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Thetans Just Don't UnderstandIndustry insiders worry that rumors of Will Smith's ties to Scientology will hurt his box-office draw
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION? "You don't have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali," Smith told the New York Daily News, "and you don't have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise" (Photo: Getty Images) The movie has held on pretty well since its opening, but it's running into the Dark Knight this weekend and that should hit it hard. It will get past $200 million, but that's not exactly Iron Man or Indiana Jones money (both cruised past $300 million domestically). Hancock will likely only be Smith's fourth-highest grosser. Still, he remains not only the world's biggest star, but also one of the last giant stars, period. He can do anything: comedy, action, romance, drama. He's huge overseas. And he's still got a reputation for being a good guy to work with. But some in Hollywood are watching to see whether Smith's foot is edging toward a banana peel. A series of media stories in the Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere has linked Smith to Scientology, and industry veterans are wondering how the relationship will play out. Smith told Access Hollywood in December that he was introduced to Scientology by his friend Tom Cruise, and that he is "a student of world religion." He also added that "the ideas of the Bible are 98 percent the same ideas of Scientology, 98 percent the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism." In a similar vein, he told Men's Vogue: "The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that's no different from Scientology! I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different." 
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett share a meal with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (Photo: Getty Images) According to the Los Angeles Times, the school started about three years ago as a home school for the Smiths' young children and the children of some other families. The school's administrator said the school is secular, but some staff members are Scientologists, and the school uses "study technology" developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. (That approach focuses on students gaining hands-on experience, mastering subject matter before moving to the next level, and not reading past words they don't understand—most of which sounds more logical than techy, but what do we know?) The Times also quotes Scientology critic David S. Touretzky, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, as saying that the school's website is peppered with Scientology terms. 
HELP ,,, I am surrounded by sucessful Idiots Posted by: Cornelius Earthling on July 16, 2008 8:46 AM Well, if Will wants to be like Tom Cruise, it'll be years for Will to get to where Tom is, the no long secret OT 7 status, where Tom believes he's covered in "body thetans" (surplus bodiless souls that Scientologists who are above the OT 3 level are trained to believe infest EVERYONE on earth, to the tune of tens of thousands of these alien "body thetans" per person on earth; these surplus souls are the result of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction mind because Hubbard speaks the details in the leaked tape lecture to the Class 8 ministers, in 1968, Hubbard's own words on the internet lay out the fantasy belief system, it's on the internet, hope Will takes a look at Hubbard's own voice which is online). Will I doubt will make it up to OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 levels, because by then, he'll have been mercilessly hounded by the media for getting into L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction fraud therapy UFO cult. We are NOT infested with tens of thousands of dead space aliens! If people think this is fantasy, they should search around and find the L. Ron Hubbard leaked lecture in Hubbard's voice that will back up EXACTLY the South Park TV episode. Posted by: chuckbeatty77 on July 27, 2008 2:39 PM It is completely ridicule topretend that any percentage of scientology looks the same as buddhism or chrsitianism. Scientology is a form of pseudo-psychology built on palgiarims, on sci-fi inven,tions like the story of Xenu, and on a wholly sadist system of justice wholly designed to make staffs and clients of the cult guilty of anything happening to their lives, while incitating them to think that scientology is the only cause of whatever positive happens to them. Posted by: rgonnet on July 27, 2008 3:09 PM I know first-hand from hiring and having Scientologists as friends that all this fear-mongering about them is just pure crazy. If you want a friend you can trust to never back-bite you behind your back, find a Scientologist. If you want en employee who'll come in early and stay late when you need him, hire a Scientologist. If you want a tutor for your kid; find a Scientologist. Want a business partner who'll out-work you and then make sure all parties get a fair reward from the profits? That's a Scientologist. I've been in all these situations and have come out on top by trusting Scientologists. So all FUD-mongering by this author and this publication is just playing to humankind's lowest common denominators of fear of something new, trying to sow mistrust of new ideas, new ways, new patterns of thought that give the world a whole new--and more workable--model. You want to know what being a Mormon is all about, ask a Mormon. Got any brains left after reading what hate-sites say about Scientology, and want to know what Scientology is really about? Ask a Scientologist. Not the nearest aspiring electronic gossip. Posted by: Him on July 29, 2008 3:49 AM Advertisement Gosh, and i really liked will. Oh well, another one bites the dust! Posted by: stacie01872 on August 4, 2008 2:11 PM I know first-hand from hiring and having Scientologists as friends that all this fear-mongering about them is just pure crazy. If you want a friend you can trust to never back-bite you behind your back, find a Scientologist.
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