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...John Travolta and Tom Cruise may be just pop-culture icons to you and me, but in Germany their faith in the preachings of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is politically taboo; Scientology is deemed not a religion but a suspect movement whose activities verge on the dangerous edges of extremism. Now Germany's stern attitudes are raising something of an international ruckus, fueled in equal parts by the assertive Church of Scientology, Hollywood luminaries and a U.S. government caught with conflicting objectives...
...they endorsed a high-decibel comparison with the Holocaust. Marcus and others say they oppose any religious persecution. Several say they signed out of respect for the letter's author, entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, whose client list happens to include Scientology's most prominent celebrities, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...
...Party called for a boycott of Cruise's Mission: Impossible. The boycott failed, but it prompted Fields to write and pay for the $56,700 ad. He insists he was not retained by any Scientology organization and never discussed the ad with anyone affiliated with Scientology. Both Cruise and Travolta, he says, have since thanked him for his initiative...
...executives involved are in business with one or the other of the two stars. Sony is profiting from Cruise's Jerry Maguire. Universal has signed Travolta for Primary Colors. Paramount released Cruise's Mission: Impossible. MGM distributed the Travolta hit Get Shorty. Warner has a project with Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman...
...made his name as a borderline school dropout. Now he's going to be President. John Travolta, the only actor from Welcome Back, Kotter still getting good gigs, will play the role of the ambitious Southern Governor in the movie Primary Colors. Some may consider it a comedown from his latest role: that of an angel...