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Tom Cruise’s Moving Image Salute
Tom Cruise attends the Museum of The Moving Image Salute Ceremony to honor himself at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on Tuesday night.
“Salutes are traditionally actors or directors,” said museum director Rochelle Slovin. “Some of these actors and directors are also multitasking, and Tom Cruise is one of them. His position with United Artists puts him into a whole new phase of his career, and that makes it a perfect time to honor him.”
Of course, proud wife Katie Holmes (in Hermes) came out to show support for her hubby. She toted around a clutch by Roger Vivier.
35+ pictures inside of Tom & Katie at the Museum of The Moving Image…
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THUD from all the hotness
Katie look sweet as usuall, tom is short
My heartfelt congrats. You deserve it Tom……
Can I borrow Katie Tom? Man she is fiiiiine and sexy as hell.
I could drown in those eyes.
Katie look hot
Now this is what beautiful is reall about. Im sorry Tom you are hot but Im busy staring at Katie.
They look good, and i love her dress.
katie looks good, although wats with the velour?!
I want her earrings.
Tom is handsome and Katie is so elegant and stunning.
WOW WOW WOW….
is her dress blue?
She’s beautiful .
Yes, it’s blue.
Katie actually looks good…. but when I clicked to comment… … I was thinking “please don’t ‘present’ her, please don’t do it!” Then sure enough… the crazy nut has to go and ‘present’ her.
Lordy… if those pictures of Cruisazy alone aren’t frightening …… Yikes!
Tom look so much like his mom.
Wow, Katie’s been looking good lately (can’t say the same for Tom). I love the color of her eyes.
katie looks gorgeous.
biggest movie star in hollywood.
why does she keep wearing matronly shoes that are unflattering to the digits of her feet???
I don’t find Katie beautiful. She looks like her dad, who looks like a hound dog.
Nice dress though.
Can he get any fug? I think Katie’s had more surgery done.
She’s beautiful, but she looks so DIFFERENT from the way she used to look. She must have had some sort of plastic surgery, right? Nose-job or something? She had to have something done for sure. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something about her face just ain’t the same.
Katie… I mean KATE barely wears color anymore. Poor bb. Tom is draining the life and joy out of her.
I remember the Dawson’s Creek days and how she used to ~sparkle~
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She looks really nice and congrats to Tom.
http://www.makemeheal.com/news/?p=50
love her smirk.
http://www.lusthunt.com/celebrities/big-nose-job-for-katie-holmes.html
She looks very lovely, kinda reminds me of refined european beauties like Audrey Hepburn, even though she has an almost ‘Posh’ bob, who btw is pure Euro trash personified. Katie, once again, looks very pretty.
Takes my breath away
She had her nose done, but she does look very pretty. She is going to be HUGE (career wise) when they divorce.
Proof why Suri Cruise is the most beautiful baby in Hollywood.
They look like father and daughter in some photos
yummy Cruise. Katie is a knockout.
congrats tom.
first black is safe, cause everyone knows black looks good no matter what. and I don´t him hot.
Tom and Katie are gorgeous together, the love they have for each other is so clear. I really like Katie’s dress.
is a safe color*
Im not a fan of black but I may be in the minority. This couple oooozes with such happiness & class.
#25 that’s where suri gets her wide flat nose,ok., i get it now.
tom is rough looking,that hair..bawahhhhhhhh
She looks FANTASTIC!
Who cares if he’s short?
He’s short
Wow…..Katie looks totally hot
Im clapping for Tom and true Colleen Tom may be short but he is larger than life. Katie is simple as always but oh my doll what a beauty she’s becoming nowadays.
18 [~Famous~] : 11/06/2007 at 10:43 pm
biggest movie star in hollywood.
KATIE IS REALLY HAAAWWTTTT. I think Im over Monica Belluci for Katie Holmes.
Thanks a lot Jared. Katie and Tom can pull off any look. Im so happy that they
look so happy.
lmao they look ridiculous
Can’t hate. Katie is stunning. Tom? Not so much but I’ve seen him look worse so…..
Katie looks so stunning and really intriguing. [sorry Nicole Kidman]. My salute to Cruise as well.
