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| Leaked Tom Cruise Scientology Video Goes Viral |
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| posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 |
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TOM CRUISE LAUDS POWER OF SCIENTOLOGY IN WEB VIDEO
By Michelle Nichols
Additional reporting by Steve Gorman; Editing by David Storey
Reuters
January 16, 2008
Original Link
NEW YORK - A video of actor Tom Cruise touting himself and fellow Scientologists as "authorities on the mind" has appeared on the Internet, coinciding with a new biography that examines his role in the movement.
The origin of the footage, which the Church of Scientology said was a video shown at a 2004 International Association of Scientologists meeting, was not clear. It popped up on several Web sites and some took it down after copyright claims by the church.
Cruise, shown wearing a black turtleneck sweater and speaking while the musical theme to his hit movie "Mission: Impossible" played in the background, said he was dedicated to changing people's lives.
"It's a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist and it's something that you have to earn," he said.
"We're the authorities on getting people off drugs. We're the authorities on the mind. We're the authorities on improving conditions," he says. "We can rehabilitate criminals. Way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures."
In the video, which could be seen on www.gawker.com (see below for details), Cruise explained what made Scientologists different from others.
"Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident it's not like anyone else. As you drive past you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one who can help," the Oscar-nominated actor said.
Cruise is one of the best-known Scientologists. The movement has a following among some Hollywood celebrities but is condemned as a cult in some quarters, including by the German government.
SCIENTOLOGY VS PSYCHIATRY
Cruise's ties to Scientology, and his outspoken adherence to its rejection of psychiatry, have frequently drawn attention. In June 2005 he publicly attacked actress Brooke Shields for revealing that she had taken medication as treatment for postpartum depression.
In a subsequent appearance on NBC's "Today" show, Cruise called psychiatry a "pseudo science" and told interviewer Matt Lauer: "You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do."
The Church of Scientology said in a statement that the video was Cruise's acceptance speech after he was awarded the religion's "Freedom Medal." It was shown to 5,000 church parishioners and guests.
"While the video can be seen in any Church of Scientology, what has appeared on the Internet is a pirated and edited version of a 3-hour event," the church said.
The Internet site Gawker.com said the video had "been passed around privately by reporters and writers investigating Cruise's ties to Scientology," which was founded more than 50 years ago in Los Angeles by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
On Tuesday, in a 15-page statement posted on the NBC "Today" show Web site, the church disputed claims made in the book "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" by British author Andrew Morton.
"Insinuations that Mr. Cruise is second-in-command of the Church are not only false, they are ludicrous," the statement said. "He is neither 2nd or 100th. Mr Cruise is a Scientology parishioner and holds no official or unofficial position."
Cruise's lawyer, Bert Fields, has described material in the book to Reuters as "outrageous, sick stuff" and said that it "is actionable," although he declined to comment on legal issues.
He slammed what he called a "sick comparison of (Cruise's) child to 'Rosemary's Baby'" as a "grotesque lie." Morton wrote that some Scientologists wondered if Cruise's wife, actress Katie Holmes, "had been impregnated with Hubbard's frozen sperm."
But Morton, also author of a 1992 book on Britain's Princess Diana, told Reuters on Tuesday that Cruise was "a very important figure inside the church, it's nonsense for them to say he's just a parishioner."
According to www.scientology.org, Scientology "is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths." Those truths include man being an immortal, spiritual being whose experience "extends well beyond a single lifetime."
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TOM CRUISE SCIENTOLOGY VIDEO LEAKED ON WEB
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
The Telegraph
January 17, 2008
Original Link
A video of Tom Cruise discussing his faith in Scientology and its power to "change people’s lives" and improve the world has been leaked on the internet.
Dressed in a black turtleneck sweater with a look of intensity in his eyes, the 45- year-old actor makes a series of impassioned claims about his religion, including its ability to help get people off drugs, rehabilitate criminals and "bring peace and unite cultures".
Asserting the organisation is the "authority on the mind", Cruise says that Scientologists are able to "see things the way they are" and can help in situations when others cannot, such as when driving past the scene of an accident.
"As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one that can really help," he says.
And he says of being a Scientologist: "It’s rough and tumble and it’s wild and woolly and it’s a blast.
"It really is fun because, dammit, there’s nothing better than going out there and fighting the fight and suddenly you see things are better."
The nine-minute video, set to the theme of his film Mission Impossible, was shown at a 2004 International Association of Scientologists meeting.
It is not known why or how it has surfaced now.
With proselytising zeal, Cruise declares in the clip: "Now is the time. Being a Scientologist, people are turning to you -- so you better know it."
Discussing how to spread the religion, he asserts there is no time for "spectatorism" and "you’re either in or you’re out".
His comments are peppered with dramatic pauses, sharp bursts of laughter and acronyms such as KSW (Keeping Scientology Working) and the dangers of SPs and PTSs (suppressive persons and potential trouble sources).
He also talks about the need to "confront and shatter suppression" and how he wishes "the world was a different place. I’d like to go on vacations and go and romp and play. But I can’t because I know. I know -- so I have to do something about it."
Scientologists last night forced YouTube to remove footage of Cruise's rant, claiming copyright was breached when it was leaked on to the internet.
YouTube posted a message above a still of the clip, saying: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim."
But by then, millions of people had seen it and it had spread to other websites.
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TOM CRUISE SCIENTOLOGY VIDEO(S) ON GAWKER
By Nick Denton
Gawker
January 17, 2008
Original Link
Here's where Gawker got a mildly threatening legal note from the Scientologists. And here's the video that got the Church of Tom Cruise so worked up. (By the way, I hadn't realized some Scientologists believe that the Hollywood star is the messiah, according to his biographer. That explains so much.)
1,148,771 views as of 8:10PM MST January 17, 2008
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