Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA) is an American actor and producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1983's Risky Business.

Church of Scientology

Cruise is arguably Hollywood's most outspoken member of the Church of Scientology. He joined in 1986 while married to Mimi Rogers. Cruise has publicly said that Scientology, specifically the L. Ron Hubbard Scientology Study Tech http://www.studytechnology.org, allowed him to overcome his dyslexia http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7968809/.

Related Topics:
Church of Scientology - Mimi Rogers - Dyslexia

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Since 2004, Cruise has talked more openly about Scientology and promoted its ideas, especially its rejection of psychiatric drugs, which was the subject of a heated argument with Matt Lauer on the Today Show on June 24, 2005. He openly criticized actress Brooke Shields for using the drug Paxil, an anti-depressant, which Shields claims helped her recover from post-partum depression after the birth of her daughter in 2003; Brooke Shields subsequently questioned Cruise's wisdom. Cruise also claimed in an Entertainment Weekly interview that psychiatry "is a Nazi science" and that methadone was actually originally called Adolophine after Adolf Hitlerhttp://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/cruise%20tripped%20up%20by%20magazine%20over%20scientology%20claims, a well-known urban legend. For a response to what Cruise said in this interview from the Journal of Clinical Investigation see Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible. In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, Cruise claimed that "In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon... It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period."http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,353577,00.html (While Narconon claims to have a success rate over 70%, no outside source has ever verified this claim, let alone declaring it the only successful program as a matter of statistical fact.)

Related Topics:
Matt Lauer - Today Show - June 24 - 2005 - Brooke Shields - Paxil - Post-partum depression - Entertainment Weekly - Psychiatry - Nazi - Methadone - Adolf Hitler - Urban legend - Der Spiegel - Drug rehabilitation - Narconon

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Cruise's more open attitude to Scientology has been attributed to the departure of his publicist of 14 years, Pat Kingsley in March 2004. He has since replaced her with his sister, Lee Anne DeVette, who is a Scientologist. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/173144p-150818c.html. Recently Cruise has also been reported to have risen to one of the highest echelons of the Church of Scientology, what is known as 'Operating Thetan Seven' or OT-VII. This rise in the ranks also has contributed to Cruise's more frequent comments on Scientology, since that level reportedly gives Cruise, among other things, more authoritative powers. Cruise's fiancée, Katie Holmes, recently has begun studying Scientology, which Cruise says does not conflict with her Roman Catholic upbringing.

Related Topics:
Pat Kingsley - Lee Anne DeVette - Operating Thetan - Katie Holmes - Roman Catholic

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Cruise may have successfully converted his bride to be Katie Holmes into Scientology but failed to convert Scarlett Johansson. After two hours of proselytizing, Cruise introduced her to a room full of upper level Scientologists waiting to dine with the pair at that point she excused herself politely. She had then pulled out of Cruise's upcoming movie Mission Impossible III.

Related Topics:
Katie Holmes - Scientology - Scarlett Johansson - Scientologists - Mission Impossible III

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As of 2005, Tom Cruise has begun advocating for the Church of Scientology before politicians and government officials around the world. As an example, he has lobbied French minister Nicolas Sarkozy in favor of Scientology. Such advocacy does not go well in several European countries where this organization is considered as a cult who swindles its members. As an example, on July 13th, 2005, the city council of Paris vowed "never to receive the actor Tom Cruise, spokesman for Scientology and self-declared militant for this organisation" http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=182470131&p=y8z47x994&n=182471074&x= after he was mentioned as lobbying Sarkozy and Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of Marseille.http://www.sorcellerie.net/snews.asp?act=see&id=558

Related Topics:
As of 2005 - Nicolas Sarkozy - July 13th - 2005 - Paris - Jean-Claude Gaudin - Marseille

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