Katie has always been so lovely but thanks to Tom for bringing out sexy hot Katie Holmes!!
Che Carino ^^^^ I love Katie,Tom and Suri.
Really praying they visit Italy soon.
Glad to stop by in this site.
I like her old nose,will she get it back ?
Serial posters on here repeating theirselves make me LMAO..LOL HAHA
Congrats to Tom on this honor and Katie for her finish in the NYC Marathon just a couple of day’s ago! I would be in bed for a week after running that.
Katie is looking very much the wife of a media mogul. I hope she gets to do some small indy type quality films. She’s a a good actress.
Absolutely Gorgeous
# 51 what do you mean by theirselves? rotflol
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Tom looks hot and Katie is fab even when Im not so goo goo gaa gaa with them and other celebrities.
# 51 what do you mean by theirselves????? rotflol
She definitely looks like she has had some plastic surgery. He has her morphing into a Nicole Kidman!
other paps sites shows the back of Katie’s dress and its super sexy.
Yeah Baby.
Other than Tom its JJ who deserves a salute too for entertaining everyone here with their favorite actors and actresses.
Is Katie wearing Armani?
I’m sorry but there is nothing remotely sexy about these two. They try way too hard .
Amazing video on Entertainment tonight site and love what Julianne Moore said her favorite Tom Cruise movie is Risky Business. Mine is Top Gun. Such fun memories of that film and trying to collect the posters during my high school years.
Tom and Katie are looking hot as ever.
Wow, I never really thought Katie was pretty before but she looks beautiful here.
classy couple in Hollywood!
she looks beautiful, but he is wearing his hair like her, and it doesn’t suit him.
What’s with Tom’s bangs??? Is his hairline receding and he’s having plugs and/or is he trying to look like Suri?
She looks great (kind of like a Stepford wife and he looks short.
Katie looks great.
But is Tom going to have an “event” everyday until the movie opens.
Watch we will see the baby soon
57 mama : 11/06/2007 at 11:56 pm
I agree JJ goes all out for his posters. Salute to him.
I think Tom and Katie look lovely here.
In a couple of the closeups of Tom, he looks like a sociopath.
Psycho, man. Katie’s average, not hot in my book.
is it just me or is tom trying to be the adult version of zac efron? first the hair, then the TRL appearance. Wanna do a musical too? stick to being tom cruise. thank you.
the management.
No offense, but why did Katie have a nose job, but Tom didn’t, when clearly he is and always has been in desperate need of one?
However, Katie has always looked pig nosed, IMHO so I think they did a great job, kinda like Ashly Simpson, who looks 1000 times better now. A little work, goes along way. At least it isn’t a drastic change.
She looks pretty. I love the dress on her.
Although, is she sporting a Posh hairstyle?
She has a practiced half-smile thing going on. Like she’s trying to appear regal-appear is the operative word here.
As for Tom, well…
I love this woman.
cant hate them because there’s something special
and lovable about this two.
He is looking more like his mom when he ages.
Katie is pretty. Her feet are kind of funky shaped.
She should wear closed toe shoes.
Lucky for tom he won’t have to divorce Katie. Since they are NOT legally married, in the eyes of the law.
I have faith in TomKat.
God bless them always.
Isn’t Rochelle Slovin the same person that helps with that great foundation called the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project ?
KATIE IS HOT.
MOVE OVER ANGELINA JOLIE.
Katie is hottt!!
I want katie!! Damn, she’s fine! STUNNING!!
Congrats to Tom and Katie.
I could be wrong
but that looks like
her wedding earrings.
Look what lots of money, botox and plastic surgery can do for you. You’ll look like that when you’re 40…………..oooops, she’s already 40,isn’t she?
Beautiful
Get in line Chris.
84 HAHA She will be 40 in about 2 years. She has already aged 4 years in the last 1 year.
When she registered for the NYC Marathon she put down that she was 30 years old. One year ago she was 26, now she is 30. NExt year she will be 34 and then the next year, AGE 40!
Katie is morphing into toms mother right before our eyes.
No wonder Tom was nervous letting his totally young and hot wife work for 9 months with another hottie that is Christian Bale in the Batman sequel.
