Tom Cruise - Cruise Hits Back In Scientology Book Row

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Tom Cruise Hits Back in Scientology Book Row
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology.Amazon bosses pulled The Complex from their website amid fears it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion's followers.Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Top Gun star Cruise's goodwill visit to the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month (Nov0

Tom Cruise Hits Back in Scientology Book Row
Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology.Amazon bosses pulled The Complex from their website amid fears it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion's followers.Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Top Gun star Cruise's goodwill visit to the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month (Nov0

Tom Cruise in row over Scientology books
Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology. Amazon bosses pulled The Complex from their website amid fears it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion's followers. Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Top Gun star Cruise's goodwill visit to the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month might have prom

Tom Cruise Denied Book Ban Claims
The Complex, by “a former high ranking member” of the British branch of the Church, describes a “dramatic escape” from its “elite para-military group” - the Sea Organization. Five days after the book was published, on October 31, Cruise is said to have dropped into Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle to host a sneak peak at his new movie Valkyrie. Days later Amazon’s UK website stopped selling the book, claiming that someone mentioned in the book had alleged it defamed

News Bites: Tom Cruise Laughs Off Amazon Bully Claims
-Tom Cruise denies he pressured Amazon to stop selling copies of The Complex, the tell-all written by self-described "former high-ranking member" of Scientology John Duignan. Amazon claims the Irish-published tome made "false claims" and U.K. law forbids the sale. 5 days after the book went online for sale, Tom showed up at the Amazon headquarters in Seattle to host a sneak peek of his new film Valkyrie. Hmm...

Cruise dismisses book ban claims
Tom Cruise denies that he urged Amazon to stop selling a book which has anti-Scientology sentiments.

Tom Cruise - Cruise Hits Back In Scientology Book Row
Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology. ...

Tom Cruise calls on Scientologists to buy up tickets to ‘Valkyrie’
Tom Cruise’s Nazi film Valkyrie is due for a holiday release, with advance buzz overwhelmingly negative. Instead of resigning himself to the inevitable fate of a movie-going public that is sure to prefer lighter fare this Christmas, Cruise is calling on Scientologists worldwide to buy blocks of tickets to increase the box office numbers - at least according to Star Magazine: Tom Cruise needs a hit, stat! So he’s turned to the people he can count on - his family and the followers of Scientology

Cruise hits back in Scientology book row
Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology. Amazon bosses pulled The Complex from their website amid fears it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion's followers. Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Cruise's goodwill visit to the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month might have prompted the ban. But

Cruise hits back in Scientology book row
Tom Cruise and leading retail website Amazon have blasted claims the actor was behind a decision to stop selling a controversial book about the Church of Scientology. Amazon bosses pulled The Complex from their website amid fears it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion's followers. Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Cruise's goodwill visit to the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month might have prompted the ban. But

Tom Cruise Accused Of 'Influencing' Amazon Over Withdrawal Of Anti-Scientology Book
Leaving The Author Up In Arms...

Did Tom Cruise Pressure Amazon to Remove Anti-Scientology Book From Its Store?
It looks like Tom Cruise is taking a trip down the river of denial when it comes to his interaction with Amazon.com. According to the New York Daily News, Cruise pressured Amazon to stop selling a book critical of the Church of Scientology. His reps are denying. On Oct. 31, Irish publisher Merlin released “The Complex,” in which [...]

Tom Cruise vs. anti-Scientology book
On Oct. 31, Irish publisher Merlin released "The Complex," in which John Duignan, identified as "a former high-ranking member" of the church in Britain, describes his "dramatic escape" from its "elite para-military group," the Sea Organization. Five days later, Cruise dropped by Amazon's Seattle headquarters to glad-hand staffers and host a sneak peek at his new movie, "Valkyrie." A few days later, Amazon's British Web site stopped selling "The Complex," explaining to customers that someone mentioned in

Tom Cruise vs. Book?
In “The Complex,” Duignan describes his “dramatic escape” from the Church of Scientology’s purported “elite para-military group,” the Sea Organization.  Now, he hopes to escape low book sales by dragging Tom Cruise into the mix, claiming that Tom influenced Amazon’s UK website to stop selling the book. Amazon, however, released a statement explaining that “U.K. law gives us no choice but to remove the title from our catalogue” because someone mentioned in the book (not a ce

Tom denies getting Amazon.com to pull a book about Scientology.
Amazon pulled “The Complex” from their website after they were made aware that it contained controversial claims which could be defamatory to some of the religion’s followers. Author John Duignan has told the New York Daily News he believes Tom’s visit to the company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington last month might have prompted the ban. Tom has denied he had anything to do with the decision and Amazon bosses insist the book was pulled because it possibly contravenes Britain’s st

Did Tom Have Anti-Scientology Book Pulled?
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Rush & Molloy: Author cites Cruise control
Tom Cruise is denying that he pressured Amazon to stop selling a book critical of the Church of Scientology.

Scientology Babes: Jennifer Lopez & Leah Remini
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Scientology Babes: Jennifer Lopez & Leah Remini
Scientology pals, Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini braved the crowds and went on a shopping spree on Black Friday. They hit up Maxfield, Neiman Marcus and Loro Piana. Posted by Sassys | Like: 5 | Dislike: 0 Discuss   Add this link to... 

Cruise Gets Anti-Scientology Book Yanked from Amazon
Tom Cruise is denying claims that he strong-armed Amazon into pulling an anti-Scientology book from its virtual store shelves last month. The book in question is John Duignan’s “The Complex,” in which the former high-ranking member details his escape from Scientology’s elite “Sea Organization” (sounds gay). According to the NY Daily News On Oct. 31, Irish publisher Merlin released “The Complex.” Five days later, Cruise dropped by Amazon’s headquarters to glad-

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Britney Performs On TV, Doesn't Suck
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Tina Fey does Vanity Fair.
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Tom Cruise Makes Barbara Walter’s ‘10 Most Fascinating People of 2008′ List
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