This is a perfect example of what it’s like talking to a Scientologist when they are on the defensive, which these days is like, always. I believe this man is also in the Sea Org, giving him a special designation of “crazy” for signing their billion year contract – with NO stock options.

Apparently this video was removed due to pressure from the “Church” but Gawker linked to a mirror copy. If this doesn’t give you the willies, then you are made of sterner stuff than I am. Also, I found the roadside traffic a little unnerving, I kept waiting for something disastrous to happen. You know, Scientologists are particularly “incident-prone.” Or is that “accident-prone?”

The unraveling has begun, their organization is completely obsessed with Anonymous. Nice job, faceless protesters, keep up the pressure.

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One Biotch Replaced By Another

What’s wrong with The View?
It’s bad enough that they continue to have Ms.Thing, Elisabeth Hasselbeck on their show, who’s right wing, closed minded, bible thumping, anti gay rants have set me through the roof on several occasions, but to bring D-lister bozo, Kate Goselin on the show?
 
Gee… which idiotic biotch makes me feel like biting a tire more? Hasselbeck or Gosselin? It’s definitely a toss up. 

Hasselbeck has had MANY heated arguments with several panelists on The View over the years. Go Rosie!

One tiff involved Hasselbeck and Whoopi going at it over Hillary Clinton’s suggestion of having the US Government give each child a $5,000 saving bond at birth, and Hasselbeck’s reply was,

“it would lead to fewer abortions due to women wanting to keep the money”.

Sheer brilliance at its best!

Thankfully, Bush is out of the picture as well as Palin and John McCain, “The Maverick”, so we don’t have to hear Hasselbeck defending those morons. But that will be replaced by Kate Gosselin’s bitchdom. I hope Whoopi or Behar rips her a new one.

Kate Gosselin AND spineless ex-hubby Jon’s claim to fame was pimping out their kids for the almighty dollar. And don’t get me started on her hair which looks like she backed into a weed wacker. Is The View rewarding her for her bitchiness and kid pimping by hiring her for the show? Yes I believe they are.

Yeah, I know it’s all about the ratings, and I am sure they will have people tuning in so they can maybe catch a couple of cat fights between Behar and Kate for the couple of days she will be on, but I just dont agree with rewarding this person with MORE paid air time. Does she need more money to pay for yet another nanny to care for HER eight children while she’s off doing all these appearances? Does she have another phony crap book coming out? ”Multiple Bles8ings” indeed!

It’s bad enough that Kate was asked to be at the Marie Shriver’s Annual Woman’s Conference this October. Is this a wise candidate to attend this conference?

Well don’t forget Shriver did invite Scientology cultists Kelly Preston and John Travolta. But it has just been announced that they have since backed out and will not be attending due to it being too soon after their son Jett’s death.

I can’t decide whether Scientology would be glad or happy about this current announcement. Of course going public with grief if you are a Scientologists is a big no-no and VERY low on their Tone Scale. (0.5 out of 40). But maybe not talking about it is better in the eyes of the cult? Or perhaps by backing out and saying they are still healing is showing proof that Scientology’s tech and auditing simply don’t work? Well we all know what Scientology’s defense would be to their tech not working… they would say it’s John and Kelly’s fault and they “pulled it in”. Sad but true.
People Magazine reported that Kelly’s comment was:

 ”It is with my sincere apologies that I must pull out from speaking at the conference. I am sorry, but I truly believed that I could do it. Otherwise I never would have said that I could. But I am still deeply in the process of healing, and it’s just too soon.”

And what about Kate being asked to be Shriver’s Conference?  She is famous now for being a reality show bitch, and using her children to rake in the dough. Is Kate going to talk about how tough it is to go through a divorce when she in fact was a big  part of the problem? Let’s not forget that Shriver asked Kate to be on the forum because her daughters were fans of Jon and Kate Plus 8. I wonder if her daughters are still fans now, and if Shriver regrets inviting her? Nice move Shriver!

So between Kate Gosselin and Kelly Preston being asked to do the conference, I think Shriver must be losing her damn mind.

What gems of knowledge can Kate Gosselin offer to this Conference that would be worth a damn? Is she going to dare tell people how hard it is to raise her children? Even though she has nannies, maids and more help than you can shake a stick at? Why not invite a single mother trying to raise her kids and make ends meet who is on welfare to speak at the Conference? Not THAT is a real struggle. I am sure someone in that position would have a lot more advice to lend about coping with life.