I heart them!
they have a winning gene pool making Suri a heaven sent and next time they have a baby Im rooting for a handsome boy. Tom and Katie look so good.
I love them together and Katie looks amazing by the way.
tom looks almost stupid at that height haha…anyways, katie looks good
Katie is my favorite fashion icon
in this generation.
To insult a man because of his height is so petty and immature.
Come back here when you’re all grown up. What counts most is his person and it kills some to see this man in his 40’s looks so young and dashing.Top of that in his arms is the ever lovely classy Katie Holmes. They say greed is the root of all evil well for the haters its envy.
i love them and i love you too JJ.
this is emotional blackmail so you bring us more Tom and Katie.Suri would be awesome too.
I can see Bruce Wayne fall in love with Katie not Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Ohmigod! How cute, Tom looks like Kenneth from 30 Rock in a couple of pictures. How cool if he did a cameo and played Kenneth’s doppelganger! Hee-hee.
Congratulations to Tom Cruise. He deserves every award he gets.
Love the hair of Katie especially her smile.
Fun-Tas-tic Jared.
Tom and Katie reminds me of the show Friends soulmates Ross and Rachel that they are each other’s lobsters. That is how I see Tom and Katie. I truly love them and pray for them.
fake . . . comes to mind.
they look ridiculous.
What’s wrong with Kathie Holmes — she looks ridiculous,unnatural all of a sudden.
Tom always looks hot. Damn,life must be this good for Katie because she is looking beautiful than ever.
I find Katie Holmes really beautiful!
I love this couple. they’re always beautiful together
Tom deserves it and I agree Katie does look more beautiful each day.
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(MIND CONTROL)
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In other words — What he says, goes.
gawd..the $ULTOLOGISTS are out…I think they were taken off gfuard by the NYC marathon post…Jared , I gues sthey diudnt tell you to put that up did they..ahhahahha
Those where people expressing thier thoughts baout this fake ridiculous couple…of the couples in Hollywierd even hiedi and spencer look real compared to these two mofo
MURDERERS
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/
katie is really really pretty
Endorphins from running seem to have calmed her down.
i think britney spears better more beautiful than katie
check the new video of “vanessa candid” on you tube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7CxRwo8U00
Heartfelt congratulations ,Tom…you definitely deserve the honors.I hope you make a lot more movies for us, fans to enjoy!!!
She’s being molded…..a willing partner in this……it is a relationship of protege and mentor. They do not share intimate secrets.
okay…a few comments and words of advice…
1)She should NEVER wear open toed shoes. Her toes are a disgrace. It isn’t anything that can be fixed with a good pedicure either. There is some serious structural damage in those puppies.
2)She has a very ODDLY shaped body. She should cover up as much of it as possible, at all times….including those ham hock arms of hers.
3)She needs to work on her posture. She’s gonna have to be fit for a back brace soon if she keeps it up.
4)Picture #27-Her profile looks like Nicole Kidman’s….I would have never even imagined that could be true but it is and it’s SUPER FREAKY.
5)Oh yeah, last but not least…..Run, B*tch, Run! He may take Suri and all the money away but at least you can salvage what’s left of that rotten tomato you call a brain.
I LIKE KATIE’S DRESS…AND SHE LOOKS HAPPY…
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2298228
#94 Irene–He has short man syndrome, i.e. always trying to prove he is better than anyone else to compensate for not being taller. Most actors are in the 5′7″ to 5′10″ range–you don’t see people making hateful comments about height towards Stallone, Prince, and others. Tom wears lifts, he combs his hair in a style best on a teenager, he tends to date very tall, beautiful women (look at me, I may be short, but I’m sexy as all hell), and constantly seems to be proving his masculinity by engaging in sports and other macho things.
I can’t stand him and never have. It is not envy either. When I watch his movies I see Tom Cruise and not the character he is playing. While watching A Few Good Men I thought how truly great that movie would have been with a competent actor in his role same with Born on the 4th of July. He was good in Risky Biz, Top Gun etc., because he was playing himself–a short, brash, arrogant pipsqueak. When he is in movies that call for depth and maturity in the roles, he doesn’t make it! I don’t find him very admirable either. The way he dumped both of his ex-wives was cruel. Although he made up with Brook Shields, he was cruel then as he was to Matt Lauer. Basically if you don’t agree with Tom you are wrong, wrong, wrong. And I’m not being glib!
