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FILM - Rushes
The Independent, 22 October 1993
By JOHN LYTTLE
The rumbles produced by American Premiere's investigation into the Church of Scientology's influence on the entertainment world continue. Not content with the 2,000-word response allotted them by the editor, Susan Lyne, in this month's issue, the church has also released a 16-page pamphlet entitled Premiere Propaganda, dedicated to proving that John Richardson's piece 'grossly distorted' the truth, used quotes 'out of context' and was deliberately 'antagonistic in tone'. This despite six months of fact checking... However, why not simply sue for libel and be done with it? Perhaps because the church's attention has switched elsewhere, to Los Angeles magazine's cover story on the Scientology disciple Tom Cruise. The story states that the star prefers to hire those who practise his following and refuses to work with those who have publicly rejected his faith. This includes the producer and ex-Church member Don Simpson, who, LA claims, once threw Scientology chairman David Miscavige off the Days of Thunder set, rather than be coaxed into using the Scientology-patented recording device Clearsound. It ended up being employed on Cruise's Far and Away instead.
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