family. And his marriage. And his views on psychiatry. And Scientology. And blah. And snore.
An image of Tom Cruise laughing like a maniac is being used to sell a brand of hallucinogenic marijuana in Californian cannabis clubs. It has even been named in his honour.
Somewhat ironically though, the news hasn’t brought a smile to Tom Cruise’s face, and his lawyers are believed to be looking into the matter. Who would have thought Tom Cruise x Weed = anything other than the most self-obsessed giggle fit in history?
According to the NY Daily News’ Rush & Molly column, the product is being marketed as ‘Tom Cruise Purple’, and one 'weed devotee' told them:
"I heard it's the kind of pot that makes you hallucinate."
When we saw the words 'Pete Doherty obsessed, we were genuinely baffled in to wondering what new drug he was addicted to.
In his not-so long life, the wonky singer has famously dabbled with a few drugs. Well, we say a few. We actually mean shitloads. From cannabis to heroin, he is a shining example of how to fuck your life up. Or how to become the perfect teenage idiot idol. But it looks like we're incorrect about Pete Doherty being hooked on more drugs. That's because his new obsession is - wait for it - Scientology!
Hecklerspray was raised in a very stern Jewish home for three months as a child. But then our mother got dumped by her Hasidic rabbi boyfriend and we found ourself at our Uncle's house, where apparently the only thing even faintly religious was Sunday morning Baywatch re-runs.
That was fine until we'd seen them all. Twice.
Then our mother started dating a midget that swore up and down he was the lower half of L. Ron Hubbard, and that the Scientology founder had never been anything more than he and his twin brother strolling around stacked under a trench coat twice their size. He radiated alien germs off us at a thirty percent discount, which we thought was really pretty good of him. Thanks for that, Almonzo.
That experience really helps us relate to Will Smith's current dilemma. He's not a Scientologist, but he loves them dearly, the way we love L Ron Hubbard's bottom half dearly.
Hang on while we find a way to reword that last bit
Not everyone, it seems, shared hecklerspray's reaction to the recent Tom Cruise Scientology video (which happened to be a mixture of hilarity and genuine fear, particularly when he burst into the sort of laughter you'd expect from a Lord Of The Rings baddie. Or maybe Xenu himself).
A lot of Hollywood-types are getting mightily annoyed that the media has been poking fun at a pompous, overpaid millionaire with Christ-like delusions of grandeur and eyes so scary they should have their own Japanese horror franchise.
Major US magazine People has rounded up a bunch of celebrities who want to let the whole world - or just soccer moms thumbing through a copy at the checkout - just how goshdarn annoyed they are.
Whether it's Will Smith's freaky near-conversion or Tom Cruise's weird garbled video, it's not a great time to be a Scientologist.
Especially if you happen to be John Travolta. As a minor Scientologist, John Travolta has escaped a lot of the recent backlash against the church, but now his luck appears to have run out. Michael Pattinson, an ex-Scientologist who signed up at the same time as John Travolta, has claimed on video that Travolta joined the church to be 'cured of homosexuality' while adding that he knows one of John's ex-boyfriends.
The video of the interview is after the jump.
