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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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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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