Who is Tom's Best Friend? He is an 8th grade dropout cult leader with a very questionable background. He lives on a secret base in Hemet, California and is known to run the cult of scientology with an iron fist. There are many Court records and affidavits on line of his personal cruel and illegal behaviour toward cult members and anyone critical of him or his cult, as well as information about the bizzare and often abusive cult of scientology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miscavige
David Miscavige
Born: April 30, 1960
Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation: Chairman of the Board,
Religious Technology Center (RTC)
Salary: USD$Unknown
Net worth: USD$Unknown
Spouse: Shelly (Michelle) Miscavige
Children: None
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LOS ANGELES -- When David Miscavige recounts his rise to power in the Church of Scientology -- a journey that began when he quit high school at age 16 -- it is mostly a story of war. War against renegade Scientologists. War against Scientology’s critics. War against its one-time arch enemy, the IRS.
But Scientology’s 38-year-old leader insists he is a determined peace-maker as well.
After years spent well outside the public’s radar screen, Miscavige says he plans to step forward now and take a central role in trying to end differences with those who still oppose Scientology, the self-improvement “technology” devised by the late L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1950s.
Atricle continues here:
http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html
Time Magazine May 6, 1991 page 50.
Special Report (cover story)
Copyright © 1991 Time Magazine
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
Ruined lives. Lost fortunes. Federal crimes. Scientology poses as a religion but really is a ruthless global scam -- and aiming for the mainstream
by Richard Behar
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/time-behar.html
This is just a small part from the CNN report:
"Cruise's best friend, David Miscavige, was best man, and the matron of honor was Holmes' sister, Nancy Blaylock.
The 20-minute ceremony ended with "a never-ending kiss" that prompted some of the guests to shout "stop, stop!" Armani said.
In his statement, Robinson said Cruise and Holmes "officialized their marriage" in Los Angeles before coming to Italy. "
David Miscavige, Scientology Leader and Best Man at Tom Cruise's
Wedding, Spoke to ABC News' 'Nightline' in 1992
Nov. 18, 2006 - On Feb. 14, 1992, ABC News aired what Scientology
leader David Miscavige said was his first-ever interview withTed
Koppel, ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2664713&page=1
Cruise's Best Man: Scientology's 'Pope'
Scientology's David Miscavige gave a rare interview to "Nightline" in
1992.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2664558
Where all of the honeymooners went after the TomKat wedding:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2003-12-04-paradise-found_x.htm
Why did David Miscavige go on the honeymoon? Threesome maybe?
TOMKAT WEDDING...$CN STUNT
By Fiona Hudson in London
November 21, 2006 01:23am
THE fairytale Italian wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has been branded a stunt after the pair admitted they got hitched days before the celebrity bash. Critics labelled the lavish ceremony a sham intended to promote the Church of Scientology. Bracciano Mayor Patrizia Riccioni is considering taking back the honorary citizenship she offered the couple before they wed because the small village was so offended by the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Cruise. "It would have been nice for them to stop and wave," she said.
A Catholic priest in the village, Father Nicola Fiorentini, said the town felt insulted.
"It wasn't a wedding at all. It was just for publicity," he said.
The bride and groom are believed to be honeymooning in the Maldives - joined by best man David Miscavige, who is the head of Scientology in the US.
It has emerged a Scientology adviser sat at every table during the reception at the Odescalchi Castle to answer questions guests had about the unusual ceremony.
A more puzzling question has popped up in the wake of the release of the wedding photo - how is it that it appears to show Cruise, 44, looking taller than his third wife? In most photos before the wedding, Holmes appears to be taller than the Mission Impossible star.
The happy couple were seen boarding a plane about 6am (Rome time) after the wedding, sent off by wedding guests looking tipsy and still dressed in their formal attire. Jennifer Lopez reportedly ordered 12 pizzas at her hotel after the wedding.
