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My Year In Review: Romney, Tan Mom, and Angelina's Leg

In my extremely entertaining and informative annual wrapup, I break 2012 down for you, starting with the groundswell of libertarianism which helped Obama get re-endorsed despite the still faltering economy. I explain how we can partly thank the fact that Mitt Romney didn't provide a solid alternati ... More >>

Norbert Leo Butz and Katie Holmes In Dead Accounts: My Review

Norbert Leo Butz provides most of the show in Theresa Rebeck's Dead Accounts, with the two-time Tony winner as Jack, a manic, manipulative ex-bank worker who rationalizes that he's entitled to other people's things. Returning to his parents' house in Cincinnati after a serious misdeed, Butz's Jack ... More >>

Scientology Chooses an Odd Time to Open a "National Affairs" Office in DC

Today at 6 pm, Scientology will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a building in Washington DC's Dupont Circle neighborhood. For the last couple of years, Scientology has opened "Ideal Orgs" -- fancy, superfluous new churches in cities around the world in an expensive ploy to make it look like the ... More >>

Voice Readers Raise Thousands For Couple That Refused to Spy for Scientology

We've always been suckers for the final scene of It's a Wonderful Life. No matter how many times we see it, we tear up at the sight of George Bailey's friends coming to his aid in his time of need, proving to him that he really is the richest man in town. Over the last couple of days, we watched so ... More >>

Guess Why Katie Holmes Is Coming To Broadway?

You'd think entering into a marital arrangement with a Hollywood biggie like Tom Cruise would enhance your career a whole lot. But Katie Holmes didn't have a smooth flight on the spaceship, partly because she took time off and also dropped out of The Dark Knight due to scheduling conflicts, to name ... More >>

"Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": A Scientology Insider Gives First Full-Length Interview to the Voice

I've spoken to John Brousseau numerous times over the past couple of years. In 2011, I reported about the photographs he smuggled out of Scientology's International Base east of Los Angeles which documented the work he did customizing a motorcycle, a Ford Excursion, and an airplane hangar for Tom Cr ... More >>

Katie And Suri Are Catholic: Is That Really Better?

Loving, caring Katie Holmes has reportedly gone back to Roman Catholicism and she's taken Suri with her. As a lapsed Catholic, I have to ask: Is that really better than Scientology? And the answer would be: Yeah, a little bit. The Church has started holy wars, destroyed lives, demonized gays, opp ... More >>

Strange Happenings In Tom Cruise's Building

First of all, the media is wrong in continually stating that Tom Cruise has a townhouse on 12th Street. The reality is it's a duplex on 13th Street, in the American Felt Building, where American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis also lives. My sources say Tom bought the place after doing Risky Busin ... More >>

Tom and Katie Blah Blah Blah: Here Are My Latest Ravings

I appeared on the Fox 5 news last night to give my blatherings on the latest round of TomKat gossip, providing the following illustrious quotes: *"Katie knew this was a Scientology marriage. Of course she may have found it more oppressive than it sounded on paper. So I'm not surprised she's gone b ... More >>

Scientology Reacts to TomKat Divorce from Nixon-Era Playbook

On Sunday, we talked to former Scientology executive Marty Rathbun and agreed with his predictions for how the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce would go. The next day, the former couple announced that they had reached a settlement. So how did we do? Prediction 1: Katie would get sole custody of Suri ... More >>

Tom Cruise Gets Visitation Rights? Why Don't We, Ask Ex-Scientologists Cut Off From Family Members

Fans of Katie Holmes are celebrating that she seemed to get just about everything she wanted in her divorce settlement with Tom Cruise -- reportedly, she's getting primary custody of Suri, and Tom will get visitation rights. And with Katie registering with a Catholic Church in Manhattan, it's a good ... More >>

Tom Controlled Katie's Life?

According to a new report, Tom Cruise allegedly kept a close eye on wifey Katie Holmes, sometimes treating her like a fragile possession for whom he needed to call the shots. He allegedly had a movie studio scrap posters of Katie in a "compromising position." And he'd insist she fly on his private ... More >>

Prehistoric Aggression: More Reasons Katie Holmes Was Smart to Avoid Scientology Marriage Counseling

In its print edition today, the New York Times is catching up to something we printed on Wednesday about the weirdness of Scientology's marriage counseling. After news broke that Katie Holmes was divorcing Tom Cruise, various news outlets relied on Scientology PR to give the impression that, as ABC ... More >>

Katie Holmes Will Get Custody, But Tom Cruise Will Save Face For Scientology: Using Marty Rathbun and L. Ron Hubbard as Guides

This afternoon, Tom Cruise's former auditor, Marty Rathbun, laid out his predictions for how the Cruise-Holmes divorce is going to go, based on his extensive history helping to run the church. Rathbun predicts that Tom Cruise will give up sole custody of Suri as long as Katie Holmes goes along with ... More >>

The Trouble With The Tom/Katie Divorce Theories

Everyone's carrying on about how Katie Holmes started becoming oppressed by Scientology and feared that little Suri would get swept up into the whole thing, and she decided that she wanted to protect her precious child! Huh? Wasn't that one of the main points of the marriage?

Tom Cruise's Former Scientology Auditor: "He Should Let Katie Have Everything She Wants"

As we wait to see how nasty the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce becomes, we asked Tom's former Scientology auditor and legal affairs adviser, Marty Rathbun, to speak to us about the last time Cruise was in this position. In 2001, Cruise and Nicole Kidman ended their 10-year marriage, and it was Rat ... More >>

So Katie Holmes Is Being Closely Watched By Scientology?