So what if Tom’s short? Did you all just find this out? You guys never saw a short man before? does Sonny Bono ring a bell? How about Nathan Lane, Danny DeVito, Drew Lachey? Probably not since some of you just woke up yesterday from a 20 year sleep
SHE LOOKS SO ******* I N G HOT.
THE THINGS I COULD DO TO HER.
hey, Tom is about an inch taller than my Husband but there is one BIG difference. my husband is not a soul sucking ego-maniac. when he kisses my hand, it’s because he loves me and isn’t trying to create a photo op. plus…he’s smarter then Tom in that he married me (who is even shorter then him) so no one looks at us like “huh?”. no shoe lifts or bouffant hair necessary!
116 Dancer
Bravo..
Workin’ It
Damn. Look at KatE Cruise workin’ that carpet. She is spectacular! Clearly lessons with Posh have paid off, only Katie, like all clever pupils, has managed to inject her own warmth and sass into Posh’s plastic pose. Even the Posh Bob looks better on the understudy. Bet your concrete tits Mrs Beckham is not happy about that.
But Katie Holmes cannot be denied. And she owned it last night at Cipriani at the gala to honour Tom Cruise by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Love the midnight blue dress, and the belt, and the makeup, and her flat chest, and her toned (but not too toned) arms, and check out that nose. That’s an incredible nose!
It’s just too bad about the shoes… and that troll standing next to her.
Perhaps it’s the height thing – limits her options? Because those uninspired open toes do absolutely nothing. I would have gone with a sky high closed toe option myself. Then again, my husband doesn’t wear lifts.
Nor does has he mastered the art of the Presentation. Here we go! Tom Cruise presenting Katie Holmes!
My wife is young and hot…therefore I am virile and not gay! Praise Thetan, ah-Xenu!
laineygossip
Katie is definitely sad deep down inside her. That smile of hers is so unnatural. Why is Tom always like dragging her..?? She’s becoming more & more robotic looking no doubt a very pretty one=(
Gorgeous couple! God bless them.
Beautiful inside and out. Love and joy is in their home.
Tom has good taste.
Gret post Dancer!
One thing to add, Yes he did make up with Brooke Shields. But ONLY because he needs her on his side now. You see, when he announced Suri’s birth date and place he was not aware that karma was about to bite him in the rear.
Little did tommygirl know that Brooke was in that same hospital and would know the truth. Suri was born in Febuary at home. NOT in the hospital in April.
How come Katie was never photograghed wearing her marathon finishers medal?
i really want someone to get the solid proof that katie faked being in the marathon. i personally think it was a big hoax and i would like the proof to be put out there for the whole world to see.
Classy Katie I thank you JJ. I congratulate Mr.Cruise too.
Not a big fan of TomKat but I cant help but fall for them and think they look really great. You have to give praise when its really due. Happy for Tom on his night and Katie’s NY race.
Katie never looked better!
best post #119!!! yeah wishing a long lasting HAPPY union
hm I NEVER LOOK AT THESE PICTURES OF THE FREAKS…now I guess some comments make me want to…
she wears the heeels to reach Nicoles exact height when she was in flats ….I guess he likes Nicole well enough but she was way too stubborn and smart….Just watch teh stepford wives and you might think Nicole is enacting her marriage to tom midget here…
She is no refine beauty and no audrey hepburn……these are all studio machiniations to get someone to look a certain way because of media appeal so folks will go to the cinema…But if you go to a scientology movie or watch thier tv show you help them commit crimes against humanity
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/
oh myu awd, he really is SHORT…this is the first time I have seen a picture of him full frontol with his legs..the photography needs to get an award…usually is sideways , posing for maximum height and never head to toe…
Her toes need help..they seem to protest too much
Oh my my my..TOM cruise is more like midget, no wonder he nad miscaviage get along so well..wha tdid Nicole Kidman see in him..ahhahahhaha that man looks like 5′5, and he seems ot be standing too tall for his limbs..something in the shoes or where…??? .,..If you are short, you are short, the fac that he tries so hard NOT to be short and look perfect is why most people LAUGH about his height. and Folk swill LAUGH AT her BECAUSE SHE SPENDS TONS of money on her face ans legs etc and still comes out LOOKING less than teh ideal carwash victim..ahhahah..never ugly out, but never hollyood ideal either…
That dress finally giver sher better propotion from neck down..now ifonly she will take note ans flkatter her feet instead of putting those ghastly toes on display……she sure is confident or just following orders…ahhahah
I love them even more. Tom is so handsome and Im one happy fan for him. Katie is regal and sweet as ever. She is so stunning but what I love about her is this innocent vibe that she always has.
