Posted on 06/24/2005 11:51:03 AM PDT by gamarob1
NEW YORK - Tom Cruise was all smiles talking about his movie and his fiancee on NBC’s “Today” show, but the smile disappeared when Matt Lauer mentioned Cruise’s earlier criticism of Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants.
Cruise got very serious and kept saying “Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt” every time Lauer said he knew people who were helped by anti-depressants.
Shields took them for her post-partum depression. As a Scientologist, Cruise doesn’t believe in those kinds of drugs or therapy of any kind.
At one point Cruise told Lauer, “You’re glib” and said Lauer didn’t know what he was talking about. The star launched into a detailed discussion of the use of the prescription drug Ritalin.
“It's very impressive to listen to you,” Lauer replied, “because clearly, you've done the homework. And you know the subject.”
“And you should,” Cruise retorted. He also told Lauer, “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.”
The NBC anchor told Cruise he had known people who had been helped by psychiatric drugs. Cruise then accused Lauer of advocating the use of Ritalin.
Lauer asked Cruise how he could get more people to understand Scientology, the controversial religion practiced by Cruise and other celebrities like John Travolta.
“You just communicate about it," Cruise said. “If I want to know something, I go and find out. Because I don't talk about things that I don't understand.”
full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8344309/
Add to that- I'm either related to or have married those who have greatly benefited from psychiatry and psychotropics.
Plus my own issues and problems that were helped greatly with good therapy and the conscientious use of medications.
Like I said in an earlier post, I'm just baffled at how ignoramouses like Cruise and Kelly Preston can have the 'audience' that they have! It really scares me for those who do need help. Oh well, like someone else said, Kharma will get them.
I think she's a stupid twit myself.
They deserve each other.
You mean thetans?
One fan says, "Tom and Katie have SO MUCH in common.
Other fan, "Yeah, they both love Tom Cruise."
(Apologies if you have heard it before!)
I wouldn't. At least two (arguably three) of the most deeply disturbed individuals I've known in my life were strongly devout, even compulsively so.
True. But as with so many other medical problems, the causes are often either unknown or beyond the reach of our art.
Are you kidding?
God sometimes uses disturbed people to do His work.
Well some people would disagree with that, and I generally would disagree with that as well.
Many people who seek drugs to alleviate depression, etc. just don't want to confront the reasons why they are that way...
It's the same logic that is behind someone who abuses drugs. They use drugs to mask the pain, and ignore the root causes.
I think it was when he told Goose to watch out for the canopy when they ejected!
Scientology is an Orwellian anthill turning over for its own benefit- Like they they care one whit that medications are overprescribed to American population.
They purposly target the weak to rehabilitate, knowing that an ex-addict "cured" by Scientology is likely to return their investment a hundred-fold in "audits" and obligatory sidewalk shilling for L.Ron's demon. Kind of reminds me of Al Queda recruiting minorities in the prison systems of Europe and America. They care ZERO about the person, they just endlessly reap cannon fodder for the war on civilization.
A lost classic, starring Russ Tamblyn, now more famous as Amber Tamblyn's father.
I think it was when his "ego started writing checks that his body couldn't cash".
Geez, what an idiot!
Couldn't agree more.
I didn't see this interview (because I don't watch TV "news"), but after reading the Lauer-Cruise hissy-fit on Drudge, I have to say this: Cruise can't form an intelligible sentence. He goes on and on about how bad psychiatry and antidepressants are, but he doesn't back anything up. He just babbles. When someone questions him, he gets all defensive. To him, no one else's thoughts or opinions matter. He's his way, or no way at all. What an egomaniac.
If he did get violent or profane he would have to pay for more auditing LOL!
XRP said
He didn't get violent (or even profane!) when the water got squirted in his face
BTW, my post should have read "It's his way, or no way at all."
What does he have,
like an 11th grade education or something?
Because he's an actor, he's a brilliant expert on a subject.
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