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Tom Cruise's Dark, Twisted Journey to Scientology's Top Gun [View all]
Daily Beast
As audiences take in Cruise’s latest hit, ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ top Scientology reporter Tony Ortega looks back on how the star became the Church of Scientology’s Maverick.
Tony Ortega
Published May. 28, 2022 11:34PM ET
With Top Gun: Maverick debuting in theaters this week, Tom Cruise is available to the press again, which explains why I was seeing video of James Corden at 5 a.m. on a tarmac waiting to join Cruise in his personal jet aircraft.
The Late Late Show host’s antics on Cruise’s plane delivered the intended effect: Tom as cooler-than-you pilot really is like the superheroes he plays in the movies.
But for me, it had another connotation.
Seeing Cruise pilot his aircraft, I couldn’t help thinking of something Marc Headley told me several years ago.
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As audiences take in Cruise’s latest hit, ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ top Scientology reporter Tony Ortega looks back on how the star became the Church of Scientology’s Maverick.
Tony Ortega
Published May. 28, 2022 11:34PM ET
With Top Gun: Maverick debuting in theaters this week, Tom Cruise is available to the press again, which explains why I was seeing video of James Corden at 5 a.m. on a tarmac waiting to join Cruise in his personal jet aircraft.
The Late Late Show host’s antics on Cruise’s plane delivered the intended effect: Tom as cooler-than-you pilot really is like the superheroes he plays in the movies.
But for me, it had another connotation.
Seeing Cruise pilot his aircraft, I couldn’t help thinking of something Marc Headley told me several years ago.
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