scientology & celebrities

Paul Thomas Anderson really should take a Flip cam and make his Scientology movie now.

Brando was a clam?

he had an injured clam iirc

brando might've been the one celeb too crazy for scientology

I'm still not quite sure what the whole "double ring" ceremony is about. I've looked it up online and all the answers are vague.

the folks who are wandering around wearing gray shirts and black pants on any given day around there all look exactly the same, male and female versions of the "pc" dude from the mac ads w/justin long.

― omar little

yeah, i see these drones pretty much every day either in hollywood or next to the celebrity centre. such drab, joyless creatures. they are always scurrying somewhere, i just get an impression that they are treated very poorly

Brando was kind of a one-man thing. Definitely not cult material.

we need more pics.

motion quadrant!
http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_Motion_Quadrant.jpg

http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_Motion_Quadrant.jpg

superpower hallway!
http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_hallway.jpg

superpower drill space
http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_drill_space.jpg

superpower elevator lobby
http://www.xenu.net/archive/spb/Superpower_elevator_lobby.jpg

I totally want to see a B movie with a bloody Jenna Elfman being chased by David Miscavige down that corridor.

It must've been amazing for that person whose car broke down and Marlon Brando pulls over to help out.

Darin, might you possibly have a picture of an auditing room hallway? i have always wondered what one of those looks like.

"It must've been amazing for that person whose car broke down and Marlon Brando pulls over to help out."

Except that's Brando's version of events. In all likelihood he fell down outside a McDonalds after eating 10 double cheeseburgers.

Because he was fat, you see.

Actually, he was notorious for loving cheeseburgers.

There are some great anecdotes about him supposedly being on a diet, but he'd sneak to the edge of his property at night and his next door neighbor, Jack Nicholson, would throw a bag of cheeseburgers over.

brando.xls

There are some great anecdotes about him supposedly being on a diet, but he'd sneak to the edge of his property at night and his next door neighbor, Jack Nicholson, would throw a bag of cheeseburgers over.\

lol - love this

"Actually, he was notorious for loving cheeseburgers."

Ding!

A friend lived down the street from Christian Brando in Studio City says Brando used to slip his handlers, buy a dozen burgers and sit in his car down the street, gorging.

I know those photos are real, but somehow, they still look like those weird Photoshopped creations designers make for ppt presentations to solicit funding for the new stadium.

http://blog.kierantimberlake.com/wp-content/uploads/interior-view-at-concourse-looking-south_existing.jpg

Ah, my favorite photo of the man himself:

http://i52.tinypic.com/2q0ojmt.jpg

Larger version and explanation here

tomatoes totally feel pain

Murderer.

lol

those pics are wiiiiiild

so wait, those superpower pics above *aren't* just photoshoppy computer generated representations? they do not look real to me.

the hallway one looked like a real photo but yeah the others are definitely computer generated

My mistake. Thanks for suppressing my progress.

glad we could "clear" that up

KSW guys

dunno if this has been covered already midthread, but the Haggis/Wright/St. Petersburg Times exposés (devastating though they are) are not quite as o_O as 'Operation Freakout' & what happened to Paulette Cooper in the 70s:

http://www.lermanet.com/paulette-cooper/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout

i think this NYer story is important because it puts a mainstream-elite stamp of approval on public distrust and disapproval of scientology. generally this has been confined to south park style parody plus committed internet-based activism and documentation. plus there has been a serious climate of fear around them, right? like atul gawande on healthcare or jane mayer on cheney, now "everyone" can say, boy, kind of problem here, even though all the details were in plain sight.

yeah it does feel especially weighty because of that. i also like that it doesn't hesitate to criticize some of the more OTT anti-Scieno sentiment too.

Waiiit this is what Mormons say about their church! How many religions used alleged exponential functions as a sales point?

Temple of Underrated Aerosmith has 3x more chill vibes & good times than all other religions iirc

Brought back by Catholic bones, I see. Welcome.

no I came back to find out how Tuomas feels about suggest ban but now they've locked the thread so I'm feeling kind of adrift, can't live like this tbqf

lol hope you find harbor

I had to stop reading this mid-article to do some other reading up, after that throwaway sentence about Miscavige's wife not having been seen in two years.

Temple of Underrated Aerosmith

would join this church

not sure how reliable this is, but interesting nonetheless:

http://leavingscientology.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/david-miscavige-“the-adulterer”/

I link on that page leads to this:

She lamented how he would sometimes walk around mumbling, then periodically shouting, “Shelly, where is the gold buried?” She swore she had no idea what gold DM was referring to.

I had to stop reading this mid-article to do some other reading up, after that throwaway sentence about Miscavige's wife not having been seen in two years.

Yeah that's the bit I really wonder about.

If you really want to dig around, you'll find conspiracy theories that she's the natural mother of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's adopted daughter.

missed ya underrated aerosmith

Of all of the media on this page:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/multimedia.html

This was always my favorite:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/media_vault/Helatrob.mp3

Or this one, where LRH predicts the coming of Mad Men:

http://www.xenu.net/archive/media_vault/Nochrist.mp3