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From plmlp@mail.bris.ac.uk Sun Sep 14 12:44:35 BST 1997 The Guardian, Wednesday September 10 1997 Diary by Matthew Norman With intrusion so powerful an issue, a paragraph in Friday's London Evening Standard is intriguing. Headlined "Hollywood threat", it reports that "three movie stars have declared war on the press, hiring private detectives to delve into the lives of newspaper editors and photographers. The mystery trio," who, it says, "accuse the press of killing Diana, are putting their wealth behind the huge team of investigators to take on the tabloids at their own game." The trio may be a mystery, but an informed guess might include Tom Cruise and John Travolta - the former a guest at the funeral, the latter famously a dance partner, and both voluble last week about intrusion- and possibly Kirstie Alley. She was not in the Abbey on Saturday; like the other two, however, she is a Scientologist. Readers may recall that the Scientologists are behind Truth and Accuracy in the Media (TAIM), a group dedicated to monitoring and punishing journalistic misbehaviour. A caller reports finding details of those under surveillance "down a back alley" on the Internet, but this we are so far unable to locate. Any help in finding the page would be much appreciated. [Note: they have now found the TAIM page. It's at http://home.earthlink.net/taim/ ]
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