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BOP Daily NewsDecember 21, 2005The spirit of BOP News lives on in
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| Wow, some people just don’t know enough to quit while they’re behind. First Tom Cruise shredded his friendship with Brooke Shields with a public diatribe against the actress’ use of anti-depressants to treat her post-partum depression, then he took Matt Lauer to task on the Today Show because Lauer hadn’t bought the Scientology line that psychiatry is a quack profession hook, line and sinker. Now Little Tommy Nutcase is trying to tell the firefighters, police officers and rescue workers who were on the front lines at Ground Zero that they should ditch the medication used to treat their post-traumatic stress and the effects of smoke inhalation from working at the site in favor of a “purification rundown” that is sanctioned by the Church of Scientology. Needless to say, the brave men and women who spent months shifting through the rubble, hoping to bring closure to families who had lost loved ones and breathing in all sorts of hazardous materials in the process, have told Tommy Scientology where he can put his snake-oil fix-it. Next up for Cruise in his continuing efforts to alienate every single member of the moviegoing public is a visit to cancer treatment centers across the country, urging patients to forego chemotherapy in favor of a “cleansing ritual” they can purchase for only $2,999, plus a pledge of unwavering devotion to the Church of Scientology. |
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Cruise’s antics this year have also netted him a new, dubious honor: he’s at the top of FilmThreat.com’s list of the Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood 2005. As one might guess from the title, the list singles out the 50 least-powerful stars in Hollywood, the ones who are about as far from being movers-and-shakers as it is possible to get. Standing out from a field that includes such low-rent celebs as Tom Sizemore, Brett Ratner and Jennifer Lopez, Cruise earned top dishonors not only for his sudden need to discredit psychiatry and drug therapies of all kinds, but also for his publicity-stunt romance with now-pregnant fiancée Katie Holmes, who garnered the number two position for her involvement in the Cruise PR train wreck. Holmes was also cited for her “lackluster” performance as the love interest in Batman Begins. Although we think that last slam is a bit unfair; after all, when you're using all your acting training to convince people your off-screen romance is legit, how can you possibly have anything left over for on-screen portrayals? |
| Scarlett Johansson, who stars in Woody Allen’s latest film, Match Point, discovered during shooting that her director took more than a passing interest in her off-screen life, as well as her on-screen performance. Seemed Allen couldn’t get enough of Johansson discussing her love life, wanting to know everything about her romantic adventures off the set. Johansson professed herself amused by the attention, and felt it came from his “fatherly feelings” towards her. We think Ms Johansson might want to bear in mind Allen’s tendency to create roles for himself where his character romances much, much younger women, not to mention the age gap between the director and his current wife, before she decides Allen’s fascination with her romantic escapades stems from a paternal source. |
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