Cruise control

We don’t know about you, but we’re a little concerned about Tom Cruise’s latest act of altruism. The movie star appears so attentive of his co-workers on the set of his new epic film, Steven Spielberg’s  remake of War of the Worlds, that he’s set up a Scientology tent. Manning the booth is a minister of the religion, volunteering his time.

Don’t people have their chance to convert all the time when Scientologists passing out pamphlets practically chase people down on Hollywood Boulevard and in Times Square?

And what if Cruise’s Scientology brethren John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and Lisa Marie Presley follow suit? But we digress. The act has caught the attention of veteran cult-watcher and enemy of religious sects all around, Rick Ross, who has received complaints from people on the crew according to this story in New York magazine.

—Posted by Celeste Ward

February 23, 2005 | Permalink