Certitude by Adam Begley

Author:Adam Begley [Begley, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-45981-7
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Tom Cruise

(b. 1962)

For a scary moment in the summer of 2005, it looked as though Tom Cruise might be going off the rails.

The early warning sign came when he insisted on having a tent staffed with “volunteer Scientology ministers” on the set of War of the Worlds (they were there, he said, “to help the sick and injured”). By April, he was exchanging sharp words with an interviewer from Der Spiegel who made the mistake of uttering the word “pseudoscience.” (This was after Cruise had insisted that he himself had “helped hundreds of people get off drugs,” and that Scientology has “the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world.”)

Then there was the Brooke Shields fiasco: Scientology considers modern psychiatry and its medications to be a menace; Brooke admitted to popping pills to treat her postpartum depression, and so tactful Tom publicly chastised her (and added that her career had tanked).

Then came the “couch incident”—the forty-two-year-old Cruise leaping all over Oprah’s furniture, professing undying love for his twenty-six-year-old squeeze, Katie Holmes.

Suddenly everyone was asking, will Scientology sink the most powerful actor in Hollywood?

Apparently not. Even though it’s been revealed that Cruise is the Scientology No. 2, and anyone with access to the Web and the slightest curiosity has seen his kookyscary ravings about his creepy cult (“we are the way to happiness, we bring peace and unite cultures”)—he’s still a big-time box office draw.

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