Tom Cruise Bullies Paramount about South Park Scientology episode [View All]

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HOLLYWOOD bully Tom Cruise got Comedy Central to cancel Wednesday night's cablecast of a controversial "South Park" episode about Scientology by warning that he'd refuse to promote "Mission Impossible 3," insiders say.
Since Paramount is banking on "MI3" to rake in blockbuster profits this summer, and Paramount is owned by Viacom, which also owns Comedy Central, the tactic worked.

The "South Park" episode, "Trapped in the Closet," pokes fun at Scientology and shows Cruise, John Travolta and R. Kelly (who is not a Scientologist, but has a song called "Trapped in the Closet") literally in a closet.

The episode, which first aired last November, was set to rerun Wednesday night, but was mysteriously pulled at the last minute.

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This really pissed me off because I had Tivoed it in anticipation. It was brilliant when I saw it in November but I had no idea that I wouldn't be able to see it again. There is a a sequence in it that animates the Scientology creation myth that will blow your mind.

Cruise is such an asshole to want things censored that he disagrees with. I personally think he is becoming such a joke that his career will be seriously harmed by it.