You can run, but you can't get away. Not really. According to a TV producer who just interviewed me about the TomKat split, there's a car with two imposing Scientology guards sitting in it, stationed right outside Katie's New York place on 25th Street. They are supposedly looking for Katie to appe ... More >>

Radar Gets It Wrong: How Scientology Is Likely To Be an Issue in the Divorce of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

Yesterday, RadarOnline, one of several online tabs trying to churn out incremental stories about the celebrity story of the year, grabbed for attention by quoting two lawyers who said it was unlikely that Tom Cruise's Scientology would be allowed as an issue in his divorce with Katie Holmes. Aside ... More >>

What Katie Holmes is Saving Suri From: Scientology's Interrogation of Children

There seemed to be more public derision than sorrow yesterday greeting the news that Katie Holmes had filed divorce papers in New York while her husband Tom Cruise was in Iceland filming a movie. There was consensus among the tabloids that this split is over Katie's concerns about the couple's chil ... More >>

Scientology Dyspepsia: Commenters of the Week!

Cheezburger.com​We're feeling a bit woozy after this week of Scientology watching here in the underground bunker. Not sure if it was something we ate, or just the thought of Tom Cruise hurling at Gold Base that has us a bit dizzy. Anyway, Mr. Cruise was very much on our minds this week, as h ... More >>

Scientology Investigation of South Park the Last Straw for Katie Holmes: Aussie Magazine Report

​An Australian gossip magazine is reporting something about Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise which is probably about as reliable as most of the stuff written about Tom and Katie by similar tabloids here in the U.S. So why would we care what a supermarket tab from the other side of the world is say ... More >>

Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit

My own schizoid ride between notoriety and nothingness.

Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark! I Was There!

​Above is the image that promoted the original Don't Be Afraid of The Dark--the 1973 TV movie Guillermo del Toro was inspired to remake, as a writer/producer, with Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce. I included it strictly for shock value because you didn't expect it. (Boo!) Well, last night, at th ... More >>

Adam Sandler In Drag: Are You Ready?

Here's the first trailer for Jack and Jill, in which Adam Sandler finally jumps on the Madea/Norbit/Klumps bandwagon and plays his own twin sister from da Bronx. It's sort of a very Freaky Friday, with Adam coming off like...no let me not name any real-life females who might be offended by the comp ... More >>

Kate Middleton: Separated At Birth From...

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Katie Holmes Sues Star Over Drug and Scientology Claims

​Katie Holmes has sued the publishers of Star Magazine for libel, Entertainment Weekly reports. Star printed the story, "Katie Drug Shocker" and refused to retract it after Holmes asked. The story revolved around "Ms. Holmes' controversial use of the Scientology 'e-meter,'" which American Medi ... More >>

Katie Holmes, Don't Sue Me, Girl!

​ Katie Holmes is reportedly suing American Media for 50 million smackers because of their cover story, "Addiction Nightmare: Katie Drug Shocker!" which seems to be misleading and damaging (but don't sue me, American Media!) But anyway, my main point is, don't sue me, Katie Holmes!

Not Even Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Can Save True Love in The Romantics

This Week in the Voice: Infiltrating the Gathering of the Juggalos

​Pop culture -- especially music -- has always had its own respectively fringe and seemingly misunderstood populations. From Phish Phans, to Justin Bieber's bloodthirsty teenage following, and beyond, there always seems to be a group of people deeply saturated in a culture of fanatic obsession ... More >>

Purdue Calls for New Chicken Labels; Dairy Queen Seeks to Stop Blizzard Infringement

​The latest addition to the ever-growing list of food recalls: frozen mice. MiceDirect, which provides mice as snake food for pet owners, is recalling millions of frozen mice due to potential salmonella poisoning. [NY Times] Katie Holmes is flying in her favorite cupcakes, made by Todd Englis ... More >>

Video Proof of Tom and Katie's Unbridled Passion

Here's all the proof you need that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are as romantically on fire as they were the day he proposed to her atop the Eiffel Tower.

Runnin' Scared Fashion Terror Watch: When Footwear Goes Bad

​We at Runnin' Scared make it a policy to adhere to some simple fashion rules. Nothing crazy: Foster is required to wear pants. We eschew Velcro. We do not purchase or in any way promote $995 jeans. And, whether exercising or simply going about our daily blogging business, we never, ever wear ... More >>

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Moving to the Village?

Rumors have been going around lately that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are making a big move to New York. We heard it for the first time from Nat Hentoff, who told us a few weeks ago that he'd heard it from doormen on his block of west 12th Street in the Village.Cruise and Holmes own places in Los An ... More >>

The Katie Holmes Stimulus Package

We're in such bad shape financially that the state tax department has stopped sending out forms to save money. But there is a ray of hope: this weekend's Page Six magazine reports that since arriving in New York to work on All My Sons in July, Katie Holmes has pumped $14 million into the local econo ... More >>

Tom Cruise and Oprah at Katie's Play: A Review

Anonymous Works the Press at Katie Holmes' Broadway Premiere

Tru Loved's Utopian Multiculturalism Almost Flattens Film's Inherent Fluffiness

Tom and Katie Bring Glamour into Our Humdrum Lives

IT'S TOMKAT TIME

Katie Holmes makes her Broadway debut

Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

A Heaping Pile of Salacious Blind Items!

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Compassion: Impossible

What I share and don't share with one half of the creature currently known as TomKat

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