Cranky Madonna-hating gossip Roger Friedman has two things he loves bitching about (beside Madonna): Michael Jackson, and Scientology. He’s ran plenty of copy about the latter, from Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ relationship to their friendship with fellow movie star couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. And on Monday night, he accosted the Hancock star with questions about L. Ron Hubbard!
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Like any do-gooding multi-hundred-millionaire movie star, Hancock‘s Will Smith is involved in the philanthropy scene. He’s also, as prying eyes have woefully pointed out, been involving himself with the Tom Cruise scene, which means of course that he’s basically a raving Scientologist trying to hold in his inner homo, because that’s what the cult is about, right? Back in 2004, Smith donated $20k to something called “HOPE: The Hollywood Education and Literacy Program,” which is the church’s “literary program,” where children get homeschooled and, we’re guessing, brainwashed in their formative years. Now, he and Jada have been plugging a way at their New Village Academy, a private school they’re funding that will open in December, which got the LAT treatment over the weekend. Naturally, the first word out of the school’s mouth is that it is not a Scientology facility. (Even Will and Jada still insist they aren’t of the church.) But a certain anti-Scientology crusader is casting his eye of suspicion on this educational institution, mostly because of a … goat.
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Noted Hollywood star and heterosexual Will Smith appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ television show on Monday to discuss – as Ellen is wont to do following some little California court ruling – marriage. Ellen, as you might have heard, plans to marry girlfriend Portia de Rossi, and so that is all she can think about, even if her writers might have put other talking points on her cue cards. So how has Smith, who is married to heavy metal singer Jada Pinkett, kept his marriage going strong for 10 years?
“What I found is divorce just can’t be an option. It’s really that simple. And I think that’s the problem with L.A. ??? there are so many options. So a huge part of the success for [Jada] and I is that we just removed the other options. […] We’re like listen, we’re going to be together one way or the other so we might as well try to be happy.” [People]
Uh huh. So the secret to staying married is convincing yourselves staying married is the only option, whether you’re happy or not? Because then, oh we don’t know, somebody else might suspect you were two raging homosexuals? Sounds like a L. Ron Hubbard mantra if we ever heard one.
According to a negligibly reputable publication we may or may not have heard of, there appears to be a growing trend of black people adopting white children. Which may or may not explain why overgrown little-person Tom Cruise has suddenly been invited to join the Will Smith/Jada Pinkett clan.
• Was Jay-Z in a plane crash? Or is this all just an internet hoax, of Sinbad proportions?
• Fergie wears eight different outfits in a single day. Only two are acceptable.
• Jada Pinkett Smith claims Katie wears the pants in the TomKat relationship. Naturally, she would know.
• Pam Anderson wants to see Scarlett Johansson take off her clothes. Every American male aged 25-40 wholeheartedy agrees.
• Haylie Duff and Kim Kardashian in a MySpace feud? We can’t tell if it’s real or not, although our instincts tell us it’s faker than Kardashian’s rack.
Stop the presses! There’s been another Suri Cruise sighting! Come on, this is even rarer than Lindsay Lohan spending an entire month out of the hospital. Plus, a non-Scientolgist was allowed to see her, which is huge. Jada Pinkett Smith reports:
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’s daughter is “gorgeous,” Jada Pinkett Smith tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“She’s one of the sweetest babies I’ve ever met in my life,” Pinkett Smith says. “She’s an absolute beauty and she’s Daddy’s little girl.”
Hmmm. So, the big question, what does this little sucker look like? remains unanswered. Which means that until the rest of the world sees this “gorgeous beauty,” Shiloh Jolie-Pitt will remain the hottest baby in the world. We just think it’s really unfair — her parents aren’t even giving her the chance to outshine the Brangelina spawn. Maybe they’re protecting her from the prejudice against aliens we have in this country.