#90 “…next time they have a baby Im rooting for a handsome boy.”
They can get whatever they want the next time. Money is all it takes………..no sperm involved.
#128 It would be hard to prove only because people were paid off. But if you put the facts together it is real proof.
FACTS:
-Katie was registered under an assumed name that was then changed AFTER the race. Rules state NO name changes after registration.
-She is listed as age 30 yrs and hometown as NY.
Obviously some added the info so quick they did not know the truth.
-Katie was photograghed wearing head phones, A BIG NO-NO.
-Katies bib # F127, the F is for qualifying athletes ONLY. She would of had to run in a “qualifying” marathon to be have the “F” number.
-Katie was wearing pants SO long that they were dragging on the ground. two things about this: 1) after 26.2 miles they should be frayed and 2) they covered her shoe laces which is where the “champoinCHIP” was to be located and was to be VISABLE at all times.
-Katie was onlt photograghed at the end of the race but yet she was not wearing or even carrying her medal that racers rec’d as they crossed the finish line.
-Katies parents were supposedly at the finish line. How come NO pics of them but yet there are pics of HIS mom and sis?
-Tom was allowed to stand on the race route for pictures with Katie. But he was told to move once the runners started to arrive. OHWAIT, you mean that Katie was at the end of the rroute BEFORE the other runners arrived?
-In all of the after interviews why did tom do all of the talking? All katie was allowed to say was her programmed “amazing”.
TThe ONLY reason this was staged was to get toms mug out in the real world.
He is a fake and everything he does is fake.
Whatever happened to him going to all of Conner and Bellas soccer and football games?
It is only his cult robots that forget that one year ago he said he goes to ALL of their games and NEVER misses any of them.
Now those two sweet children are NO where in site. And there are NO EXCUSES as to why.
138 The DQ : 11/07/2007 at 3:50 pm
They can get whatever they want the next time. Money is all it takes………..no sperm involved.
**************
Just like with Suri. NO sperm and NO intercourse needed.!
hahahah..well I know few parents who go to footbal games in armani head to toe…Cruise has alwyas been an observer with ihs kids rather then getting down and dirty with them..I assume because he didnt have a father he doenst know how to go about playing with them..eg is when he was with nicole the picures of thier vcations where more active…nicole gets on a horse wiht the kids of th ekids are goign hors eback riding…tom cruise watches on the sidelines and gets a lot of pics taken.,..
I actually believe katie run the marathon, but again there is somethign fishy about her partiucipation as always with this couple….there is somehting OFF…pictures of ther hollywood couple look prtty normal and acceptable, with these two they try too hard to convince the public….I dont see whey they have to though .,..it really should be none of our business…but so far as they make it our business I WILL COMMENT….fun fun fun past time..back to reading…
She looks stunning!
Hatersm please send yourselves to the zenessa thread. Thank you.
Well mia, I enjoy your posts. They have educated me even more so on this evil cult. I really hope that others are able to see through the black cloud.
It is so interesting how obsessed tommy is with what others think. So much so that as soon as something negative is questioned on a blog, POOF! a picture to smash it appears.
And then all of the “Katie is HOT” and “Tom is so perfect” posts, SO SO SO obvious that the cult computers are set on “auto post”.
Something I forget to add…..Katie supposedly ran 26.2 miles with NO BRA and not ONE OUNCE of SWEAT!
no, I don’t think so
Really??? You think her nose is different?? I think it looks the same.
Anyway, they are a stunning couple. Wish them the best. You can definitely see how Suri is such a beauty.
