BERLIN, Aug. 20, 2007
11 Injured At Tom Cruise Film Shoot
11 Extras Fall Off A Truck ; Cruise Not On Set During Weekend Filming
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Tom Cruise plays Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg in "Valkyrie." (AP Photo/Richard Lewis/FILE)
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Actors dressed as Nazi army soldiers on the movie set (AP Photo/Miguel Villagran)
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Interactive Lessons Of Auschwitz A look back at the notorious Nazi death camp where some 1.5 million people perished.
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Photo Essay Tom Cruise The life and loves of one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
The 11 men, along with a companion who escaped injury, fell off the back of a truck on Sunday night. Police said in a statement that a bolt on a side panel of the truck apparently came loose as the vehicle turned.
Germany's Bild daily reported that Cruise himself was not involved in the weekend filming.
The extras were taken to a hospital, where all but one of them required only outpatient treatment. Filming work was stopped.
The movie, provisionally titled "Valkyrie," stars Cruise as Germany's most famous anti-Hitler plotter, Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.
His casting has attracted controversy in Germany because Cruise is one of the best known adherents of Scientology, which the German government considers a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people.
Some critics maintain that one of its members should not be playing what some consider one of the Nazi era's few heroes.
The weekend accident happened during filming of scenes around the Finance Ministry, which was once the Nazis' aviation ministry.
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- I don''t understand CBS at all - - why would they think we were interested in a "photo essay" about the filming of the latest $cientology cult training film starring Tiny Tom Curise ? Yet they offer to show us one - right on the left hand margin of your entertainment page here.
The media has fallen for the $cientologist cult''s attempts to use them as pawns in a public relations game.
Keep the cult out in the news under any circumstances.
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- I figured the extras were pushed aside by Tom''s overinflated sense of self worth...
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- I figured the extras were crushed by Tom''s overinflated sense of self-worth...
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- Posted by kommoncents
I was talking about Homer Simpson - Reply to this comment
- rushlimpdrug you are a moron. I have met Tom Cruise and although I am no fan of his, I have to correct your statement that he is "short & fat and they use camera tricks..." Yes, he is short, about 5''8" but he is not fat, and the camera ADDS 10 pounds, it can''t make you look thinner.
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- The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism and the minister is Reverend Timothy Lovejoy. Not eveyone on the show goes there though as some attend African Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield.
Posted by SgtRDS
NOw knowing this I will no longer go to see any of his movies or watch any of his tv programs as this is not a true religion.
Furthermore he is actually fatter and shorter than they make him appear. It is all done with camera tricks.
Homer is a fraud! People should check into his beliefs.
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- Oh...I thought Tom Cruise jumped on somebody!!!
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- How do people get so duped by fake religions?
Posted by riteaidbob at 01:13 AM : Aug 21, 2007
All religions are fake religions. they all started out as cults. They all have stories that are only possible with miracles or magic or other mysticism. Look at each of them dispassionately and everyone of them will make you laugh at their absurdity. Scientologists think that humans came here in space ships shaped like 707''s without the wings. Is that any more odd then that a god made a man out of clay and dust and then made a woman out of that man''s rib? All religions are a joke upon close examination. Actually the examination doesn''t have to be close at all. They''re all absurd of their face. - Reply to this comment
- What church does Homer Simpson go to?
Posted by rushlimpdrug at 08:52 PM : Aug 20, 2007
The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism and the minister is Reverend Timothy Lovejoy. Not eveyone on the show goes there though as some attend African Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. - Reply to this comment
- ooo, i think those 11 dudes are due for an audit now. then mabey re-enact the experiance using clay.
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- Posted by JackSteen1 - tell us how you really feel about Tom Cruise and $cientology. I usually don''t go to the movies to understand someones religious beliefs or too see if they are dwarfs or giants.
It''s entertainment some people go to see movies for ENTERTAINMENT.
What church does Homer Simpson go to? - Reply to this comment
- Yo Jack!
Did you mean to post so many times? Or, did that dang "publish" button appear to malfunction so you hit a few times? - Reply to this comment
- One poster here asks if the article is "...about injuries on a movie set or about religion ?"
Another poster claims that any naysayers should learn "...something new" about $cientology.
