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TONY ORTEGA
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[Valerie Haney and Tom Cruise]
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One hasn’t done quite the business that its creators were hoping, but still, with $91 million in domestic sales and $168 million overseas for a total of $259 million as of yesterday, it was well along to making up for its whopping $290 cost.
Its star Tom Cruise hit the red carpet in various staggered openings in places like Rome and Sydney before showing up in theaters in Atlanta and Washington DC.
Australian singer Kate Ceberano attended the Sydney premiere and then posted a photo of herself arm in arm with Cruise on her Instagram account. Media outlets pounced on it because besides being a fellow entertainer, Ceberano is also an OT 8 Scientologist: She’s spent decades in the Church of Scientology so she could reach the highest level of its “Bridge to Total Freedom,” its incrementally-more-expensive regimen of cosmic, past-life therapy that can take many years to complete.
It’s the latest evidence that Cruise remains dedicated to Scientology, and it’s once again been noted in various press treatments of him, just like last year with the release of Top Gun: Maverick.
But this year, Cruise’s critics have been thinking about a different kind of impossible mission: locating Shelly Miscavige, the wife of Cruise’s best friend, Scientology leader David Miscavige.
Former Scientologist Leah Remini has been raising new questions about Shelly after a recent report by journalist Yashar Ali that called into question how the LAPD handled a 2013 missing person report Remini had filed about Shelly.
And now Valerie Haney, who worked in the private quarters of Dave and Shelly before her own harrowing escape from the organization, has some new details about the private lives of Scientology’s ruling couple that demonstrate Cruise’s direct connection to Shelly’s story. (Both Cruise and the Church of Scientology did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)
As Cruise enjoys another round of press, we wonder if anyone will have a chance to ask him, “Where’s Shelly?”
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Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One hasn’t done quite the business that its creators were hoping, but still, with $91 million in domestic sales and $168 million overseas for a total of $259 million as of yesterday, it was well along to making up for its whopping $290 cost.
Its star Tom Cruise hit the red carpet in various staggered openings in places like Rome and Sydney before showing up in theaters in Atlanta and Washington DC.
Australian singer Kate Ceberano attended the Sydney premiere and then posted a photo of herself arm in arm with Cruise on her Instagram account. Media outlets pounced on it because besides being a fellow entertainer, Ceberano is also an OT 8 Scientologist: She’s spent decades in the Church of Scientology so she could reach the highest level of its “Bridge to Total Freedom,” its incrementally-more-expensive regimen of cosmic, past-life therapy that can take many years to complete.
It’s the latest evidence that Cruise remains dedicated to Scientology, and it’s once again been noted in various press treatments of him, just like last year with the release of Top Gun: Maverick.
But this year, Cruise’s critics have been thinking about a different kind of impossible mission: locating Shelly Miscavige, the wife of Cruise’s best friend, Scientology leader David Miscavige.
Former Scientologist Leah Remini has been raising new questions about Shelly after a recent report by journalist Yashar Ali that called into question how the LAPD handled a 2013 missing person report Remini had filed about Shelly.
And now Valerie Haney, who worked in the private quarters of Dave and Shelly before her own harrowing escape from the organization, has some new details about the private lives of Scientology’s ruling couple that demonstrate Cruise’s direct connection to Shelly’s story. (Both Cruise and the Church of Scientology did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)
As Cruise enjoys another round of press, we wonder if anyone will have a chance to ask him, “Where’s Shelly?”
READ MORE
Valerie Haney: Here’s why the press should be asking Tom Cruise about Shelly Miscavige
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One hasn’t done quite the business that its creators were hoping, but still, with $91 million in domestic sales and $168 million overseas for a total of $259 million as of yesterday, it was well along to making up for its whopping $290 cost.
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