Beautiful and happy couple.
Keep them coming Jared.
On my observation the same haters are really on the losing end because they sound so desperate and meaner than before. I wonna be on the winning team that is TomKat. Oh I envy the lives of haters so miserable and obsess……….NOT!!!!!
147 Being part of a cult like tommy has is NOT the winning team
Why does everyone always go off about Cruise’s height?
He never cares so why should you?
He wears lifts occassionally but taht doesn’t mean anything. So what if he dates tall and beautiful women. Is there something wrong with that? He’s always had the same hairstyle and has always been athletic.
I’m sorry but it is not the norm for a grown ass man to wear lifts in his shoes. That is the act of a ego maniac and a control freak.
the cruises are a group of freaks…..
tom is like norman bates (watch out mary lee! or is he IN FACT
mary lee?????)
katie is a stepford wife
suri looks like damien from the omen
they scare me.
Yorick,
If he doesn’t care about being short….why does he wear lifts in his shoes…all the time? Obviously he must care A WHOLE LOT.
They both look great. But Tom, change the hairstyle! Luv how it looks in Valkyre. A shorter do will look much better ;)
my name is suri….i am the daughter of satan. look in my eyes and i will show you wonderful things……like how to kill yourself after you hand me your wallet. scientology is so much fun.
Such wonderful pictures to come home to from work. Jared–bless your heart!
I usually go for blondes but I would make an exception for Katie Holmes. She is soooooo hot and so natural. Very extinct in Hollywood and she’s such a cool lady another rare quality these days.
GREAT COUPLE!!!
ahha..he doesnt care abou thi sheight, yet he wears lifts..ahahha
he goes to extremes not be photographed full lenghth and oh,,he stands on stools for his movies or thy only cast him with short ppl….
ahhaha poor tommy care WAY TOO MUCH…hahhaha
She is by far the total package……..
How do they manage to look great and hot even with a busy schedule? Both of them couldn’t get anymore hotter.
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A dangerous celebrity cult
Scientology
Subject: A dangerous celebrity cult
From http://entertainment.iafrica.com/features/458473.htm
A dangerous celebrity cult
Karen Whitty
Wed, 06 Jul 2005
It’s scary, isn’t it? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ picture perfect relationship. The public snogging, talk-show jigging and over-zealous declarations of adoration (particularly on the part of little Katie, who we all know lusted after Tom when she was a teeny-weeny teenage girl with a poster of the ‘Top Gun’ actor on her wall), have got the celebrity press drooling all over itself, and the entertainment-hungry public is swooning.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard would be pleased - or is pleased (if you’re a Scientologist and believe that Hubbard is busy sitting somewhere floaty on the outside of time).
The sci-fi author, philosopher and founder of the Church of Scientology (in 1950, his book “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” was published; it has since sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is regarded as the foundation for the religion) was always intent on recruiting celebs.
In 1955, he inaugurated Project Celebrity, run by a special branch of the church, to minister Scientology to top Hollywood players: to guide their careers, monitor and control all their relationships (Katie, are you listening?) pamper to their whims and generally ensure that this brilliant “communication line” to the masses was fully utilised as part of a loopy, but grand plan of world domination.
But wait a minute. How could our darling Maverick be a sucker for such a bizarre and - as is widely accepted - abusive philosophy?
David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center and the bona fide head of the movement today, has catapulted Scientology into the celebrity realm, recuiting an impressive star-studded cast of converts that include Tom (and now Katie Holmes), John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, Sonny Bono and others to promote the religion to the masses.
And right now Scientology is enjoying a lot of time in the limelight - thanks be to Tom and Katie.
Scientology is a mixture of science fiction, religion and philosophy that is deeply routed in Freudian thinking. According to Wikipedia.org, Scientology, originally established as a secular philosophy in 1952 by science-fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, was only characterised by him in 1953 as an “applied religious philosophy”.
The Church of Scientology’s Project Celebrity is executed in the form of Celebrity Centres, country-club like houses that offer expensive counselling and career guidance to the chosen stars - the headquarters, The Celebrity Centre International, has its conspicuous address in Franklin Avenue, overlooking the Hollywood Highway.
