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SCIENTOLOGY DOC ‘GOING CLEAR’ CLAIMS THE CHURCH SPLIT UP TOM CRUISE AND NICOLE KIDMAN


Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is arguably the most hotly anticipated film premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

HBO Documentary Films, which is releasing the eye-opening documentary on the Church of Scientology later this year, hired a team of 160 lawyers to look over the movie, and the church, despite not having seen it, took out a recent ad in The New York Times accusing Gibney’s film of being “a Rolling Stone/UVA redux.”

I just attended the first screening of Going Clear, which is based on the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, and can report that it is a scathing exposé on Scientology and makes some startling accusations about its most famous member, Tom Cruise.

The film alleges that the Church of Scientology used a number of intimidation tactics to force Cruise to split from Nicole Kidman.

“I was to facilitate the breakup with Nicole Kidman,” Rathbun says in the film.

According to the testimony of Marty Rathbun, formerly the second-highest ranking official in the Church of Scientology who left in 2004, Scientology head David Miscavige was suspicious of Cruise’s second wife, whose father was a renowned psychologist in his native Australia. Scientology is vehemently opposed to psychiatry and psychology, and Rathbun claims that because of Kidman’s father, she was labeled a “Potential Trouble Source” (PTS), defined by the Church of Scientology as “a person who is in some way connected to and being adversely affected by a suppressive person.”

Gibney’s film claims that Kidman, who was raised Catholic, convinced Cruise to distance himself from the Church of Scientology between 1992 and 2001, and that during the filming of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Cruise wasn’t returning Miscavige’s phone calls, though Miscavige was one of Cruise’s best pals and served as best man in his wedding to Kidman. Cruise’s silence allegedly infuriated Miscavige, who then assigned Rathbun to the A-list couple.

“I was to facilitate the breakup with Nicole Kidman,” Rathbun says in the film.

Rathbun alleges in the film that the Church of Scientology then waged an aggressive campaign to get Cruise to dump Kidman, including having a private investigator wiretap her phone—at Cruise’s apparent suggestion, according to Rathbun—and sending the tapes to Miscavige. The Church of Scientology also began “auditing” Cruise around the clock, according to the film, aggressively psychoanalyzing him and gathering personal information. The information was then allegedly sent to Miscavige, whom Rathbun claims blasted Cruise for his “perverted” sexual fetishes.

Furthermore, Rathbun says the Church of Scientology “re-educated” Cruise’s adopted children with Kidman, Connor and Isabella, into turning against their mother so that Cruise could retain custody.

Cruise divorced Kidman in 2001 and following the split became more active in the Church of Scientology, receiving the church’s Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004 and becoming Scientology’s de facto Hollywood spokesman.

Going Clear also claims that the Church of Scientology takes great pains to accommodate Cruise, including installing all the audiovisual equipment in his home, purchasing him limousines and airplanes, and once even having its members design a meadow for Cruise and Kidman to run through—an alleged fantasy of Cruise’s.

Cruise and Kidman, the film notes in a card before the film’s final credits, both refused to be interviewed for Gibney’s movie.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...h-split-up-tom-cruise-and-nicole-kidman.html?
 
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Documentary says Tom Cruise had Nicole Kidman’s phone tapped



PARK CITY, UTAH — A former top official of the Church of Scientology says he ordered Nicole Kidman’s phones to be tapped at the suggestion of Tom Cruise and church head David Miscavige.

Former Scientologist Mark “Marty” Rathbun, a member of the church for many years and a key aide to Miscavige, makes the allegations in an explosive new documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief,” which debuted here Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.

Kidman and Cruise’s relationship, which began after they met on the set of the 1990 film “Days of Thunder,” was looked upon with disfavor by Scientology officials from the start, according to the documentary, directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”).
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard disliked and distrusted psychiatrists and psychologists, and the animosity toward the field remains in today’s church, according to the documentary. Kidman’s father, Dr. Anthony Kidman, who died last year, was a prominent psychologist in Australia.

During his marriage to Kidman, Cruise was only tenuously connected to the church from about 1992 to 2001, according to Scientology experts interviewed in “Going Clear,” which is based on Lawrence Wright’s 2013 book of the same name.

The church, according to the documentary, wanted to break up Kidman and Cruise so that Cruise would more enthusiastically embrace the church and help publicize its mission.

The Church of Scientology denied the claims in a statement, saying: “The accusations made in the film are entirely false and alleged without ever asking the Church.”

After Cruise and Kidman split in 2001, Cruise did indeed become a more vocal proponent of Scientology, culminating in his bizarre round of media appearances in 2005, when he strayed from the script while promoting his movie “The War of the Worlds” and publicly chastised the field of psychiatry and Brooke Shields for using antidepressants in a notorious “Today” show appearance.

The church became particularly worried about Cruise’s dedication to Scientology in the late 1990s, when he spent an entire year in England with Kidman filming “Eyes Wide Shut.”

Around that time, Rathbun says in the film, Cruise said he was worried about Kidman and suggested her phones be tapped.

Rathbun said he related this idea disdainfully to Scientology Chairman Miscavige, who swore, “******* it,” and ordered Rathbun to get it done.
Rathbun says in the film that he ordered the phones tapped, but it’s unclear what information, if any, might have been uncovered by the process.

Rathbun, who alleges that Miscavige beat and abused him and says he himself served as an “auditor” who extensively interviewed Cruise about personal traumas, left the church after more than 20 years in 2004.
He has previously said he believes the church brainwashed Kidman and Cruise’s adoptive children, Connor and Isabella, to turn them against their mother.
The church slapped Kidman with the dreaded label “suppressive person,” Rathbun told NBC’s Brian Williams in 2012.

HBO had 160 lawyers vet “Going Clear,” which it plans to broadcast on March 16.

The film contains footage of Cruise praising Scientology at revivalist-style meetings of the faithful — at one point, saluting a portrait of Hubbard while calling out, “To L.R.H.”

At the film’s Sundance premiere, some of the people involved in the movie said they were being watched.
“They’ve been following me for five years,” said Mike Rinder, the church’s former spokesman. “I get followed everywhere. I get followed to the mall, I get followed to the supermarket. They go through my garbage.”
The Church of Scientology released a statement last night that attacked the movie, and saying filmmakers refused to meet with church reps.

“Their sources are the usual collection of obsessive, disgruntled former Church members kicked out as long as 30 years ago for malfeasance, who have a documented history of making up lies about the Church for money,” the statement read.

A rep for Cruise did not return a request for comment from The Post on Sunday.

Additional reporting by Mara Siegler

Source:http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/documentary-says-tom-cruise-had-nicole-kidmans-phone-tapped/
 
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Tivo said:
I have never thought NK was gorgeous. She's just not my idea of beauty.
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I agree. I really like her personality from what I've seen in interviews and such, but I've never thought she was beautiful. She might be considered "striking," I suppose, because she's so tall, pale, and has red hair. But beauty is highly subjective. To each her own, I guess! :-)
 
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