anyone see Cruise's meltdown on "Today?" — Page 5

http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/scientology.html

UGH!!

The Church of Scientology has officially determined that gays are "perverts" who are both "quite physically ill," and "extremely dangerous to society." The Church of Scientology teaches that such "aberration is contagious," and that toleration of such "perversion" is "extremely bad for society." The Church has an answer. Gays can either be "quarantine[d] . . . to avoid the contagion" and "uniformly institutionalized," or they can be forced to undergo Church "processing." If all else fails, the Church of Scientology offers a final solution -- gays can be "dispose[d] of . . .quietly and without sorrow."

Okay, full disclosure: He used to clean my building. Honestly.

I lived on the upper west side in the late 70s, and he the trash boy (!). At the same time, he was posing for AFTER DARK. Funny, there was an 8 year difference in our ages then, and a twelve year diff now. (But to be fair, it looks more like 12, so call me bitter.) All I remember of Young Tom: He was monosyllabic, the way you want your AFTER DARK models to be.

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Well worth reading:

LINK

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Namos pics kinda suggest to me that Scientologists are taking over the earth..just like in the soon to be released movie. Want proof..just look at all of the red states..pretty soon everyone in them will be sprouting tentacles and then devouring the rest of us. I knew there had to be a valid reason for Bush winning the last election! He's their leader...

oh...and what has me seething is the publicity machine at work placing articles in the NYTimes (Saturday) saying that Matt Lauer looked like an idiot and that Cruise showed him up.

*SEETHING*

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Updated On: 6/26/05 at 06:04 PM

Just give me 5 minutes in a room with Tom Cruise. He'll be screaming for medication!

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I honestly can't remember the last time I was so ANGRY about something!

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It sounds from a teaser that there will be a follow-up Monday (6/27) morning on the Today Show. Additional footage perhaps?

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Robbiej and I took full advantage of the transcripts of the TODAY show meltdown, we performed it LIVE on stage at Sondheim Fridays the Duplex Friday night..with a bit of "Losing MY Mind" thrown in...take that Mr. Cruise!

Addy,

Thank you so much for the wonderful visual imagery you give me of Audrey Hepburn beating the tar out of Tom Cruise. LOL!

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I am SO GLAD someone pointed out the misguided focus of that article in the NYTimes: (from the link)

In the meantime, Cruise will be dealing with the fallout from his Friday interview on the "Today" show. It was such a train wreck that no less than The New York Times reviewed it on Saturday.

I do think Alessandra Stanley, one of my favorite writers, did it get it a little bit wrong, however. Stanley found Cruise's ferocious meltdown refreshing because it showed him unfettered by a controlling publicist. She dismissed host Matt Lauer for not being tougher.

That's where we differ. First of all, Lauer had to deal with the fact that, in the creepiest of ways, Holmes was sitting near Cruise on the set. The director cut to her often; she looked mesmerized, with a never-ending frozen grin.

What the heck was she doing there? She looked more like a disciple than a fiancée. It was almost as if Cruise had brought her for insurance, thinking Lauer wouldn't ask him anything tough if he basked in the light of his insta-romance.

Then, Lauer — ever the gentleman — was perhaps more personally invested in this interview than I've ever seen him. As Cruise's guard dropped and he became more unwound, Lauer did not lose his cool.

To hear a major movie star, with no degree beyond high school, rant these words: "There's no such thing as a chemical imbalance," and then proceed to denounce all of psychiatry, must have been delicious for Lauer.

Yet he rightly kept his cool, even after Cruise denounced the attention-deficit-disorder treatment drugs Ritalin and Adderall as part of a dangerous conspiracy to control children's minds.

...and it goes on to provide the script of the interview...

Thank you!

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Millie42, thanks for the link.

Did the pretty much acknowledge that Cruise is a nutjob?

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