Fair comments Mr. Staub; Andrew Morton had other fish to fry when he took on this project, he could have written a book that would have focused on the old fashioned decency of Tom Cruise, his irresistable urge to be helpful to others in need; still a veritable Boy Scout as he reaches middle age who hasn’t let fame go to his head; did Morton research the uncanny business acumen of Tom Cruise: how he was far ahead of the Paramount Studio attorneys when he personally stuck a deal for residual rights for DVD’s long before the “suits” at Paramount realized their huge potential. Sumner Redstone should have thrown those attorney’s off the lot for their lack of foresight but that’s another story. Andrew Morton it seems was on a mission not only to denigrate Tom Cruise with innuendoes and outright lies but also to belittle his humanitarian parishioner activities within his religion of Scientology. No Mr. Morton was ignoring, twisting and stretching the truth from the outset all the while obsequiously protesting his slavish attention to detailed “research” for the book. The fact is Morton could not have published the book in England or Australia simply because the laws in these countrys require a relatively high level of truthfullness; no Morton could not have substantiated his bizarre statements and characterizations of Mr. Cruise and his parishioner activities; he would have lost his knickers in the legal arena and he knows it. Morton may not yet get off scot-free and admittedly I’d be delighted if the Courts took a big chunk of his payday before he reached the shores of England. Morton even assailed doubters in Hollywood who refused to open the cover of the “biography”. protesting that they were afraid of Tom Cruise “Hollywood Power”, but would see “he was right about Tom Cruise” if they read the book. Morton’s bald assertion fell on deaf ears with many because they actually know Tom Cruise personally and have the utmost admiration and respect for the him; they know the character and person of the man as Morton so vaccuously does not. Mr. Morton was simply flat out wrong; his “Rose-Mary’s baby” slur’s on Cruise’ child was an over-the-top piece of slime; even media types saw through the charade and kept him at arms length. In his PR appearances he plodded along keeping a straight face throughout. Factually this scum-laden effort and Mr. Morton’s paucity of facts and tabloid-style attack appears rather like a first stike in a witchhunt campaign than a “well researched” effort. Lastly, and an intriging conincidence maybe was the theft of an awards ceremony video honoring Mr. Cruise, deliberately edited and slanted to impugn no doubt helped the sales of Mr. Morton’s effort but casts a shadow over Mr. Morton and his ragged effort.

We all thought that Tommy Mapother was a little lady like-to put it bluntly. He also lived in a very Urban part of Kentucky and is from a very influential family. For him or anyone to act like the dad ditched the family to live in poor old Kentucky is a joke. He went to a private school here and all of the best that there is to offer. The common thought is that he is a jerk and that his cousin, also an actor is a much better representative of the truth.

If Morton really wanted to go after Cruise he would have made up evidence to substantiate his alleged homosexuality instead of finding the evidence to deny it.

As for scientology, Cruise has taken side with an organization that is based on lies. It charges enormous amounts of money and now calls them “fixed donations” to maintain its religious business model. It offers psychological services and an end result of “control, knowingly and at will over matter, energy, space, time, life and thought”. In the 1950’s their leader understood the power of celebrity and made a list of America’s influence leaders, asking his followers to seek out their “quarry” (his word). These efforts paid off in the 1980’s with Travolta, Cruise and many others.

Cruise’s role in this cult is not to be diminished. To pretend otherwise would be to ignore much of his adult life. I am glad we have Andrew Morton’s who have the courage to bring this to the surface.

I read the article on Cruise your paper printed about Mortons book. How come a guy like Morton from Britian can come into America and just totally shoot down one of our biggest celebs and all his beliefs and lie on top of it? As you said Morton is not allowed to print in Britian because of his lies on other celebrities. Yet he can come over here and slander a man who has helped make a lot of people a lot of money! What is with that??? All in the name of “free press” more like “free slander”. Whats Morton ever done for anyone himself?? Its probably big pharma who is supporting Morton anyway and paying all his bills ie Lilly has a 1.5 billion lawsuite and 30,000 people suing. All Cruise really did was totally upset the lot of them. So now Morton gets to get rich putting down one of our own. Its great to see ONE paper telling the facts like yours! N

To Nancy Newman:

What are Morton’s “lies”, and what is your evidence? What proof do you have that “big pharma” has anything to do with Morton’s book?

Oh, and…Tom Cruise is hardly the first “one of our own” that Morton has “come over here” to profile, so you can just can the patriotic posturing. Considering the book is currently #1 on the New York Times best seller list, it appears most Americans aren’t particularly offended.

To Sammy McBride: You’ve obviously never read the book or you would know that Morton is NOT the one who makes the claims about Suri being the biological spawn of L.Ron Hubbard. He merely reported that some fanatical Scientologists told him that. Clearly, you prefer to perpetuate that piece of misinformation than tell the truth because it serves your agenda to discredit Mr. Morton. After all, didn’t L.Ron Hubbard himself say that the only way to control people is to lie to them and that lying is justified if it serves your purpose? Who’s doing the lying now?

What a pair of lame comments. RPF for both of you!

A proud S.P.

It is so easy to belittle someone rather than to try to build up. Anyone can make another worse but the real test is, can you make anyone better? This is what Tom Cruise is doing and, per what I have seen so far, also Scientology. There is not much truth to these detracting and bitter statements some make in the blogosphere and they are nothing to bother about. Find out for yourself is the oldest and best advice ever given and it still stands the test of time while lies and slander dies away like flies.