I digress…
So back to The View. Perhaps Hasselbeck is not only busy making babies, (how many tots will this holy roller be pumping out?) but maybe she is also busy defending allegations of plagerism in an upcoming lawsuit. You see she wrote a book (she suffers from celiac disease) a while back called The G-Diet, but Susan Hasset claims that Hassselbeck plagerized her book, which was written a year earlier. Oh I can’t wait to see the outcome of this one. Hasselbeck’s daddy is a lawyer too, so will Dad be helping her out of this jam?

US Magazine reported Gosselin stepping in for Hasselbeck:

The reality TV mom of eight will be appearing on the Sept. 14 and 15 shows, occupying the seat of regular co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is out on maternity leave after giving birth to her third child, Isaiah, earlier this month.

The View has a lot of nerve asking the likes of Kate to fill in and I refuse to lists the dates she is going to be on. I can think of a lot of better suited candidates to fill in. Although I don’t consider their recent pick of having the Blagojevichs on the show a smart move either, to say the least. I am not going to open that can of (alleged) corrupt worms!

The thought of  them paying Kate Gosselin who some people think is guilty of child abuse for what she put her kids through, to sit and chat about current events, is despicable. And paying the Blagojevichs? Totally maddening. Who’s next? Scott Peterson? How about OJ? Talk about ratings!
Sometimes you ave to put ratings aside and decide you are not going to further slime ball’s careers.

At the very least, I guess some ”Viewers” will get a breather from Hasselbeck’s idiotic, whiny babbling for a bit. 
So to the prodcers of The View… SHAME ON YOU!

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For as long as I have been following the celebrity aspect of Scientology, there has been something I have been unable to put my finger on about Tom Cruise. On one hand, he is handsome, successful, charismatic and talented. Yet on the other hand, even his most exuberant proclamations of amorous devotion are met with a flurry of side-eyes and smirking skepticism. Even Tom Cruise must scratch his head wondering “what’s a guy gotta do to get some respect?”

But in spite of 25 years of building a career with many highs and very few lows, Tom still has yet to master the skill of connecting with his audience. Sure there are women (now much older) who grew up on his boyish good looks and sexy dance moves (Risky Business anyone?) this however has not translated into that inimitable quality that allows the audience to look into a performer’s soul and feel a sense of mutual connection – the human touch. Even the most glamorous couple in the world, Brangelina, have managed to give us a sense of who they are, however hypocritical and shallow it may be.

Before I became intimately aware of the bizarreness of Scientology, I’d often wonder why an actor of Tom Cruise’s caliber had never won an Academy Award, despite being nominated three times (Magnolia, Jerry Maguire, Born On The Fourth Of July.) Sure you can make comparisons to similarly acclaimed actors who’ve been snubbed, like Leo Decaprio, then again, Leo’s 12 years younger and hasn’t generated close to $5 billion in film revenue. In fact, Tom is the top-grossing actor of all time — AND STILL PEOPLE DON’T CONNECT with the top gun.

I’d been unable to identify whatever that unidentifiable quality that makes Tom Cruise seem so “off” until I read this insightful article at the Sydney Morning Herald. Check it out.

Let’s for a second pretend Tom didn’t dry-hump his career into oblivion by using his religion as a jackhammer on our collective psyches, causing most sane people to recoil from his toothy grin. Let’s pretend Scientology didn’t exist (wow, that felt good.) Would Tom still seem a little strange to the world at large? Maybe.

That’s hypothetical we will never know, but it would seem that same void of substance that makes Tom seem “off” to the world, is the exact quality which made him a perfect candidate for the perverse mind control techniques Scientology employs. The same technique they use to suck in celebrities, and sadly, unwitting members of the public, who seem all too willing to give up their lives and autonomy to join — not to mention their bank accounts.

As a celeb and gossip writer, I spend an inordinate amount of time psycho-analyzing the personalities, actions and behavior of these famous faces who keep us entertained. In most cases, their pathology is easy to read: mommy and daddy didn’t love them enough, they need more than normal amounts attention to fill their emptiness, too much too soon and of course, some just aren’t that bright, but are fortunately aesthetically pleasing, leading to a shallow existence, and a stunted spiritual connection to their inner selves and the world around them. And some are just regular folks with a lot of skill at entertaining — hell Tom Hanks!

And then there’s Tom Cruise. An enigma, wrapped in riddle, shrouded in a mysterious cloud of weirdness.