Wedding a 'Scientology stunt' | NEWS.com.au http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20793606-2,00.html
3 MINUTE KISS ~ ?
CRUISE AND HOLMES ENJOY THREE MINUTE KISS
2006-11-19 15:47:01 -
TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES surprised guests at their wedding yesterday (18NOV06) by indulging in a three-minute kiss.
The newlyweds sealed their marriage with a prolonged smooch, oblivious to the 150 family and friends at the ceremony.
But the couple's public display of affection was met with amusement from onlookers, with guests jokingly pleading with Cruise and Holmes to cease.
Several attendees yelled, "Stop! Stop!" after it became clear the kiss was a long-lasting one.
NEWS CRUISE AND HOLMES ENJOY THREE MINUTE KISS Music, movie & Entertainment News
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TomKat Wedding
Opera singer Andrea Bocelli sang at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' crazy wedding as a "gift," but he refused to sing "Ave Maria" during the ceremony.
The reason: Bocelli, a Catholic, didn’t want to disrespect the Roman Catholic Church.
That makes him the only Catholic who actually took a stand as Cruise, who was born Catholic, orchestrated a non-Catholic Church sanctioned wedding right in the Vatican’s backyard.
Not even Holmes’ poor parents, whose other three daughters were married in the faith, could put a stop to the proceedings.
The question now is, what does the future hold for Cruise? The New York Post called him a "nut" on its front page Sunday. "Saturday Night Live" mocked him in its update section for having space aliens at the reception. He has no idea that he’s the object of worldwide ridicule for this ludicrous pageant. Cruise is clueless. In a way, he’s become the new Michael Jackson.
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It didn’t help that if the wedding guests weren’t members of Scientology (John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman, etc.) they were otherwise people to whom Cruise is more or less a stranger: Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Richard Gere, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and Bruce Willis .
Each and every one of them was there because they were connected to Cruise through his publicist or talent agent.
Of course, new best pal Brooke Shields, who was so offended by Cruise 18 months ago, was there (just wait 'til we hear about Brooke or producer-husband Chris Henchy doing a deal with United Artists).
You might ask: Where were the people who used to be billed by publicists back in the day as the Cruise pals? That list included Jamie Foxx, Cuba Gooding Jr., Paul Newman, Steven Spielberg and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Indeed, they were not present, although "Jerry Maguire" director Cameron Crowe and "Mission: Impossible 3" helmer J.J. Abrams happily showed up.
Cruise’s best man, according to wire reports, was Scientology chief David Miscavige. Also close by Cruise’s side: Tom Davis, the son of actress Anne Archer, a kind of a second-in-command to Miscavige and Cruise’s steady companion.
And while Katie’s sister, Nancy, was listed as the maid of honor, Holmes’ more recent best friend, Jessica Feshbach Rodriguez — daughter of Scientology’s first family and Katie’s "minder" since she joined Cruise’s camp in April 2005 — was front and center.
Not there: Any of Katie’s friends with the exception of a couple of super-secret loyalists. But no costars from any TV shows or films were invited, including the cast of "Dawson’s Creek."
Not invited: Jack South, who for 20 years has been the husband of Cruise’s mother, Mary Lee Mapother. He was still at home in Florida late last week watching football on TV and insisting to me during a very nice phone call that his wife had not left him forever.
I reported in this space a few weeks ago that Cruise’s mother had headed to Cruise’s Beverly Hills mansion in April when baby Suri was born.
Mapother had for years been a Eucharistic minister at the Roman Catholic Church in San Marco Island, Fla., but apparently she too has joined Scientology, along with Cruise’s sisters. Two of the sisters homeschool Cruise’s adopted children with Nicole Kidman, Connor and Isabella, in Scientology.
In the end, the wedding may be a fitting final chapter in Cruise’s career, a blissful blaze-out. He seems to have no idea that in America, at least, there are no fans left to take him seriously.
It will be all but impossible now for a new generation of film fans to see past his erratic public behavior, the Oprah couch shenanigans, the decrying of psychiatry and now the rejection of Catholicism for a religion invented by a science-fiction writer. Luckily, he has lots and lots of money.
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