This is better:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…

Oh, we all know they're secretive maniacs hell-bent on power. What I want from Paul Haggis is a Due South reboot.

I'm just having fun playing with the names.

Ziggy Haggis!

We all know the media/Hollywood is scared shitless of lawsuits when it comes to criticizing Scientology, but on what legal grounds, exactly, does the church continually terrorize people behind these projects? Anyone?

Well, you know that the Scientologists run Hollywood, right?

@5 Actually, it's the Jews. I kid! I kid! But really, nobody in that town who wants to work gets much upside by potentially offending powerful people for their faith--even if it's a wacky cult like Scientology.

@5 for the win. @6 for the ignoring the obvious. (Fuck's sake, the Scientology campus takes up like three square blocks around L. Ron Hubbard Blvd in Hollywood).

The only way it's going to be made is by a group of independents who never plan to work in Hollywood again. That or the scam actually falls completely apart, but don't count on that happening for at least another 20 years or so (more if they manage to recruit some "Young Hollywood" to replace Tom Cruise and John Travolta as their top draws).

Everyone should read the Wikipedia entry on "Operation Snow White". Largest known infiltration of our government evers. Still gives me the willies.

@7, my bro, who's an actor, used to live 3 blocks away from the Scientology Celebrity Center on Franklin Avenue. While he thinks they are nuts, you could tell that he and his friends held them in a bit of awe--as if joining up could really help your career.

Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis (?!?) have something in the works, apparently: http://www.zimbio.com/Theresa+Duncan/art…

@1 That was fascinating and scary. And quite an education. My schizophrenic cousin joined the "Church", before he got really sick. They dropped him when he had a psychotic episode, and he killed himself shortly thereafter. His father worked at the FBI at the time and began (well, took part in initiating) an investigation into the local scientology organization. He ALSO committed suicide, maybe two years later, by jumping naked from the Watergate. (It wasn't in the news at all, unlike that CIA guy). We were told it was a suicide, but my father and his sister didn't see any signs of distress or psychosis at the time, and think to this day that it was murder and that he was wrestled from the shower and THROWN over his balconey.

Another thing. It seems like some of those meditative/cognitive techniques are perfectly valid and practiced in contexts like meditations and Buddism maybe. It's just that scientologists overlay this fantastical mythology on otherwise not-unusual cognitive phenomena.