The actions of a convert are directed towards reaching various levels of spiritual enlightenment, or “clearing”. A convert can progress beyond “clear”, to becoming an OT, or Operating Thetan (”thetan” in Hubbard philosophy means “soul”). Scientologists believe that an OT is able to leave their body and mind. They can begin to stand outside of time.
According to author Peter Forde, who was once a member of the Church of Scientology’s elite Sea Organisation: “OT3 is a secret, senior level within Scientology that can only be done after many other courses, by which time the client is well prepared, well behaved and ready to, if not believe, at least work with anything Hubbard says as being truth, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.”
John Travolta is an OT3. So is Priscilla Presley.
You think this is bizarre? Wait for it: According to Scientology doctrine, “OT3 mainly concerns a supposed Incident II happening 75 Million years ago, when Xenu an officer in charge of the 76 local planets of the “Galactic Confederation”, solved overpopulation by mass exterminations, mostly by shootings.
“The souls of those killed were collected together, transported to volcanoes on earth, H-bombed at the volcanoes, collected up again using electronic ribbons and transported to Hawaii or Las Palmas. They were there subjected to 36 days of hypnotic “implants” using films and simple apparatus, which in their already shocked state was supposedly very effective and kept them clustered together and trapped on earth as demons.”
Films and giant movie screens feature prominently in Scientology legend, if you will, and the parallels with the movie industry are startling and can not be purely coincidental - particularly when you consider the impact Hollywood has over mainstream America, and (some argue) its Orwellian tendency to rewrite history (aka ‘Braveheart’ and other historically inaccurate biopics) for the digestion of the masses.
But… on with the theory. Scientologists say that each person has a number of these traumatised souls stuck on their bodies - Hubbard (the genius!) referred to them as “fleas”. OT3 processing involves hypnosis - the subject is supposed to communicate with these souls and, in line with Dianetics theory, relieve their trauma by recalling the said Incident II.
Religious figures like Christ and Buddha, according to Scientologists, existed well above the level of “clear”. So, according to Scientology, has John Travolta - there are pictures of him undergoing his routine OT3 processing on the internet, as are there of Priscilla Presley.
OT3s are, therefore, demi-gods.
This is where we need to take a reality check. Scientology mumbo-jumbo aside, if you look at the celebrity hungry world, Tom and John well, are they not actually demi-gods?
Here’s where the real mind-**** starts: thanks to the ongoing blurring of reality and fiction that goes on in Hollywood (holy ****, the entire American movie machine relies on smudging these boundaries), then OT3, clearing and programming crap aside, the religion is actually taking hold in reality.
Yikes! It’s no wonder that Scientology appeals to celebrities, many of whom have a penchant to view themselves as the said demi-gods. It is these celebrities, who have easily accessible “emotional buttons” (translate: big egos), and are vulnerable to “admiration bombing” (Scientology-speak for flooding them with attention and admiration) that are easy targets.
Take the jazz musician Chick Corea: a former head of the Celebrity Centre, the late Yvonne Jentzsch would say: “I can get him to do anything for me, just give me the phone”.
It’s all a little funny: celebrity megastars being controlled like puppets who jump and smile in reaction to every emotional trigger calculated by their ever-present, omnipresent “counsellors”.
But it’s no laughing matter when you consider that the cost of reaching OT3 levels is around $350,000. When Hubbard said he was going to invent a religion that would make him rich, he wasn’t joking.
It’s also not funny when you consider that Scientology has been linked to forced suicides, child abuse, homophobia, human rights abuses like torture and mind control, as well as racism.
L Ron Hubbard was a big fan of HF Verwoerd and even wrote to him to congratulate him on the forced removals in 1960: “Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.”
Professor Stephen A. Kent (Ph.D.) at the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta wrote in 1997 that Scientology operates “confinement programs and camps as supposedly rehabilitative facilities for “deviant” members of its “elite” Sea Organisation.
“These programs, known collectively as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), put coerced participants through regimes of harsh physical punishment, forced self-confessions, social isolation, hard labour, and intense doctrinal study, all as part of leadership-designed efforts to regain members’ ideological commitment… scientists to speak of the RPF as a “brainwashing” program.”
