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Music
January 16, 2013
Pazz & Jop: Taylor Swift, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey: The Year in Blond Ambition
How dare they have an image
Blogs
October 22, 2012
What I Learned At the CMJ Panels: Not Much
Last week, as a self-assigned endurance test (and out of an occasional true interest in the subject matter), I attended as many CMJ panels as I possibly could -- the good, the bad, the sparsely attended, and the boring -- with a tape recorder, a cup of iced coffee (not quite willing to submit to the ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2012
Scientology President's Son Died of Prescribed Methadone While Sick With Pneumonia
I talked earlier today to Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner of Los Angeles County, who tells me that he's ruling Alexander Jentzsch's death an accident. The 27-year-old son of Scientology president Heber Jentzsch was found dead on the morning of July 3 at the home of his in-laws. Winter has now d ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
August 24, 2012
Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in Lisa McPherson Death
For the last year or more, Mark Bunker has been releasing short excerpts from his upcoming Scientology documentary Knowledge Report, and yesterday, he released a doozy. Bunker had told me that he'd interviewed former church executive Marty Rathbun, and in this excerpt, we see Rathbun addressing the ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2012
Jason Beghe's Letter to Scientology Attorneys: Yes, I'll Settle Your $1 Million Lawsuit for $19K
Breaking news that will be of interest to Scientology watchers: just this afternoon, Jason Beghe's lawyer notified church attorneys Gary Soter and Kendrick Moxon in a letter that the actor is accepting their offer to settle a lawsuit for $19,000. After the jump, we have that letter for you. I talk ... More >>
Film
August 15, 2012
Disney’s Timothy Green Jerks Tears, Rates Jeers
Green but not good for you
Blogs
August 5, 2012
Movie Night at Scientology's New York "Org": The Village Voice Gets Proselytized!
The image you see here means a lot to us at the underground bunker, where we keep an eye on all things Scientology related. And on this lazy Sunday morning, we hope you'll indulge us as we attempt to explain what it represents. Andreas Heldal-Lund, meet Chill EB. Chill, meet the devil.
Blogs
August 2, 2012
Scientology's Concentration Camp for Its Executives: The Prisoners, Past and Present
This weekend, we published a two-part story about the rather amazing 32-year Scientology career of John Brousseau, whose adventures included driving for L. Ron Hubbard, spending time in the Sea Org's prison program the RPF, and working in the Cruise household with Tom and Katie Holmes. What seemed ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2012
Watch Mimi Faust Talk about Losing Her Mother to Scientology
One of our tipsters put together for us this portion of Monday night's Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta that features Mimi Faust talking about her mother choosing Scientology over her own children. In this scene, you see her dealing with what is still deeply felt trauma over being abandoned at only 13 years ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Scientology's Worlds Colliding: Bert Leahy and David Edgar Love Together in Oklahoma on August 25!
To even begin to explain why it's significant that a Texas man named Bert Leahy and a Montreal man named David Edgar Love are going to meet up in the godforsaken town of Canadian, Oklahoma on August 25 would probably strain most news organizations. But we have an advantage: Bert Leahy and David Lov ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2012
Video from the Memorial of Alexander Jentzsch; Also: Scientology Commenters of the Week
Filmmaker Mark Bunker put together this video of Friday's memorial held Friday for Alexander Jentzsch aboard the ship Spirit out of Long Beach Harbor in California. It's a simple event with a few people on a boat. But don't underestimate its significance. Since she sent out a message to thousands ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2012
SCIENTOLOGY TV: FALL LINEUP REVEALED!
