Ian Halperin isn’t letting Andrew Morton get all the sales from Scientology scandal. On Tuesday, Random House is out with the author’s book Hollywood Undercover, where Halperin poses as a gay actor to “infiltrate the Chuch,” which promised to cure him of the homo curse.
Halperin “recounts his bizarre tour of the Scientology Celebrity Centre on Hollywood Boulevard and his visit to world headquarters where a Church cameraman documents his every move from behind a bush, and where an official offers to turn him straight through a series of courses called ‘auditing,’” according the press release sent over. “In the process, he unravels the reason why so many Hollywood A-listers ??? including Cruise and John Travolta ??? are drawn to the religion, which has frequently been described as a cult.”
Scintillating!
But Halperin is hip to the Web 2.0 age (whatever that means), which is why he’s been uploading accompanying videos to YouTube for the past few months. This also lets him call his manuscript the first “YouTube Compatible Book,” which is a little like calling iVillage.com the first “TV compatible website,” but we’ll roll with it.
So what kind of recorded antics did Halperin get himself into?
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