Tom Cruise Blackmails Comedy Central Over Scientology South Park

The Post Chronicle ^ | 03/17/2006 | Tashi Singh

[mainepatsfan]

Don't bother.

[Beowulf]

Tiny Tommy squeaks up and Comedy Central folds.

[Doc Savage]

Yeah, and actually you're being very kind!!

[rockabyebaby]

Don't understand why comedy central gave into this buffoon, it's not like he makes good movies and, who actually pays money to go see his movies?????

[Shimmer128]

Yes, they should have, but they didn't remind of of contractual obligations, did they? They just caved. My family of guys will undoubtedly see this in DVD, but at least not at the movies. No way.

[School of Rational Thought]

I hope Haye's replacement is good. The difference between teh old and new Flinstone voices is disatrous. Chef's voice is an integral part of the character.

[headsonpikes]

Mocking religion is the primary civic duty of every rational human.

[rovenstinez]

Just Tim Cruise and Scientology proving it's unbiased stand for tolerance and diversity. Can't have anyone making a jab about Scientology, we only can make jabs at Christians. Remember this, Hollywood.

[commish]

Actually I fully expect Matt & Trey to Kill Chef off.

I also fully expect to see "South Park" off of Comedy Central and showing up on some other network soon. I don't see Parker and Stone letting this one go.

Comedy Central is slowly falling apart, first the screw up and blow the Chappell Show, now they are working hard to lose the one show on their network that has an audience. Stupid stupid stupid.

Is it unChristian of me to pray Tom Cruise gets hit by a bus in the near future.

[spintreebob]

Far and Away (or something like that) was the only good flick ever made by Cruise ... and the only good flick made by Kidman.

It was all downhill from there.

No Irish Scientologist back then.

[Huck]

Cruise went straight to the top - to the execs at Viacom

It sounds like Comedy Central got their marching orders from Viacom.

[Old Sarge]

Actually, the Cruise quote must have been...

"RESPECT MY AUTHORITIYY!"

[auto power]

I read somewhere about a year ago that this Scientology cult is and/or are making moves to buy up a lot of production rights and studio lots so they can make movies to indoctrinate the public....no difference between the Muslims and these Scientology nuts IMHO.....

[Quilla]

My sister has been a Scientologist for more than 20 years. She's in Clearwater right now. She stopped by my home for a visit on her way, and mentioned she'd be coming back through three weeks later. It has been over five months and she's still down there. With her seniority status, I assume she's a brainwasher rather than a brainwashee.

She's a lovely, successful businesswoman (how her business withstands these long absences is beyond me); however, she is incredibly defensive when one speaks negatively about the cult.

[dennisw]

The scum at Scientology are just like the Muslims. They can't take the heat that real religions do. And Scientology loves to sic their lawyers on you same as CAIR and other Islamic fruit loops

"If you want to get rich, you start a religion" - L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-09,GGLG:en&q=%22If+you+want+to+get+rich%2C+you+start+a+religion%22

[dogbyte12]

Something weird is going on with Cruise. I mean weirder than normal. Cruise and Travolta have been Scientologists forever. Travolta was always talking about it. Cruise never discussed it publically much at all. I remember when Battlefield Earth came out, and Cruise refused to comment on it publically. Travolta was busy yapping his gums at how brilliant L. Ron Hubbard was. Then, the last two years or so, ever since Cruise divorced Nicole Kidman, he has become Super Scientologist. I am wondering if the church has some dirt on him.

[dennisw]

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[mtbrandon49]

Bump!

[joebuck]

The thing that surprised me most in this article is learning there is going to be a MI III. Mission Impossible II was so mindbendingly bad I thought that series was dead and buried. I seem to recall something like a guy doing a headstand on a motorcycle while it was doing a wheelie, holding an Uzi in each hand and shooting out cars coming from opposite directions - lots of realistic stuff like that. It was much more of a cartoon than South Park could ever be.

[July 4th]