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Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 10: Drying out from space coke

We’ve been counting down the Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

One of our favorite Scientology superpowers is something we learned about a few years ago, and we think it’s been criminally undercovered by the […]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 11: Levitating an ashtray

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 12: Resisting illnesses with his mind alone

On Friday we began our countdown of Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor. […]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 13: Communicating with anyone on any subject

UPDATE: Subpoenas by Danny Masterson quashed in court. See below.

On Friday we began our countdown of Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar […]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 14: Helping at the scene of a car accident

Friday we began our countdown of Scientology superpowers that Tom Cruise can expect as an OT Scientologist and million-dollar donor.

Today, we thought we’d tackle the astounding claim that Cruise made during his infamous “black turtleneck video” which was recorded in 2004 and leaked to the Internet four years later. You must have seen it. […]

Tom Cruise’s Scientology superpowers, No. 15: Always finding the best parking spot

We have a recurring tradition of using the month of August to publish a list of fun stuff in order to spruce things up around here. […]

Tabs keep telling us Tom Cruise is ditching Scientology, and always with zero evidence

How many times have the tabloids written this story, that Tom Cruise is maybe, perhaps, leaving Scientology, basing that claim on nameless “insiders” whose quotes always turn out to be built on pure […]

Can someone let Tom Cruise know that his Scientology bandleader has died?

In 2004, as part of the plan to turn Tom Cruise into the most gung-ho Scientologist on the planet, church leader David Miscavige threw a special surprise birthday party for the Top Gun actor on the church’s private cruise ship, the […]

Tom Cruise said he needed only an hour to sell Scientology: What would he do in that hour?

[Tom Cruise and Judd Apatow]

On Tuesday, we showed you a couple of pages from Seth Rogen’s new book which included a bizarre 2006 encounter with actor Tom Cruise. Among the strange things Cruise claimed, according to Rogen, was that he needed just an hour to convince Rogen and Judd Apatow that everything they thought they […]

Seth Rogen: Tom Cruise claimed that Big Pharma is trying to make him look insane

The Tom Cruise revelations keep coming. On Twitter, journalist Yashar Ali posted a couple of pages taken from Seth Rogen’s new book which contain a wild anecdote about a conversation Rogen claims he had with the Top Gun […]

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