Shel Belinkoff wrote:
In which this statement can be found:
"Don't immediately assume that he is ruining himself," said Allan Mayer,
managing director of Los Angeles-based Sitrick and Co., which regularly
handles celebrities' PR crises. "He himself has said he doesn't care, and
who are we to say he's made a mistake? . . . What's the point of being a
hugely successful and powerful movie star if you can't talk about the
things that matter to you? We may think it's silly and bizarre, but it's
obviously important to him."
I thought a large part of the "point of being a hugely successful and
powerful movie star" was to be in demand to do your job in more
interesting roles and make more money at it ...
I'm not a believer in Scientology, nor do follow or advocate any religion
specifically, however, there are many people with numerous causes and
beliefs who are extremely outspoken about them, who sometimes get their
facts wrong, and who are also in the public eye. Most of these people are
not branded with the label "weird" just because of those beliefs.
Many are!
Tom
Cruise is more visible than many celebrities because of his huge box office
draw and his world-wide fame. He's the ability to make his views heard in
ways others don't.
The article portrays Cruise as something that he may not be - out of
control. He is a primary spokesman for Scientology, if not the primary and
premier spokesman. It's his job to get people interested in the scheme, and
he may even believe what he says. But is that any more weird than the way
other proselytize? He carries his views to the extreme ... so do many
others.
It was my understanding that his job is in the entertainment industry,
specifically as an actor in movies. (He's pretty good at that job.)
I also understood that he was, most likely, interviewed by various
people as part of his job making movies (he was supposed to be promoting
one, I think.)
I don't think he was invited onto those particular shows to provide an
official Church of Scientology response to Brooke Shields' book.
Wikipedia is bullshit ....
you mean it didn't happen?