Funny how the $cientologist apologist/damage prevention squad comes out whenever their shining ''star,'' freakazoid dyslexic dwarf Tiny Tom Cruise gets himself in dutch over yet another boorish quote about his ill-conceived cult''s ideas about alternative reality in the 21st Century....or, now, how his slap-dash ''production company'' has found itself liable for eleven injuries on the set of their "let''s try to resuscitate Tiny Tom''s career" movie in Deutschland.
His career is in the PAST TENSE, cult members. He has lost whatever "star" appeal he once may have had.
We sincerely don''t care - and will stay away IN DROVES from this yawner just like we did from "Mission Improbable - Tom''s Wedding!"
Go to www.xenu.net for further info on this sinister cult of lies and death. - Reply to this comment
- One poster here asks if the article is "...about injuries on a movie set or about religion ?"
Another poster claims that any naysayers should learn "...something new" about $cientology.
Funny how the $cientologist apologist/damage prevention squad comes out whenever their shining ''star,'' freakazoid dyslexic dwarf Tiny Tom Cruise gets himself in dutch over yet another boorish quote about his ill-conceived cult''s ideas about alternative reality in the 21st Century....or, now, how his slap-dash ''production company'' has found itself liable for eleven injuries on the set of their "let''s try to resuscitate Tiny Tom''s career" movie in Deutschland.
His career is in the PAST TENSE, cult members. He has lost whatever "star" appeal he once may have had.
We sincerely don''t care - and will stay away IN DROVES from this yawner just like we did from "Mission Improbable - Tom''s Wedding!"
Go to www.xenu.net for further info on this sinister cult of lies and death. - Reply to this comment
- One poster here asks if the article is "...about injuries on a movie set or about religion ?"
Another poster claims that any naysayers should learn "...something new" about $cientology.
Funny how the $cientologist apologist/damage prevention squad comes out whenever their shining ''star,'' freakazoid dyslexic dwarf Tiny Tom Cruise gets himself in dutch over yet another boorish quote about his ill-conceived cult''s ideas about alternative reality in the 21st Century....or, now, how his slap-dash ''production company'' has found itself liable for eleven injuries on the set of their "let''s try to resuscitate Tiny Tom''s career" movie in Deutschland.
His career is in the PAST TENSE, cult members. He has lost whatever "star" appeal he once may have had.
We sincerely don''t care - and will stay away IN DROVES from this yawner just like we did from "Mission Improbable - Tom''s Wedding!"
Go to www.xenu.net for further info on this sinister cult of lies and death. - Reply to this comment
- One poster here asks if the article is "...about injuries on a movie set or about religion ?"
Another poster claims that any naysayers should learn "...something new" about $cientology.
Funny how the $cientologist apologist/damage prevention squad comes out whenever their shining ''star,'' freakazoid dyslexic dwarf Tiny Tom Cruise gets himself in dutch over yet another boorish quote about his ill-conceived cult''s ideas about alternative reality in the 21st Century....or, now, how his slap-dash ''production company'' has found itself liable for eleven injuries on the set of their "let''s try to resuscitate Tiny Tom''s career" movie in Deutschland.
His career is in the PAST TENSE, cult members. He has lost whatever "star" appeal he once may have had.
We sincerely don''t care - and will stay away IN DROVES from this yawner just like we did from "Mission Improbable - Tom''s Wedding!"
Go to www.xenu.net for further info on this sinister cult of lies and death. - Reply to this comment
- I lost all respect for Tom when I saw how he turned a young, vibrant actress into a Stepford Wife.
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- For the biggest gut busting laugh you have had in a while, type in Xenu in Wikipedia and start reading. It may not be the most bizarre religion/cult character or story out there, but its dang funny.
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- "His casting has attracted controversy in Germany because Cruise is one of the best known adherents of Scientology, which the German government considers a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people."
Most religions take advantage of the weak and vulnerable because they don''t ask questions.
Nobody seems to care about the fact that Cruise is portraying a hero who fought the Nazis.
People what to *** about his personal beliefs because they don''t want to learn something new.
Rock on, Tom. - Reply to this comment
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WOW.
I think I''ll go back to the future now.
That McFly, he''s such a pushover you know. - Reply to this comment
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