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Scientology to Retrain Star

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BROKEN BONDS Star EIC Bonnie Fuller, LaClaire (Photos: Getty Images)
Remember the good old days when Star was cool with Scientology? A bigwig in L. Ron's clique does, and he wonders what the hell has happened.

Radar opened a can of worms when trying to confirm the rumor that Tom Cruise is building a $10 million bunker in Telluride, CO, as protection from Galactic Confederacy dictator Xenu. Vice president of L.A.'s Celebrity Scientology Center Greg LaClaire said, "I don't speak for our parishioners, but it's a complete fabrication. Bunkers aren't even remotely a principle in Scientology."

Soon LaClaire's incredulousness turned to sadness—inflicted by the cruel and unrelenting hands of Star magazine, which broke the bunker story. LaClaire said, "They're having a lot of fun running beliefs that we supposedly have. I told them, 'You'd better call me [before running such items]. You can't just trump up beliefs about a religion.'" (Apparently he's never seen the magic they've worked with Jennifer Aniston!)

After politely excusing himself for venting, LaClaire confided that he has a good relationship with most of the celebrity weeklies, but lately things between he and Star have been strained since a few of his favorite staffers left. He wants to reconcile and even extended an invitation to editors to come and take a tour of the Celebrity Center any time they want, free of charge. LaClaire just wants things to go back to the way they were, because, "You're going to be covering Scientology for the next 2,000 years."

LaClaire said he planned to call Star right after speaking to Radar to give them the business, but not before giving us a taste of what's to come for the tabloid: "Radar," he said, "has been unfair to Scientology over the last 8 to 10 years."

To be fair, we've changed a lot since the late '90s. And we're in print now, not just a bulletin board on Prodigy.

Comments

This is very funny! And very informative. It took 8-10 years to stand uppublically and say that Star has been unfair???!! Looks to me that this is evidence that Greg LaClaire has been 'retrained' by his cult, Scientology, according to what L. Ron Hubbard states is to be done:

"Experience has shown that defense is only effective when one sorties
or attacks."

"When we did not give a lot of time and energy and funds to knocking out
real enemies we came close to losing the lot."

HCO PL : TARGETS, DEFENSE
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/CoS/targets-defence.txt

My advise to Star and Radar is to get ready for a war with these nuts. Ask Richard Behar )( Forbes & Time ) what it's like.
http://www.lermanet.com/scientologyscandals/behar.htm

Posted by: Mary McConnell on September 28, 2007 10:42 AM

By the way, if bunkers have nothing to do with scientology then why does scientology have so many of them?

Posted by: Mary McConnell on September 28, 2007 11:38 AM

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