Religion and Film

Sharon Waxman has an interesting piece in The New York Times that wonders if Paramount might be dragging their feet about starting Mission Impossible III in part becuase of Tom Cruise's public behavior over the last month.

Best sentence in the piece:
"And in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel in April, Mr. Cruise got into a heated exchange with an interviewer who called Scientology a pseudo-science after the star said he had personally "helped hundreds of people get off drugs." Mr. Spielberg was present at the interview and found himself defending Mr. Cruise's dedication to Scientology by comparing it to his work for his Shoah Foundation, which promotes education about the Holocaust. A DreamWorks executive called the exchange unfortunate."

You can read the full pieve here for free although you do have to register.