Thinking Critically About Scientology, Psychiatry, and Their Feud
Scientology and establishment psychiatry have something else in common. They are both orthodoxies that deal harshly with their ex-insiders who have come to reject them.
Scientology and establishment psychiatry have something else in common. They are both orthodoxies that deal harshly with their ex-insiders who have come to reject them.
Valkyrie is every bit as good as you remember a Tom Cruise movie being, back when you still liked Tom Cruise.
A movie I've defended since its release, I'm pleased that within Kubrick's newest box set, the unrated version of Eyes is now easily available.
Being a secular progressive, I want everyone to be included in the forced holiday cheer. And I got to thinking, why aren't there holiday songs for Scientologists?
Tom Cruise is one of those rare people -- someone who consistently gives a good product to an extremely fickle audience. I'm not saying he's a poet, but I am saying that he's great at his job.
My Landmark experience begins the day a trusted friend recounts his weekend Landmark getaway. Quietly, I think to myself, "Poor kid. He has up and joined a cult."
Everything looks to be absolute gangbusters for the end of the year -- the top three movies that opened on Christmas day all broke the record for the biggest Christmas Day opening of all time.
Sean Penn nails it in Milk (even the Queens accent, which I can personally attest to as a Sunnyside resident). The movie is nearly flawless. It puts most biopics to shame.
My daughter is 22 months old, nearly two, and she still gets her milk bottle -- just like Suri Cruise, the oft-photographed daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Does that make me a bad mother? According to the celebrity weeklies, yes.
The Scientologists may have pulled the YouTube video, but our beloved Defamer has posted it here for our viewing terror. I used to think I was sick ...
I was recently asked to comment on Katie Holmes' new "ultra-thin" look and the regiment of Olympian exercise and micro-dieting she is using to achieve it.
Hollywood is a place so insular and self-centered that it's convinced that everyone else on the planet is as enraptured as they are about themselves and the going-ons behind the scenes.
Let me just get this out of the way: people poop when they run. So why the big fuss about some poor soul with splattered shorts? Must it be discussed on every fitness website?
It is with a heavy heart that I recommend a few movies for you to watch this weekend in honor of one of the most charitable actors the world has known.
A strange hacking incident earlier today tied up another loose end for Gov. Sarah Palin. Overnight, one of Palin's Yahoo e-mail accounts was compromi...
No, we need not fear Bob Avakian or L. Ron Hubbard. I find their followers entertaining, and occasionally insightful. It's groups like these that keep America interesting.
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I'm dyslexic, have attention span problems and trouble reading -- reading for long stretches is agonizing at times. Whatever worked for him, I can't criticize.
How many times is he gonna repeat this story ?
He's been saying this since at least the early 1990s ?
Tom Cruise should be the poster boy for the joke that is Scientology!
why is tommy looking so skinny these days. he looks like he has lost a lot of weight. hope it's due to exercise and healthy diet.
Do you suppose Scientology kicks back a percentage for all the unsuspecting people Tom converts?
Blecccchhh.