That's it, Cruise. I warned you.

Bad ideas spread like wildfire. At this rate these guys are going to have their own pyramid soon.

Oprah won't join, she's already the single star of her own sect, the Cult of Oprah.

Coupons for free e-Metering? Very thoughtful. You can usually only get a handful of those on any stroll down Hollywood Boulevard.

That's so sweet how they're cuddling in the open like that. Very warm and fuzzy.

I am fascinated by the steamy stew of megalomania and deep insecurity (with just a soupcon of staggering stupidity) that makes these stars so susceptible to Scientology.

But not fascinated enough to actually pay to see any of their movies.

Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down

This does not make White Jesus happy.

this would be the top story on the yet-to-be-created blog "Stuff that black people don't like"

Am I the only one who read "TomKat and the CoS" and immediately thought "TomKat and the Chamber of Secrets"?

Okay, maybe I'm a giant nerd but dammitall I laughed.

I don't know that I've ever read anything good about the Co$ that wasn't propaganda created by the "church" itself. When I hear that Forest Whitaker is in bed with L.Ron it makes me second guess his sanity as a human being, and less likely to trust anything that comes out of his mouth. That said, why convert? What is the benefit? That the "church" will buy bucket loads of tickets to your stink-bomb movie so it debuts #1? Is the goal to convert lemming fans? We saw how post-couch stomp Tom went from superstar to laughing stock. Why would this ever be a good idea? I don't know that the average US Weekly subscriber is rich enough for a weekly e-metering or even that stupid.

No, No! Don't go there Will.

The universe keeps coming up with new reasons for me to hate Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith. At this rate, I won't ever run out.

Sorry, but at this point whenever I hear another celebrity has been suckered in, I just think "Huh, I never thought he/she was stupid. Guess I was wrong."

@Sweet Panda Love: That's hysterical. Can you say it with a lisp?

Maybe this is God's way of thinning out the herd.

I'mm surprised the scientologists haven't infiltrated the post yet - to start ranting and raving about religious freedom.. To preempt the inevitable pro-sci post - it's religious freedom only if the participants are free..

The next recruits will be Posh & Becks, then the not so secret love tryst going on between Will, Becks and Tommy can be more frequent and frivolous with the nice Co$ beard covering it all for them.

And now I bid adieu, as I know come midnight my life is over after typing that.

That, or I will get "Nikitized" into their secret assination organization's "Plan 9" whose operatives silently eliminate anyone that questions Xenu, or whether or not the church is a big beard for gays...

What does Reverend Run think about his ex sister in law and her pseudo religion?

Aren't these celebrities aware of what LRH said about black people?

Check out Youtube--"Whatsamada Wid Yu Hat?"

@SteamyMcFirecrotch: We can only hope so. The man was a science fiction writer who thought up a religion...did I miss something??

Simmons actually wigged out when she found out they'd been using her image to promote themselves. Gawker covered it a couple of weeks ago, I think?

L. Ron loved blacks....as servants that is.

@NotReadyForPrimeTime:

The deal is this...

If you're the sort of person, black or white, who can accept Scientology at face value, then you're so nominally engaged in reality that issues such as "racism" aren't going to hold much interest for you.

What's so crushingly dispiriting about Scientology isn't just its wackiness. It's that its wackiness, as far as wackiness goes, is so uninspiring.

Had L. Ron Hubbard been some sort of lyric visionary, an ecstatic caught up in extraordinary witness of beauty, then I could kinda, sorta, see the attraction to Scientology.

But Scientology is significant in that it lacks any sort of beauty, or the esthetic charge humans have for thousands of years associated with religion. Hubbard's dull mechanical voice, his plodding middle-brow diction, are in keeping with the lifelessness of the crazy thoughts he expresses.

I think that the business of Scientology has hit the jackpot with self-obsessed celebrities/actors who truly wish they were in complete control of themselves, others and the world. Not that it's only the famous or infamous who feel this way, but members of the entertainment industry, especially the successful ones, are more prone to embrace a "religion" or whatever else that elevates the individual to the status of god. If you're dying to believe what you hear about yourself, or if you believe it too much already, you're the perfect candidate. It doesn't hurt that actors have tons of money to go with their vanity-induced gullibility either. Great business idea, that Scientology.

I agree, Scientology's boring through and through, and insultingly so when it isn't dealing with big Hollywood players (and just liberally abusing ordinary Joes who make the mistake of getting all culted up in their booksales). But Jada and Will Smith being Scientologists is hardly news, is it? I can remember Jada's affiliations go back at least to the late 90's. I though Will was in "by default".

Scientology's certainly producing quite a few (icky) movies and movie star buddies lately. It's almost like celebs join up as an investment--a guarantee of high paying work (making shlock, but shlock that pays well).

@Hamud: Must be something else then - the beernuts, maybe?