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[>] "strengthen[ed]" his outlook: Stephen Dalton, "Beck Is Back," Sunday Age, March 27, 2005.
[>] "In Scientology, we have": Interview, Tom Cruise and Stephen Spielberg, Der Spiegel, April 27, 2005.
[>] "You have no idea": Ibid.
[>] Cruise spent so much time: Rachel Abramowitz and Chris Lee, "Control Switch: On," Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2005.
[>] The next step was a new wife: According to numerous sources, Miscavige played an integral role in helping Cruise find a new mate after the actor's prior two girlfriends, Penelope Cruz and Sofía Vergara, both Catholics, rejected Scientology. Miscavige then reportedly ordered his deputies to find an appropriate mate for the newly single Cruise. The ever-faithful Greg Wilhere, Cruise's original handler, worked with Cruise's new handler, Tommy Davis, the son of the actress Anne Archer, to comb through a list of aspiring actresses already in the church. At one point, Marc Headley recalled, Wilhere's son, Darius, was charged with reviewing tapes of more than one hundred young women, all Scientologists, who'd been interviewed about their feelings toward Tom Cruise and their place on the Bridge. No one fit the bill, however. The duo then turned their attention to actresses Cruise might find more immediately appealing, among them Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth, and Scarlett Johansson. As the story has been told, these three actresses, all starlets who, like Cruise, were promoting big summer movies, were among a number of women phoned by Cruise's office and asked to meet with the star about a possible role in Mission Impossible III. According to some accounts, Johansson's audition went so well that she met with Cruise at the Celebrity Centre but quickly left, sensing the ulterior motive.
Katie Holmes, who'd once confessed in a magazine interview that she'd fantasized as a girl about marrying Tom Cruise, was one of the actresses "auditioned," and according to the couple, when they finally met their mutual attraction was instant.
[>] "Do you know what Adderall?": Interview with Tom Cruise, by Matt Lauer, Today, June 24, 2005.
[>] In February 2007, Travolta: Jeannette Walls, "Travolta: Scientology Could Have Saved Smith," MSNBC.com, March 1, 2007, today.msnbc.msn.com/id/17031909.
[>] "Google Narconon for a minute": Tucker Carlson and Willie Geist, Tucker 1800, March 1, 2007.
15. The Bubble
The experience of children in Scientology is unlike that of their parents, and to understand this, I spent several years interviewing second- and third-generation Scientologists. Though my main sources for this chapter were Natalie Walet, Kendra Wiseman, and Claire and Marc Headley, I benefited tremendously from the insight of numerous others, including Astra Woodcraft, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Jeffrey and Anthony Aylor, and a young man who appeared in my Rolling Stone story under the pseudonym "Paul James."
The website Ex-Scientology Kids proved a tremendous resource and go-to guide for information on Scientology schools. Additionally, my own trip to Delphi Academy in Los Angeles, and also to the Delphi Academy of Florida, located in Clearwater, shaped my ultimate impressions of this form of education. For information pertaining specifically to study technology and Applied Scholastics, Dr. David Touretsky of Carnegie Mellon University has provided a valuable resource in his website, Scientology v. Education (studytech.org/home.php).
For insight into how Scientology TRs are used as indoctrination for children, I talked extensively with Sandra Mercer and Stephen Kent, as well as with a number of Scientology kids, notably Kendra's friend "Erin," whose name was changed to protect her family.
[>] "By educating a child": Impact, issue 7, 1986, p. 49.
[>] Some twelve thousand Scientologists: Robert Farley, "Scientology Expands Tampa Presence," St. Petersburg Times, March 28, 2003.
[>] except Los Angeles: Jesse Katz and Steve Oney, "The List: The Power Issue 2006," Los Angeles Magazine, December 1, 2006. In 2006,