The SMH article stirred me with these two paragraphs which really nail down the essence of what is “wrong” with Tom:

By way of explaining the enormity of Cruise’s star power, Andrew Morton, makes the point that in 1996, Tom Cruise became the first actor to star in five consecutive films grossing over $US100 million at the American box office. His career is commercially unrivalled and over the years he’s slowly but surely won over the critics as well – with one famous exception. Pauline Kael, the New Yorker’s now deceased, but still influential film critic, had no time for Cruise’s dynamically intense screen presence. She panned his acting style as “patented” complaining that it “produces nothing but fraudulence”.

Kael may have been referring to his professional skills but her critique goes to the heart of the unease he induces in such a large swathe of the movie-going public. An emphasis on technique over authenticity may produce compelling – if slightly stilted – dramatic heroes but Cruise appears to apply the same method to the construction of his public persona. There’s something about him that’s not quite right. Tom Cruise comes across as a perfect copy of a human being – but one that lacks the weight of emotional engagement. As Morton describes it, “Those who have interviewed him and even audited him have come away from an encounter feeling that they have been subjected to a performance rather than a personality.” This sentiment is echoed by Ariel Leve in The Sunday Times where she writes that in interviews Cruise “engages but at the same time is disengaged”.

That unidentifiable quality that had eluded me, is quite simply: Tom isn’t real. Not to sound all LRH here, of course Tom’s real, but what we think is Tom Cruise doesn’t even exist. Tom Cruise is essentially whatever he allowed so long ago for Scientology to put into him. It’s as though Cruise wandered into Scientology a hollow shell and allowed this false, nonsensical mumbo jumbo to fill up the empty space. Tom then allowed David Miscavige (leader of the cult) to mold him into the perfect representative of what an ideal Scientologist should be.

I sincerely doubt Tom even knows who he is inside beyond what has been brainwashed into him since joining Scientology. All jokes aside, Tom is a robot, a meatpuppet for David Miscavige to spew the half-baked, barely coherent ramblings of mad man whose sole purpose for creating Scientology was to control and manipulate people.

Tom’s so convincing in his role, because there was nothing there to begin with. Tom was a lost vessel looking for something to fill the void and has never bothered to look deeper or question beyond what he is told.

Now, imagine how this conundrum applies to a guy like John Travolta, a man who clearly has a soul and an identity, but who seems inexplicably trapped in a world he can’t seem to find an escape from.

Mind-boggling.

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Multiple news sources are reporting Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein was found dead in his NY apartment from an apparent drug overdose on Friday.

This is extremely haunting and sad news, as Adam and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker were the only two survivors of a deadly plane crash which claimed four lives almost a year ago on Sept. 19, 2008.

Adam, 36, was a recovering drug addict, having spent the last 9 years of his life leading a clean and sober existence and using his experience and recovery to try and help others overcome their addiction. Adam dated reality TV star Nicole Ritchie and singer/actress Mandy Moore. Adam was also a very respected club DJ and worked on several albums for major artists. Here’s a bit of his bio from Wiki:

Goldstein was a member of the rock band Crazy Town, known for their hit “Butterfly”. He has also scratched on albums for Papa Roach, Madonna, Will Smith, and Shifty and played concerts with Jay-Z. He has played private events for celebrities like Jim Carey, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Stiller, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and Kate Hudson.[10] He had had a one-year contract with Las Vegas’ Pure Nightclub inside Caesar’s Palace to play at the venue every Friday and opening a nightclub at Caesars Atlantic City called Dusk.

I loved Crazy Town’s “Butterfly”, featuring Shifty Shellshock’s awesome vocals (also featured on Paul Oakenfold’s “Starry Eyed Surprise.)

Some sources are stating Adam was distraught over a recent break-up with his girlfriend Haley Wood, and it is well known both he and fellow crash survivor Travis Barker have struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder from their brush with death, which including horrific burns requiring hospitalization.

Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein and Travis Barker of Blink-182

Out of respect for DJ AM, who came across as a very sincere and grounded guy, we won’t get into the lurid details of his death. There’s plenty of sources for that.

RIP Adam, I hope you found a respite from the pain in the great beyond, the world will miss your tremendous talent and your friends and family will miss your presence.

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Justin Timberlake and Snoop Dogg in a musical together? This definitely has potential as they can both sing and have an amazing talent for comedy.

Justin is being lined up to appear in a new movie produced by Hong Kong singer-and-actress Leslie Loh. “We are in talks with Snoop and Justin about a film. It’s a perfect marriage between movies and music and will suit them down to the ground,” added Leslie.

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