Well, don’t tell the Scienos, but Cloverfield is a documentary. That’s actually Xenu stomping around NYC.
[speaking of monsters, giant hijack here]
So, I can’t remember, was the whole saga of the fued Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw had with Cruise posted here at the Dope? I read it in a few different places but I can’t remember if this was one of them. Anyone know any updates on that?
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, apparently, Cruise is (allegedly, ok?) on a mission to destroy Spielberg and Capshaw’s marriage, which is, by all accounts, a very strong and healthy marriage, but Cruise has it in for Capshaw, who used to be a Scieno but got the hell out pretty quickly. Cruise has been trying to recruit Spielberg since the Minority Report days, with no luck. He worked extra hard on it during the filming of War of the Worlds, when he finally stepped over the line, and Capshaw got involved and Cruise threatened her. It’s a whole big gossipy mess, but most of it was witnessed by several different parties and they’re telling their stories incognito to a magazine in London.
For anyone who’s in the mood for some down and dirty gossip,read through this thread, but don’t click yet (if you were going to), because I need to explain some of it first because it’s a bit convoluted. That link goes to another message board, an anti-scientology board called Operation Clambake. The first post there has a tinyURL link that goes to a thread at a different message board, Gossip Rocks. Don’t click on that tinyURL link yet either until I explain.
Someone at Gossip Rocks has a friend in London, who got this magazine, and transcribed the Blind Items and sent them back to her to be posted. If you read the story at Gossip Rocks, you’ll go crazy, because it’s VERY hard to read, since no one is identified by name…that’s the point of a “Blind Item”…an identifying characteristic about the person is mentioned, then the juicy bit of gossip, and the reader has to figure out who it’s referring to. In this case, in the original Blind Item, Spielberg is identified as “Mr. Moviemaker,” Kate Capshaw is identified as “Mrs. Moviemaker,” and Tom Cruise is identified as “Mr. Moviestar” (with Katie Holmes identified as “Ms. Wannabe Mrs. Moviestar”).
It’s hell to read because your brain is constantly having to replace all the Blind IDs with real names, but there’s an easy solution. If you click on the link above to go to Operation Clambake, instead of clicking on the tinyURL in the first post to go to Gossip Rocks, go to the 2nd post. You’ll see that someone did a Search and Replace and replaced the Blind IDs with the names. It’s much much easier to read and you can breeze through the whole saga very quickly. Got that?
Is any of it true? I don’t know, but knowing a bit about the clams, and a bit about things that happened while Cruise was filming and promoting War of the Worlds, it all sounds very possible. When they were filming WotW, Cruise butted scieno in whereever he could. He even set up scieno tents on the sets. That was well-documented during filming. During the promotion of the movie, Tom was happily going bonkers. That was the time of smarting off to Matt Lauer (“you’re glib…you don’t know the history of psychiatry, I do”), and that was also the same timeframe Tom was going apeshit gaga over Katie, jumping up on Oprah’s couch and whatnot. It was gossiped then that Spielberg was getting increasingly annoyed at Cruise because instead of promoting War of the Worlds, Tom was using cameratime to promote scientology and his love for Katie.
That’s where the story begins…
For those who read it, happy reading! For those who don’t know or care what the fuck I’ve just been going on about, carry on. [/speaking of monsters, giant hijack here]