The cherry on top were the credits.
Posted on 03/30/2015 8:38:19 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
HBO caused a major stir on social media with Sunday night’s broadcast of “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” a blistering documentary about the Church of Scientology and its celebrity devotees. People Magazine published a teaser for the film Sunday, which was first screened in January at the Sundance Film Festival. Sensational in content but not in tone, Going Clear has been making headlines since its first screening at Sundance in January. It has also upset that secretive, combative and often embattled Church, which in a lengthy statement attacked the film as “insidious religious persecution by bullies toting cameras” and the ex-Scientologists who participated as “the usual collection of obsessive, disgruntled former Church members.” Such invective from the Scientology crowd, which includes such luminaries as John Travolta and Tom Cruise, almost guaranteed a huge audience tuning in. In a story published just minutes before the HBO debut, Director Alex Gibney told TheWrap that some of the Hollywood people interviewed in the film received physical and legal threats. Spanky Taylor, a publicist for stars such as Johnny Depp and Edward Norton, told her story of having to escape a church building in Los Angeles after being physically restrained from leaving. “I will tell you that the threats that have been visited on her have been particularly brutal,” Gibney said. “A major thing the church got by on for many years was intimidating people into silence, based on their threats of litigation and brutish psychological games.” The hashtag #goingclear generated an online buzz, becoming one of the top trends on Twitter. Most Twitter users reacted predictably to the exposé.
The cherry on top were the credits.
Makes you wonder if those vultures (Scientologists) didn’t have their claws in Mr. Hayes, would he have gotten the proper medical care following his stroke and been able to make a recovery.
Here is a self-described incomplete list of scientologists.
***It’s hardly popular. It attracted a number of actors back in the 1960s and 1970s, a lot through the Beverly Hills Playhouse, where aspiring actors would be recommended for “Communications Classes.***
I wouldn’t doubt that this was all started as a Ponzi scheme to bring in more money to Hollywood with the early spokesman actors getting a cut of the profits.
Good post.
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Oh noes!
I just watched that this morning.
What astonished me is how so many intelligent people fall for this garbage.
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What astonishes me is that people believe that having money equals intelligence.
Do we know if Cruise and Travolta are being conned, or are they among the group running the con?
Sad indeed.
Prior to the stroke, my wife would run into Hayes occasionally at the grocery store. He was friendly and pleasant.
[[It is very popular among those in the entertainment business]]
You have to wonder what it offers that attracts those in entertainment?
What I understand they don’t believe any medicine like Jevowah Witnesses with blood transfusion but worst
I hear when Kelly Preston was having children with JOhn Travolta she want go to hospital normal hospital she was force to scientology clinic she wasn’t allow cry out in pain during labor
Going back to Issac Hayes this third time I hear that he didn’t get real medical treatment
Yeah that what I hear even Roger Friedman during time of South Park episode trapped in closet saw Issac Hayes day after he look frighten according to him Roger was interview by Inside Edition
is she still? She’s been doing a lot with franklin graham lately- (not that htat makes her all of a sudden saved)
Lise Van Susteren, Greta’s sister, is a psychiatrist—which the Scientology bunch calls “a practitioner of the “industry of death,” a “fraud,” a drug-peddler, and a “rapist.”
I’m sure that Lise is very, very concerned about Greta’s mental health status, as someone who embraces the ideology and practices of this demonic cult definitely suffers from some kind of mental illness, such as delusions of grandeur (which 0 and his admin have), depression, Delusional disorder (psychosis, etc.), and possibly Gender Dysphoria disorder (not being “at home” with your gender).
I found out that Scientologists believe they are the ultimate authority on mental illness and treatment, and that mental illness is caused by “repressed negative emotions from the past” and “physical trauma”.
Being on Fox News, which sports a large compliment of Christians, prayerfully Greta will encounter a “Light shining in a dark place”, and will walk toward that Light—which is Jesus Christ.
It also raises the question as to whether those Scientology practices played a role in Travolta and Preston’s son’s death.
I guess dude thought he was Emperor Palpatine!
Seriously, Dope-ra needs a real shock to her system to knock her out of her delusion she’s some kind of earth goddess. I heard she worships gaia.
Nah, probably some kind of weathervane/transponder that receives incoming messages from their alien chummies.
Would you see a bunch of people standing outside a new prison opening, celebrating and releasing balloons?
Kinda what they’re doing...
They just don’t see it.
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