The enormous 871-page hardcover 1994 Scientology Handbook features over 700 insane and strangely haunting illustrations that promise positive effects in today’s turbulent society. The ultra-saturated photographs use vivid, heightened colours in a traditional comic book format to help navigate the reader through a world rampant with conflict, drugs, illiteracy, crime, terrorism, immorality… the list seems endless. “To have any decent future at all, you need to know this manual for living and use it.” The actors and sets were photographed in the early ‘90s on full-sized sound stages belonging to Golden Era Productions in Riverside County, California. Next door to the sound stages lies a computer facility with an uninterruptable power supply so when the rapture happens you will still be able to get onto America Online and check your email.
I liked it, but before I post any comments about it (including some that'll be entirely-unexpected....if they weren't made by me) I'd like to hear what some other members of the forum thought of the movie.
Any takers?
I'd be so pleased, especially if an FTMB member was actually at the South Bank on Monday night. But, having been in attendance at one of the many venues across the British Isles is also good.
Or are you all secretly in the Sea Org?
Finally, the Battlefield Earth sequel is moving forward.
I will definitely have to see Going Clear.I haven't even seen Going Clear yet, though I did read the book. It's supposed to be superior to Louis pulling the tiger's tail.
Can something be seen as a sequel if the original has never been seen? So far as I know, no fan of Battlefield Earth has ever claimed to have seen the film except as blurry b&w stills in a book --- most long ago discredited by researchers.
Not sure what you mean - the DVD is readily available, if you really want to see the film. I don't know whether I'm personally tempted, though, as there hasn't been a single review that even makes it seem "so bad that it's good"!
Though I cannot claim to speak for trefology, I've heard rumors of BE dvd sighting since the 1950s, but so far as I know none has ever been purchased or viewedNot sure what you mean - the DVD is readily available, if you really want to see the film. I don't know whether I'm personally tempted, though, as there hasn't been a single review that even makes it seem "so bad that it's good"!
Huh?!Though I cannot claim to speak for trefology, I've heard rumors of BE dvd sighting since the 1950s, but so far as I know none has ever been purchased or viewed
FTMB member @Trefology http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/new-ish.61708/and what the hell is 'trefology'...?
Thanks for that , though I still don't get what 'trefology' means...?
I think they'd struggle to get a court to accept those contracts as legally binding."The new office is said to house five permanent staff from the Sea Org, Scientology’s elite group, whose members sign 'billion-year contracts' pledging future lifetimes to advancing their religion."
https://www.gofundme.com/shelley-duvallLike many older movie stars, embarrassed finances is not uncommon. Showing your love and support for Shelley Duvall by making a donation can start her back on the road to independence and perhaps back to health and for her fans, more superb performances!
http://horrorfreaknews.com/things-need-know-donating-vivian-kubricks-fund-shelley-duvall/13449The location listed on Vivian Kubrick’s Go Fund Me page for Duvall is Clearwater, FL. Neither Kubrick nor Duvall lives in Clearwater; it is, however, the location of The Church of Scientology’s business operations.
Kubrick has not had any contact with Duvall since filming wrapped on The Shining in 1979; they have not kept in touch over the years and were never close. Kubrick is not doing this at Duvall’s request, nor is she working with Duvall’s family.
Vivian Kubrick disconnected from her director father and the rest of her family decades ago, according to relatives; now observers are questioning why she attempted to raise $100,000 to help the mentally ill actress when her religion forbids all forms of psychiatric treatment.
Jennifer Tilly gave $500, just one of 660 concerned fans who donated to a GoFundMe campaign that aimed to raise $100,000 for Shelley Duvall, the quirky, Minnie Mouse-voiced star of films like Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Robert Altman's Nashville and Popeye. Now Tilly will be getting her donation back — and be left wondering, no doubt, exactly what happened.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...s-shelley-duvall-crowdfunding-campaign-950012But Kubrick abruptly pulled the plug Nov. 22. Many Twitter users and GoFundMe commenters are now questioning if Vivian's deep ties to the Church of Scientology, an organization that vilifies all forms of psychiatry and mental-health treatment, had something to do with it.
Kubrick released a statement of explanation on Twitter. "I spoke today with Shelley's mother Bobbie," she wrote, who "explained that after her discussion with SAG-AFTRA and the fact that Shelley is on government benefits, they can't afford to accept any large donations at this time."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...im-not-going-allow-church-bully-people-950152The actress, who is starring in an upcoming A&E docuseries titled Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, appears on Ellen DeGeneres' show Wednesday, where she talks about feeling a responsibility to speak out on behalf of the church's "victims."
"I was watching high executives, former executives of the church leaving and speaking out about abuses and things that they've experienced while working for the church, and I saw how the church reacted," the actress said. "I felt I had a responsibility to say, 'I'm not going to allow you to bully these people who were very brave to come out and tell their stories.' And that's for executives, but there are just average parishioners like me who leave and speak out about what they've experienced, and they lose their family. And so the church goes after their family to shun their family, oftentimes. I'm very lucky that that didn't happen to me. My family chose me."