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["Secret Lives: L. Ron Hubbard" preview]


Independent on Sunday Magazine Supplement (previews following week's TV),  Wednesday, 19 November 1997



Television - Overview



The "Church" of Scientology hasn't half been kicking up a fuss about
tonight's Secret Lives (9-10pm C4). Maybe that's because its founder,
science-fiction novelist L Ron Hubbard, is portrayed here as, not a great
spiritual leader now passed on to "research the next level", but a
once-talented writer who completely lost the plot, conned thousands of people
into buying his pseudo-religious soul-cleansing packages, and finally
degenerated into mental cruelty, child abuse and madness. No offence, Mr
Travolta........


                                                                     IM.




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