TomKat - what do you think?

[Anthony!]

OOhhh - duh!

[Bravus]

/me wonders what the odds on 'Elron' as a name for the baby might be... <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[californiagirl]

LOL

You mean, Elron -- as in L. Ron Hubbard??!

[Neil D]

[:"blue"] Have you all see this. If so, whatcha think? [/]

Tom Cruise Debates Psychiatry On Today Show

By Drog (Canada), Section United States of America

Posted on Sun Jun 26, 2005 at 10:07:58 AM PST

In an interview on NBC's Today Show with Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise aggressively defended his opposition to psychiatry and anti-depressive drugs. This occurred after being asked questions about his criticism of Brooke Shields, who has been taking drugs, including Paxil, for postpartum depression. Cruise is usually known for keeping his cool in interviews, but recently he has been slightly more unbound.

Cruise's statements, including "Psychiatry is a pseudoscience", and "There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance in a body", reflect the beliefs of the Church of Scientology, of which he is a member. The interview became particularly tense when Lauer mentioned that he knew people who had been helped by taking Ritalin, an attention-deficit disorder drug.

"Matt, Matt, you don't even -- you're glib," Cruise responded. "You don't even know what Ritalin is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories, Matt, OK. That's what I've done."

Cruise went on to say: "You don't know the history of psychiatry, I do."

Cruise's claim to have a scientific understanding of the way antidepressants work is countered by the fact that he has not formally studied medicine beyond a high school education.

Lauer insisted that Ritalin helped people: "You're telling me what's worked for people I know or hasn't worked for people I know. I'm telling you, I've lived with these people and they're better," Lauer said.

Cruise hinted that Lauer was promoting Ritalin and Lauer scoffed: "I am not. I'm telling you in their cases, in their individual case, it worked."

The exchange ended when the two basically agreed to disagree. Cruise, who is 42, did admit that one of his goals is to speak more about Scientology in an effort to get people to understand it better.

The rest of the interview will be aired on Monday.

Scientology has historically been at odds with the established medical and mental health community. The rift dates back to the 1950s and Scientology's founding father L. Ron Hubbard. In his book, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health", published in 1950, Hubbard claims that Dianetics (later called Scientology) could cure the majority of human ailments. These claims were sharply disputed by a variety of mainstream science and medical professionals including psychiatrists.

[Amelia]

Well part of what scientiology teaches is that you have aliens living in your body. Scientology cant even pretend to be pseudoscience. IMHO its all meadow muffins. The only thing Cruise will accomplish by promoting scientology and his questionable knowledge of mental health, is to harm his good standing with his fans and the film industry.

[Amelia]

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You mean, Elron -- as in L. Ron Hubbard??!

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Yep, thats what he means.

[Neil D]

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It struck me as a bit strange for Tom to be bouncing on a couch declaring his love to his new girlfriend...I thought it silly, but a bit weird. Now he is declaring war against mental health advocates and Brook Shields. He has no mercy in his rebuke against mental health and when talking with Matt Laur on the Today show, he looses his cool. It is rumored that he fired his former PR ma. who liked Tom to keep his private life a mystery. and replaced him with a Scientolgy fellow sister. Since then, she has advocated a more agressive witnessing of Scientology, much to Tom's reputation and PR loss.

As former Drama couch, I recommend to Tom, drop the scientology, talk up War of the Worlds, and bring back the mysteriously handsome Tom Cruise...

[Amelia]

Possibly Tom has a bit of a chemical imbalance himself?

[Amelia]

OK I think Katie is being brainwashed. And she has her own programer. Here is a bit from a recent interview.

[:"blue"] " Holmes, who co-stars in "Batman Begins," has said she's taking lessons in Cruise's faith of Scientology.

"I'm learning to celebrate my own spirit, my own being," she says.

During the W interview, the actress wouldn't part from Jessica Rodriguez, who is described as her "Scientologist chaperone." Rodriguez's role in Holmes' life remains vague, though Rodriguez says they're "just best friends" since meeting around the time Holmes met Cruise.

"You adore him," Rodriguez told Holmes when the actress was at a loss for words to describe her love."

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