Though celebs have given Scientology (which is so vehemently opposed to modern psychiatry for the reason that it markets itself as an alternative) all the glory for curing addictions, relationship problems and bringing about personal and material success, most of these celebs have been vehemently shielded from the group’s darker sides - its widely reported links to abuse and even the occult.
Celebs are, after all, the ultimate PR weapon in today’s entertainment-obsessed world - the more pure their converts appear, the more genuine their appeal to the masses - and=, more importantly, the more truer to reality Scientology becomes.
And Scientology is more routed in reality than you think. Remember the film ‘Primary Colors’ - that pic about a womanising president (played by none other than John Travolta)? Well, the then US president Bill Clinton, hearing that a film was being made that would be loosely based on him and his - at that stage, rumoured - philanderings, called Travolta and organised a meeting.
To ensure that Travolta would play him in the movie in a sympathetic light, Clinton agreed to put pressure on the German government to recognise Scientology as a religion! And you always wondered about Hollywood’s dodgy links in the US administration…
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A dangerous celebrity cult
Karen Whitty
Wed, 06 Jul 2005
It’s scary, isn’t it? Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ picture perfect relationship. The public snogging, talk-show jigging and over-zealous declarations of adoration (particularly on the part of little Katie, who we all know lusted after Tom when she was a teeny-weeny teenage girl with a poster of the ‘Top Gun’ actor on her wall), have got the celebrity press drooling all over itself, and the entertainment-hungry public is swooning.
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard would be pleased - or is pleased (if you’re a Scientologist and believe that Hubbard is busy sitting somewhere floaty on the outside of time).
The sci-fi author, philosopher and founder of the Church of Scientology (in 1950, his book “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” was published; it has since sold over 20 million copies worldwide and is regarded as the foundation for the religion) was always intent on recruiting celebs.
In 1955, he inaugurated Project Celebrity, run by a special branch of the church, to minister Scientology to top Hollywood players: to guide their careers, monitor and control all their relationships (Katie, are you listening?) pamper to their whims and generally ensure that this brilliant “communication line” to the masses was fully utilised as part of a loopy, but grand plan of world domination.
But wait a minute. How could our darling Maverick be a sucker for such a bizarre and - as is widely accepted - abusive philosophy?
David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board of the Religious Technology Center and the bona fide head of the movement today, has catapulted Scientology into the celebrity realm, recuiting an impressive star-studded cast of converts that include Tom (and now Katie Holmes), John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Priscilla Presley, Sonny Bono and others to promote the religion to the masses.
And right now Scientology is enjoying a lot of time in the limelight - thanks be to Tom and Katie.
Scientology is a mixture of science fiction, religion and philosophy that is deeply routed in Freudian thinking. According to Wikipedia.org, Scientology, originally established as a secular philosophy in 1952 by science-fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, was only characterised by him in 1953 as an “applied religious philosophy”.
Click on link to keep reading below
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/the-dangerous-celebrity-cult.htm
about her nose and eyes… I think she had subtle work, it looks pretty, but it seems that she lost naturality, freshness, that she looks for a woman, everybody does it, yes… but that, well, I do not like something about them, I liked him as hollywood star, but now he looks so hungry about something…maybe he reminds me of my fanatical religious brother
Well, googled some pics of Katie, if you want, check for yourself the changes :)
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/01/24/did-katie-holmes-have-a-nose-job/
http://www.farandulas.com/archives/2005/05/katie_holmes_no.html
http://k-holmes.ifrance.com/joey2.jpg
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/10490590.html
http://loqueyotediga.net/files/KatieHolmespequena.jpg
http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/k/katie_holmes/thumbnails/tn2_katie_holmes_1.jpg
http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050617/050617_holmes_vmed_1p.widec.jpg
http://www.bowlofsalsa.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=736
ooops, hope the links work
I love her dress and earrings.
I want one.
Katie is so beautiful its unreal!!!
Kate reminds me of Sandra Bullock, with that make up on.
Beautiful though, but very different.
Dumb and Dumber!
Who attended the salute?
168 Yorick : 11/09/2007 at 11:03 pm
Who attended the salute?
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Tom katie and his cult friends
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