Last year, the Church of Scientology bought the studios that had been the home for KCET, the public television station in Los Angeles. Now, news organizations are reporting that Scientology plans to use the facility for its own TV station, and broadcast the way other religions do. So far, however, ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
SCIENTOLOGY CRUMBLING: An Entire Church Mission Defects as David Miscavige Faces Leadership Crisis
For several years, we've been reporting about a crisis in Scientology as key members of the church -- including some of its highest-ranking former executives -- have left the organization and spoken out about its abuses. One by one, longtime, loyal Scientologists have announced that they are fed up ... More >>
Blogs
July 5, 2012
SCIENTOLOGY PRESIDENT'S SON DIES; DEATH OF ALEXANDER JENTZSCH KEPT FROM MOTHER, AN EX-MEMBER
I just received this anguished e-mail from Karen de la Carriere, formerly a member of the Church of Scientology who studied directly under L. Ron Hubbard and who was at one time married to the current (and disappeared) president of the Church of Scientology International, Heber Jentzsch... My son i ... More >>
Blogs
July 4, 2012
Scientology's Own Promotional Material Attests to 15-Year-Olds in the Sea Org
As we explained yesterday, TMZ probably messed up when it claimed that Katie Holmes was filing for divorce because she feared that her husband Tom Cruise and Scientology would send her daughter Suri away to the Sea Org, which is a "boot camp." We went to some lengths yesterday to point out that the ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
July 1, 2012
The Leap Second Will Destroy Your Social Media
And we were scared of a measly heat wave.At midnight Saturday, while the ConEd officials were facing off against its workers, the Earth's timekeepers (they exist!) held back the world's atomic time for exactly one second to keep it in line with the planet's rotation. The Network TIme ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
June 30, 2012
The Heat Wave Will Destroy Your Social Media
Yesterday night, while we were blasting the A/C indoors, catching up on the second season of Breaking Bad via Netflix, we noticed that the reliable video service was down. So we decided to snap a picture of the screen, add a Hudson filter and upload it to Instagram. But that wasn't working ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2012
Scientology Plays Denver's Police Chief Like a Violin
We recently brought you footage of Sacramento's mayor, former NBA player Kevin Johnson, gushing about Scientology at the opening of an "Ideal Org" in that city. Since that fancy new building opened in California's capital, additional celebrations have occurred in places like Orange County and Denve ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2012
How Hooters -- Yes, Hooters -- Could Mess Up Scientology's Refund Scam
We've been telling you for the past year about the large number of longtime Scientologists who are walking away from their church. It seems like nearly every week we hear about someone like Dave Fagen who gives up after years of dedication because of the continuing crisis over David Miscavige's lead ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
The Master Gets Its Scientology On in 2nd Trailer
The second trailer to Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film The Master was just released, and this time we get a look at Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams along with Joaquin Phoenix. We gave PTA credit for being wily with his first trailer -- for years, we've all been waiting to see how much The ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2012
Scientology Book Bonanza! Jeff Hawkins Delivers, and More Reasons for Librarians to Hide
Friday, we told you about a spate of new books on Scientology that are in various states of publication. We're happy to say that there's even more on the way, and we wanted to highlight one you can get into your e-book reader right now. If you read our stories about Scientology, you've seen how muc ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
It's a Scientology Book Avalanche! RUN FOR COVER!
A slow week was suddenly broken wide open as we were hit with an avalanche of new books, promised books, and barely-begun books with one thing in common: Disapproval of David Miscavige's brand of Scientology. After the jump, we'll tell you about the book that legendary cult-busting attorney Paul Mo ... More >>
Blogs
June 7, 2012
Red Mango Launches 'Honey Badger' Flavor
"Try it...or not. We don't care." In true Honey Badger fashion, that's the motto of Red Mango's new flavor -- named after the Honey Badger video that went viral to draw nearly 46 million views since January 2011. The Honey Badger flavor is made with nonfat frozen yogurt and honey.
Blogs
June 1, 2012
AUDIO: "Touch Me," Creepy Scientology Goon Repeatedly Tells Protester
"Touch me" the man says again and again. "Touch me." In what should go down as one of the most skin-crawling audio tapes in recent Scientology history, we hear a church operative repeatedly challenge protester David Love to provoke an incident so that Love can find himself in a world of legal hurt ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2012
Is Luka Magnotta, Canadian Porn Actor and Murder-Dismembering Suspect, a Scientologist?
As the world tries to hunt down porn actor and murder suspect Luka Rocco Magnotta, Canada's National Post today pointed out something interesting -- Magnotta, 29, apparently converted to Scientology a few years ago. Activists over at WhyWeProtest.net, naturally, were on to this months ago, when Mag ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2012
Amanda Palmer Dramatically Answers Questions About Her Connection to Scientology
A few weeks ago, we noted that Amanda Palmer -- the musician who performs as a solo act and as one half of the Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn -- made a rather dramatic appearance at Kate Bornstein's book party, held at Dixon Place. Right about that same time, Palmer was also making news for taking ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2012
How You Can Help a Film About Kate Bornstein Happen (Plus: Scientology Sunday Funnies!)
Filmmaker Sam Feder has opened Kickstarter funding for a documentary about recent Village Voice cover gal Kate Bornstein. Go to Sam's page to find out how you can help finish the project!
Blogs
May 13, 2012
Lisa Marie Presley Says "So Long" to Scientology
Last month, we noted that Lisa Marie Presley's single "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," which she released ahead of her new album, Storm and Grace, came with lyrics that read like a kiss-off to the Church of Scientology, even using some of Scientology's jargon -- like the very telling word suppressive. ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
The Best Reasons Why You Should Doubt the Allegations in the John Travolta Sex-Assault Lawsuit
Monday evening, we wrote that the sex-abuse lawsuit filed against John Travolta read like something someone had imagined in a dream. The account by "John Doe" that was described in the lawsuit's complaint stretched credulity beyond the breaking point, and was one of the sloppiest jobs of lawyering t ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Amanda Palmer Loved Kate Bornstein's Memoir So Much, She Crashed the Book Party
Tuesday night, we were invited to play a small part in Kate Bornstein's book party at the experimental theater Dixon Place, to celebrate the release of her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Earlier that day, our cover story about Kate had popped up on the website, and the print version of this ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
How Debbie Cook Exposed Scientology and Got Away Scot-Free
Our legal expert, Manhattan attorney Scott Pilutik, has been busy fielding questions since news broke earlier this week that the Church of Scientology had settled its lawsuit with former executive Debbie Cook and her husband Wayne Baumgarten. After the jump, he takes a detailed look at the court's ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Food Porn without Pictures?
