Following up on yesterday's post

[fpb]

Maybe I should start a feature called Freak Shows. Of course Tom Cruise is not as bad as Michael Jackson, but I do not like him, I suspect that he is a very thorough hypocrite, and I suspect that "Katie" Holmes is doing something best described as one-man prostitution. And they are both shills for the most vicious and damaging cult in the world. One way or another, I wish these people would not seek or get publicity. Instead of which, they are getting it all over every channel; and, alas, my own country - which, God knows, does not need a couple of Scientological johnny-come-latelies to make the world notice its beauty and ancientry - is gleefully collaborating with their publicity campaign.

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[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Oh come on you guys - it's terribly romantic. One of them has probably been dreaming of being carried off by Prince Charming for a Cinderella wedding for a long time. These two will no doubt be married "until the stars fall from the sky." (Can they see the Leonid shower there this year?)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I think I can, at least. The interesting feature is that this is not a church wedding (Cruise could not have one, having a living wife married in a Catholic church) nor a state one, but a Scientology rite. Now it so happens that the Italian state does not recognize the Scientologists as a religious body, does not have a concordat with them and certainly does not recognize their marriage rituals. Hence the couple will not be marrying, legally, at all - which makes the delighted and subservient support of the mayor of Bracciano even more heinous. As for Kate Holmes, God help her when Cruise decides he is over her - or has no more need for her - and tells his lawyers to tell her that their marriage never took place and that she does not have a chance in Hell of proving otherwise in any court. Considering that America is one of the few countries that does recognize Scientology as a religion, why on Earth did Cruise have to go to Italy to wed?