1997: John Travolta could occasionally be found at the Scientology Celebrity Centre offering free “personality tests” to potential members. He credited his success to his involvement with the organization and urges others follow his example and sign on the dotted line.
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Nobody can accuse Tom Cruise of being an environmental fanatic. Not only does he not drive a hybrid car, but he and Katie arrived at the Mentor LA awards chauffeured in a huge black Suburban. The unique part was the fact that it was curtained in the middle so the driver couldn’t see the passengers.
In 2005 Paramount has an elaborate cappucino cart providing free beverages for the cast and crew of Mission Impossible III every day. – it’ was topped off with a sign on top that says “Courtesy of Tom Cruise.” But there was a teensy catch. The cart is right next to a tent with tables and chairs where people are welcome to lounge around and sip their lattes. It happens to be a Scientology tent fortified with numerous pamphlets, books, and L Ron Hubbard literature maintained by a member of the church who is only too happy to educate the caffeinated.
While Victoria Beckham is househunting in LA, she’s temporarily living in a house on Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. She expects to move into her own new home by next summer. The place she’s living in is rumored to be a Scientology owned house so we’re not sure if she is paying rent or not. But, in spite of the fact that the home is not HERS, Victoria insists on remodeling the place! She spent a hundred thousand dollars to recarpet the master bedroom and the rest of the upstairs rooms. She had the entire interior repainted in brighter colors and replaced all the showerheads, PLUS she replaced the toilet in the master bath with a fancier one. That’s the kind of tenant every landlord DREAMS about!
Just last year, girls who had a crush on Jason Dohring, who plays bad boy Logan on Veronica Mars, might be interested to learn that he’s VERY accessible and can frequently be found on Hollywood Boulevard chatting up strangers and handing out pamphlets in front of the Scientology Center. Jason stops people, asking “Would you like to take a personality test?” and invites them into the center. People are starting to recognize him more often, but it doesn’t bother the 23 year old acter. He told Inside TV “I’m here almost every day that I’m not filming!”
Is Nicole Kidman losing her children? Except at her wedding, we haven’t seen photos of Hollywood’s highest paid actress, Nicole, with her kids, Connor and Isabella, for a very long time. Supposedly she had custody for six months of the year but we wonder if Tom has convinced her not to interrupt their home schooling by taking them away to Australia or wherever. There’s always the chance that the Scientology based home schooling (brainwashing?) the kids are getting could – in a subtle way – be turning them against their mother. We ‘wonder how Nicole feels about this education her kids are getting – Scientologists teach what they like and don’t believe in going to college. After a number of years of Scientology studies, the kids will have more in common with Tom and have a hard time relating to their mother. Judging from the photo above, Connor is already in deep.
THIS is how Victoria Beckham dressed for Tom and Katie’s wedding festivities. Is Victoria sending out a message that she’s down with outer space aliens? We LOVE the way she looks, (and Italian fans gave her the biggest ovation we hear) but judging by this outfit, she’ll be the first wedding celebrity to sign up for Scientology courses.
Scientology LOVES Hollywood POWER COUPLES. These four couples may not realize it, but Scientologists are working overtime to lure them into the fold. Each of these famous and successful pairs would be a huge trophy for the organization and they’ve been under scrutiny for awhile. Slowly but surely Scientologists have been forming friendships with the twosomes. Leah Remini is pulling Jennifer and Marc toward Scientology. Tom Cruise has been working on his Collateral costar Jada Pinkett Smith while his bride Katie Holmes is expected to sign up the Beckhams. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy are a wild card- but his temperament could make him vulnerable. High ranking Scientologists will be attending Tom Cruise’s over-the-top wedding in Italy and personally making sure these special people are very impressed with what Scientology does for Tom, and could do for THEM as well. There will be MAJOR recruiting going on. It’ll be interesting to see who, if anyone, fall for it.
They don’t want you to know it, but it looks like Beck and his wife of two years Marissa Ribisi are expecting again. Devout Scientologists, the pair were highly secretive about their marriage and the birth of their first child. (Marissa is Giovanni Ribisi‘s twin sister.) They never disclosed the due date of their first baby, Cosimo Henri, and the actual birth date is unknown. Like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the exact LOCATION of the first birth is also unknown – possibly it happened at home. Marissa has been seen around town wearing loose maternity tops with a distinct tummy so we can only predict the baby will come early next year.
We love this picture of Katie Holmes shopping in Paris. It’s almost TOO perfect – you can see the quaint street behind her and she looks to be on a euphoric shopping high. And she’s SO stylish compared to those soccer mom outfits we usually see her in. Since she hooked up with Tom, Katie has developed a major yen for designer clothes. We think she’s amassing a spectacular wardrobe – or trousseau- suitable for the first lady of Scientology.