Pinterest is the place to collect beautiful and inspiring images these days. But what's a moodboard of food porn without the porn? Pure poetry!
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Charges Dropped Against Scientology Executive Jan Eastgate
Stunning news out of Australia -- the public prosecutor in New South Wales has suddenly dropped serious felony charges against Jan Eastgate and apparently has no plans to pursue further the allegation that she had coached an 11-year-old girl to lie about being sexually abused. "I have always mainta ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2012
Writers of the Future, Today! Scientology Gets Its Party On
Oh my, do we have a treat for you today. For several weeks now, we've been reporting on the "L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future" contest. For several years, certain writers have questioned the connection between the contest and Scientology, which owns and operates it. And recently ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2012
This is How You Finance an "Ideal Org"
Tuesday morning we included a recruitment video from the Scientology "org" in Orange County, California in our post about Lisa Marie Presley. It was loads of fun, but then our tipsters alerted us last night that it was just the tip of the iceberg. Orange County, in fact, has lots of diverting vide ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Is Lisa Marie Presley Telling Off Scientology in a Song?
For a couple of days now, our excellent tipsters have been alerting us to this new song from Lisa Marie Presley. It's not that they're big Lisa Marie fans -- although this song really isn't bad, I must say. No, the reason Scientology Watchers are fascinated by Lisa Marie's new single, "You Ain't S ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2012
Marty Rathbun is Big in the U.K., Still Waiting for Major U.S. Treatment
This weekend's lengthy profile of Marty Rathbun by The Independent's Guy Adams really brought back a lot of memories for us. Last year, we brought you frequent coverage of the bizarre "Squirrel Busters" siege at Rathbun's house near Corpus Christi, Texas. For some five months, a strange spiritual s ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2012
Sunday Funnies: LRH Gets an Answer from Tricky Dick!
We've shuffled up our schedule a bit here in the underground bunker -- it was either that, or the cats would be dining on our corpse with the klaxons going off for weeks before we were discovered. Now that things are a bit more relaxed, we can take in the past week with a Sunday morning warm beverag ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
VIDEO: Proof that L. Ron Hubbard Was the Most Awesome Human Being Ever
Just a few weeks after the Scientologists at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida experienced it for themselves, here it is: video from this year's L. Ron Hubbard birthday event. On March 13, LRH would have turned 101 years old (if he hadn't so wisely dropped his meat body in 1986 to research hig ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2012
Scientology's Concentration Camp: Where Can Miscavige Put "The Hole" Now?
As we wait for the next development in the Church of Scientology's lawsuit against its former employee, Debbie Cook, we continue to think about something the church told ABC for its recent Nightline story on the case... "In a letter to ABC News, a lawyer for the Church of Scientology flat out denie ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2012
Scientology's 'Writers of the Future' Contest Loses a Participant After Our Expose
In 2000, a quantum physicist in Ithaca, New York named Carl Frederick decided to try his hand at writing science fiction. Two years later, he was named a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. The next year, 2003, he did even better, winning a quarterly first prize for his sho ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Jonny Jacobsen: A Q&A with Europe's Premier Scientology Blogger
Last month, when a highly complex fraud trial was completing its appeal phase in France -- which considers Scientology a business scam, not a religion -- there was only one place we went for the latest information. In the past, we've described Jonny Jacobsen's blog, Infinite Complacency, as "murder ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
In Clearwater for LRH's 101st Birthday: Tales of Disconnection and Scientology Creepiness
One of the highlights of a full day here in Clearwater, Florida -- spiritual mecca for the Church of Scientology -- was meeting Darth Xander and watching him chase a Flag bus to inform Sea Org members that they can leave if they want to. In town over the weekend to celebrate L. Ron Hubbard's 101st ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2012
Scientology Intervention: Commenters of the Week!
It's not often that things are calm and soothing here inside the underground bunker. But after Judge Stryker gave the order yesterday for everyone just to chill out, we took it to heart. Even the cats are taking a break from tearing up the furniture. There was plenty of activity this week, though, ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Scientology: Told to Chill in Texas, and Another Embarrassing Admission in Israel
After a flurry of court filings in the Church of Scientology's lawsuit against former church executive Debbie Cook, there was a showdown of sorts this morning at the Bexar County, Texas courthouse. Leading up to the hearing, Scientology's attorneys had been pushing for a fast resolution to the case ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2012
Angelina's Leg Has Started A Phenomenon
Angelina Jolie with her leg sticking out of that slit in her dress may well become as iconic an image as Marilyn with her shmatte flying up. When she swiveled out on the Oscars with her hand on her hip and her chickeny leg out, it prompted instant homage (The Descendants' writers did it with tuxes ... More >>
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