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2008: The year the tide turned on Scientology. The entire Internet seems to be turning on Scientology and the increasingly rabid Tom Cruise. Will the church of L. Ron Hubbard use its army of lawyers to fight back? Or is the free flow of information on the web impossible to stop? Stay tuned.
Celebrity Buzz Will Smith is starting a new private school called New Village Academy, which he insists is NOT a Scientology facility. The Children of Scientology are so much scarier than teen goths!
Celebrity Buzz The leaked Tom Cruise video has spawned a cottage industry of imitators. Some are brilliant, some are bizarre, some prove that it takes more than donning a black turtleneck and laughing maniacally to be funny, and one proves that self-parody is the best kind of parody.
Culture Buzz A group of online hackers openly threatens Scientology. Forces have aligned to unite anonymous hackers and the media (helped along by Nick Denton's balls) in a huge PR blitz against the Church of Scientology in the last week, including protests and DDoS attacks on the Scientology web site, with more fun to come.
Celebrity Buzz Months later, the conspiracy theories calling Katie Holmes' New York City marathon run into doubt are picking up steam. She maintains she really ran 26.2 miles in five and a half hours, but her mystery split times and lack of jogging bra have the doubters coming out in force.
Celebrity Buzz After wrapping a new movie recently, Smith handed out vouchers for a "free personality test" at the local Scientology Center. He was reportedly converted to the cult-like religion by buddy Tom Cruise, and the two now plan on spending more time together doing normal things that Scientologists do, like fearing the wrath of a dangerously low Thetan level and not making out with other dudes.
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